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Vercingetorix  Inactive Member |
IMO constantine was great! Im not really a keanu revees fan (he's too monotone with the same emotion in every scene). The only thing I didn't like was the cross-flashlight-gun thing. I've seen it twice already.
to answer your question: Ben HurThe Ten Commandments Jesus Christ Superstar The Passion of the Christ The 7th Sign The Exorcist Joan of Arc im sure there's more...
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1721 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
What I didn't like about Constantine, and about theo-gothic-action movies in general, is this trend nowadays where they oh-so-casually toss off the fact that the Nazis had the Spear of Longinus (Spear of Destiny, Longinus Lance, etc) during WWII, like it's some winking nod to the continuity of a series they've already butchered.
It's like geek fan service, and it's getting old. Time to retire this macguffin.
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Vercingetorix  Inactive Member |
so with that being said you probably do not like the indian jones series for the same reason then? or is that a period piece and ok?
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kongstad Member (Idle past 3124 days) Posts: 175 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Joined: |
The lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (TV Movie 1979) - Reference View - IMDb was a regularly shown on Danish TV around Christmas, (the cartoon). /Soren
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1721 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
or is that a period piece and ok? You misunderstood. I like battling occult-obsessed Nazi's just fine, and the Indiana Jones movies are the finest example of that. What I don't like is when that occult-Nazi background is exploited in movies that aren't about Nazis, just for the sake of fan service. I mean, the point is to set their treasure-protecting organizations into a historical context, to say "we've been doing this a while; here, look at our museum. Oh, by the way, we recovered the Spear of Longinus from Hitler and won WWII." It's old. It's time that somebody came up with some new fake occult history. Hitler and the Spear have been done to death. Same with the Holy Grail. How about the Shroud of Turin? That would be new. Or the Hope Diamond? It's cursed, you know.
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LinearAq Member (Idle past 4930 days) Posts: 598 From: Pocomoke City, MD Joined: |
I can't believe that no one has mentioned "Left Behind" or "Tribulation Force". They ARE prophetic movies, ya know. Exactly how things will be during the tribulation.
Oh yeah...good movies...sorry. edited to change The into They...Hey! Even Nosy Ned messes up sometimes. This message has been edited by LinearAq, 03-04-2005 09:47 AM If faith is "...evidence of things hoped for and the substance of things not seen..." from what material do you build your faith?
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Trae Member (Idle past 4560 days) Posts: 442 From: Fremont, CA, USA Joined: |
Well there's always the big budget remake.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) - IMDb This message has been edited by Trae, 03-03-2005 20:56 AM "God and I don't speak much. He never admits to his mistakes and still acts as if his every opinion should be carved in stone. — Trae
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contracycle Inactive Member |
quote: Thats a fair point but I have an alternative proposition for you: its no fan service so much as an established element of the Conspiracy genre. The spear and related oddities like Ultima Thule have a life of their own in the endlessly self-recycling world of Conspiracy publishing. And this occurs at two levels, as there is the "real" conspiracy stuff, and then there is secondary fiction that exploits the prominence of conspiracy tropes. Most of the things you mention fal into the latter category - I can see how it can be annoying, but there are many endlessly recycled tropes, and this one does not bother me much. The ones that bug me most are when SF and demonic fantasy are used together, like the movie Event Horizon or the Doom games.-- A friend of mine familiar with the Hellblazer series has now seen Constantine and reports it is not nearly as bad as was feared, and that the whole shotgun thing is understated. So I'll probably be seeing it on the weekend.
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Zhimbo Member (Idle past 6266 days) Posts: 571 From: New Hampshire, USA Joined: |
I don't think anyone's mentioned one of my favorite theologically based movies...
The Rapture, written and directed by Michael Tolkin, starring Mimi Rogers. On a limited budget, there's only so much you can do in depicting the end of the world...but the movie isn't really, quite, about the Rapture. It's complicated. Well, just go see it, it's good. On the other hand, you might hate it, and I could respect that, too.
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1721 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
Thats a fair point but I have an alternative proposition for you: its no fan service so much as an established element of the Conspiracy genre. Hrm, that's a good point. Nonetheless I'd like to see some occult conspiracy movies that drew their macguffins from sources other than Nazis and the Catholic church.
The ones that bug me most are when SF and demonic fantasy are used together, like the movie Event Horizon or the Doom games. You know, I hate that too.
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Angeldust Inactive Member |
Bad acting, and bad interpretation of prophecy. With all due respect to Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, I don't know where they got half of their stuff scripturally. That book series went on for way too long.
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Zhimbo Member (Idle past 6266 days) Posts: 571 From: New Hampshire, USA Joined: |
"I'd like to see some occult conspiracy movies that drew their macguffins from sources other than Nazis and the Catholic church." Have you read Roger Ebert's review of Constantine?
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1598 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
not sure if it should be considered a "theological" plot, but the movie/documentary/post-modern-mental-masturbation-mumbo-jumbo "what the [bleep] do we know?" is coming to video on tuesday.
i find it most interesting that one on the special features, there are previews and one is for "i [heart] huckabees." not only do both have weird things in their titles that i had to bracket, but both are blatant postmodern quantum whatever. only huckabess is making fun of that sort of thing. anyhow, what the bleep discusses, among other things, organized religion, concepts of god, and how it relates to self, reality, and quantum mechanics.
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nator Member (Idle past 2424 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Nobody has mentioned the HBO production of Angels in America. It is fantastic.
There is also talk of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy being made into a trilogy of films, and you don't get more theological than those books. I hope they get made well, because I loved the books.
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Thor Member (Idle past 6165 days) Posts: 148 From: Sydney, Australia Joined: |
I don't think I've seen "The Wicker Man" mentioned by anyone yet.
I think it's considered a cult film in the UK, but I don't know if it's very well known in the USA. Basically, it's an unusual film about a devout christian police officer who goes to investigate the disappearance of a young girl on a small island off Scotland. It turns out that the people living on the island are pagans.
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