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Rangi Guy wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:What's the best Christian movie you've ever seen, Rangi?

Mrs Rangi and I were discussing this last night, and if there's one thing that Christian films of late haven't latched onto so much - it's subtlety - everything needs to be hammered home.

Best Christian movie - The Passion of the Christ - easily!

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:What's the best Christian movie you've ever seen, Rangi?

Mrs Rangi and I were discussing this last night, and if there's one thing that Christian films of late haven't latched onto so much - it's subtlety - everything needs to be hammered home.

Best Christian movie - The Passion of the Christ - easily!

I agree!

Rangi Guy wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:What's the best Christian movie you've ever seen, Rangi?

Mrs Rangi and I were discussing this last night, and if there's one thing that Christian films of late haven't latched onto so much - it's subtlety - everything needs to be hammered home.

Best Christian movie - The Passion of the Christ - easily!

I agree!

I think we just became best friends!

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Life of Brian is the best Christian movie

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Life of Brian is the best Christian movie

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Spoiler: show

The introduction of the voice-over and the flashback just didn't really sit well with me. Everything had been moving along swimmingly just through dialogue and character work, and I really don't think much of that was needed to understand the stakes or the plot.

Simple Torture wrote:Today I watched Groundhog Day and The Hateful Eight. The former I'd probably seen 70% of before--flipping by it on cable and such--but I never remember actually sitting down to watch it. What a great movie. My reaction to The Hateful 8 is a bit more complex: as almost always, I think Tarantino draws some really great characters, and for probably more than half the movie I was on the edge of my seat and really digging everything about it. And then...

Spoiler: show

The introduction of the voice-over and the flashback just didn't really sit well with me. Everything had been moving along swimmingly just through dialogue and character work, and I really don't think much of that was needed to understand the stakes or the plot.

But overall I enjoyed it.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:What's the best Christian movie you've ever seen, Rangi?

@SkitchP wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:What's the best Christian movie you've ever seen, Rangi?

I liked the Prestige.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

durdencommatyler wrote:Watched both Pitch Perfect movies (back to back!) again yesterday. What a glorious time to be alive!

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Watched both Pitch Perfect movies (back to back!) again yesterday. What a glorious time to be alive!