#26
Posted: 10/18/11 at 9:50pm
Right, they were like any other cult. Cults are bad. We know this. I just feel there was absolutely nothing Established here.
"Red State" and Westboro at Sundance — Page 2
#27
Posted: 10/19/11 at 3:44pm
I've had a copy of it for a while but I haven't gotten around to watching it yet. And while I've enjoyed plenty of Kevin Smith's work, I'm always mystified when people list "Chasing Amy" as being one of his better movies. I'll never get over the fact that the movie hinges on the fact that before she even met Ben Affleck's character, the annoying squeak-voiced girl did something that's considered sexually questionable (by the characters and by Kevin Smith, I'm assuming. I think she was well within her rights to have whatever kind of sex she wanted, even if it would someday offend a man she hadn't met yet) and because of that, the movie seems to make a pretty strong case that slut-shaming her for it is fair and logical. Unless I'm remembering it wrong?
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#28
Posted: 10/20/11 at 10:34am
Watched Red State last night and I now officially give up on Kevin Smith. Haven't seen one film of his I liked. God, this was grim, dreary, cynical and ultimately, pointless. As soon as the church group were portrayed as an amalgam of Westboro and Branch Davidians, the story lost its focus and I knew we were in for nothing more than a shoot 'em up story. The bleakness and futility just brought it down further. It seemed like he was trying to make some ultimate point or message, but it's a needle in a haystack that's not worth finding. And if he's holding up a mirror to society, it must be one of those carnival mirrors that distorts reality. The few truths he tried to expose were lost in a sea of pure fantasy. But thanks for sticking up for the gays. They were a shining beacon of victimization, fear, self-loathing, stupidity and cowardice. Ugh.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#29
Posted: 10/20/11 at 3:02pm
Phyllis...I always thought the same thing about Chasing Amy. I remember leaving the theater angry when I saw it.
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