Comments about ‘Movie details early life of President Hinckley’

I am very pleased to hear such a film about our dearly beloved Prophet Gordon B Hinckley is coming out right now. It is timely. We need to know the human side to our leaders who were not perfect but just like us as the article portrays. I am a convert of four decades now. I had no one as role model to know how to teach and raise my children. I studied the works of ALL the Latter-day prophets, biographies and autobiographies. I loved the writings of Joseph Smith and came to love and know him through his legacy. Raising four sons and four daughters was not easy alone for most of the last two plus decades. I leaned on the examples and what their own mothers taught them to become great men/ leaders. A new generation of mothers can now learn from President Hinckley's life. This movie would make a nice gift for my grandchildren to see and know that the Prophet they remember was human and once a little child like them. I comment Brother Christensen for his insight and work on this great project. A. Mc

I am hopeful it will be done in a fun, respectful way!

God bless good ole' Pres. Hinckley. He was one amazing man.

T.C. needs to be more careful . . . saying young GBHinckley is believable because he was a "little rat kid," whose neck he would likely have rung had he known him. Granted, he is speaking colorfully for effect, but it offers us a clue on the lens through which the story is being presented.

If I need a nap, I'll go see this incredibly boring movie.

hey Bob - you're late for your shift at Burger King!

I can't wait for this movie.

I sustain Thomas Monson as, among other things, a really nice guy but I always thought GBH was cold and his affability affected. Perhaps this film will change that?

Now, how would have President Hinkley have responded to Bob?

Cindy, T.C. used to be my primary teacher. He called everyone rat kids, at the end of the year he even bought us all rats, it's just something he says. And seriously lighten up, Gordon B. Hinkly was a great man. But not god. He even had a pretty good sense of humor.

Not being LDS or a vampire lover, I'll probably miss the big openings this week and get this one on dvd. President Hinkley was always a more small screen guy and watching conference missionary farewell and baptism scenes on the big screen isn't my idea of a Friday night.

Sounds like a must miss movie to me. I'm not a big fan of fiction anyway.

Wow, another boring fabricated movie about a mormon leader. Sign me up!

"From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh!"

Is good to watch a movie about a great Man like President Gordon B. Hinckley, I love him great human being and left us with a great legacy.
But to all members and not members let's try to be nice to each other and just respect our diferences,we don't need to get upset,I'm pretty sure President Hinckley wants us to be civilized people.
He was popular amoung not members too.

What a classy comment!! I bet you wake up everyday happy to be alive. :)
Nothing better then a LDS hater comment! They make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I feel sorry for you my man..

It must be miserable to go through life with your main motivation being bitterness toward the Mormons (or anybody else, for that matter). What did you Utah Mormons do, to inspire such bigotry?

Regarding the question of how President Hinckley would respond... I'm guessing he'd laugh good-naturedly and shrug it off. Prophets have always been scorned and dismissed by a certain segment of the population; you can't win 'em all.

Prophets don't always respond so passively. One of my favorite Old Testament stories is when Elisha was mocked by a group of youths because of his bald head. He must've been having a bad day, because he cursed them and summoned a couple bears out of the woods, that tore into those punks like they were lunchmeat! (2 Kings 2:23-24)

One thing I loved about President Hinckley was his sense of humor and his love for those around him, member or not. It is hard to understand how anyone would find fault with someone who was so kind?

Too bad all the haters can't just stay away from the Deseret News. But they just can't stay away from something they hate, can they. Small minds. Go to that movie and take that nap. Take a lot of sleeping pills too. You need it.

"Boring," "fabricated," "fiction" ... Such constructive, knowledgeable criticism from people who, I am certain, have either read the screenplay, watched the film, or have first hand knowledge of GBH's youth.

I met him 30 years ago at a stake meeting when I was a youth. He was not cold. There was fire in his eye, and warmth in that handshake. Some mistake his even delivery and dry humor as being cold, but they missed a lot.

As a BYU student I went to many meetings at the Marriott Center. I also saw Bill Cosby perform there once. There were occasions when GBH drew nearly as many laughs as Bill did.

To those of you who feel it necessary to belittle a man you never met, whose beliefs you don't respect, and whose quiet lifelong service you'll never understand, I wish you a good day, and pray someday you are able to open your heart just a bit, to accept that maybe through his devotion and service he was able to help some people improve themselves, and through that make the world a little better place.