Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:55:22 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Has anyone read any good books lately?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Mike B. wrote:
> At 07:52 PM 3/25/05 -0500, Ernest Lilley wrote:
>
>>Ah yes, Jesus...and the missing years. John Prine wrote a song by that title
>>that was pretty interesting. If Christians can't take a joke...they're not
>>really Christians.
>
> There's some about that in _Dogma_ too.  More than just a mention.  That
> movie is one of the best ever made IMO, and well worth seeing if you
> haven't.  Lots of things they left out of the Bible, like God loving to
> play Skee Ball, as well as shots at the Catholic Church's more recent
> reformations.  Can you spot the drunken nun at the airport?  I missed that
> the first couple of times through...too busy watching the main characters
> in that scene.  I could have done without the Golgothan scene though...the
> joke wasn't enough to make up for the visuals...
>
> -- Mike B.

I've heard people claim that it's "sacreligious", but I can just picture
a conservative Catholic looking at it and saying "SEE!  SEE!  THAT'S WHY
WE DON'T DO THAT KIND OF STUFF!"

Kit has the script.  One bit that they left out in the movie was in the
bar where they meet Serendipity.  There's a tense scene with a black
gang, and suddenly they're all buddies.  In the script, things are just
about to get really ugly, and Silent Bob goes to the karaoke machine and
does a rap version of "Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert".  I was looking
forward to hearing that.

George Carlin as an Archbishop.  Chris Rock as the Apostle Rufus.
Alanis Morisette as God.  What's not to like?

--
Steve Smith                                    sgs at aginc dot net
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"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."