I had the same thought, does this make us horrible people?Agayek said:Now you've got me morbidly curious about a similar series about Jack Black's career. Why did you have to do that?
Yes, yes it does.SpcyhknBC said:I had the same thought, does this make us horrible people?
That's almost like saying Lord of the Rings is cliche. Yeah, it may be, but it rode the front of that wave. Making fun of religion was a bit edgy back then.Uriel_Hayabusa said:Well, having seen all three parts of this Big Picture I still think Bob and those like him simply overestimated the talents of Smith. I actually watched "Dogma" a couple of days ago out of curiosity and didn't think it was all that funny or insightful. Maybe it was "edgy" for when it came out but for me the film was just a standard "let's make fun of catholicism" affair.
It doesn't make fun of "religion". It makes fun of Catholics. Which has been the tried and true tradition of the Protestant US for many generations even before the US was founded. That's really why electing Kennedy was such a big deal in US History. And for all the Catholic bashing it did a large portion of Religious Right Wing America could look past it because that's all it was. Catholic Bashing: An American Tradition Since December 1620walsfeo said:That's almost like saying Lord of the Rings is cliche. Yeah, it may be, but it rode the front of that wave. Making fun of religion was a bit edgy back then.Uriel_Hayabusa said:Well, having seen all three parts of this Big Picture I still think Bob and those like him simply overestimated the talents of Smith. I actually watched "Dogma" a couple of days ago out of curiosity and didn't think it was all that funny or insightful. Maybe it was "edgy" for when it came out but for me the film was just a standard "let's make fun of catholicism" affair.
Still, I wish this had just been one or two episodes. I wouldn't mind a geek-list celeb episode now and again, but three is a bit much.
The Black Knight Rises!daxterx2005 said:16 part rise and fall of JAck Black?
He's fallen that often?
Eight Awesome Angles of youtube.Rabidkitten said:Did Jack Black rise and fall or just run his course? I don't think he's at a point where no one will touch him. I just think he sort of ran his time as a comedic actor which almost every comedic actor does. If you check Rottentomatoes no their isn't some downward slide in the quality of his films, about 25 percent are good, 50 percent are average, and 25 percent are fucking terrible. Even juggernauts like Will Ferrel, and Jim Carrey come and go.
medv4380 said:While Catholicism is the focus of the movie, I'm not sure how you walk away from Dogma without an indictment of organised religion as a whole. I mean, you can kind of argue that it panders to the mewling cop out of "I'm not religious, I'm spiritual," but it wasn't going to win many points with any religion or sect.walsfeo said:It doesn't make fun of "religion". It makes fun of Catholics. Which has been the tried and true tradition of the Protestant US for many generations even before the US was founded. That's really why electing Kennedy was such a big deal in US History. And for all the Catholic bashing it did a large portion of Religious Right Wing America could look past it because that's all it was. Catholic Bashing: An American Tradition Since December 1620