I don’t remember the 1974 original having a point, really. I mean, it had a bit more depth and suspense than your average slasher flick (but not that much depth), maybe because the genre was in its infancy and hadn’t had a chance to become formulaic yet, but it was still just a slasher flick in the end.
Not that I’m criticizing, mind you, I liked the movie a lot.
And I was wondering the same thing about the house. The interiors may be laid out the same, but I think the outside of the house is different. I remember the house in the original being larger (though it’s been a long time since I saw it).
That is so intelligent that I think you must have gotten kicked out of Cary. Good on you! (And welcome!)
My husband and I like to watch Bad Santa. I don’t mind irreverence. What’s so reverent about all the materialism anyway? I still take time for things that I think have some relevance. Billy Bob Thornton doesn’t interfere with that anymore than than what I have for dinner.
These are only a couple of Christian groups — not the whole of Christiandom.
No! EVEN better! Strict Baptist Bible College Massacre! Watch as those heathen women who gasp wear PANTS turn into Indigo Girl listening FEMINISTS ! Witness men who listen to gasp CCM (contemporary Christian Music) turn into SATAN Worshippers! Watch God smite the lips of those who say “Gee!”
I didn’t mean ‘point’ as in ‘message’. It doesn’t really have one of those, and it’s all the better for it.
The point it’s missed is what made the original a good horror movie. The original’s most striking, most memorable, and most creepy aspect was never showing ‘Billy’ - except, occasionally his hand in the POV shots - and it was an ‘evil that men do’ flick, not supernatural. If I’m reading the trailers of the new version right, they’ve changed BOTH these parts, rendering it just another derivative gore flick - but not derivative of the movie it takes its name from.
Nah, it’s gotta be strict Pentacostal! That way, we can work in the whole snake handling aspect of it! Also, since strict Pentacostal women aren’t allowed to wear pants, you could call it Snakes in a Skirt.
This one comes pretty close. A friend of mine said about it, “[…]that production is the gayest thing I’ve ever seen that isn’t overtly about homosexuals. Actually, that’s the gayest thing I’ve ever seen, full-stop.”
I beg to differ about part of that. The original’s most striking, most memorable aspect (to me) was the presence of One Of The Most Beautiful Women To Ever Grace Our Planet, Olivia Hussey, looking only slightly less beautiful than she did as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet. I don’t remember much about that movie, but I can close my eyes and picture her.
The Last Temptation of Christ is, in my opinion, a great film. I think it’s one of Martin Scorsese’s best films. My opinion about a movie about jesus is probably worthless, since I’m an atheist, but I thought it was very powerful, and it certainly touched that part of me that used to believe, that used to regularly attend church and Sunday School and Vacation Bible School before I realized it was all a sham. It astonished me that Christians didn’t embrace the movie, and all over a few seconds of fantasy within the film. With those few seconds OUT, the movie would have been a mainstay of Christian Movies To Watch whenever Christians gather to watch jesus movies (something I had to endure many times).
I am SO glad he didn’t cut those few seconds out for the idiots. Fuck narrowminded Christians. The “What if?” aspect of the movie was there to show Christ’s faith. What if he could have done things differently? What if he could have lived happily ever after with Mary M? He would not have chosen to do that, because his place was exactly where he ended up. He had free will, and he imagined what he could do with that free will, and still his choice was to die for the sins of others and be reborn as the blah blah blah whatever it was. It’s a pious movie and most Christians were too ignorant and sheepish to find out for themselves.
I meant, I don’t remember much about the original Black Christmas, but I remember her. Romeo and Juliet, on the other hand, is one of my favorite films and I remember everything about it.
I’ll agree that the protesters had mischaracterized the movie. It was perfectly in keeping with Christian theology, IMO. In fact, it was like the Bataan Death-Sunday-School Lesson. I wanted to see it mainly to see what the controversy was about, and I find out that there was nothing to protest. As I said, the fix was in.
