Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread • Page 1148

Reminded yet again that I really need to watch Last Temptation of Christ already, lol.

Not a movie, but Anthony Oliveira’s book Dayspring rules. It’s a poetic retelling of Jesus ministry as a gay romance between Him and “the disciple who Jesus loved,” interspersed with various detours throughout time, including Oliveira’s own life. (The main narrative is essentially an amalgam of Oliveira, the disciple Jesus loved, and other various influences.)

It’s maybe not exactly what you’re talking about & looking for, lol, at least directly. But it is a very compelling and thoughtful work, imo, based in the writer’s gay Catholic background.

 

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I think of that movie every single time I have a mushroom pizza.

A Hidden Life. Abso-fucking-lutely A Hidden Life.

And it wasn't my favorite watch but I thought it actually had a lot to say about faith: Kinds of Kindness

Edit: Also, it's older but The Mission is a masterpiece, imo. And Godspell is a bit of a niche overlap of interests but it's a favorite and I think gets at the radical nature of the advice in the gospels in a way that modern Christians sure seem to totally miss.

 

We’ve talked about this! I know it’s a bad opinion!

 

A lot of people hate interstellar, it’s not an uncommon opinion.

 

i saw like half of Interstellar, albeit projected on the side of my old campus ministry house. it was... fine?

 

Oh yeah that’s the best way to see it!

 

I am an interstellar hater

 

if i watch Oppenheimer, it's gonna be on a Game Boy Video cartridge only

 

I love Interstellar. But yea, it’s polarizing for sure. If you buy in to the whole love thing, I think you really enjoy it. It you don’t, yes, you’re going to have major issues in the third act.

 

My biggest gripe was that I watched it in theaters. Think it would’ve been a way better experience on the side of @Michael Belt’s campus ministry house

 

in my defense, I had gotten very little sleep since it was orientation week for new students, so i was sleep deprived and probably forgot a good chunk of it

 

it is a movie that moved me pretty deeply seeing it right after my mom passed while also thinking that it absolutely sucked as i left the theater. containing multitudes etc etc

 

Don’t you blindly hate anything Nolan?

 

I have not seen oppie so no comment but my fav Nolan is Dunkirk. Everything else I dislike or am indifferent.

 

Man the original Ron Perlman Hellboy is just too good

 

I never watched 4 either, maybe someday

 

Don't, you'll be fine

 

It’s entertaining but unnecessary

 

Seeing such an accomplished film maker say a children's cartoon is one of the best movies he's ever seen just warms my heart

 

But yeah I've never had any desire to watch Toy Story 4. I don't think I ever will watch it.

Can we all talk about that old meme where some kids show their mom a fan copy of Toy Story 3 where it just ends on a somber note as they hold hands in the incinerator and close their eyes?