GENIUS OR HERESY?
Probably a little of both.
A new Upright Citizens Brigade event picks up where Mystery Science Theater 3000 left off, and steps clearly across a line...
DIRECTOR COMMENTARY LIVE!@UCBT, WED FEB 2-8pm
UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE THEATER: 307 W 26th St NY NY 10011 212 366 9176
There's more to the movie than what's on screen. Experience the drama that goes on behind the scenes as Matt Walsh and friends provide live commentary for your favorite movies.
This week's movie: The Passion Of The Christ
Starring Matt Walsh (Upright Citizens Brigade), Scot Armstrong (writer, Old School, Road Trip, Starsky & Hutch), Paul Scheer (VH-1, Best Week Ever)
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Is PoftheC one of our favorite movies now? This will undoubtedly either be so brilliant that it's funny or so uncomfortable that it's disturbing. I'm not quite ready to attend a screening of this movie into a comedy-commentary driven event, but I do see the potential...if anyone goes, please write in and let me know how it went and how many people turned out to protest it...
Now, Cecil B. Demille's The Ten Commandments...that's MST3K-worthy!
posted by Esther Kustanowitz @ 11:26 AM
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2 Comments:
That sounds BRILLIANT! I may have to go there on a date.
Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick, what'll they think of next.
But seriously, I don't see how this could be funny. It's not like the movie was campy in any way. And I'm not saying this out of any religious sensibility. It was just downright violent and brutal. Despite the screeching from certain quarters about the gore, crucifixions and scourgings as carried out by the Romans were gruesome ... and we all know Mel Gibson doesn't like to leave much to the imagination when it comes to torture scenes. The Southpark episode worked because it was a cartoon, but if you can sit through this movie and laugh during the scourging and crucifixion scenes (Jesus inventing tables and chairs, on the other hand, now that was pretty fuckin funny), I'd say you might be ready to star in your own version of Clockwork Orange ... or Itchy and Scratchy.
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