I'm always tickled to discover a movie that is sympathetic to atheism.
Here's a couple I've recently seen that I enjoyed...list additional ones here.
Friends With Kids - a cute romantic comedy
Paul - great stoner movie
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The People Vs Larry Flynt. Great movie and great role-model for atheists everywhere.
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The Ledge.
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Dogma is a frothy, bubbly, thoroughly enjoyable comedy. The plot in brief: It is triggered by a catholic Bishop's announcement of a plenary indulgence. Anyone who merely enters the church will be admitted to heaven. Two renegade angels recognise this as a loophole to re-enter heaven, but if they succeed, God will have been proven to be fallible after all, and because he created everything, everything will cease to exist. An ex-Jewish apostate working in an abortion clinic is dragged unwillingly to save the universe as we have come to know it.
The film is only atheistic insofar as it makes jokes in a religious setting. Many of them are truly belly-laugh material. Unfortunately, sometimes the makers of the film needlessly resort to hamfisted devices akin to superimposing a laughter track. For instance, is it really necessary to explain why it is so funny that Serendipity suffers from writer's block?
There is no hint of the film being actually anti-theistic, unless one regards the various absurdities of the plot's peregrinations as an attack on theism. To me, those jokes are too removed from real-world considerations to make it anti-theistic. It's just a fun romp, and a thoroughly enjoyable at that.
On the surface, The Life of Brian is made in a similar vein, but I think its depiction of institutionalised Christianity cuts closer despite the hilariously escalating absurdities with which it depicts it.
If you want to see a truly anti-theistic film, I suggest God on Trial is not a bad place to start. Admittedly, I have only seen a snippet of it, but based on that, this film would have to be a wholesale condemnation of the God of the Old Testament, the Jewish religion, and insofar as the Old Testament remains part of the Christian holy book, of Christianity as well.
The film is only atheistic insofar as it makes jokes in a religious setting. Many of them are truly belly-laugh material. Unfortunately, sometimes the makers of the film needlessly resort to hamfisted devices akin to superimposing a laughter track. For instance, is it really necessary to explain why it is so funny that Serendipity suffers from writer's block?
There is no hint of the film being actually anti-theistic, unless one regards the various absurdities of the plot's peregrinations as an attack on theism. To me, those jokes are too removed from real-world considerations to make it anti-theistic. It's just a fun romp, and a thoroughly enjoyable at that.
On the surface, The Life of Brian is made in a similar vein, but I think its depiction of institutionalised Christianity cuts closer despite the hilariously escalating absurdities with which it depicts it.
If you want to see a truly anti-theistic film, I suggest God on Trial is not a bad place to start. Admittedly, I have only seen a snippet of it, but based on that, this film would have to be a wholesale condemnation of the God of the Old Testament, the Jewish religion, and insofar as the Old Testament remains part of the Christian holy book, of Christianity as well.
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Wizard of Oz
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Zen Noir
The ratings are mediocre, but it's one of my favourite movies. It's very clever and funny if you know a bit about Zen.
The ratings are mediocre, but it's one of my favourite movies. It's very clever and funny if you know a bit about Zen.
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