I love this movie so much

Just perfect...

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Avoid a disappointment. I like jazz. Thought this sounded like something I would watch, even if it isn't necessarily about jazz. Then I find out it's some hokey feel good bs about finding faith and I'm like "whew!" dodged a bullet there. If someone needs reaffirmed in their 'belief' it's because in the back of their head they know that an adult should give up believing in myth, and fairy tales.

The movie Blue Like Jazz follows the path of discovery of Donald Miller a youngster who tries to escape his Christian upbringing by enrolling himself into a 'liberal' college only to go through the whole process of denying what he was told to believe in all his life. All along one sees him struggling to be somebody he is not... like a dog trying to shake off its own tail!What I liked about the movie was that Don was open to all that he came across. He really did not make a decision about something just because he felt so... he looked for convictions... Another aspect of the movie that I found quite interesting to observe was the influence and role of friends. The impact they had on Don and the things he does in their life... (Penny, Lauryn, Russian, him mom, 'Pope'). And finally I hope Don continues to carry on as 'Pope' for I sincerely believe he'd do a better and greater job being Pope than going out gun-blazing saying that he believes in God and all that goes with it. He truly would be a great help to all those fellow students to help them in their situation than taking a pedestal posture or stance and helping 'from above'!It quite well summarizes the journey of self-discovery, of finding out the value and meaning of real faith... not just 'inheriting faith' but 'earning' it and thereby living it! That I think makes a huge ... huge... difference in reality. Most of us barely manage to graduate to the latter stage of faith. http://www.vcastilino.blogspot.in/

This is a curious movie, not "Christian" in the usual cinema sense, but it features a character who was raised as a devout Christian then has all his beliefs challenged when he goes to college in about the most hedonistic place possible.In a "making of" extra on the DVD, the director is talking to cast members and extras and explains, a story of ordinary people in usual situations just doesn't make a very interesting movie. So in this movie the lead character, Don, must come from the most conservative Christian background possible, and he must go to college in the most liberal situation possible, to be able to draw out the contrast. It is a concept most us us realize intuitively, but is rarely stated so clearly by filmmakers.So here we have Marshall Allman as Donald Miller , a young Christian man in Houston, your typical very conservative Southern Baptist. He aspires to be a writer, so his not-so-conservative dad arranges for him to enroll in a college in Oregon known for its writing program. He arrives and finds a world that he never even imagined existed. Of course what we see is impossible to find on any college campus, but as was explained this draws the contrasts that results in Don rethinking everything he thought he knew.The movie is loosely based on the real life of author Donald Miller, who really was from Houston, and really did wander up to Oregon. But he was not a college student there, so the main of the story was simply created to make the movie.I can't say I would recommend this movie to anyone, I enjoyed seeing it for its quirkiness, but all in all it isn't an outstanding movie.

My wife and I saw the movie last night. Here are my thoughts. First, I think the characters were pretty good, there was depth and complexity which was nice. The actors did a great job, it actually felt like I was watching a "real movie" and not some Christian flick with acting and dialog that was "too perfect". It felt very "real". The movie was thought provoking and makes you think about many things in our Christian culture.I was especially challenged by some aspects of the movie regarding how I see others, people who are typically the object of rejection and disgust among Christians, people who have their sin or troubles personified by other Christians and thus receive rejection and self-righteousness from people who should be loving them and trying to help. The idea of misrepresenting God was powerful.A final though, the people who dislike this movie the most, are probably the very ones who needs to hear its message the most. So thank you for doing this. I hope it starts a new trend in "Christian films".