First and formost. I made all A's. Ok, I have not had the time to compose a new entry to this blog. However I was inspired to do so today. My inspiration came from the fact that a lot of my friends graduated from college recently. Congrats!!! Second, I heard about a potential protest that was going to occur at the near by veteran’s cemetery because some fundamentalist group was anti-gay, anti-war, and pretty much anti-anything that ran outside of their religious scope. Third, a book that I came across in one of the coffee shops I hang out at caught my attention. The name of the book or graphic novel is Jesus Hates Zombies. Normally, I find this type of fiction boring. However, the front cover at least got my attention.
This leads to a question. My question is why can’t they make a good film about Jesus? I am not talking about fundamentalist diatribes that bore people to tears. I am sorry but I went to go see Passion of the Christ and wanted a bloody streak afterwards. Yes I said it. And yes I am a Christian. Anyway, why can’t hollwood do a film that has nothing to do with scripture depiction and more about plain or action. I mean look at all the really cool films about angels.; City of Angels, Michael, The Heavenly Kid and so on. Just for sheer entertainment, make a motion picture character study on Jesus dealing with buying coffee and a Macbook. Ok, like he even needs one. Or going to a funeral. Call the movie “ My daddy will see you in few”. What ? I mean some Christians go to church all serious about their faith and yet I have not heard one iota of a statement that god (himself) laughed his ass off because somebody let out an SBD (Silent But Deadly fart) in an elevator. No one really has crossed the line in terms of almighty in a full motion picture. I can only think of one film that crosses the line Kevin Smith’s Dogma. But in the case of his films, he tries to makes jokes about religion to point out his own views towards the religion. Lets get past the white haired dude in robes/ Morgan Freeman white suite and see a guy in a Serena Williams outfit walk up to someone and say “can we talk about the stupidity of people who close libraries ?”
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