'Smile Time'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
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.
I am oddly defensive about Dogma and her appearance as God in it. I get weepy at that movie, and that scene in particular.
(It's the standing on her head, smelling the flowers, and the nose tweak that get me)
I'm with you, Sean. It's the only version of God I can plausibly accept -- a God who ENJOYS her creation (and skeeball!), who lets the people she created fuck up big time, and who gets sad when they fuck up so badly.
Brilliant movie. Totally brilliant.
I liked Alanis as God, too. And I could think Morgan Freeman is God, too, although I think. if God is a man, he speaks like Andre Braugher or James Earl Jones. Oh, no, sacreligious "Jesus, I am your Father!" image.
Oh, no, sacreligious "Jesus, I am your Father!" image.
Join me, Jesus, and together we can destroy the Holy Spirit and rule the galaxy!
Joseph never told you who about your father, did he?
He told me enough! He told me you killed him!