Today was the first movie day for me in a couple of months. Got up and out for the morning showing of Captain American, Winter Soldier followed up with Kevin Sorbo's God's Not Dead in the afternoon.
Without giving away any spoilers WS will be right up COG's and JL's alley. It is interesting to see the conflict between 1940s patriotism and 2010s pragmatism. I've written that political writers create exciting fiction when they dramatize their ideas. Without giving away the show would do you think would happen if all the data collected us as individual was to come under one entities control. Imagine further that a program could sort through the data and identify individuals who could be future trouble makers based on everything from movie watching, book reading, or even the food you buy in the store. When I say trouble makers I'm not talking about criminals, I'm talking about people who might oppose a government. That time is fast approaching. All they need is the working program to make it all happen. Considering what Hillary did with raw FBI files during her stay in the West Wing imagine if someone like her had access to 30 years olds who had the aptitude to challenge them someday.
As for God's Not Dead, interesting movie. Too many times conservative and/or religious movies have sacrificed the story for the message. This movie doesn't do that. The message is there but the storyline is compelling. There are several funny moments dropped into the dialogue without being stupid. There are series of relationships that overlap without the knowledge of the participants. Dean Cain has an unheralded but important role in the movie. For such a small movie the theater was 3/4s full after 3 weeks and the crowd did applaud during some particular moments that have been written about elsewhere.