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moviemunchies · 23 days

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The director of Sound of Freedom (full disclosure: I haven’t seen that movie), which became the darling of A Very Right Wing Audience, made a movie starring a saint, the message of which is that the system is terrible to immigrants in the US, and you shouldn’t treat them like trash.

I have a lot of thoughts, guys.

Cabrini tells the story of Mother Saint Frances Cabrini, an Italian religious sister who wanted to start missionary orphanages in China and wouldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer. The Pope convinces her that she start working in the West, first–specifically in New York City, where Italian immigrants live in slums and are shunned by the populace, including the local diocese’s administration. Undaunted, Mother Cabrini charges forward to build her orphanage, whether or not she’ll get support from the city, the press, or the Church.

I kind of want to talk about the critical conversation that surrounded this movie.

Obviously, a film featuring a saint as its protagonist will get attention from Catholic outlets, and that’s where I saw most of the reviews. There was a noticeable common thread among Catholic critics that even though it’s about a canonized saint, a religious sister, and the character’s explicitly Catholic in the movie, her faith is not explored as her motivation, and it doesn’t really emphasize God working through her. We Catholics do not believe that we accomplish holy tasks based on our own power–we do it through God’s grace.

This movie, on the other hand, understandably makes it so that Mother Cabrini is the prime mover of events, though she certainly does have faith. But for Catholics, her reverence for God should be more emphasized, and her crediting and trusting in Him should be more explicit. I understand that in order to make it appeal to a wider (if still primarily Christian) audience, this was toned down, though I don’t know if it was the best idea.

My family and I also noted, while watching the film, that Frances Cabrini’s backstory is not really explored in a comprehensive way. Okay, fine, the movie’s not about that, and there’s enough to go off of. What’s a little more frustrating is that the sisters she leads in her efforts at building an orphanage are… look, I don’t know if they even have names in the film. I don’t remember much about them, other than that they’re there to back up the main character.

There are, however, not-so-legitimate criticisms I’ve seen. The Pillar talked a bit about it in one of their posts, but did not go into a full review because their writers are reporters of Catholic news (and they do very good work on that front, being unafraid of talking about scandal and asking hard questions). The opinion of the editor there was that, along with the above criticism, the antagonists were caricatures of patriarchal corruption, being essentially douchey men, which he felt was putting all the problems faced by the characters on men.

Which… yeah, because she’s running up against corrupt or uncaring systems and institutions, which at the time are all run… by men.

Maybe this is because I recently read Burn It Down, but taking issue with this feels like missing the point of the movie. You can say all you want that the systems in place aren’t just the fault of some men in charge, but those men in charge hold a lot of responsibility. Immigrants aren’t suffering in the US because the system has to be that way, they’re because people in charge choose to make or keep it that way to benefit themselves. The movie simplifies how these systems work, yes, but that doesn’t change that depicting them as the result of prejudiced, greedy, and corrupt men is not a bad choice.

Like, imagine if someone complained that Hidden Figures uses caricatures that are too simple for the reality of what happened. Yeah, that’s true, and there are definite issues with those depictions, but is it wrong to do that in a movie? I don’t think so.

[And then at least one person in the comments of that post angrily claims this movie constitutes “militant feminism” which makes me see red. Do words even have meaning these days? I feel like every time a film with female leads has a douchey male villain, some whackjob claims that it’s a story asserting that all men are evil.]

If the figures depicted in the movie actually were generally alright people, and the film is villainizing real people unnecessarily, then yes, we have some problems. Otherwise, I’m fine with it.

I am also kind of stunned how much this movie comes out swinging on certain issues. Again, the director’s previous film was a movie that got a lot of attention from right wing media, and this is one that depicts things like racism against immigrants, police brutality, political corruption–things that I don’t think FOX News is as keen on talking about. I think audiences cared enough about it for this movie to be mildly successful, though, which shows that, thankfully, people aren’t on as strictly drawn socio-political lines as the media would have you believe.

This is a fairly powerful narrative, guys, and it does not hold back. There are wealthy (white) New Yorkers complaining about how “brown children” are running through their streets, people denigrating others for not speaking English, and pointing out that the people oppressing immigrants today are the descendants of immigrants who themselves went through oppression when they arrived.

I like that the movie does not flinch away from that: showing that many of the problems we face today are not new, they’ve been baked into this country for over a century. The problems just wear slightly different hats–who the immigrants being oppressed are, for instance. That doesn’t mean it’s a progressive masterpiece, but I like this direction.

