First you spent $1300 on a routine domestic trip because you waited until 3 weeks beforehand to book (on a trip that you were taking over an exceptionally busy travel weekend, mind you) then you didn’t check to see when you’d actually need to arrive in the city you booked a ticket to?
Some aspects of airline travel…
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Are they? I thought they had a pretty good reputation among horror fans
I agree with almost everything you say about the movie artistically. I just find it baffling that Breihan finds it baffling that this would be a hit: that’s my major point here. And I think it speaks to a certain AVC myopia about religious movies that crops up often
Oh I thought of a much better parallel - How The West Was Won.
I still don’t really get why this would be baffling. People love fidelity to the source book. They’ll complain about minor changes to a character’s hair. Do you really think devout Christians would say “Oh a movie about the Bible! Wait...they didn’t make a clear three act structure screw that.” I think it much more…
Well sure but the ABCs of Death contains 26!
I hear what you’re saying, but the existence of anthology films would seemingly indicate that people are okay with such structuring. Particularly when, again, their favorite book is composed of many disparate stories
For sure. People want comfortable, familiar messages and stories. Whether Christian or otherwise
“To me, a moviegoer born into a very different period, this is baffling”
You’re also, based on the tone of this article, a fairly secular person. But consider that throughout film’s history, people have been really eager to see adaptations of their favorite books. And then consider that religious Christians, well the…
But here’s the thing, OF COURSE we think this. Let’s say, correctly, that I don’t like seafood. Is it a deep statement (or more to the point, a true statement) if I say that all tuna is terrible? Or am I just the wrong audience for tuna?
To make it more specific, we are movie fans, and usually pretty secular ones at…
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Oh I’m sure much of it is mediocre, but the sneering disdain that people have around here just comes across as shallow and shrill and (presumably) other shwords. And I’m a Jewish atheist - I have no dog in this fight - I just prefer that people evaluate films on their merits. Like this review. No politics, just a…
Au contraire! I love discussing film. Want to talk about the uncanny valley or the acting? I’m there! Want to discuss whether the pacing worked or the songs added anything? Sign me up! Somewhere along the line movie websites stopped discussing film as much and started discussing whether art reflected their politics as…
Nahhhhh I eschew binaries when it comes to politics, life, etc. Everything except for code. That can be binary.
Ha, surely!
Often movies which get bad grades around here are Christian films or films that aren’t progressive in the right way. It gets frustratingly myopic. So it’s nice to see a movie reviewed simply on its merits as a movie, not by whether it meets some narrow sense of what views a movie is allowed to espouse
I criticize enough when I think you guys err too much on the side of what could be called politics, so I must also praise you for judging the movie entirely on how it succeeds (or fails, as it were) as a film.
Sweet!