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Originally Posted by Giganticface
I appreciate that. I didn't take it that way, but I appreciate you going out of your way to say that. At the same time, I don't want anyone to feel bad if they were jabbing me for my faith. I'm sorta asking for it, professing my faith in a horror forum. :) I spent 6 years or so in a doom metal chat room and I don't think I encountered a single other Christian there, but I did get a lot of flames about how stupid I was.
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Yeah, I understand that. I suppose it's because horror and metal fans are used to being judged for being "ungodly". Which is actually pretty silly if you ask me - so many horror movies are about "good vs. evil", and I think that really goes for many metal lyrics too (and some of them are just pure fantasy). I used to be a Christian and loved horror and metal then as much as I do now, so I know how you can get kind of caught in the middle and feel like everyone is picking on you from both sides.
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Originally Posted by Giganticface
Maybe a good real-life example is Men Behind the Sun. I assume you would not like that movie, and even believe that making the movie was a bad idea. (Ignoring the cat scene, which the director states was a special effect, but many believe to be real.) Certain folks -- perhaps the grandchild of a person killed in that concentration camp -- might find some value in watching the movie. Criticizing it for being exploitative, however, is totally legit, and you'd have every right to that opinion.
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I haven't seen that particular movie (I've heard about it though), so I can't comment on that. But - I watched "Schindlers List" once, I don't really want to ever watch it again, but even though some of the scenes were brutal and unpleasant, I think they added something important to the story telling. It was a very unpleasant movie to watch, but I think it was tastefully done and got the message through. I am not totally against making movies based on real life events, or against having violent or disturbing scenes in them. It's when it seems to be
more about gore than it's about telling the victims stories that it starts to bother me.
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Originally Posted by Giganticface
I didn't say that, and I didn't mean to insinuate it. I apologize if that's the conclusion you drew. There are a lot of reasons to be critical of the movie, many of which have been discussed. It also doesn't help that Mel Gibson keeps repeatedly makes the news for being a bigot and a jackass. I was only pointing out that it's easy and popular to be critical of it.
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I'm sorry if I misunderstood you, then :) But yeah, I guess as with any controversial movie, it's easy to point the finger at it.