Posted by JewElmo at spider-tf042.proxy.aol.com on May 16, 2000 at 23:24:31:
In Reply to: The Dogma Controversy posted by Bad Mutha-Phucka Jay on May 16, 2000 at 21:30:46:
Wasted energy upon wasted energy. Kevin has said that it was the Catholic League(who spearheaded the anti-Dogma campaign) trying to attack Disney. You can read all about it in the Dogma section of the board summaries, I think. But the bottom line is that they never even saw the movie, they only read an early draft of the screenplay on the internet. Kevin wasn't even contacted by the League until months later. Fuckin Churchies man, can't understand them crazy folk.
-JewElmo
: Before I saw 'Dogma' in theaters, I had heard a lot about catholic protesters etc. protesting the satire. I expected it to be a movie that challenged catholicism in a lot of ways, not exactly insulted it, but brought up some questions about, say, how it controls some people. But when I went to see it, I was pretty amazed. If I was a catholic, I would have loved the beliefs and ideas brought up by the film, not that I really don't (torn by my beliefs and my love for View Askew), but being an atheist, I would think the atheists would be the ones protesting the flick. What's so evil about god liking skeeball, or being a woman, or being a popular recording artist for that matter? Jesus never told us god's appearance resembled some old white male. After all, it WAS a film about catholicism, made by a (practicing?) catholic. Am I right? Anyone else out there that believes the controversy was wasted energy?