And I really like the title character. She is someone who absolutely does not give up, but is constantly getting frustrated by the people around her underestimating what she’s trying to do and whether she can accomplish it. She knows that she can, the problem is getting other people to see that as well.

Also, the movie’s last line. I’m very fond of it.

But like I said, this movie doesn’t really feel like it’s that interested in the lives of those who served in Mother Cabrini’s religious order, or much of her life and interests. And that’s a definite failing of the movie. Overall, though, I think it’s good, it’s strong, and I think it sticks with you. I lament a bit that it’s not more Catholic, and it could have been. I don’t think it’s necessarily as good a movie about historical figures as something like Hidden Figures, but it is very good, and I encourage people to at least check it out.

#Cabrini #Movie Munchies #Angel Studios #reviews #saints

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jurakan · 9 months

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Finished a draft of that review for the Little Mermaid remake. We'll see if I can remember to upload it tomorrow.

#The Little Mermaid #Movie Munchies

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little-pondhead · 1 year

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After Danny is crowned Ghost King, Amity Park becomes detached from the mortal realm and is suspended between the two realms, much like Danny is. In an effort to combat this isolation from the rest of the world, Danny opens up his castle to the residents of Amity. (Not his Lair, just the castle he earned via conquest.)

Now the castle is more like a community center, and it’s constantly filled with both humans and ghosts coming and going. The Amity Parkers are already liminal, so visiting the Zone is actually healthy for them! The school takes the kids on regular field trips, ghost vs. human competitions get very heated, and overall everyone bonds over their shared freakiness and comes to terms with the fact they’ll never venture out into their world ever again.

But just because they’re detached from their world, doesn’t mean the residents of Amity can’t visit other worlds. :)

And it just so happens that their new community castle is filled to the brim with magic doors and ancient treasures to help aid on their noble quest of inter-dimensional grocery shopping.

#pondhead blurbs #danny phantom #ghost king danny #community castle au #liminal amity park #they can’t reattach to their world enough to allow anyone to leave #so for the sake of not going stir crazy #they refurbish the kings castle and it becomes just another part of amity #it’s a community center #people go to hang out or eat free food or raid the library #ghosts and humans mingle #it’s driving Walker nuts #this can work with any crossover #but I’m just thinking of like #Paulina popping into a Batburger in the DC verse to pick up some munchies for community movie night #orders a mountain of food and pays in emeralds the size of her fist #also she’s in like half armor cause she and star were taking javelin lessons from Pandora #gotta build some muscle if she wants to do that one flip at the football game next month #cheerleading is hard okay!#this is not the weirdest thing the Batburger employee has seen #but it’d be even funnier if Jason was walking by and she offered to hold the door for him #except it was the inter dimensional door and he just got kidnapped and invited to movie night #eh #he’ll go home in the morning #which is two weeks later for the dc verse #oh dear #dpxdc

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atomic-chronoscaph · 11 months

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Munchies (1987)

#munchies gif #nadine van der velde gif #80s horror comedy #roger corman #tina hirsch #b-movies #practical effects #puppets #80s movies #1980s #1987 #gif #chronoscaph gif

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m-u-n-c-h-y · 9 months

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What if we kissed...

At the Mojo Dojo Casa House?

#barbie #barbie movie #barbie 2023 #kenxken #barbie spoilers #not the kissing #GOD I WISH THO #Also #I bought that sweatshirt #my art #fan art #got the munchy's?

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56-degrees-fahrenheit · 5 months

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munchy monk!!!

#munchy monk #the super mario bros movie #smb #video #rhythm heaven #rhythm heaven ds

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flashbcaks · 6 months

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#munchie posts #Twister (1996)#Twister movie #home media #lost media #media preservation #dvd #seinfeld meme

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klonw · 1 year

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#ghoulies #munchies #mac and me #gremlins #movie memes #sexualsituations

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kristinee · 1 year

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i want to bring to attention to the “jackass girls” because ive fallen in love with them, back in 2007 they made Rad Girls to be the female jackass equivalent and a lot of the clips are on youtube rn, very funny similar content that i highly recommend (def could’ve seen stephanie hodge on it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=169UE6GA4Gs

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goldshadows · 3 months

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lowkey wanna make a sentence meme. anyone got suggestions / requests?

#like lyrics / quotes from shows movies etc.#the beastie boys died for my right to party. / munchie‚ general.

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schlock-luster-video · 7 months

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moviemunchies · 2 days

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My mom heard about this movie and wanted to try it out. So I got it from the library! This is an adaptation of the stage play about C.S. Lewis of the same name.

