Hard disagree. Chasing Amy and Mallrats are still good, but Dogma is in another league.
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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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?
JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
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.
smitty053@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.