Category: [Films & TV]
2 Passion 2 Christ
Apparently the Passion of the Christ sequel we were threatened with a few years ago is finally about to happen… I recall it was supposed to come out in 2021 but I presume a certain worldwide pandemic got in the way until now, assuming of course that it is in fact happening (I don’t know if it’s actually confirmed or not). Either way, the news has inspired a string of possible titles for the film as you can see in the article I linked (I quoted my own favourite in the post title), which further inspired this:
I rewatched the original Passion a few years ago, having not watched it since the day of its release in 2004, and where I didn’t like it on that first viewing, I hated it on that rewatch. It’s pornography by and for an anti-Semitic ghoul, and seeing Jason’s post above moaning about the mockery really let me know where he is as a fucking idiot. Mel Gibson knew exactly what he did, and I’m disinclined to forgive him for it.
Next stop: Christian cinema?
I might normally feel sorry for Gina Carano’s new film being a spectacular box office failure, but she’s a kind of atrocious person so I can only join in the chorus of laughter.
As a result of Carano’s return film’s $804 domestic gross, the actress received backlash on social media for her theatrical performance, with one user claiming that she “didn’t bring much to the role.” The user took to Twitter and shared his review of the film and wrote, “The movie wasn’t terrible, but it was very simple, and honestly Gina Carano didn’t bring much to the role. One time watch.” Another user wrote, “Sorry sad how she pissed away such potential to make boring schlock.” Another user quipped, “Gina caranos first big release post Mando exit.” One user said, “67 People paid to see the movie.” One user shared a meme and wrote, “”Go Woke Go Broke”
Bit curious as to why this is only getting attention now, cos the film came out about six months ago. Mind you, this is the first time I’m hearing about the film having been released; maybe if they’d advertised their film a bit more than they apparently did, more people might have watched it… or maybe not.
But the thing that took me by surprise was that this thing was directed by Michael Polish, whose career I haven’t exactly followed but I recalled him having received some acclaim for Twin Falls Idaho back at the end of the 90s, and I assumed he’d kind of maintained a respectable career… though looking at his Wiki entry, I may have been wrong about that; indeed he’s already got a Christian film to his, er, credit, and thus far he seems to have avoided falling back into that particular gutter. But, by the same token, making a film for Ben Shapiro’s company doesn’t strike me as a positive career move either…
Anyway, when all else fails, as I suspect it will, Gina’s probably got a place awaiting her in the Christian film industry as well, and that’ll keep her going for a good long time. I expect her to make her first appearance on God Awful Movies within two years; indeed, given that they’ve already covered one other not particularly goddy movie distributed by Daily Wire (though they rather unfairly blame Shapiro for the content of same), I have a feeling they may even cover this one at some point…
As opposed to what, fake books?
Spotted this on Mastodon this afternoon. What an odd and kind of infuriating question. What do you think I’m reading, the fucking Necronomicon?
I know electronic copies of books aren’t “real” in the physical sense but they still require a physical device to read them—Kindle, phone, computer, whatever. The issue of audiobooks is a lot more vexed, but if we leave that aside for now and limit ourselves to the words on the page, are the latter any more real in a paperback than in an .epub file? Is it more real in hardback? Is the author’s original manuscript written by their own hand more real? What if they never actually “wrote” it as such and did the whole thing on a typewriter or (perish the thought) a computer? What if the author types it all up in Word then sends it to a publisher to actually print it, is it not real or something until the latter step takes place?
I don’t know, I just find this sort of thing to be bullshit and always have done. Saw it decades ago with cinephilia (I still hate that fucking word), here’s an example from an ancient (year 2000!) edition of Senses of Cinema:
RIP George Barry
Just read on Twitter that George Barry has passed. He was the director behind a singular film, in both the sense that it was the only film he made and that there’s no other film quite like it, that being the legendary Death Bed: The Bed That Eats. That link goes to my old review of it, and the film can be found on Youtube for anyone who hasn’t already had the pleasure.
Scorpio Registered
I haven’t paid much attention to the National Film Registry for quite a few years, but I saw a link to the latest update on social media the other day and went to check it out, and was kind of amused to see Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising was one of the new inductees. Wonder what uncle Ken makes of that…
I was even more amused, though, to see Pink Flamingos made it to the registry last year, which I’m sure is even funnier to John Waters than it is to me…
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