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Saddest Movie\Show ending that brought a tear to your Eye
DaOld Man:
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--- Quote from: shmokes on November 23, 2011, 10:34:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on November 22, 2011, 11:14:25 am ---I really don't see any problems that it was not a critically acclaimed film. That has nothing to do with appreciating it.
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Obviously it would be silly not to appreciate a film because the film was not critically acclaimed. But there's a good chance that you won't appreciate a movie for the same reasons that it was critically panned. You see that.
And in any case, the fact that it was so critically panned, the fact that I know personally quite a few people who saw it and told me it was crap, is proof positive that it is not a movie that can be appreciated by everyone. There simply are many people who are unable to appreciate it. Full stop.
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I agree 100% with you, which pretty much never happens. ;)
Also you absolutely have to be religious for something like that to have any effect on you. If you are a christian then it's your magical savior suffering for your sins, if you aren't it's torture porn similar to the SAW franchise. Actually it's torture porn either way. I'm sorry but why would you take a universally awesome person and make a film about the one bad day they had?
Let's put it into some different context:
What if you wanted to make a film about Elvis, but instead of making this grand tale of how he got his start, his music and his adventures you decide to make it a short film about the heart attack he died of on the toilet. Doesn't that sound like a stupid idea for a movie to you?
Also (and I choke on my own tongue when I say this) pbj is 100% correct as well. Christians are so hypocritical. He's the son of god and therefore could have lept off that cross and did a little jig back upstairs anytime he wanted. Hell his father IS god so if anything, the resurrection story just proves that god is kind of a dick as he could have saved his son from such suffering. Also he'll go to heaven, so how exactly is it suffering? Sounds more like a woman losing her virginity to me in that it will hurt now but it will be worth it later.
Anyway, I'm not trying to get this topic moved, I just find it funny how the religious people, who think there is life after death, are so afraid of death and get so angry and vengeful when someone is killed. (Religion is the #1 excuse to go to war.) It might mean, that maybe, just maybe, their faith is a crutch because they are so scared of death and equally so scared of taking responsibility for their killing.
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You really dont get it do you?
People judging films they have not seen, and judging religions they know absolutely nothing about, and then having the blind ignorance to call others hypocritical are no doubt the clear definition of lost.
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: DaOld Man on November 24, 2011, 02:20:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on November 24, 2011, 04:21:24 am ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on November 23, 2011, 10:34:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on November 22, 2011, 11:14:25 am ---I really don't see any problems that it was not a critically acclaimed film. That has nothing to do with appreciating it.
--- End quote ---
Obviously it would be silly not to appreciate a film because the film was not critically acclaimed. But there's a good chance that you won't appreciate a movie for the same reasons that it was critically panned. You see that.
And in any case, the fact that it was so critically panned, the fact that I know personally quite a few people who saw it and told me it was crap, is proof positive that it is not a movie that can be appreciated by everyone. There simply are many people who are unable to appreciate it. Full stop.
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I agree 100% with you, which pretty much never happens. ;)
Also you absolutely have to be religious for something like that to have any effect on you. If you are a christian then it's your magical savior suffering for your sins, if you aren't it's torture porn similar to the SAW franchise. Actually it's torture porn either way. I'm sorry but why would you take a universally awesome person and make a film about the one bad day they had?
Let's put it into some different context:
What if you wanted to make a film about Elvis, but instead of making this grand tale of how he got his start, his music and his adventures you decide to make it a short film about the heart attack he died of on the toilet. Doesn't that sound like a stupid idea for a movie to you?
Also (and I choke on my own tongue when I say this) pbj is 100% correct as well. Christians are so hypocritical. He's the son of god and therefore could have lept off that cross and did a little jig back upstairs anytime he wanted. Hell his father IS god so if anything, the resurrection story just proves that god is kind of a dick as he could have saved his son from such suffering. Also he'll go to heaven, so how exactly is it suffering? Sounds more like a woman losing her virginity to me in that it will hurt now but it will be worth it later.
Anyway, I'm not trying to get this topic moved, I just find it funny how the religious people, who think there is life after death, are so afraid of death and get so angry and vengeful when someone is killed. (Religion is the #1 excuse to go to war.) It might mean, that maybe, just maybe, their faith is a crutch because they are so scared of death and equally so scared of taking responsibility for their killing.
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You really dont get it do you?
People judging films they have not seen, and judging religions they know absolutely nothing about, and then having the blind ignorance to call others hypocritical are no doubt the clear definition of lost.
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Howard likes the attention, besides if he directed his enthusiasm to something more productive, he can go back and enjoy the glory without being offensive.
I like the guy and I think he was voicing an opinion that is not generally shared.
The Passion of Christ was very graphic and it showed the brutality of the Romans, seeing a person who you love or admire, being brutalized like that, would upset anyone.
Drnick:
Bridge to Terabithia (I just didn't want to believe it).
The Green Mile (Heterosexual or not there was a physical tear in my eye).
shmokes:
--- Quote from: DaOld Man on November 24, 2011, 02:20:59 pm ---You really dont get it do you?
People judging films they have not seen, and judging religions they know absolutely nothing about, and then having the blind ignorance to call others hypocritical are no doubt the clear definition of lost.
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The idea that it's somehow foolish or unfair to judge a film having not seen it is intuitively appealing. But, of course, you do it all the time. Look at the movie poster for the new Adam Sandler movie, Jack and Jill. Or how about the new Twilight movie? Ya been to see that yet? Have you sampled the latest offerings on Nickelodeon or the Lifetime channel? There's simply no way to sample every single thing in life. You have to make choices. That doesn't mean that you have to just close your eyes and point or do a little eeny-meeny-miney-moe. You make educated prejudgments about movies. Obviously a movie sometimes defies the odds and ends up surprising you (in one direction or the other). But generally speaking, I find that I usually like movies that I expected to like and dislike movies that I expected to be crap. And before you grab onto that, keep in mind that it's unlikely that I would like a movie because I expected to like it. If anything, the opposite is true. I'm much more likely to end up disliking an otherwise passable movie because I expected it to be excellent.
Howard_Casto:
Just for the record, I was raised a Babtist and my grandma would probably knock the taste out of anyone's mouth who accused me of being ignorant to Christianity. Rejecting parts or all of a religion and being ignorant of a religion are not the same thing.
My only crime is being too smart to see a film that is obviously exploiting people's obsession with a religious figure to make money for what it is. If it were truely a moving, religious film, Mel, being the saint that he is, wouldn't have charged you to see it. If you were moved by it anyway then you were simply one of his "marks". Beware of false prophets my children, beware of false profits.
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