Taking C.S. Lewis’s own words from his works (mostly Surprised by Joy), The Most Reluctant Convert stars Max McLean as Lewis, telling the story of his life and his road back to Christianity. As he does so, we’re shown scenes from different parts of his life, including his mother’s death, his time in World War I, and his fateful conversation with Tolkien in Magdalen College.

I have some mixed feelings on this film; ultimately, I liked it, though I strongly suspect that it would have been better to see on stage. There’s not a lot of action in the story–it’s narration over flashbacks, like you’re watching Lewis go through his memories in a set of Pensieve-like sequences. However, it’s not like this is a widely-performed play, so I imagine the film is a creative compromise to be able to let more audiences access it, rather than only let a select few people see it. And I’m glad that more people could get to see it that way!

But…. this isn’t really a movie the way we generally think of it. It’s sort of like a docu-drama? Or perhaps a TV special you might see on PBS or something about a famous author. It kind of reminds me of the BBC special on Terry Pratchett from a few years back, Terry Pratchett: Back in Black, where you had an actor playing the author and talking about his life and career.

I can’t help but wonder if the entire experience isn’t actually better than reading Surprised by Joy? Or if this feels a bit like a docudrama version of Surprised by Joy. Either way, you should read that book because it’s great.

There are a couple of dramatizations of events in this movie that to me, don’t quite work, or feel rushed. Tolkien is kind of just there for a bit, without enough establishment. The Great Knock is probably a worse example; this isn’t the actor’s fault, but his first scene feels like a man walks up and says, “Hello! I’m an important person in Lewis’s formation of life! Moving on!” There’s also a part of that sequence in which the older Lewis narrates that the Great Knock’s house is filled with books… while the shot we see has no books in it, and Lewis is looking off-screen. You do see books in a later shot, though at that point it feels a bit like a missed opportunity.

Still, it’s a good movie, only think that it’s not quite anything that hardcore fans of C.S. Lewis haven’t heard before. It is cool to see a lot of this acted out dramatically, and I think it’s incredibly cool that they managed to shoot this on-location in places that Lewis actually visited or lived in (and during COVID restrictions, no less–the BTS footage shows how difficult that was!).

I do get a bit sad watching this movie, though, because Lewis is working so hard to talk about the reasoning behind being atheist, agnostic, theist, or Christian. This was not, for Lewis, about emotion, but Reason and Rationality. And yet so many people now argue about belief or non-belief because of what they feel, and so many atheist arguments aren’t reasoned out as much as taken from the Internet because they were told to believe these things.

Anyhow, that’s not really a reflection on the quality of this movie.

If you have interest in C.S. Lewis, you should check this film out, or the play if you’re in an area where it’s being performed. I don’t know if it’ll hold much appeal out of that audience, though, unless you’re really interested to see how this one-man stage play was adapted into film.

#Movie Munchies #The Most Reluctant Convert #C.S. Lewis #reviews #Christianity

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jurakan · 1 year

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You know I was fairly certain I had a review of Klaus on the movie blog but apparently not??

#Klaus #Movie Munchies

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ihatebnha · 2 years

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would u be willing to expand on the ‘inasa would be the most toxic’ tag on your most recent feeders post 👀 (although feel free not to if you’re not comfortable and/or if you think u might get u any hate !!)

(warning: feederism)

👁👁I... I was just thinking that he's the one who doesn't stop after you say you're full the first couple times. Dude's the size of a corn silo, so he himself eats A TON, you know??? And part of me just thinks that he feels like you need to eat that much, too.

Maybe not that specifically (because it's never ill-intentioned)... but if you're picking at your food, don't finish it all, or even only have one helping, he's like "omg babe, you hardly ate!!!"

Which... you ate your regular amount actually, he's just too full of air (get it?) to notice and/or realize that you don't need as much as him to start feeling full.

It's great on the days when you're super hungry, but terrible when you just want him to knock the whole conversation off. He's the one who goes, "c'mon, just a little more. You can't go without dessert!!! It's like, required!!!" whether you want more food or not.

And at restaurants it's even worse. You even hint that you're looking at something on the menu, and he's ordering it. You end up with 5 entrees, two drinks, 4 appetizers AND dessert with a bill that would make your mother faint. You're lucky he's able to eat most of it (and pay)... but like.......... who said this was allowed?

And it's not even pride in keeping you well fed, as it is just him thinking... this is what he's supposed to do. Well fed = healthy = chubby, right?

(And who are you to get his hopes up?)