Homage to the worst movie I’ve ever seen, combined with a history of the Vatican space program. How can you go wrong?
thoughts in and out of season
Homage to the worst movie I’ve ever seen, combined with a history of the Vatican space program. How can you go wrong?
Sputnik
Does it matter to the creators of the animation that Stalin died in 1953, a good four years before Sputnik?
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These are deep waters
Well, the Soviet space program must have started while Stalin was still alive, and the thought is that the promulgation of the dogma of the Assumption was a sort of anticipatory response to the expected Soviet success. Since Stalin was in power at the time of the promulgation that’s who it shows as the Soviet leader.
Rem tene, verba sequentur.
“The Passion of the Christ” was a major disappointment
“the worst movie I’ve ever seen” (—from the log entry)
If what is meant is “The Passion of the Christ” I agree that was an extremely disappointing movie. Of course the big question is why did we have to see so much of the scourging? Beyond that, the picture was overall too “thin”: there was way too little development of something in that movie, I’m not sure of what: the central themes of Christianity? the personalities of the people involved in the story? the drama as seen from the Roman point of view? as seen from the Jewish point of view? I don’t know, but it seemed shallow. Maybe the straight biblical account wasn’t fleshed-out enough? You walked away at the end feeling you had not seen a “whole” film, not had a “whole” experience—sort of, “Is that all???” When you see a film about Christ you want to see great themes and great personalities. Gibson didn’t represent those for us. He flubbed it, flubbed a chance to make a movie that might have rivaled some of the greatest in Hollywood history.
I saw nothing anti-Jewish in the film. A non-Jew such as I may not be the most sensitive judge of that, but the fact that the violence against Jews which the Jews feared would be set off worldwide by the film never came to pass is extremely gratifying in this regard and probably at least in part exonerates the film.
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Long live free Flanders!
Weird space
Actually, the movie I had in mind was 2001: A Space Odyssey, which starts off with a similar planets in alignment/Also Sprach Zarathustra/throw something into the air and it turns into something zipping through space sequence. It’s a piece of slow, bombastic techno-mysticism. (I haven’t seen The Passion of the Christ.)
Rem tene, verba sequentur.
Had I had the sound on and not been daydreaming I’d have known
“the movie I had in mind was 2001: A Space Odyssey,” (—Jim Kalb, above)
Of course! I just went back and played it again, this time with the sound turned on (soundless, it’s a bit less suggestive though someone paying attention still should have gotten it—I apologize). The first time around, after watching it, I was trying to put two and two together to figure out which movie John Zmirak (one of my favorite pundits) would have paid homage to and Jim Kalb been disappointed with, and thought of, perhaps, The Passion. As I type this I don’t recall Zmirak’s opinion of The Passion but I have a feeling he liked it. I do recall with certainty that he really praised Gods and Generals which I rented specifically on the strength of his opinion, finding it, however, just appallingly awful. (I saw what the film makers were trying to do in that effort, and was in total sympathy with that aim, but they did it just incredibly badly from a cinematic point of view. That’s all I disliked, not the idea, the principle behind the making of that film, which I liked very much.) As much as I like Zmirak as a commentator—and I like him a lot—I fear his taste in movies … well, let’s just leave it at that: I fear his taste in movies. (LOL)
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Long live free Flanders!
Looks like Zmirak’s put some good jokes in it …
Well, apparently some good jokes are in store for readers of the book:
“Thanks, everybody—but there’s a key word in the joke which is copied wrong. ‘If Jesus was JEWISH, why did He have a Puerto Rican name?’ It’s a Jackie Mason joke, actually ….
Cheers, John [Zmirak]”
(Gleaned from the readers’ comments thread underneath this log entry, linked in turn in this entry over at the Vdare.com blog today.)
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Long live free Flanders!
What do you think is the
What do you think is the worst movie ever, but everyone would agree with you? I want to watch the worst movie ever. I heard Troll 2 and some Manos movie are possibly the worst! Give me some terrible movies but that everyone could agree with you on. For example putting up The Grudge, The Mist, or Spider-Man 3 would not be reasonable answers. Those were answers from other post on the worst movie ever. But, I want not just what movie you actually were disgusted by but movies you KNOW everyone would be hate to watch or completely laugh at it’s horrendousness!