Posted by B. Buster at gateway.tpp.com on October 26, 1999 at 17:20:23:
In Reply to: Fuck that shit Buster... posted by .Scottieboy. on October 26, 1999 at 15:13:39:
: ...what did you think of the flick?
: --Scottie
It was better than "Fight Club" (now there's a movie I really hated).
Seriously, I don't know what to make of "Dogma." I wasn't exactly a fan of the script when I read it either as you recall (I was happy that the Fat Albert scene and "The Graduate" line got excised--now if only they lost that Mooby stuff). Really, the biggest problem I had with it was that it broke that old adage to show and not tell. I thought there were too many long scenes where the characters are standing around explaining everything. There was so much info crammed into the story that there really wasn't any way around this though.
The serious religious stuff still sounds a bit fuzzy to me. I don't understand what Kevin means when he has Chris Rock's character say that it doesn't matter what your faith is, only that you have faith (this certainly isn't in the spirit of Christ's teaching). And that bit about "ideas" being superior to "beliefs" still doesn't make much sense to me.
It's an oddball flick, a strange melange of the sublime and the juvenile. As funny as this may sound, I actually felt myself hoping the serious-minded scenes would just get on with it so we could get more of the Jay and Silent Bob shit. In this context, I found them to be a breath of fresh air (I'm beginning to think Jason Mewes is some sort of force of nature).
b. buster