Posted by Sir James Lacaita at bpr10-175.ih2000.net on August 24, 2000 at 17:29:43:
In Reply to: Yo D. Stratford -- about "Dogma" & "Blair Witch" posted by Isis on August 24, 2000 at 14:55:37:
Blair Witch Project wasn't an attack on Wiccans, or witches, or pagans, Blair Witch Project was about the fear of the unknown, which includes nature for some people. If you say that because an unseen WITCH killed those kids the film makers were attacking people who practice withcraft, it's like saying a vampire film is an attack on "modern-day vampires" (they're not dead, they just walk around at night, go to vampire clubs, oh and they drink blood too). It's stupid, know why? Because those modern-day vampires, and the vampires portrayed in the movies are nothing alike. People may not understand witchcraft, but I think that the general population is smart enough to know that real witches are not century old, old toothless hags that turn a guy into a frog because he cut her off at the intersection. The general population knows that there's a difference between modern vampires and the ones in movies (the ones that know about modern vampires), just like they know the difference between that old Crone in Sleepy Hollow, and that chick that always comes to the nature shop in the mall on Sundays, and kisses the floor before she goes in (not an accurate portrayel, but it gets my so-called "point" across, and I think it's funny). The point of most movies isn't to make you change an opinion you have on something (like Catholicism, or witchcraft), it's to entertain (for about 90-something percent, there are a few exceptions probably), whether it's to scare the audience, make them laugh, or make them cry, a movie's job first and foremost is to entertain. I don't know anything about you personally, but if you take offense anytime someone does something that could, somehow, portray witches in a bad way, you probably aren't much fun to be around.
-David "I needs me spinach!" Krokerlund
P.S. If you didn't like, or disagree with my post, I don't give a rat's ass, go ahead and flame me.
P.S.S. I would walk 3 miles in 4 foot snow, and pay eight bucks to see Scary Christian: The Book said Eye for an Eye, Muthafucker!