Mormonism and the arts

[_Droopy]

The only films worth watching are obviously great masterpieces such as Furry Vengeance and Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore.

As Daniel began by noting, this isn't the place...

[_Buffalo]

The only films worth watching are obviously great masterpieces such as Furry Vengeance and Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore.

As Daniel began by noting, this isn't the place...

This is the only place I know of where it COULD happen. Of course, it takes two to tango.

[_EAllusion]

Bad Santa is an excellent film that was made by a director who has produced work that even your most stuffy, self-consciously highbrow sophisticate can put a seal of approval on. It really doesn't deserve to be lumped in with the other examples. Obviously, one can list hundreds of films that are brilliant works of art and could not under an "R" from the MPAA.*

*Speaking of which, I recommend people watch This Film is Not Yet Rated.

[_TrashcanMan79]

Speaking of which, I recommend people watch This Film is Not Yet Rated.

I second the recommendation (it's even streaming on Netflix at the moment). This old Sunstone article is also worth considering, IHMHO: Can "Good Mormons" Watch R-Rated Movies? (sorry if someone's already linked to it -- haven't read the entire thread)

[_Doctor Scratch]

*Speaking of which, I recommend people watch This Film is Not Yet Rated.

I'd like to second that recommendation. And for dessert, you can check out the reviews here:

http://www.capalert.com/capreports/index.htm

Here's some excerpts from the review of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut:

Satan is portrayed as the homosexual lover of Saddam Hussein and is portrayed as a sensitive, loving and caring being though the One who cast him into Hell clearly tells the Truth about him: that Satan's only interests are to steal, kill and destroy [John 10:10]. Hussein waves his disembodied male member around. And it was not a cardboard drawing like most other images of the movie -- it was of photographic resolution.

[...]

God was called many vulgar and hateful names. Satan was glorified. Jesus was equated with sexual anatomy. A child was graphically incinerated by igniting his flatulence, then another kid tried to beat out the flames with a stick concerned about the stick catching fire.

[...]

These are but a very few of the examples of ignominy in this sinematic cyanide.

Droopy should volunteer to do reviews for the site.

[_Joseph]

consignal wrote: "It is unfortunate that Mormons do seem to lag behind in the artistic scene, especially when I consider that one of their most sacred temple ceremonies is a rather lengthy piece of theater."

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Go to Salt Lake or Manti where they still do live sessions. Get a session with a cast that has acting aspirations and the ceremony is actually fun. Sadly, this seldom happens and it it the same old crap.

[_Droopy]

Bad Santa is an excellent film that was made by a director who has produced work that even your most stuffy, self-consciously highbrow sophisticate can put a seal of approval on. It really doesn't deserve to be lumped in with the other examples. Obviously, one can list hundreds of films that are brilliant works of art and could not under an "R" from the MPAA.*

Its a deeply juvenile, nihilistic, pornographic example of just the kind of cultural terrorism Hollywood has come to exemplify just within my lifetime.

This tells us much about E that otherwise would not have been apparent just in his long posting history of defending and valorizing the cultural left's assault on western civilization and Judeo-Christian values as a matter of theory and intellectual one-upmanship.

At what point in adolescence need one's maturity have ceased developing to find entertainment value in such an pruriently puerile romp? But psychologically and morally healthy adolescents (and they do exist) would have nothing to do with such a civilizational gaff as this in any case.

Time to grow up liberals...its later than you think.

[_Morley]

Bad Santa is an excellent film that was made by a director who has produced work that even your most stuffy, self-consciously highbrow sophisticate can put a seal of approval on. It really doesn't deserve to be lumped in with the other examples. Obviously, one can list hundreds of films that are brilliant works of art and could not under an "R" from the MPAA.*

Its a deeply juvenile, nihilistic, pornographic example of just the kind of cultural terrorism Hollywood has come to exemplify just within my lifetime.

This tells us much about E that otherwise would not have been apparent just in his long posting history of defending and valorizing the cultural left's assault on western civilization and Judeo-Christian values as a matter of theory and intellectual one-upmanship.

At what point in adolescence need one's maturity have ceased developing to find entertainment value in such an pruriently puerile romp? But psychologically and morally healthy adolescents (and they do exist) would have nothing to do with such a civilizational gaff as this in any case.

Time to grow up liberals...its later than you think.

Wow. Our Mormonism and the Arts thread has turned into a debate about the merits of Bad Santa and the value of using it as a gauge for the Liberal Agenda's contributions to the decline and fall of Western Civilization.

And I haven't even seen it. Wow.

[_Quasimodo]

Wow. Our Mormonism and the Arts thread has turned into a debate about the merits of Bad Santa and the value of using it as a gauge for the Liberal Agenda's contributions to the decline and fall of Western Civilization.

And I haven't even seen it. Wow.

You should see it! It's hilarious and brilliant on many levels. Very well written and very well acted. I'm surprised (not really) that Droopy would show his ignorance on a public forum this way.

Do you suppose Droopy didn't realize that this was a comedy?

[_Buffalo]

Bad Santa is an excellent film that was made by a director who has produced work that even your most stuffy, self-consciously highbrow sophisticate can put a seal of approval on. It really doesn't deserve to be lumped in with the other examples. Obviously, one can list hundreds of films that are brilliant works of art and could not under an "R" from the MPAA.*

Its a deeply juvenile, nihilistic, pornographic example of just the kind of cultural terrorism Hollywood has come to exemplify just within my lifetime.

This tells us much about E that otherwise would not have been apparent just in his long posting history of defending and valorizing the cultural left's assault on western civilization and Judeo-Christian values as a matter of theory and intellectual one-upmanship.

At what point in adolescence need one's maturity have ceased developing to find entertainment value in such an pruriently puerile romp? But psychologically and morally healthy adolescents (and they do exist) would have nothing to do with such a civilizational gaff as this in any case.

Time to grow up liberals...its later than you think.

Whatever you do, never read Titus Andronicus. You'll have to lump Shakespeare in with those morally bankrupt, nihilistic, pornographic, terrorist Hollywood liberals.