In this movie fans eyes, yes. Does it hold up as a comic book movie? With out a doubt. As a movie fan Superman The Movie is as rewatchable on its th viewing as it was on the first. I actually enjoy it more as an adult because I can now appreciate it for more than just Superman.
As a ten-year-old kid I cared less about these actors, but as an adult I have better appreciation for there past work and just how impressive of a cast Superman had when it was released. What Richard Donner was able to pull off to make people believe that Christopher Reeve could fly is no less impressive then what George Lucas did for the original Star War movie in Forty years from now when Superman The Movie turns eighty this era of comic book movies could possibly be over and movies like The Dark Knight, Logan, Civil War and Black Panther might be talked about as some of the best, but Superman will have its place in history as the corner stone of the modern comic book movie.
But enjoy a slight excerpt from 2Chronicles Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and followed the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left.
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. Under his direction the altars of the Baals were torn down; he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them and smashed the Asherah poles and the idols.
These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and so he purged Judah and Jerusalem. In the towns of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them, 7. Then he went back to Jerusalem. You can ask me who on earth ever reads Chronicles? Anyone who does not want to die as dumb as my thumb.
The end unluckily is not that great. The living dead people, in fact only one there should be, is dissolved by water laced with some supposedly aggressive stuff being sprinkled onto his body, since the quicksilver cartridges had not been efficient enough, but in the end of the end Grace Rhodes has to pick his scythe and puts him to death once and for all, though we know it is not forever since we are dealing with the Maize God and he is able to resuscitate every so often, for the planting of corn, and for the harvest, especially for the Corn Harvest Full Moon, provided he can benefit from some blood offering.
But true enough the plot is a little bit loose and you may get lost in the subtleties of the situation. Enjoy this one till the next resurrection of this monstrous young preacher who has had many Biblical names so far.
Back in Gatlin where a sect has been established in a private property, A farm growing corn of course, under the authority of Luke Enright, the owner of the farm and property.
Strangely enough, he is the one who has the name of an apostle and he is the one who is covering the sect and is manipulated by the sect and will end up destroyed in two seconds by the child propjet. The child prophet is Ezeekial. The priest Ezekiel was the first prophet to be called by the Lord outside of Israel during the Babylonian Captivity. The central figure in the Book of Ezekiel is God. The book opens with a unique vision of the glory of the Lord.
The phrase "you shall know that I am the Lord" recurs 33 times throughout the text. While he punishes Israel for their idolatry and disobedience, his love for his creation mankind prevails in the end. God the Creator calls Ezekiel "Son of Man" 93 times. An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. This God is a punishing god that requires total sacrifice, total dedication, total obedience.
And we are in that somber and dark atmosphere from the very start of the film. That Ezeekial is the child leading the community of children in their getting ready for the final offering. A second batch of four younger tourists come up but they are frightened by a flying deflated inflatable doll and they run into a cornfield where they are met by the local prophet.
They walk to the village and find out they will get no help there and the sheriff tells them there is a bus, morning and evening so, they run for the bus but of course, they only see its red backlights. So, they just go into an empty house to spend the night and find out that it is ready for them, beds made properly, food in the cupboards and the fridge.
During the night they realize they have been trapped in the place. To give some density to the tale one of these four younger tourists is the daughter of an alcoholic and violent father and she left home at the age of 14 leaving her younger brother behind. This younger brother, the total and abandoned victim of his own father heard some call and he decided to come to this Gatlin and this sect dedicated to He Who Walks Behind the Rows but he is going to be eighteen, and at that age, on their eighteenth birthday the believers have to go up to the top of a very high metal tower where there is a small contraption and he has to jump into the furnace at the bottom.
The brother is eighteen tonight. He accepts to speak to his sister though, but at the last minute, he does not sacrifice himself, because, in spite of all purity and virginal orders, he has impregnated a girl in the cult, and he cannot abandon his child.
Now you have the situation in your own hands. What will happen to the four tourists? What will happen to the brother? What will happen to the sister? It looks more like the furnace in which the two Hero Twins walk one day and are burned to ashes. The hollow tower into which you have to jump sounds like the sinkholes or cenotes in which some sacrificed human beings were thrown, or into which some sacrificees jumped willfully to rejoin their god, and of course the Maize God, in Maya times.
The small contraption at the top of this big silo-like tower sounds like the small temple at the top of a Maya pyramid where human sacrifices were performed.
But be sure that the sheriff and his deputy and the two firemen will end badly, along with quite a few more. Of course, the stitching is loose, the logic of the story is chaotic and very artificial. But the objective is just to make you either feel terrorized in some scenes or grossed out in some others. But there is slightly more to say. The brother is named Jacob. He is the brother of Jesus, the famous James, the apostle and the first bishop of Jerusalem that had a long conflict up to his violent death in the hands of the High Priest of the Jerusalem Temple.
He was also the main leader of the community of pure and virginal believers who were behind the Dead Sea Scrolls, halfway between ordinary and rather submissive Jews and the famous Zealots, Jewish rebels. Of course, I also remember that Jacob is a patriarch in the Old Testament, the grandson of Abraham, the son of Isaac and Rebekah, and the traditional ancestor of the people of Israel. Stories about Jacob in the Bible begin at Genesis The pregnant girl, if I did not get lost in all the boys and girls is supposed to be Lily, which is a very prestigious flower in the Bible like in this passage.
Hosea King James Version 4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. It is one favorite flower and metaphor in the Song of Songs. And this brings Solomon into the picture, his wisdom and an age of peace, justice, and balance.
I just wonder if these biblical references are not working backward: how can anyone believe those things that are the fodder of so many fanatics? But one thing is sure: corn is wicked, corn is bad, corn is damnation on earth, and it is, in a way, since it is one essential fodder for cattle and food for humans, enabling the multiplication of the population into overpopulation.
And sure enough that biblical discourse clearly says that it is high time to stop procreating and fornicating and sinning day and night, morning and evening. Maybe penile self-sacrifice would be a way to reduce this overpopulation by stopping the birth of children. Enjoy the break till the next episode of this picaresque saga. But we all know the story of Isaac, or so we say. But let me quote the story, slightly reduced and edited.
The whole film is based on this character Isaac that was the prophet of the very first film fifteen years earlier and played by the same actor then and now. When you read the old story in the Old Testament you are surprised by the fact a slave can be used as a surrogate mother provided by the wife. Then you are surprised fifteen years later that the wife requires the banishment of the first son and his mother into the desert with no sufficient food or drink, so to plainly die there.
So, fifteen years later in this new film Isaac who had been destroyed in the first film is still alive in a total coma in some kind of empty clinic of course in Gatlin. A certain Hannah Martin arrives and causes a real stir in the village. She is recognized as the one who is supposed to come in the prophecy to revive Isaac who had really been sacrificed as opposed to the Old Testament. She has the power to summon and gather the various actors of the drama of Isaac.
We discover that Hannah is the daughter of Isaac, and she was born months after his demise. But we are going to discover he had had another son before, and there is then some rivalry between the daughter and the son as for the heritage of their father.
The mother is there too but has nothing to say or very little. Hannah had been moved away from the village by the local doctor who is still here and explains that to her. No one wanted her to come back because her coming back would be the signal for the revival of the father no one had had the courage to put to death really, like incinerating him or whatever.
They all believed in the prophecy and the only thing they could do was pray for it not to come true. But it does and everyone has to disappear in a way though Isaac is really sacrificed a second time and Gabriel who performs the act is in his turn killed but is he really killed, since he is an archangel representing not He Who Walks Behind the Rows but the real God we know.
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