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The Life of Brian (1979)
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What's a religion without mystery?
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"I approached this film because of my recent interest in surrealist cinema, and it especially drew my attention because Bunuel was one of the founders of the genre. However, the film was not the abstract meditation on religion that I expected--instead, it is more like a 101 minute essay on the nature of religion and herecy, and yet somehow manages to remain entertaining. The majority of the film consists of either discussion or encounters through time displaying the various events in Christian herecy's history. Not knowing much about the history of herecy (like most other people, which was acknowledged by Bunuel and his co-writer Jean-Claude Carriere), the film was more like a history lesson for me at many of these parts, somewhat distracting from the more important details and satire of film. Even so, the more comprehensible events are so well-developed and staged that one can remain hooked on the film even through the seemingly meaningless religious jabberings; I do not say tha ... "
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"This week we have two big-time offenders: Mike Myers’ The Love Guru, which has brought concern from Hindus, because the comedy seems to be making fun of the Hindu religion; and Ron Howard’s Angels & Demons, the “sequel” to The Da Vinci Code, adapted from Dan Brown’s bestseller. Earlier this week, the Vatican banned the latter production from all Catholic churches in Rome. The following statement from Father Marco Fibbi, spokesman for the diocese of Rome, was a favorite quote from the story: “Usually we read the script but in this case it wasn’t necessary. Just the name Dan Brown was enough.” Of course, these days, religious organizations taking offense to a movie seems so commonplace that news like this is hardly even considered bad buzz. Neither The Love Guru nor Angels & Demons will be too aversely affected by the protests or boycotts. Both films will merely be added to the following list of major offenders (in alphabetical order so as not to offend anyone who thin "
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""If you haven't seen it, please do."-Richard Dawkins, parenthetically discussing Monty Python's The Meaning of Life in his book The God Delusion. If Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is remembered less fondly than their earlier classics Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Life of Brian, this is not to say that the film has fewer laughs or that the point of Monty Python's satire has in any way been blunted. Granted, the humor is arguably the Pythons' most vulgar and can at times come across as crude. But watching The Meaning of Life a quarter of a century after its release, what remains shocking is not the wealth of projectile vomit, naked breasts, or children singing about sperm; what continues to alienate and to offend is the film's surprisingly direct attack on what it considers a terribly misguided society. And the worst offender? Christian ideology and rhetoric.The Pythons -- Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Ter "
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is this movie as good as grail
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