Comments about ‘A few samples of Catholic News Service reviews’

thank you for the article and information

Let's just bring back Vice and pretend this whole Catholic whatever, whatever doesn't exist, okay? I didn't always agree with Vice, but he gave honest reviews based on how entertaining the movie was. I don't want to read reviews based on how the Catholic Church feels about the Christian value of it.

You've lost a regular review reader.

Wow. Alpha and Omega gets a positive review (19 percent rating on Rottentomatoes) and Easy A (85 percent rating on Rottentomatoes) gets a 0. Awesome. None of these reviews are based on whether a movie is entertaining or not, just on how it morally stacks up.

If Casablanca came out, it'd get a 0 to. I mean there was an affair, tense scenes, lots of drinking and smoking, violence, morally reprehensible characters and nothing that supported Christian values. Classic film Casablanca - 0. Terrible, cheesy generic mind-numbingly stupid Alpha and Omega - positive review.

Great move Des News. Great.

I think this shows how much SLC needs its own local critic and movie voice. The D news obviously caters to a very LDS Demographic -- and I am part of that, and I appreciated Vice giving his view of the film from that perspective. Syndicated reviewers won't write with that in mind and so the editors had to scramble to find something . . .anything! to help LDS viewers gauge a movie based on a religious value system. Unfortunately . .this ain't it. Bring back Jeff Vice--and Scott Pierce while you're at it.