c. 1999 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Movieguide awards: 10 best for families, 10 best for adults, and 20 worst.
The 10 best 1998 films for families receiving”TEDDY `The Good News’ BEAR”family-friendly awards of excellence:
THE PRINCE OF EGYPT: Quality: ****. Acceptability: +4
A BUG’S LIFE: Quality: ****. Acceptability: +3
THE PARENT TRAP: Quality: ****. Acceptability: +1
EVER AFTER: Quality: ****. Acceptability: +1
ANTZ: Quality: ****. Acceptability: +2
WIDE AWAKE: Quality: ****. Acceptability: +3
THE BORROWERS: Quality: ****. Acceptability: +2
MIGHTY JOE YOUNG: Quality: ****. Acceptability: +1
THE MASK OF ZORRO: Quality: ****. Acceptability: -1
MADELINE: Quality: ***. Acceptability: +3
THE 10 best 1998 films for mature audiences receiving”PAPA BEAR”awards of excellence:
SIMON BIRCH: Quality: ****. Acceptability: +1
A CIVIL ACTION: Quality: ****. Acceptability: -1
THE TRUMAN SHOW: Quality: ****. Acceptability: +1
DEEP IMPACT: Quality: ****. Acceptability: -1
LES MISERABLES: Quality: ****. Acceptability: +1
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL: Quality: ****. Acceptability: +3
THE HORSE WHISPERER: Quality: ****. Acceptability: +1
MEN WITH GUNS: Quality: ****. Acceptability: -1
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK: Quality: ****. Acceptability: +1
THE RIDE: Quality: ****. Acceptability: +4
The 20 most unbearable movies of 1998, to which Baehr gives”The unbearable `rotten banana'”awards for contributing to the corruption of culture:
(“These films have been chosen not necessarily because they have sex, violence, nudity, or profanity, but because they have a worldview which is antithetical to the biblical worldview.”)
1. Promoting the Worst PC Banality _ THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY.
2. Most Politically Correct Cinematic Voodoo and a new level of visual disgust _ BELOVED.
3. Bloodiest Comic Book Promoting Occultism for Children _ BLADE.
4. Teaching Children to Kill _ THE BUTCHER BOY.
5. Tying for Most New Age, False Religion Award _ WHAT DREAMS MAY COME.
6. Worst Promotion of Anti-Christian Occultism _ PRACTICAL MAGIC.
7. Tying for Worst Pedophilia _ HAPPINESS and LOLITA.
8. Worst Anti-Christian Sex Farce _ ORGAZMO.
9. Worst Perversion _ THE OPPOSITE OF SEX.
10. Worst Pro-Suicide Propaganda for Teenagers _ DEAD MAN ON CAMPUS.
11. Tying for the Most Banal”Nerd Gets the Girl Before Her Wedding”Revisionist Histories _ ELIZABETH and SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE.
12. Worst Frankfurt School Antinomian Revisionist Propaganda _ PLEASANTVILLE.
13. Worst Infomercial for Political Correctness _ PRIMARY COLORS.
14. Worst Anti-Jewish Feminism _ A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES.
15. Worst Anti-Christian Revisionist History _ DANGEROUS BEAUTY.
16. Most Shrill Proclamation of Anti-Christian, Anti-Communist, Darwinian Individualism _ AYN RAND: A SENSE OF LIFE.
17. Worst Sleaze _ BASEKETBALL.
18. Worst Drug Promotion _ FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS.
19. Worst Content _ VERY BAD THINGS.
20. Dumbest Bad _ KRIPPENDORF’S TRIBE.
A special”Unbearable Television Award”goes to”From Jesus to Christ: The Early Christians,”a documentary in PBS’s Frontline series, which”combines scripture, skepticism and pretentious German higher criticism to form a very confused portrait of Christianity.” DEA END RABEY
