What is your favorite religious film?
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What is your favorite religious film?
My favorite is Last Temptation of Christ followed by John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness then mother!.
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Re: What is your favorite religious film?
Last Temptation of Christ is great, though I think Scorsese's Silence might have it beat for me.
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I remember watching the Prince of Egypt by Dreamworks pictures and thought that it’s a good film. It’s been a while since I’ve watched it, though.
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Re: What is your favorite religious film?
Would you think of Night on the Galactic Railroad as religious?
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Re: What is your favorite religious film?
Is it a religious experience, allegorical to religious characters, or about religion?
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Would you consider the Fast and the Furious films religious due to all the times Dom's cross comes into play as well as the amount of times they say the word "family"?
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Maybe? I mean is t he re religions that worship family? Is Dom a jesus?
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Dom played by Vin Diesel wears a cross that is special to him and he says that his friends are his family.
On another note, I could make the argument that for all the musicality of the Blues Brothers movies, they were films made with good intentions and tons of spiritualism abound. Who could ever forget Elwood's often quoted, "We're on a mission from God."
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Man I don't even like the film and I'm legit disappointed none of you have yet said Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc.
C'mon guys.
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I only saw the one with the lady from the resident evil movies
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I like to watch Bruce Almighty now and then, the initial ways the God powers were put to use I think are what anyone in that situation would use them for but the scene in the end where Bruce prays to God that Grace find someone that will love her the way he should've was immensely right in the feels.
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I don't consider films about religion as wonderfully intriguing as films about the faith that's so very much a necessity for religion and my favorite film about faith is probably Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice.
Edit: I haven't seen The Last Temptation of Christ or The Passion of Joan of Arc or Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew, granted, but considering how much I love Tarkovsky, I have a hard time seeing any of these films (or any others) overthrow his final masterpiece in terms of being great films about faith.
Edit: I haven't seen The Last Temptation of Christ or The Passion of Joan of Arc or Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew, granted, but considering how much I love Tarkovsky, I have a hard time seeing any of these films (or any others) overthrow his final masterpiece in terms of being great films about faith.
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One of my favorite religious cautionary tales is The Devil's Advocate. Also, I know we're only talking films but maybe we could consider Bible Black in the same category.
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"Last Temptation..." is probably the King for me but there's nothing wrong with Charlie Heston and some "Ten Commandments"
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The Ten Commandments.
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^ Seriously, or because you enjoy watching Charlton Heston ham things up spectacularly?
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Re: What is your favorite religious film?
I just got done watching The Ten Commandments, actually. That's still probably one of the biggest film productions ever. Heston and the rest of the cast are larger than life in those films, and the rest of the production value on the film is there to match it.
A religious film I really like for its thematic elements is actually a low-budget movie called The Frame. It's got a very Twilight Zone feel to it, and I seriously spent about a month wondering if it was my favorite film of all time. It's really good.
A religious film I really like for its thematic elements is actually a low-budget movie called The Frame. It's got a very Twilight Zone feel to it, and I seriously spent about a month wondering if it was my favorite film of all time. It's really good.
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FreakyFilmFan4ever wrote:I just got done watching The Ten Commandments, actually. That's still probably one of the biggest film productions ever. Heston and the rest of the cast are larger than life in those films, and the rest of the production value on the film is there to match it.
A religious film I really like for its thematic elements is actually a low-budget movie called The Frame. It's got a very Twilight Zone feel to it, and I seriously spent about a month wondering if it was my favorite film of all time. It's really good.
I watched it tonight too, heh. I love the sheer scale of it, but also the hyper-melodramatic stage style acting and totally different style of cinematography and direction. Directors are making spectacles now but they’re not the same. They don’t *embrace* spectacle the way this movie does, just showing it to us with an expansive style.
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Ahh it was a different time after all. Always had a soft spot for Heston IE Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green and of course the spectacular Omega Man.
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