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Some people (Peggy for one) have expressed good-natured bewilderment at my weakness for "bad" media.
Sitting here watching Neil Breen's godawful Fateful Findings, I think I might have figured out part of it.
I lose myself in films a little too easily. I go into suspension of disbelief so easily, and grant a film so much artistic license, that I'll leave critical mode all together and let huge plot holes go sailing over my head.
Worse, I'll let myself be 100% vulnerable to any sentimentality or emotional manipulation in a film, and that can HURT if I'm not in the right mood. (Sometimes it's both very good AND very bad, like Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea. Those both stung a lot in ways that I guess are probably healthy.)
But watching a film like Fateful Findings, I can actually have some distance and watch it as a film. It's... it's kinda NICE for a soft sell like me watch a film like Fateful Findings or The Room that's just so fucking ARTIFICIAL in its emotions and construciton that I don't have to go through the emotional labor of letting go. I can just watch a damn film and see it as a film.
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@LexYeen @zebratron2084 al pastor?
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@Leucrotta @zebratron2084 From Wikipedia: "The VelociPastor is a 2017 American comedy horror film written and directed by Brendan Steere. The plot follows pastor Doug Jones who becomes infected by an artifact, resulting in him turning into a velociraptor when he becomes angry."
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@LexYeen Hmm, it's right in that sweet spot of 50-70% approval rating where a LOT of interesting films reside... I might have to check this one out. I could see it being either good gonzo or bad gonzo very easily.
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@LexYeen @Leucrotta I think this quote from its Wiki page sold me:
"Brendan Steere wants to do a sequel to the movie as he believes the world of VelociPastor is "so permissible and fun"."
There's just something about that phrase "so permissible and fun" I find really appealing. Those are good goals for a director. It sounds like this movie was actually made with a pretty low cynicism level, which is a REAL good sign obviously...
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@zebratron2084 @Leucrotta It's the sort of movie that you watch explicitly For Fun.
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Secret of Kells absolutely wrecked me emotionally. It was (in my mind) very clearly a movie about the right and wrong kind of person to be, and I identified strongly with the Abbot, who, while not an actual force of evil, is at least badly misguided (if well-intentioned) and doesn't understand the world outside the walls.
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It's like "you must be ↱ this free-spirited to be a Good Person, but you never will be".
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@zebratron2084 This makes me wonder if you've heard of "The VelociPastor."