Dogma
 

The wife and I were driving back from KC last night when we got on the topic of the poor career choices of Ben Affleck. Well that moved us to Dogma, one of his few watchable films. So when we got home, I popped it in--goddammit this movie is fucking hilarious. It's such a well done satire, kudos to Smith for the scorched earth policy surrounding the subject matter.

Great flick. Affleck did a damned good job in "Chasing Amy" too.

He might have found his niche directing though. "Gone Baby Gone" was great. And little brother Casey might have proven himself the better serious actor in the same movie.

Those are my exact sentiments.

Re: Dogma. The Loki-Bartleby dynamic just kills me. You gotta love a guy who blasts a dude with a Desert Eagle on a bus then breaks out

"Whose house?? Run's house"

I loved Chasing Amy. Hell, I enjoyed Dogma regardless of my religion. That was a funny movie.

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I need to see Dogma. I saw Gone Baby Gone and thought it was really well done!

He needs a little panache!

Oh, that rules! LMAO

Dogma has to be one of the most well written and perfectly cast films of this generation.

Okay...that may be a little over the top, but it's some seriously good shit.

I'm gettin hungry for a mega mooby-muffin.

I had no idea Bod Dole was such a Kevin Smith fan.

:thumb:

Dogma is great...so many fantastic things came together at the right moment to make it what it is...as far as Ben movies...

Anyone who has a problem with them will get their asses kicked by Fred O'Bannion

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Alright,alright,alright.

anything that allanis morrisate is in sucks sorry

True but at least she didn’t say anything.
And the Selma Hayek stripper routine more than offsets any suckage from Morrisate.

She had a re-occuring role on the show "Nip/Tuck" a year or two ago. She played the lesbian lover of the doctors nurse.

She was actually pretty decent and she looked good.

alanis morisette looks like anthony kedis

Loki: The last four days on Earth. If I had a dick, I'd go get laid. But we can do that next best thing.

Bartleby: What's that?

Loki: Let's kill people. [Lady next to Loki spits out her coffee]

Loki: [to lady] Oh, not you.

I could go on all day on this movie.





Gun Salesman: We call this piece the Fecalator. One look at it and the target shits him or herself. Try it on.

Loki: Well, it's a lot more compact than the flaming sword, but it's not nearly as impressive. Just doesn't have that Wrath-of-the-Almighty edge to it. I mean, come on, how am I supposed to strike fear into the hearts of the wicked with this thing? Look at this...

Bartleby: Well, then, you know, don't use a gun. Just lay the place to waste, like.

Loki: Easy for you to say. You get off light in razing. You got to stand there and read at Sodom and Gomorrah, I had to do all the work.

Bartleby: What work did you do? You lit a few fires.

Loki: I rained down sulphur, man, there's a subtle difference.

Bartleby: Oh, yeah, I'm sure.

Loki: Hey, you know, **** you, man. Any moron with a pack of matches can set a fire. Raining down sulphur is like an endurance trial man. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, outside of soccer.

A man after my own heart.

I also love "fuck you man, I rained sulfur. Any moron with a pack of matches can start a few fires, raining down sulfur is like an endurance test. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can partake in, next to soccer."

Well played, sir. :D

Speaking of Ben Affleck and his sputtering career, whatever happened to him playing Jack Ryan in Clancy's novel/movies? I thought Sum of All Fears was enjoyable, at the least. I'm suprised they never made the next one int he series.

A great casting job, and even better acting, and one hell of a writing job. All around Dogma remains one of Kevin Smith's best movies.

Aflleck is always less annoying when he's paired with Damon or at least Jason Lee.

He sucked ass compared to Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford.

I've seen every movie Kevin Smith has made, and Dogma is the only one I really like. Absolutely love Dogma.

Oddly, while I like Harrison Ford much more as an actor, I like Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan better.

Mall Rats is pretty funny too.

The movie I watch when I need a laugh. One of my favorite lines, other than the "rainin sulfur" line that's been posted already:

Loki: The major sins never change. Besides, you know, I can spot a commandment-breaker from, like, a mile away. So, bet on it.

Bartleby: This from the guy who still owes me 10 bucks over that bet about what was gonna be the bigger movie - "E. T. " or "Krush Groove"?

Loki: You know, **** you, man, 'cause time's gonna tell on that one.


Or the scene in the Mooby Conference Room:


Bartleby: You are responsible for raising an icon which draws worship from the Lord. You have broken the first commandment. Not only that, I'm afraid not a one of you passes for a decent human being. Your continued existence is a mockery of morality. Like you, Mr. Burton. Last year cheated on your wife of 17 years 8 times. You even had sex with her best friend while you were supposed to be home watching the kids.

Loki: In the bed that you and your wife share, no less.

Bartleby: Mr. Newman - you got your girlfriend drunk at last year's Christmas party and then paid a kid from the mail room to have sex with her while she was passed out, just so you could break up with her guilt-free when she sobbingly confessed in the morning. She killed herself two months later. Mr. Brace disowned his gay son. Very compassionate, Mr. Brace. Mr. Ray put his mother in a third-rate nursing home and then used the profits from the sale of her home to buy an oriental rug for himself. Heavens. Mr. Barker flew to Thailand on the company account to have sex with an eleven year old boy.

Mr. Holtzman okayed the production of Mooby Dolls from materials he knew to be toxic and unsafe, because it was - survey says? - less costly.
[sees the female board member]

Bartleby: You, on the other hand, are an innocent. You lead a good life. Good for you. But you, Mr. Whitland, you have more skeletons in your closet than the rest of this assembled party. I cannot even mention them aloud.
[whispers something in Whitland's ear]

Loki: You're his father, you sick ****.




And the girl after:

[to the female board member]

Loki: You're a pure soul... but you didn't say "God bless you" when I sneezed.

[raises his gun to the female board member's head]

Bartleby: Loki!

Loki: [angrily] You're getting off light.

[as he leaves the board room]

Loki: You're so lucky.