Is there any Mormon Kino?
Is there any Mormon Kino?
Wagon Master
i saw the book of mormon recently and fucking died at the end
Never ask a Mormon how black people exist
This book series is Mormon kino that needs an adaptation.
Napoleon Dynamite and Gentleman Broncos are both authentic looks into the Mormon lifestyle
t. Utahn
Lots of movies about missionaries. Start with God's Army. If you want something along the same lines but more on the religious side, The Best Two Years. Something more secular, Latter Days. God's Army has a sequel which the director made shortly before leaving the Mormon church, but it's not great.
Saints and Soldiers is decent as a WWII pastiche. Singles Ward is a silly romcom I've got a soft spot for--you'll miss quite a few jokes and cameos without living in Utah in the 90s/00s, though.
The church itself made a few movies, but I don't need to tell you they're very cringy and very preachy.
yea on their yt channel they recreate lots of scenes from their "another testament" and it comes across as the most entertaining and hilarious jesus fan fiction ever. Like they have one where jesus visits a native american tribe and ministers to them and another where theyre eating from the tree of life and its all glowy and shit
Why do americans believe in a literal fanfic?
it plays on white american values by doing stuff like saying the constitution is divinely inspired scripture so if youre like a redneck and dont know the bible really well it can be really convincing. As you probably know most people dont read the bible that much so if youre caught up in the mormon social club it can probably fool people. Idk tho they tried selling me on it at my house and I thought their pitch was retarded.
found it lol
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Johnny Lingo, baby!
The 1969 one, actually.
Joseph Smith basically had 100 speech so even people that didn't take the mormon thing seriously would let him keep doing his thing, when he sent his missionaries by themselves to proselytize is when people would start trying to kill them.
They actually grabbed an ancient Jimmy Stewart to do a Christmas short film.
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Notice the mormon missionaries are usually really good looking young white people, lately theyre doing chicks too. I think without that they wouldnt be listened to.
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Reading the book of mormon is very boring and monotonous and repetitive but it makes more sense when you realize he wrote it to be spoken, mainly by himself. Those tedious verses have a bit more punch when you imagine them being recited by a dramatically gifted 19th century orator.
The book of Mormon on broadway is beyond kino. Definitely recommend seeing it next time you're in nyc, or if the tour comes near where you live. One of the funniest things I've ever seen.
big love was a great hbo show and it’s crazy no one has brought it up
If I ever get the opportunity to make my own film, I'm going to make a Mormon sci fi movie. The esoteric lore of Mormonism (there are infinite gods, the Father was a man who became a god, Mormons will become gods after death and rule over their own planets) would make for a great sci fi setting, arguably verging on cosmic horror.
horror movie where a Dawkins-style atheist tortures Mormon to ironically become a sort of god over them
Sounds kino, I'll give it a watch
the Father was a man who became a god
Source?
My school really glossed over how fucking metal 19th century America was. We just got taught about some vague idea of manifest destiny between the revolutionary war and the civil war and almost completely ignored mormonism and the wars with the plains Indians.
The King Follett Sermon, where Joseph Smith asserts that God the Father was once a mortal man who became God through spiritual attainment. Other texts "reveal" that He now lives on a planet called Kolob where He can oversee creation, and every Mormon can eventually become a god ruling over their own planet. The South Park episode doesn't even scratch the surface of the crazy shit Mormons believe, it's on par with alien cults like Heavens Gate.
Battlestar Gallactica
Same here. Everything between Plymouth and the Boston Massacre got glossed over too.
Get Shorty has a kino Mormon cartel enforcer guy.
Napoleon dynamite was made by Mormons which is why it's bad and has no idea how high-school kids act
Brigham Young also taught that Adam was God himself, resurrected from a previous divine existence and then exalted again after starting humanity in the garden of eden (they don't believe in original sin) to role earth as its lord. It was official church doctrine for decades but gradually fell out of favor in the 20th century, though most fundamentalist groups still hold it as truth.
the netflix doc on the mormon bombings was kino
Battlestar Galactica
The doc on Warren Jeffs and the FLDS was good too. As an amateur mormon fundie enthusiast (the nichest hobby of all) it was surprisingly way more intelligently and empathetically presented than most media about the FLDS which usually rests on patronizing true crime cliches.
I saw that in Salt Lake City with my ex-gf. I miss her so much.
Apparently Law & Order SVU did an episode based on those bombings. The forger character was played by Stephen Colbert of all people.
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I saw some missionaries at a Walmart the other day — 2 dorky looking white guys, and 2 fat brown spics. Never ever seen girls
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