Dogma, a 25th Anniversary Celebration (1999, dir Kevin Smith)

An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loophole and reenter Heaven.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1832-dogma

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misk @sopuli.xyz

6mo ago

“DOGMA: A 25th Anniversary Celebration” Official Trailer

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Look at me lady, I don't even know where I am half the time!
Re watched fairly recently. Didn't hold up amazingly like Chasing Amy or Mallrats. It was both too campy and not campy enough to boomerang back to being good.
- I've had that same sense of Kevin Smith movies not holding up. But still loved Dogma last I saw it which was... maybe a few years ago. Maybe I should again. But then maybe doing so will ruin it.
  
  It’s not so bad. Watch it for free somewhere—Weinstein holds the rights and won’t sell them back to Kevin Smith. Don’t even feel bad about it.
  Edit: Disregard this! See below!
  
  No it wont ruin it. It just falls in a valley between goofball comedy and philosophical drama/ commentary that hits oblique. Its like, I'm supposed to be understanding something deep about guilt, remorse, and redemption, and thats a poop golem.
- Hard disagree. Chasing Amy and Mallrats are still good, but Dogma is in another league.
  
  Like, Chasing Amy, he commits to the drama and its damn fucking good.
  Mallrats is goofball comedy, through and through. Love it.
  Dogma tries to split the difference. I think its like, the underlying themes which kind of, take me out of the comedy of it all? Or maybe that it "feels" like its trying to say something deep about catholisism, redemption, identity, but the goofball comedy is kind of pausing the suspension of disbelief? And what the hell is it you are trying to say Kevin? What is the redeeming lesson the church is supposed to be offering me here? That they've got incoherent dogma?
Grew up Catholic and love this movie to this day.
- I love that they cast renowned atheist George Carlin as the cardinal.
  
  Oh for sure, and Chris Rock as the 13th apostle was amazing.
  The movie is simultaneously irreverent and filled with surprising reverence and sincerity. I always appreciated Kevin Smith for that.
never actually saw it, but every so often it's posted to !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee

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