Tara ,'Storyteller'
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but I am oddly defensive about Dogma and her appearance as God in it. I get weepy at that movie, and that scene in particular.
scoots next to Sean, offers him a bat-embroidered handkerchief
Me too. And I *don't* like Alanis' music or singing. But I get happily weepy at that scene every time.
She wasn't remotely convincing for me. Probably stupid to even care about such a thing; the role is God, for God's sake--how are you supposed to play that convincingly? I didn't get any sense of almighty wisdom or any such from the performance, though. It felt more or less like, "So, you're God, huh?" "Yep, pretty much."
In other words:
Department store Santa : Santa :: Alanis Morrisette : God
I have no complaints about Dogma. Well, except for the shit monster. Still not too fond of that.
I think Dogma is the hardest movie I've ever had to admit to being underwhelmed by. It makes me feel like a traitor to my people. (My people, in this instance, being irreverent Kevin Smith fans. But I just didn't think it was that good.)
I totally get it, Sean. "If you're living in the same Universe I am, that there is the only viable characterization of a loving God I've ever seen."
eta: I understand that YDietyMV, and, given my theology, that's probably a good thing for society.
Right after I saw Dogma, I got into a long discussion at a bar with a woman who thought it was blasphemous and evil. She hadn't seen it. Somehow, that translates into points for Kevin Smith.
I like Alanis as God. It works for me.
I think Dogma is the hardest movie I've ever had to admit to being underwhelmed by. It makes me feel like a traitor to my people. (My people, in this instance, being irreverent Kevin Smith fans. But I just didn't think it was that good.)
You didn't feel that way about "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back"? I walked away from that one half an hour in. It felt like an awful fanfilm that someone somehow managed to get the View Askew regulars to star in.
Matt Damon's fate in that movie did disturb me a bit.
Poor Loki.
I love that movie. Every bit of it.
However, Matt Damon's fate in that movie did disturb me a bit.
Funny, getting killed by Affleck after publicly talking about his repressed sexual issues to strangers is exactly how I've always pictured Damon buying the farm.
Nah, because JSBSB wasn't pretending to be anything but a random-ass collection of references to other Kevin Smith movies with a healthy portion of making fun of Ben Affleck thrown in. It's funny as hell, but I've never seen anyone try to argue that it's a good movie.
(And even if there were no other funny scenes in the whole thing, the "Hunting Season" bit alone would have been worth the price of admission.)