One more thing about The Apostle, and then I'll be quiet: The film can easily be viewed (and even enjoyed) as making light of the crazy preachers; making fun of the whole scene. That was how I viewed it the first time I watched it in my pre-Christian years. I thought it was a thoughtful caricature of Christian craziness. My point is that the movie is appreciated more by the non-religious than the religious.
Kinda like Jesus. But now I'm spewing religion in a non-religion thread, and Tenn will soon be forced to burn me at the stake.
I was religious when The Apostle came out and I remember some religious folks of the Pentecostal/Charismatic types that I hung out with thought very highly of it. I thought it was pretty good myself. I didn't see it as a caricature at all. These were the same kind of religious folks i hung out with, just without the baseball bat killing thing.
But Robert Duvall will never top the role of Augustus McCrae in the best television mini-series of all time, Lonesome Dove.
MachineGhost wrote:
Justified jumped the shark way too early, but the wide array of talented actors still make it fascinating to watch. It's a shame Hollywood is so obsessed over A and B-list. There's a lot of great talent out there obviously going unused...
I have a co-worker I talk to a lot in L.A. who is also an actress and I always like to talk to her about small roles she gets now and then. At some point, she mentioned that she had done an episode of Justified, but I thought she was referring to an episode that had aired in a prior season.
I was watching Justified a few weeks later, and BOOM there is her face on the screen for several seconds and she had a couple of really funny lines. It was such a treat because I wasn't expecting it at all and it was a much larger role than she had led me to believe.
I really enjoyed the whole show, though. Really well-written and well-acted. Lots of priceless lines and great characters.
Q: “Do you have funny shaped balloons?”
A: “Not unless round is funny.”
