Posted by Lucifer Lyndon Razoodock at spider-tm071.proxy.aol.com on November 12, 2000 at 03:05:20:
...by going the distance to make blashphemy *funny*!!
I've seen "Stigmata" before (at a pre-release screening), but having taken a shits-&-giggles look at MGM's DvD (...and immaculate offering when one considers the product...) and I'm at a loss to explain why the ole' Catholic League didn't make a fuss about Rupert Wainright's debut trip.
Aside from being a pompously self-important bit of misdirection, it botches its representation of the Catholic faith in ways that Kevin Smith would never have even dreamt of. What the Hell is the faith manifested in this thing anyway? If one listens to Rupert's commentary, it seems like some cross between fractionalised Catholicism, a hint of Wiccan chicanery and a whole Hell of a lot of whimsy lopped on top. Where were the writers of this deal coming from anyway?
Does it blaspheme? Oh, Hell yeah!!
The viral communing of holy stigmata via a transferred rosary is particularly priceless...
--tom
"She's the witch, man!"
--sample dialogue from "Book of Shadows"
"Stigmata," by the way, makes "...Blair Witch 2" look like a model of narrative continuity.