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Old 07-17-2006, 08:10 PM
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I have a book by Joe Bob Briggs about controversial films (I think it's called Truly Disturbed.) He mentions some of the same movies, but his is a little more historically based, and a lot of the newer films mentioned in the above list weren't mentioned at all. It features some remarkably well-written essays about why each movie was considered so disturbed and/or disturbing.

As far as The Last Tempation of Christ, it's a fine film. I'm amazed that people who claim to have so much "faith" are so opposed to any ideas that differ from their beliefs. If their faith is so strong, why would they care that someone has an alternate viewpoint?

I loved Natural Born Killers, although I have the same criticism of it that Tarantino had. He wrote the original screenplay, and the stuff with Rodney Dangerfield being a bad father was tacked on later to provide "motivation" for the killers. I agree with Tarantino that this was a cheap, "Hollywood" out.

JFK is a great movie, but I think it's a damn shame that Stone didn't make a documentary about what an SOB Garrison was instead. Frankly, that's a more interesting story than the conspiracy theory that he presented anyway.
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