"JUDAS, LET'S GET OUT OF HERE! FAST!"
April 16, 2013 8:12 AM Subscribe
Best movie I have seen in months!
posted by Xoebe at 8:45 AM on April 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Xoebe at 8:45 AM on April 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
It was funny, but would have been better if it had been 5 minutes shorter.
posted by humanfont at 8:52 AM on April 16, 2013 [4 favorites]
posted by humanfont at 8:52 AM on April 16, 2013 [4 favorites]
Cowboy zombies?!?
posted by Jonathan Livengood at 8:53 AM on April 16, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by Jonathan Livengood at 8:53 AM on April 16, 2013 [2 favorites]
So I take it this is before Jesus turns zombie himself?
posted by me3dia at 9:23 AM on April 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by me3dia at 9:23 AM on April 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
You see, children, it's a metaphor for how Jesus' love overcomes evil. OK, so he created the evil in the first place, but he learned how to project that onto the victims from his father.
That would have made a perfectly cromulent segment of Life of Brian, with a few tweaks and some better pacing. But, and this has pained me for a long time, I do not get zombie films. The only one I've seen in its entirety was Shaun Of The Dead, and that completely fulfilled my lifelong zombie requirements. As a one-off plot device, sure; Doctor Who would perhaps bring it back every other series as part of the monster rotation schedule. But more than that? Why is it a thing?
It's like most horror tropes*. I intellectually get it, as far as the armchair psychology behind such things goes, but once the idea has lost its novelty it just doesn't have anything else for me. An excuse for lots of gore? I cherish the privileged life that excuses me from having to deal with the sort of gristly mayhem that's common enough in the past and present, and don't fancy being a tourist.
Just don't get it. That cuts me off from an appreciation that's shared among a lot of my friends with whom I am otherwise reasonably geek-compatible.
* and sport.
posted by Devonian at 9:27 AM on April 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
That would have made a perfectly cromulent segment of Life of Brian, with a few tweaks and some better pacing. But, and this has pained me for a long time, I do not get zombie films. The only one I've seen in its entirety was Shaun Of The Dead, and that completely fulfilled my lifelong zombie requirements. As a one-off plot device, sure; Doctor Who would perhaps bring it back every other series as part of the monster rotation schedule. But more than that? Why is it a thing?
It's like most horror tropes*. I intellectually get it, as far as the armchair psychology behind such things goes, but once the idea has lost its novelty it just doesn't have anything else for me. An excuse for lots of gore? I cherish the privileged life that excuses me from having to deal with the sort of gristly mayhem that's common enough in the past and present, and don't fancy being a tourist.
Just don't get it. That cuts me off from an appreciation that's shared among a lot of my friends with whom I am otherwise reasonably geek-compatible.
* and sport.
posted by Devonian at 9:27 AM on April 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
This is very well done, but it'd be more great if it had been created in a world that didn't already have Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter and Jesus Christ: Supercop.
The first instance of something like this is radical. The second is inspired. The third is a genre flick.
posted by gurple at 9:38 AM on April 16, 2013 [2 favorites]
The first instance of something like this is radical. The second is inspired. The third is a genre flick.
posted by gurple at 9:38 AM on April 16, 2013 [2 favorites]
I have to contact my lawyers now because wouldn't you believe it, I have a Jesus zombie film in development. I'm so not even joking.
posted by cazoo at 10:12 AM on April 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by cazoo at 10:12 AM on April 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
I do not get zombie films. The only one I've seen in its entirety was Shaun Of The Dead, and that completely fulfilled my lifelong zombie requirements.
Spoken like a man who's never watched Wild Zero. (trailer and full movie on Youtube, both NSFW)
posted by Strange Interlude at 10:52 AM on April 16, 2013 [2 favorites]
Spoken like a man who's never watched Wild Zero. (trailer and full movie on Youtube, both NSFW)
posted by Strange Interlude at 10:52 AM on April 16, 2013 [2 favorites]
this sort of comedic excess, and the ubiquity of zombies, is honestly pretty therapeutic for someone who was a kid during the satanic panic of the '80s.
Oh, not to mention the irreverence-- lots of irreverence.
posted by herbplarfegan at 12:59 PM on April 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
Oh, not to mention the irreverence-- lots of irreverence.
posted by herbplarfegan at 12:59 PM on April 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
It's just nice to see Luke Wilson getting work. He looked so unhappy in those telecom commercials.
posted by Iris Gambol at 1:25 PM on April 16, 2013
posted by Iris Gambol at 1:25 PM on April 16, 2013
Help us to make a feature film at www.fistofjesus.com
Why? I just saw all the good parts.
posted by Mike Smith at 2:39 PM on April 16, 2013
Why? I just saw all the good parts.
posted by Mike Smith at 2:39 PM on April 16, 2013
All this time I've been asking myself What Would Jesus Do and now I see I've been coming up with completely wrong answers.
posted by ckape at 6:34 PM on April 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by ckape at 6:34 PM on April 16, 2013 [1 favorite]
Not the first tongue-in-cheek Jesus action film to appear on ye webs. This one comes to mind as well. In a way what would be funnier would be a completely sincere Second Coming film made by the sort of gun-totin' Christian who pretty much sneers at every single sentiment in the gospels if it isn't presented to them as such.
posted by George_Spiggott at 6:43 PM on April 16, 2013
posted by George_Spiggott at 6:43 PM on April 16, 2013
Help us to make a feature film at www.fistofjesus.com
I don't know. The fact that the dialogue is in Spanish instead of Aramaic makes me question the filmmakers' commitment.
posted by homunculus at 7:23 PM on April 16, 2013
I don't know. The fact that the dialogue is in Spanish instead of Aramaic makes me question the filmmakers' commitment.
posted by homunculus at 7:23 PM on April 16, 2013
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