tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846567313402731847.post6570328652929682332..comments2024-01-08T12:37:24.482-08:00Comments on Living Armstrongism: PCG's Joel Hilliker Condemns Erotic Film Fifty Shades of GreyRedfox712http://www.blogger.com/profile/17734930967002040931noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846567313402731847.post-5306285493745753052015-03-02T08:27:57.210-08:002015-03-02T08:27:57.210-08:00Critics didn't much like it either but for rea...Critics didn't much like it either but for reasons unrelated to the morally ambiguous Cult of Herbert Armstrong Mafia -- it was boring. Things were looking Grimm, Bob Grimm, that is, as critic for newsreview.com:<br /><br />"The Fifty Shades phenomenon has been impossible to avoid, and that virus has now spread to movie screens. While I managed to avoid the book as if it were an ill-tempered grizzly bear infected with Ebola and brandishing a shotgun, the cinema now beckons, so off to the Red Room of Pain I go."<br /><br />"When people aren’t having sex in this movie, which is quite often as things turn out, they talk in a somber, slow, irritatingly elongated manner. Everybody in this movie is a mopey, sodden sop. I love Seattle, but watching how residents behave and communicate in this movie makes me never want to visit the city again, even if the Mariners make the playoffs."<br /><br />As near as I can tell, it's a bad movie which made buckets of money. After all that's said and done, that's all that matters in measuring a movie's success. <br /><br />PCG condemnation proceeds not from moral outrage but from a texted script with no real emotion behind it: They have to be against it because that is their marketing stance.<br /><br />Speaking of which, it's not too surprising, since grandma is their demographic.<br /><br />Still... it does seem to have been a terrible movie: Two hours of boredom, but then, it's not a moral question -- certainly not one of the expansiveness of the idolatry of the PCG, caught in the decline of entropy accelerating at the time Flurry announced he was Christ in the flesh as 'that prophet'. Maybe he is. 'That [damned] prophet' -- the false one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com