Wow, great list! Thanks Luke!
Favorite Documentaries?
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JESUS CAMP is next on my queue.
BLACKFISH is amazingly good.
BLACKFISH is amazingly good.
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Jesus Camp is a very effective horror film.
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Right?! Shit is chilling. I love it, though. Fascinating how something like that can exist, much less flourishTSTR wrote:Jesus Camp is a very effective horror film.
Final Fantasy IX is the best one
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I had never heard of it before, that is of course until today.TSTR wrote:Jesus Camp is a very effective horror film.
Looks really interesting though.
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Jesus Camp is definitely one that is worth seeing twice. I was initially shocked and then the after I watched it a second time, I really picked the film apart.Luke wrote:I had never heard of it before, that is of course until today.TSTR wrote:Jesus Camp is a very effective horror film.
Looks really interesting though.
It was great and would love to hear your thoughts on it Luke.
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BogusMeatFactory wrote: Jesus Camp is definitely one that is worth seeing twice. I was initially shocked and then the after I watched it a second time, I really picked the film apart.
It was great and would love to hear your thoughts on it Luke.
Will definitely share my thoughts on it. Should be here by Monday.
Ever the skeptic, I did some "snooping".
What I found was a little nuts. The camp was closed due to the film, and at no point does the camp point fingers at the directors for staging any events (I like to know before watching a doc if anything at all is staged).
There are Christian sites that persecute the directors, while others find the film disturbingly sick.
Just google "Baptist forums Jesus Camp", "Evangelical fourms Jesus Camp", "Born again Christians forums Jesus Camp", etc. Fairly crazy how different some sects treat the movie differently.
And I know I can watch it online for free, but I'll wait for the dvd to arrive.
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Yeah, depending on the different groups, and sometimes even within the same group, opinions vary. Doing a few searches, I found groups of Catholics that were horrified by the film, groups of various evangelicals and Baptists with varying shades of opinion ranging from "this is terrifying" to "this is ok," Lutherans who were disgusted by it, Anglicans and Episcopalians who were terrified by it, Pentecostals who tried to defend it, Methodists with mixed feelings, and so on and so forth. Certain groups seemed more polarized in different directions, but opinions varied a lot.Luke wrote: Just google "Baptist forums Jesus Camp", "Evangelical fourms Jesus Camp", "Born again Christians forums Jesus Camp", etc. Fairly crazy how different some sects treat the movie differently.
Then again, there were also a lot of folks who claimed all of Christianity(and political conservatism in the US) was like this and we would all be better off as left wing Atheists who do not suffer indoctrination in our schools from the evils of Religion or Conservative beliefs, because only we believe in equality and do not suffer from prejudice(unless of course it is against those pesky right wing conservatives and Christians, but then we are not prejudiced, we are just correct, and those people are all brainwashed against our entirely correct ideas). That argument did pop up in a few places too.
