What was the best LDS film this decade?
 

Not the warm and fuzzy videos produced by the church, but the silver screen cinema.

Even Seattle is scared to vote in this poll.

Well hey it's only been online for five minutes.

True, but that's about 3 minutes longer than SU gives people to vote in his polls. :)

Although I thought the Work and the Glory was well done, I think I enjoyed "The Best Two Years" more than any of these.

Ah I knew I was forgetting one, sorry. Same goes for Baptists at the Barbeque.

The Best Two Years was surprisingly not that bad.

Mike or Archaea,

Please edit the poll to put The Best Two Years in, instead of Ward Ball.

Wow! I didn't even know so many existed. As I remember, I got a few good chuckles out of Singles Ward and The RM and I think I genuinely enjoyed Brigham City. But I voted for The RM because I watched it with Danimal's nieces and nephews who loved every second of it. Seeing their reaction to the movie made me like it even more.

I actually thought Best Two Years was decent..

How could you even put "The Home Teachers" in the same thread with a title with the word "best" in it? That was quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seen.

Other than that, I would have to say "The Best Two Years" was the most watchable of the bunch. I didn't mind "Singles Ward" too much.

I liked the Other Side of Heaven.

The best two years was good as well, and I actually didn't mind the Work and the Glory Trilogy...

I could not agree more.

I haven't seen it, apparently with good cause.

The Best Two Years.

The other side of heaven was a good movie, but i thought Gods Army 2 was the best, although admittedly i havent seen all of the movies on the list.

Isn't that because you are a closet gangbanger though? Trying to get the Lehi Crips going again?

I liked the Singles Ward, because at the time, it was a fresh new take on LDS cinema. When I saw the RM, you could audibly hear them hitting the bottom of the barrel. It should have stopped there. It didn't.

Best Two Years is probably the best of the bunch. Tallest midget.

Yeah and now that MPfunk is here, we finally have a rival. Remember i am originally from Spanish Fork so if you are not careful i will jump in some of your inlaws.

lol...

"Some guy jumped me today, and just kept swearing and saying damn DNF..."

Singles Ward gave Hailstorm the chance to make some good money off of movies about the quirky LDS culture...but they got lazy. RM was bad, Home Teachers was worse than Susical. And Church Ball (which had been anticipated once Singles ward was such a hit) sucked big time...

I haven't seen many of those movies, but I can't bring myself to vote for any of them.

They are all forgettable.

To be honest, I have read "In the Eye of the Storm" (Other side of Heaven) and I don't believe it is an honest book.

I've seen 0 of them. Couldn't even tell you a synopsis. Let me ask a question. How many of these would any of you be embarrassed to have in your collection?

All of the above.

Once again, the more I read this board (of all places) the more I think, maybe, I'm actually an in-active memeber. I have not seen a single one of these movies.

The thing about Brigham City is that somehow "surprisingly this doesn't completely suck" got turned into "you are the Mormon wordsworth and shakespeare" in Richard Dutcher's mind. LOL.

The church isn't interested in having flawed characters portrayed as being Mormon, so I dont' expect there to be good Mormon-themed films, probably ever.

I think you're right. You say you're in the YM program, yet you've never had a popcorn party with the YW to watch Down and Derby.

You no longer have any credibility in these parts until you are able to give an honest summary of at least one of those movies listed on the poll and a book review of at least two of Sheri Dews Deseret Book's bestselling titles.

<googles "Down and Derby" as fast as possible>


<Views results and then asks, "Wait, it has Pat Morita in it. I thought he died?">

Even more evidence of your church inactivity. You've never even heard of the resurrection. Keep it coming 8ball. You've really piling it on today.

Latter Days was totally gay.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345551/

I have Singles Ward, The RM and Church Ball because I've known Kurt Hale for almost 30 years and he sent me free copies. My kids love 'em, so they stay.

If you would add "False" as one of the choices, that would be the one I would choose.

I notice you carefully did not include the home teachers, which I think was a halestorm video. It was really, truly, bad.

Is it a Halestorm film? Kurt didn't send it to me, but then, perhaps he isn't proud of it.

Kurt wrote The Singles Ward and while a lot of the humor in it is inside LDS humor, there is a lot of inside jokes that only those who grew up in the same ward would get. Perhaps that's why I don't hate it.

I voted for the Singles Ward, mainly because it came out while I was in a singles ward, and I could quickly identify every character with somebody in our ward. That and I found a lot of truth to most of what happened in the movie.

Of the other choices, I've only seen a few; I watched God's Army on my mission for a family home evening with the hottest Chilean I saw during my whole two years... they had just made a trip to Utah and picked up the movie and since they all spoke perfect English (seriously, her and her sister sounded like Valley Girls, it was awesome) we watched it for FHE one night. They were planning on bringing non-member friends, but they all backed out. Good times.

The rest of the movies, I don't think I finished. I think I watched the first Work and The Glory. I watched maybe 30 minutes of Church Ball, but couldn't finish it because it was so disappointingly bad. Never saw Brigham City, or any of the others.

If Brigham City gets any votes at all, this is proof of just how awful this genre is. Brigham City was terrible. The Bishop/Sheriff enlisting the deacons to help canvas the community in a hunt for a killer? Please......

Most of the commonly exhibited Church art is trash. Dialogue and Sunstone actually exhibit Church art bearing consideration.

I think I went on two or three man hunt's when I was a deacon...happens all the time Lebowski.

We raided panties at that age, among other things. Does that almost count?

Crap. All I did was gather fast offerings.