Author Topic: What Movie is Playing Right Now [Jan 2011-Feb 2015]  (Read 624394 times)

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Re: What Movie is Playing Right Now
« Reply #1260 on: April 18, 2011, 08:55:34 PM »
for class....
Is that your film horror class?
Actually, it's Film Violence. It is pretty horrific, though...

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Re: What Movie is Playing Right Now
« Reply #1261 on: April 18, 2011, 09:24:21 PM »
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Re: What Movie is Playing Right Now
« Reply #1262 on: April 18, 2011, 09:29:02 PM »
for class....
Is that your film horror class?
Actually, it's Film Violence. It is pretty horrific, though...
Yeah, I have no desire to see it.

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Re: What Movie is Playing Right Now
« Reply #1263 on: April 19, 2011, 09:59:07 AM »
Watching Cape Fear tonight for my intro to philosophy class. We are discussing psycopathy. Though I don't know if it is the Gregory Peck one or the Scorsese one, but I am just going to assume that it is the Scorsese one.
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Re: What Movie is Playing Right Now
« Reply #1264 on: April 19, 2011, 03:07:06 PM »
for class....
Is that your film horror class?
Actually, it's Film Violence. It is pretty horrific, though...
Yeah, I have no desire to see it.

It's actually really good, I am a big fan of Gibson as a director though, so maybe we are different in that way.

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Re: What Movie is Playing Right Now
« Reply #1265 on: April 19, 2011, 04:11:25 PM »
for class....
Is that your film horror class?
Actually, it's Film Violence. It is pretty horrific, though...
Yeah, I have no desire to see it.

It's actually really good, I am a big fan of Gibson as a director though, so maybe we are different in that way.
I can see that it might be technically well-executed - I don't have anything against Gibson as a director, I don't think.  But personally, I find the whole premise - the desire to show Christ's suffering and death on screen - pretty revolting, not to mention theologically problematic.  I don't care for watching ultra-violence or gore on screen, so I would avoid the film for that reason alone.  I might see a violent or gory film if it was conveying something I felt was deeply interesting or truthful, but I don't see, from what I've read, that Gibson will be conveying that something for me.  I have a good sense of Roman Catholic theology, and there's lots to read should I find that my knowledge of it is insufficient; I don't feel any need to see it gorily displayed for me on screen.

I'm not against the film, per se, but I find it problematic personally, both according to my tastes as a film-viewer and as a (Reformed) Protestant.  (As Steve points out in his great post on The Reelists, it's bizarre that so many Protestants have embraced the film.)  If the gore doesn't bother you and/or if you have no particular theology, I can understand, I think, why you might appreciate it. 

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Re: What Movie is Playing Right Now
« Reply #1266 on: April 19, 2011, 04:45:16 PM »
Thanks for the plug, oad!
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Re: What Movie is Playing Right Now
« Reply #1267 on: April 19, 2011, 04:59:03 PM »
Me and My Gal's Merry Musical Marathon begins.


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Re: What Movie is Playing Right Now
« Reply #1268 on: April 19, 2011, 05:14:08 PM »
Thanks for the plug, oad!
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Re: What Movie is Playing Right Now
« Reply #1269 on: April 19, 2011, 05:22:16 PM »
Passion is on my top ten all time worst films list. It is torture porn very thinnly disguised as theology. Not to mention it is also really bad theology. It's unwatchably bad.

 

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