The Mothership - 2016-01-11
A fine film, but I can't stress this enough: read the book.
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Two Jar Slave - 2016-01-11 I thought you might have meant "Sure [movie about Jesus] is okay, but ha-ha the book is better!"
Turns out The Last Temptation is a real novel. But thanks for reminding me that deodorant is not expensive.
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The Mothership - 2016-01-11 Oh, now I see what you meant. No, the New Testament is interesting, but I was in fact referring to the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis.
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Two Jar Slave - 2016-01-11 The question is: which one has a higher Goodreads rating?
The answer is: the Bible does (New International Version), 4.6 stars to 4.12.
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Scrotum H. Vainglorious - 2016-01-11
I remember the shitstorm when this came out.
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Nominal - 2016-01-11 That's so fucked up that Last a Temptation is reviled by Christians for daring to suggest Jesus was human, while Passion's pointless, message-less torture fetish was praised to such an extent that Sunday schools were showing it to kids.
It's like something straight out of the ending to The Ruling Class.
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infinite zest - 2016-01-11 Yikes. I'd say I find it hard to believe that they actually show it in Sunday School, but then I remembered the Hell Houses and such, which are almost gory enough to warrant a NC17 like Maximum Overdrive originally did. But it's cool because she's in hell with her aborted fetus. Lesson learned.. now go out and play kids :(
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garcet71283 - 2016-01-11 Its a shame, because it really is a good Jesus movie.
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Nominal - 2016-01-11 My parents' church treated it like a sex ed video. Kids brought home a permission slip for their parents to sign before they watched it.
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infinite zest - 2016-01-11 My parents are both Episcopalians, and attend an LGBTQ Church with blue-haired priest. But When I asked them if they'd see POtC they said no because of the violence. Yet my dad and I were sitting around watching Commando the other day and Bennet's letting off some steam is much worse than what happened to Jesus, who was pretty much a fictional guy like Bennet anyway.
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infinite zest - 2016-01-11 Oops blue haired meaning blue mohawk, and Dad and I laughing at the scene until mom came in and said this is disgusting and made us turn it to the Packers, because there's nothing violent about that.. I love them both but sometimes.. they always tell me when they were in Amsterdam in the 70s the saw Clockwork Orange in the movie theatre; I can't sit through that myself!
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MurgatroidMendelbaum - 2016-01-11
The last half-second really contributes heavily to the pathos.
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fedex - 2016-01-11 I think you mean the Python
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chumbucket - 2016-01-12
Soundtrack >> the actual film
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Lurchi - 2016-01-12
one of my favorite Scorsese movies
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