Movies that dont get enough praise

Movies that dont get enough praise

Bump. I loved it, but it did seem to drag on a little towards the end

It fucked me up a bit honestly.

Seen it twice now and I think about it daily

what is it about

The responses I've seen for this are either generally ecstatic or "it was boring", so I think it's praised enough by people who matter.

I adored it, I have no idea where Scorsese has been for the past 15 years but he's come back hard with the last two films. Maybe if he finally makes The Irishman I'll actually enjoy one of his crime films for once

Spider-Man and Kylo Ren try to find Qui-Gon Jinn but end up questioning the very basis of their faith when they see how the Japanese persecute Christians. Lot of "How could God allow this to happen?" and such.

It's honestly really affecting.

The dawn of Catholic kino is upon us

yeah its like 10 minutes too long

i'm waiting for portuguese subtitles to show up for me to watch, i still cant enjoy american movies without subtitles

There's enough CP on Sup Forums as it is.

Empire of the Sun is Spielberg's kino

>I have no idea where Scorsese has been for the past 15 years
You didn't even like The Aviator?

Imo, the end is kind of what made it make sense to me.

The whole film is about the mystery as to why this extremely devout man chose to apostatize and save himself, rather than face torture and death like the Christ did.

It's the same sort of guilt torture porn as Passion of the Christ, to get Americans to look back to a specific situation in which Christians were persecuted and feel sorry for them. But I enjoyed how bleak it was; weakness and oppression won in the end. You don't see that a lot, especially in Christian movies.

It was pretty well shot and I imagined Liam Neeson was Qui-Gon the whole time.

Scorsese hasn't made a great movie since the 90s

>It's the same sort of guilt torture porn as Passion of the Christ, to get Americans to look back to a specific situation in which Christians were persecuted and feel sorry for them.

I thought it was pretty judgmental of the Christian obsessing with suffering as spiritual cleansing, especially when they push that ideology onto others.

Silence is the only time I've ever fallen asleep in the theater

What I liked about the film was that it never took a strong side. The Japanese were acting in national interests, Neeson was trying to save his skin, the missionaries were trying to save others from damnation. So many movies featuring Christianity seem to keep to the extremes.
Honestly, Garfield comes across as the biggest asshole n the end, as he never truly suffered throughout the whole film, yet saw himself as Christ-like. It's possible that the only reason he kept the faith was to offload the guilt of his followers dying in vain.

>The SUN of god

Jesus christ fucking really?

Yeah that kind of bothered me...
Like I highly doubt that the homophone translates exactly the same in Japanese, which is especially weird given that the original novel was first written in Japanese and that these priests are supposed to be speaking in Portuguese the whole time.

The connection wasn't purely homophonic (?).
The sun has been worshiped as a deity across many cultures; it would make sense that people from a Shinto-influenced culture may interpret the idea of a "risen" god as the sun.
Besides Neeson was bullshitting to get Garfield to apostatize.

I don't really think this is a "comeback" for Scorsese. His movies of that last 15 years have ranged from decent to great.

I get that, but the script goes out of the way to make a pun-ish connection between "Son of God" and "Sun of God" and it was a little weird to me that they would do that.
On the whole, I loved the film though. It will end up being overlooked in the future because of how slow paced it is compared to other Scorsese films.

>2017
>being a fucking homophone

trumps america ladies and gentlemen