A fun one to start off with is the Only Good Movies Blog’s list of the Top 85 Robot Movies. Okay, so it’s not really a religious blog, but they were kind enough to link to my review of Cherry 2000 as one of their picks for best Bad Robot Movies (naturally), so I’m returning the favor. The funny thing is, even after listing a whopping 85 movies, the comment section is still full of the obligatory “How could you leave out…” posts.
A little more on the religious side is this article by Joseph Susanka posted at insidecatholic.com in which he asks the question, “When Did Movies Stop Being Funny?” After discussing what he feels is the coarsening of the American comedy film over the past fifty years, Mr. Susanka offers up a list of his Top 5 Classic Comedies. Of course, with a list of only five, it should come as no shock that hoards of “How could you leave out…” comments immediately follow.
Speaking of comedy, over at Sancta Santis, Enbrethiliel continues her lonely campaign to convince the world of the Catholicity of Sylvester Stallone movies with her list of Fourteen Things about the movie Assassins. Hey, I’m not casting stones. You can bet your life that if Judge Dredd didn’t have a budget of a gazillion dollars, it would end up on this blog in a heartbeat. Oh well, I guess I’ll have to look elsewhere for a movie where the hero is cop, jury, and executioner all rolled in one. (It’ll be easier to find than you might think.)
While I’m looking, however, it seems the bad guys have been left to roam free. Right now, there’s a big group of them over at Creative Minority Report where Matthew Archbold has assembled a list of movie villains and pitted them against a rogues gallery from The Bible. Guess which group gets their butts kicked?
As long as we’re talking about losers, I may as well go ahead and point out the program list for the recently completed, first ever Atheists Film Festival which was held in (wait for it) San Francisco. With a seating capacity of 240 (snicker) and a line up consisting almost entirely of documentaries (snore), the festival has been proclaimed a rousing success by the organizer (bwah ha ha). Anyway, be sure to check out what the cultured atheist is viewing these days, maybe you’ll find something to throw on some rainy day when you need a quick laugh. (And Joseph Susanka thinks movies aren’t funny anymore.)
Finally, although it’s not really related to religion or movies, there’s this list of 10 Things You Might’ve Been Better Off Not Knowing About Your Body! It’s enough to make even the aforementioned atheists shout, “Oh, Dear God!”
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me while the blog has been on semi-hiatus. We’ll be back in business soon.
7 comments:
"Oh well, I guess I’ll have to look elsewhere for a movie where the hero is cop, jury, and executioner all rolled in one. (It’ll be easier to find than you might think.)"
I bet you have a list already!
+JMJ+
Yes, it is a lonely campaign to convince the world of what is so obvious to me. =(
Perhaps I should get around to doing that review of Daylight . . .
Are you sure you won't be doing Judge Dredd, Eegahinc?
"I bet you have a list already!"
And it's ever growing! Without the revenge flick, there would have been a lot of empty drive-in screens and video store shelves out there.
"Are you sure you won't be doing Judge Dredd, Eegahinc?"
Well, I did cave in and review Mars Attacks!, so who knows, maybe the next time I need a big budget movie to throw in the mix...
OOoo! I'd love to see a review of Judge Dredd here. I mean, Versace's costuming got into the Opening credits! Come on! How B-movie is that? Budget, smudget. Brotherhood! Human cloning! A complete lack of illicit nookie by the main character! Political corruption, recycled food, and cannibalism! How can you NOT review it?
Xena Catolica
P.S. Did you see the stuff in the news about the huge, aggressive red squid on the CA coast? Surely there's a B-Movie about that already?
Well, I can see I'm probably going to have change my mission statement at some point to cover low budget AND/OR cult cinema. All things to all people, you know.
As for squid movies, for some reason film makers seem to prefer octopi, but I'm sure with some thought, I could dredge up one or two. Would the squid-girl from Dagon count?
Well, I can see I'm probably going to have change my mission statement at some point to cover low budget AND/OR cult cinema. All things to all people, you know.
This would be an illicit innovation and would prove that the Internet Chair of B-movies is vacant.
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me while the blog has been on semi-hiatus.
Me too, but the Catholic blogosphere seems to be losing some great people on semi-permanent basis like Zippy and Dawn Eden (Noooooo!)
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