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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
Scott6373:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on January 30, 2007, 11:40:52 am ---That's the only reason I never saw "Saving Private Ryan," and one of the reasons I never saw "The Passion of the Christ." "Kill Bill" I never saw because it looked like it would be violent and gimmicky and pretentious. (I could be wrong about that, I guess.)
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No you're not wrong. I did not see KB as I dislike Tarrentino, but I did see the other two. SPR was tedious...I had a hard time staying interested. I've had many discussions about TPOTC and, even now, I hold to my assertion, that if you remove the violence, it's "B" retelling of the same old biblical story.
ednbarby:
Totally agree with you about TPOTC, Scott. And SPR, come to think of it. After you're barraged by the first 20 minutes (and do we *really* have to see the guys' heads and legs get blown to bits?), it's tedious at best. And the ending was cringe-worthy, IMO. But then, Spielberg's endings always are.
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on January 30, 2007, 11:33:44 am ---How old is Hannah? I don't think I'd take a kid much younger than 15 or 16, myself. It's pretty intense.
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She's 15. And she has dark thoughts, so this concerns me a bit. But she wants to see this movie and Tony said he did too, and that they'd go together, so maybe the water is under the bridge on this one.
Leslie
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on January 30, 2007, 11:40:52 am ---That's the only reason I never saw "Saving Private Ryan," and one of the reasons I never saw "The Passion of the Christ." "Kill Bill" I never saw because it looked like it would be violent and gimmicky and pretentious. (I could be wrong about that, I guess.)
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What she said.
L
ednbarby:
Well, it does give a little bit of a history lesson, too, about the Fascists winning the Spanish Civil War. And as fantastical as it is, its message is not at all a dark one. It's actually a very liberal message - about taking a stand when the people/society around you are doing something terribly wrong, even if taking that stand puts you at risk. It is also kind of Christian allegory in the sense that when you do the right thing, you are rewarded with everlasting life. Normally, that would annoy me a bit, but the way it was presented here is actually rather comforting. It's presented in the sense that you shouldn't do what you think your God/your church is telling you to do if you know it isn't right - that sometimes going against all that is preached is really the way to salvation.
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