The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#0The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 5:33pmThe horribly maudlin and treacly John Q not only takes this cake but also eats it completely so nobody else can get their hands on it.
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#1re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 5:43pmUgh yes I LOATHED John Q.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#2re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 5:57pm
Ugh John Q.
Finding Neverland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are the most recent films that irritated me due to their preachiness.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#3re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 5:59pmThe Preachers Wife?
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
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#4re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 5:59pm
The one that pops into my mind is
Pay it Forward
So much talent, so little execution.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#5re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 6:13pm
Pay It Forward was perhaps the worst film adaptation of a book since Simon Birch.
In the book, the Kevin Spacey character was black, and it was a HUGE plot point. And that was only problem #1.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#6re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 6:22pmWow. And when the original author hates the adaptation so much he withdraws character rights, that should be a sign to stop. A sign that Simon Birch clearly didn't heed.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#7re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 6:47pmAw. I absolutely loved Finding Neverland.
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#8re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 6:52pm
I liked Finding Neverland well enough, but it is hard to deny it is very preachy.
There was so little to like in Pay it Forward I was already hating it, and then the ending came and for the only time in my life I wanted to scream at the screen, talk about cheap emotions in film.
It was so ridiculously preachy from the begining, ugh, remembering it makes me cringe.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#9re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 6:56pm"Bruce almightly" which church group payed for that, it was like sitting through a sunday in church.!
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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#10re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 8:34pm
Did anyone else hate "Signs" for this reason? Towards the end I was all yeah, I get it, faith, faith, faith, faith, faith, now please stop beating me upside the head with it.
Really hated "Pay it Foward" too.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#11re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 10:15pm"The Aristocrats."
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#12re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 10:24pmI love Ms. Margaret Cho, but when she starts preachin', I wanna start pukin'.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#13re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 10:36pm
Fern Gully.
I consider myself an environmentalist, but when I was a kid, that tripe made me want to go burn down the rain forest myself.
#14re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 11:13pm
My only Faith that i was praying for in "SIGNS", was the the aliens would attack and kill the cast so i was put out of my misery...
That should have sat people, sinners to left, god fearing people to the right.
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
Tazber's: Reply to
Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
#15re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 11:53pm
Without a doubt, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME with Robin Williams. The entire movie was just one over-the-top piece of New Age propaganda.
Otherwise, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Give me a break. An anecdote taken to the extreme.
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#16re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/10/05 at 11:54pmIf I lived in Bedford Falls, I'd jump into an icy river, too. Give me Potterville any day.
#18re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/11/05 at 12:35am
Calvin, some friends and I watched Fern Gully a bit ago, with the assistance of some other fun stuff (wow, the colors! 
) and realized how incredibly propagandic it was. We kept saying, "wow, that was another really SUBTLE message about how LOGGING IS BAD. I'm so glad I'm a SMART COLLEGE STUDENT so that I can CATCH THOSE HIDDEN MESSAGES."
LOL
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#19re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/11/05 at 12:40amI wonder how many sheets of bleached paper were used to make FERNGULLY.
BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner
HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#20re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/11/05 at 9:30am
Nothing touches:
American Beauty
Talk about preachy. There was never a real moment in the show, nor was there ever a moment of depth or comment. It was all preaching (which is not unusual for a Kevin Space-cadet film).
"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"
-- unknown
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#21re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/11/05 at 9:57am
I loved American Beauty! I didn't find it preachy at all. And, therefore, your opinion is negated, touch. 
You promised me poems. ~Tricky
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#22re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/11/05 at 10:02amI honestly can't think of any movies that are preachy, but along the lines of the environmental cartoons, does anyone remember Captain Planet and the Planeteers (or something like that)? That show gave me a greater appreciation for big corporations and their plots to kill the earth.
You promised me poems. ~Tricky
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#23re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/11/05 at 10:18am
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
I loved it when I was little but I caught it on Starz recently and went to see if I remembered anything about it or whatever and I found myself wanting to puke because of how preachy it was.
#24re: The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?
Posted: 11/11/05 at 10:54am
Oh my, It's a Wonderful Life? (breathes deeply)
My Man Godfrey I'd buy, but IAWL?
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