Freddy & Jason take on the Fundamentalists...

[Paul Hotbranch]

:)

[NEC]

All of this reviewing based on content does is make people feel bad when they have no reason at all to feel bad for watching certain movies, because they are doing nothing wrong. (When you get up to hardcore X and beyond the lines do become blurry though. I personally don't care for hardcore X-Rated stuff, but if you do like it, that's your business and not mine.) And then for the reviewer it gives them this false sense of moral superiority.

[Paul Hotbranch]

The Church has no bussiness reviewing horror movies.

[Jim Hepler]

The thing I don't get is they CLAIM to not take consider the reasons for occurences (so yes, they mention Jesus being beaten, etc, in a movie about Jesus) in film, then say "Oh, it has a good moral message at this point about how great Jesus is".

[nshumate]

wuggles451 wrote:

> I have a neighbor who wont let her kids (4 yrs through 10yrs old i believe) watch ...
> pokemon becuase pikachew shoots lightning out his ass.

Somehow, that seems like a good reason not to watch Pokemon, no matter your religious affiliation...

[Paul Hotbranch]

I wonder what messages do they take from"Freddy VS Jason"...

[Chadzilla]

Movieguide gave a critical rating of two stars (out of four, I assume) for Freddy Vs Jason, but they trashed it for its paganistic world view.

http://www.movieguide.org/index.cgi?Playing&08/15/200317.37.58#08/15/200317.37.58

Legalistic Fundies are so uptight! :)

[JohnL]

Just for fun, I decided to send some feedback to the CAPAlert site. I pointed out some technical flaws with the site, pointed out how he mis-understood some of the movies he watched (he said the end of The Art of War made no sense, because Snipes is obviously killed by the police, but then turns up in another country!), told him why I disagreed with many of his views and finally I asked why the entire site harps on the fact that they supposedly don't interpret the bible to fit today's society, but yet the page about sparing the rod when disciplining children is one big propaganda piece on how the passages that literally say to beat children actually mean to 'guide' them. (I didn't use those exact words)

I got a reply back that accused me of having sent a "tirade" of "hate and intolerance". About the problems with the site he said "Then don't use it", About mis-understanding the plots of movies he quoted me the standard text from the page saying that his got isn't to "get" the message of movies (since when is understanding a scene, "getting the message"?), and about the sparing the rod page, he actually claimed that back in the days that the bible was written, beating children was a locing method of teaching them(!), but that today, too many abuse the practice. He ended by accusing me of being a teenager on a quest for filth in movies and that I shouldn't bother to reply because he wouldn't even see the response. Talk about hate and intolerance. I expected maybe a reply along the lines of "I'm sorry you feel that way", but what I got sounded pretty un-christian to me. When I read anything on that site, all I can think of is Reverend Flavel from Porky's II.

I've been toying with the idea of sending him a reply from a different email address... :)

[dean]

"beating children was a locing method of teaching them(!), "

JohnL i applaud you for replying to their feedback section, it shows that whilst they may shout out self righteousness, they are really really ignorant.

i mean, when the bible was written, i think that it was acceptable to kill people for minor theft, the world was flat, and medicine was in limited supply.

i think they really need to update their views and quit living in the past.

well done!

[NEC]

JohnL - I applaude you, man! I would never have the guts to do what you did!

[Jim Hepler]

He's also tried to sue people for linking to his page and other bulls**t, and threatened legal action against websites that mock him.

Matthew 5:39 - But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Many Christians don't follow this bit of advice, instead picking and choosing from Christ's teachings whatever suits them.  Of course, if they followed that bit (George Bush, I'm looking at you) we wouldn't be involved in constant military conflict, and that's just impossible for America to escape apparently.

[NEC]

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Many people that support CapAlert would say that other 'so-called' Christians are doing the same thing whether it be watching 'bad' movies, listening to 'non-religious' music, or what have you. How is anyone of any decency supposed to respond to them if they were supposedly throw that in anyone's face?

[Jim H]

What is wrong with enjoying theatrics?  That's all that movies are - none of it is real.  They *MIGHT* have an argument if some Christian loved the Faces of Death series (or one of the clones), of which 1 out of 3 or so deaths are real in it.

[dean]

i just read the review of the kevin smith movie dogma.

i just cannot believe that they got so many of the messages wrong.  sure it's not exactly an unblasphemous movie, i'll give them that, but BLOODY HELL, they get so many different ideas.

they completely missed the point that Loki and Bartelby [Matt Damon and Ben Affleck] were two angels kicked out of heaven.
heres what they said:

"Two characters who were supposed to be angels were the quintessential counterfeiters of the Scriptures -- one of them committed gunfire murder of an adulterer with as much regard for what he had done as if he had just sneezed"

now if they were kicked out of heaven, doesn't that imply that they weren't exactly the best angels out there?  i can understand that they didn't like the film, but they are just nitpicking every single negative thing that they could possibly find in the film and turning it negative.

objective my arse...

[Old MacDonald]

 No wonder they're uptight about JvsF. It's about people who come back from the dead and smite sinners. Jason certinally honors his mother (who the hell WAS his father?) and seems to follow most of the other commandments. Freddy wasn't spared the rod and was born of a good Christian mother (so good, that she could appear after death.) He even seemed to be a dutiful husband and father. Seems like a couple of good Christian boys to me.