Thursday Oct 31, 2024
01 - The Omen
For the pilot episode, Bill and Cisco discuss their respective Catholic upbringings, discuss censorship and the Hayes Code, and introduce the Legion of Decency and USCCB film ratings systems, before doing a deep dive into Richard Donner's The Omen.
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Same as how I was shocked, upon finally watching Shutter Island, to find that not one person I encountered seemed to think that the character had been brainwashed and manipulated in a coverup. It’s as if the entire audience was successfully brainwashed too in collective mass delusion. THAT trend in and of itself is far more terrifying to me than ANY horror movie
Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Last comment upon wrapping up my listen to the podcast — I find itsad and horrifying that not one of the opinions across the discussion threads seems to posit that Damien is just an innocent kid with psychotic religious nuts foisting blame upon him without evidence of any wrong-doing. It’s not that many see him as definitively the anti-Christ (especially since the sequels throw away any ambiguity on the matter); but, rather that not a single person raises skepticism.
Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
I definitely grew up in a conservative religious-raque household, but it didn’t stick more than a few odd years between 9/11 and me turning 13 and discovering rock music and foreign films through friends and Netflix DVD library respectively (back when it was a cultural asset, not a muting body). Was weird though because my dad’s values seemed more informed by right Christian conservatism than our own religion of Judaism — which I never let him forget during our epic debates.
Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Digging in from Taiwan south of Douliu City 🙌
Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
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