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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.)
(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.)
Lemon! Lion! Lemon!
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 love the bit in An Evening with Kevin Smith where he talks about going down to the local multiplex to join the protest of his own movie. And how his sign ("Dogma is Dogshit") was nicer than everyone else's because he used sparkles on his.
I don't think you lose points for accepting the role of God, no matter how crappy the movie.
Even God can't like Jim Carrey. It's not possible.
Even Whoopi scored some points with me by playing God in that Very Merry Muppet Christmas Special from a few years ago. Of course, David Arquette scored more by not being obnoxious and playing very well with Kermit.
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."
This. I thought it was an utterly convincing portrayal of a God I can believe in.
But to each their own.
It occurs to me that Bryan Fuller's version of God would terrify me if I believed in it.