I borrowed it only because Emma Thompson is in it. Stupid me thought it was about angels. I had to fast forward it to skip some really gross scenes like the one at the park. I just finished the first disc. I am not sure I want to see the next one.
shareThe content didn't really bother me. I actually enjoyed the first "episode", but the rest of it was drawn out and preachy. For me, the interesting elements were overshadowed by endless self-satisfied blabbering. I don't think it's worth the time investment.
shareI decided to plod through the 2nd disk after all and you're right - it's just a lot of blather.
shareIt's epic. Whole thing is fantastic.
share Since Tennessee Williams, there have been only four possible American dramatic masterworks:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (indisputable)
Glengarry, Glenross, (probably)
Oleanna, (debatable)
Angels in America, (only Albee's masterpiece come near it for linguistic and theatrical brilliance).
But you ARE Blanche ... and I AM.
OP clearly it's not for you. However it was a brilliant film.
shareYou're absolutely allowed to dislike this or any other play, movie, book, or work or art. That's the nice thing about opinion. However, if you watched this movie because you "thought it was about angels," you have only yourself to blame for not enjoying the experience. You make it sound like you were expecting it to have Michael Landon or Roma Downey flying around in it, solving sitcom-my problems and teaching people important and sentimental life lessons. That's what you get for literally judging a movie by its cover instead of doing even the barest minimum of investigation into what it is about.
shareWell, I try not to investigate filth. I watched it only because Emma Thompson was in it whose other movies I enjoyed like Last Chance Harvey and Dead Again. The final segment showing heaven as some sort of bureaucracy that has lost its way because God is absent is a rehash of the hoary God Is Dead theology (cf. Nietzche et al) but the movie makes it sound so childish. Nothing brilliant about that.
shareWell, I try not to investigate filth. I watched it only because Emma Thompson was in it whose other movies I enjoyed like Last Chance Harvey and Dead Again.Maybe I am expecting too much from the internet, but that doesn't make any sense. You clearly didn't think it was "filth" before you watched it, or you wouldn't have watched it, Emma Thompson notwithstanding. Therefore, my assertion that you have only yourself to blame for not finding out what it was about before watching it is still perfectly valid and sensible. Your post makes as much sense as if I were to post a complaint on the Pulp Fiction board because that movie wasn't about the book publishing industry, or one on The Dark Knight board because I expected a movie about medieval jousters. share
Batman is indeed a knight in the romantic sense (Thomas B. Costain the famous historian and novelist had a dim view of knights writing that when they were not busy plundering, they were disemboweling one another). So I wasn't misled in watching it. As for Pulp Fiction, the story was supposed to be typical of the penny dreadful stuff that people turned to for entertainment during the Depression, a genre which has stayed with us till now. I could never associate the word "angels" with unsavory things. Charlie's Angels could be a little risque at times but they were never unsavory. The Dark Angel ain't bad either.
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I think that watching Angels was a tremendous experience for me and quite a few others. I think that either it spoke to you or didn't. It certainly spoke to me.
shareBut God is dead.
shareI hope not for yours and everybody's sake. In any case, if your "he" is dead, then he's not God. A lot of people misunderstand the original God is Dead movement. It did not literally mean that God was dead. What the proponents meant that for all intents and purposes, God is already dead in our secular world where morality and all concepts of good and evil have become relative.
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