Movie Marathon (Part 2)

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Movie films with a religious subtext

  1. Life of Pi
  2. Jesus of Montreal
  3. Seraphim Falls
  4. The Lord of the Rings
  5. Dogma
  6. Johnathan Livingston Seagull
  7. Silence
  8. The Brother From Another Planet

At least I think it was supposed to be a religious subtext.

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Movie films with a religious subtext

  1. Life of Pi
  2. Jesus of Montreal
  3. Seraphim Falls
  4. The Lord of the Rings
  5. Dogma
  6. Johnathan Livingston Seagull
  7. Silence
  8. The Brother From Another Planet
  9. Calvary

Terrific very dark comedy about an embattled small-town Irish priest. Brendan Gleeson is amazing in the lead role.

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I don’t think it was, and I saw it a bunch of times as a projectionist, then a couple of years later, studied it in a class called “The Black Film.” It was one of only two films (out of, IIRC, 12 we saw) by a white director-- the other was The Color Purple.

But if you understood it that way, barring a personal letter from John Sayles, I’ll accept that it’s one interpretation. I’m interested in your reasoning, though; PM me?

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I’m probably wrong. I saw it once, over thirty years ago.

My recollection was that it involved a lead character who came from the outside (in this case he was an alien), never spoke (which meant people had to interpret what his message was), was a member of an unpopular minority (he was black in America), and had the power to heal people. Plus the confusing thumbs up/thumbs down ending. I guessed Sayles intended him as a metaphor for how Jesus would be treated in modern America.

I see it’s on YouTube. Maybe I need to watch it again.

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Movie films with a religious subtext

  1. Life of Pi
  2. Jesus of Montreal
  3. Seraphim Falls
  4. The Lord of the Rings
  5. Dogma
  6. Johnathan Livingston Seagull
  7. Silence
  8. The Brother From Another Planet
  9. Calvary
  10. Little Buddha

A decent film ruined by the inexplicable casting of Keanu Reeves as Gautama Buddha.

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Your “guilty pleasure” films

  1. Undercover Blues

Any film that would generally not be regarded as of notable quality, but which you enjoy watching anyway for whatever reason. For example, Undercover Blues is a goofy spy comedy starring Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid, made all the more fun by two outstanding character actors - Stanley Tucci and Fiona Shaw - in outrageous scenery-chewing caricature roles, played with ridiculous accents.

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Your “guilty pleasure” films

  1. Undercover Blues
  2. The Trouble with Angels

Hayley Mills as the bad girl in a convent school; Rosalind Russell as mother superior. A guilty pleasure from a strange “nun” phase I went through when I was about 12-- very strange, because I’m Jewish, and I didn’t really know the first thing about nuns. I still like this movie, though. Also, The Bells of St. Mary’s.

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Your “guilty pleasure” films

  1. Undercover Blues
  2. The Trouble with Angels
  3. Twister

There’s no real villain. The romantic triangle subplot is laughably done away with in moments without real repercussions. But I love the characters.

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Your “guilty pleasure” films

  1. Undercover Blues
  2. The Trouble with Angels
  3. Twister
  4. Repo Man

Weird and cheaply done cult film that I find worth watching once a year or so. Funny, quotable dialog, weirdo visuals, goofy ending, and a soundtrack featuring an Iggy Pop theme that I think is an underrated, great rock and roll song.

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Your “guilty pleasure” films

  1. Undercover Blues
  2. The Trouble with Angels
  3. Twister
  4. Repo Man
  5. The Hidden

Fun, endlessly watchable low-budget sf thriller about an ultraviolent alien criminal on the run in L.A. I first saw it in the late Eighties and it’s stuck with me all these years later.

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Your “guilty pleasure” films

  1. Undercover Blues
  2. The Trouble with Angels
  3. Twister
  4. Repo Man
  5. The Hidden
  6. Strange Brew

Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, doing their Bob and Doug McKenzie characters, in a story loosely adapted from Hamlet (only with much more beer). It’s dumb as hell, but it always makes me laugh.

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Your “guilty pleasure” films

  1. Undercover Blues
  2. The Trouble with Angels
  3. Twister
  4. Repo Man
  5. The Hidden
  6. Strange Brew
  7. Earth Girls Are Easy

Easily Geena Davis’ worst acting job. And, I have a hard time with Jeff Goldblum as the “sexy one” (I think of him as The Fly or as Dr. Malcom or even from The Big Chill, and none of them are sexy). That being said, there is a lot of fun goofiness with Jim Carey, Damon Wayans, Julie Brown, along with being able to tease my wife with “'Cause I’m a Blond” (to which she usually replies “Don’t you wish you were me?”)

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Your “guilty pleasure” films

  1. Undercover Blues
  2. The Trouble with Angels
  3. Twister
  4. Repo Man
  5. The Hidden
  6. Strange Brew
  7. Earth Girls Are Easy
  8. Beerfest

"DER PASSVORT !!"
… drunk guy flawlessly delivers long, complicated yodel
"DOT VAS LAST YEAR’S PASSVORT !!"

-“BB”-

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Your “guilty pleasure” films

  1. Undercover Blues
  2. The Trouble with Angels
  3. Twister
  4. Repo Man
  5. The Hidden
  6. Strange Brew
  7. Earth Girls Are Easy
  8. Beerfest
  9. Bubba Ho-Tep

Bruce Campbell as an aged Elvis Presley existing barely in a nursing home, with Morgan Freeman as an old JFK there as well (maybe), when the nursing home is attacked by a mummy dislodged from a passing circus…

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Your “guilty pleasure” films

  1. Undercover Blues
  2. The Trouble with Angels
  3. Twister
  4. Repo Man
  5. The Hidden
  6. Strange Brew
  7. Earth Girls Are Easy
  8. Beerfest
  9. Bubba Ho-Tep
  10. Student Bodies

Very early slasher parody that’s gangbusters for the first 15 minutes or so, then becomes a puerile chore for the rest. If like me you grew up seeing it on cable in the early 80s, you may have some lingering affection for it.

Spoofs, parodies and send-ups

  1. Top Secret!
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Spoofs, parodies and send-ups

  1. Top Secret!
  2. Murder By Death
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Spoofs, parodies and send-ups

  1. Top Secret!
  2. Murder By Death
  3. Life of Brian

Spoof of biblical films.

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Spoofs, parodies and send-ups

  1. Top Secret!
  2. Murder By Death
  3. Life of Brian
  4. The Little Train Robbery

1905 send-up of the 1903 The Great Train Robbery, featuring an all-child cast; possibly the first film parody.

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Spoofs, parodies and send-ups

  1. Top Secret!
  2. Murder By Death
  3. Life of Brian
  4. The Little Train Robbery
  5. Terror in Tiny Town – a spoof of both Westerns and musicals with an all-midget cast

-“BB”-

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Spoofs, parodies and send-ups

  1. Top Secret!
  2. Murder By Death
  3. Life of Brian
  4. The Little Train Robbery
  5. Terror in Tiny Town – a spoof of both Westerns and musicals with an all-midget cast
  6. Bugsy Malone
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Your basic gangster musical, with kids instead of adults and marshmallow instead of blood.

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Spoofs, parodies and send-ups

  1. Top Secret!
  2. Murder By Death
  3. Life of Brian
  4. The Little Train Robbery
  5. Terror in Tiny Town – a spoof of both Westerns and musicals with an all-midget cast
  6. Bugsy Malone
  7. Young Frankenstein