I was a movie theatre projectionist when that movie came out.
It was miserable - people complained about the mixing, and it also blew out our speakers in a couple of auditoriums.
And the ending is such a weird stupid ass pull. It’s reminds me of Bioshock Infinite - physics is magic that we can to deus ex machina our way out of this half thought out plot.
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
Christianity is nothing more than a cudgel for these people.
The last movie me and my ex watched together was Synecdoche, NY which basically gave him permission to toss me out like an old newspaper, since he read the message of that film as “other people are interchangeable background characters in your life.”
I volunteered at a college food bank once, and one of the volunteers brought her dog along. A Muslim grad student who was a client was kinda amazed - was talking a bunch about how he’d never pet a dog before. (He did happily pet the dog.)
I’ve tried setting up bank draft for my electric like 6 times, to avoid the 3% “convenience fee” for using a credit card. For some reason, it will not work. They have the option, I set it up, it says I need to wait several days to use it, and then it just vanishes from my account.
Calling the company gets me a rude person who barely speaks English. Government subsidized monopolies. Internet is even worse.
They’ve been lying about what gender affirming care for kids looks like, why would they tell the truth about anything? There’s a coordinated effort to platform fake detransitioners, to claim that kids are getting handed out surgery and hormones willy nilly, to pretend that adult trans people don’t exist.
Arguing with these people is like trying to hold sand. They start with “I don’t want trans people to exist” and work backwards.
Mormonism is a religion founded in the late 1800’s by a guy named Joseph Smith who used to do fortune telling by “seeing” through rocks. He “found” some golden plates which were written in “Reformed Egyptian,” which no one else got to see. He “translated” them using the magic stones and the help of the Angel Moroni, and found that they had a story about Jesus coming to the Americas to teach the Native Americans who turn out to be the Lost Tribes of Israel. (It’s just a coincidence that his book seems to have a lot of ideas in common with a fiction book written around the time, and that “it came to pass” and other BoMism’s sound just like someone trying to write like the King James Bible.)
He later had a revelation from God that the only way to get to heaven was to marry lots of women, especially teenage girls. God made sure to send him a message to forward to his wife about how this was okay and she had to accept it or god wouldn’t be happy with her.
He also bought an Egyptian papyrus off of a PT Barnum type (may even have straight up been Barnum, been a billion years since I read Fawn Brodie’s No Man Knows My History) to translate that “Reformed Egyptian” into the “Book of Abraham.” This was before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, so no one had any idea how to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs yet. (That papyri was lost for a century, but later discovered hidden in a picture frame. It was a mutilated Egyptian Book of the Dead.)
The Mormons had a tendency of pissing everyone off, and got chased out of Missouri (where the Garden of Eden is) and Illinois. Smith himself was killed in jail. They moved to Utah, where they could have as many child wives as they wanted. (Everyone forgets that the Republican Party was originally founded to oppose “the two barbarisms” - slavery and polygamy.) Brigham Young took the child wife thing to the next level, and also added lots more racism. (Black people are souls that sat out the original battle in heaven between Jesus and Satan. If they are really good they get to be servants on a white persons paradise planet after they die. Black Mormons couldn’t have the priesthood until the 1970’s - which all adult Mormon men need the priesthood to save their own families.)
They did eventually give up the polygamy because they wanted statehood (on earth - but guys still get extra spirit wives on their heaven planet.)
The current Church, like Scientology, is a real estate grift (they own billion dollar malls.) They also were responsible for things like Prop 8/attacking gay marriage in the late naughts.
They also were not complying with their own social media policy. Even if this hadn’t been a group chat with her friends, their own policies stated that a social media violation was a single day suspension.
I was a movie theatre projectionist when that movie came out.
It was miserable - people complained about the mixing, and it also blew out our speakers in a couple of auditoriums.
And the ending is such a weird stupid ass pull. It’s reminds me of Bioshock Infinite - physics is magic that we can to deus ex machina our way out of this half thought out plot.