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Summary: Great movie for anyone
Review: This is a great movie, with a great plot, with great actors,who can greatly portray great characters. Patricia Arquette plays as aantagonated young hairstylist who is struck with the stigmata, the wounds of christ...just because this movie deals with the church and god and priests and possesion-like themes doesn't mean it is a blatant rip-off of other possesion movies, in fact, I think it is very unique! What a great movie!
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Summary: WOW
Review: This movie was very disturbing to me.I thought it was extremely weird and that scared me.It took advantage of it's very good plot, and I thought it was okay i guess.I was very frightened by the reality of this movie.The events that happend to the girl in the movie actually happend to Jesus and that was so disturbing to see and I felt very bad for the girl as well as Jesus.It was a very disturbing movie and I dont reccomend it for younger viewers such as myself.
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Summary: Stigmata
Review: A powerful compelling film about a woman suffering the tortures of Jesus Christ. The atmosphere this movie invites us is dark and the camera work was very well done. But overall the film is quite predictable and yes, its ending is a revisit to the frightening room of Satan in the Exorcist. The soundtrack to this film is amazing.
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Summary: Entertaining mystery... but not riveting
Review: I rented Stigmata because the plot had that Seventh Sign feel to it. If you are looking for an outstanding mystery like the Seventh Sign, or a horrifying thriller like the Exorcist, you will be disappointed. This is a mildly entertaining mystery that will make you think (especially when you read what the movie's based on at the end), but no more. Unlike other viewers, I did not care for the acting, and I thought that some of the scenes and dialogue were cheesy (e.g., the scene with Frankie and the priest laughing over lunch---huh? ). Overall...not a bad movie, just don't expect too much.
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Summary: Vogue + MTV + Excorcist = Stigmata
Review: Stylistically, this film is very late 90's. Color isblue-filtered and the over-all effect is MTV/Rock video-esque, or ifyou perfer, one could use its stills for any number of Vogue magazine fashion ads. This can be good, I guess, but in a movie length piece it gets more than strained. One set is a virtual similacrum of the Mike Jackson video where he smashes a car in a N.Y. alley--it's the same alley, the same car, the same whipping wind, only a possessed P. Arquette squats atop the derelict car clawing at its sheet-metal. Stigmata is as follows: --a series of pieces stolen from: the excorcist (including hospital scenes where a terrified protagonist is subjected to nasty tests which we know will be useless, levitation, speaking in 'deep' demonic voices, confusion "What's happening to me", whip marks, virtually everything except: no "help me" on the girl's stomach, and, alas, no green vomit) --MTV 'trendiness': protagonist is pieced and fashionably tattood, navel-ring, et al., works in a (GET THIS): hair salon cum piecing/tattooing parlor. But what is worst of all in this little setting detail: there is no reason for her to work here, excepting, of course, that it is sooo cool. If she's so depraved, be a stripper, or a bar-tender, or a punked-out waitress who has a bit of a coke habit. This would actually add a bit of "Depth" and even better "Complication" to an otherwise bland character. Neat glowy rings and leather pants do not an interesting character make. --excesive use of candles, see the Crow, et al. Protagonist takes long baths in tub. This is O.K., what isn't: 1. There are at least 20 dozen candles lit around it. Spooky? No. The movie is as spooky as trendy club. Actually less, these tend to horrifying prices. 2. the tub is has no curtain and sits in the middle of the room (?). 3. the room has 20' ceilings and is the size of a warehouse. 4. room has cast iron sky-lights (!). 5. remember, protagonist is a hair-dresser in N.Y. 6. this scene keeps its tone with: A: model shoots B: gothically inspired comercials and music videos C: movies, albeit bad ones. (Candles: they can be evil and holy at the same time--wheee...) --Male priest + female possessie = sexual tension. Beyond trite. --Big Hollywood finish. Which not only fails to deliver, it just ain't scary. Just plain stupid, and hopefully an insult to one's intelligence. The film has great production values, but again, so do most commercials. And the film has the feel of a cobbled together series of music videos, Vogue spreads, and T.V. commercials, it's like a resume of the director's past work (one of which looks like an American Express (or that flower company) commercial--the cafe scene where P.A. asks Priest if he misses sex [you see this stupid query comming a mile away...ugh], and when she gets tossed into the flower arrangement you just want to clap and yell with cathartic glee--take that Patricia! [...which I must admit, I did]) This movie is at best a stylish, yet conventional pastiche of tired demon/religion/catholic/possession movies. Worse, it is dull, dull, dull -- except if you can see it in the movies and laugh your head-off at all the right (or wrong) times, i.e., whenever Patricia gets horribly injured. One marginally redeaming virtue: those unfamiliar with the Apocrapha and in particular to the Nag Hammadi codex, otherwise known at the Gospel of Thomas, discovered in Egypt in 1954, I believe, may at least get some exposure to this important find. But this could also be seen as a horrible pity -- to gain insight into your religion through a very silly movie. In sum: Writing a review for this one is like writing a review for a twinky. Those who like Hostess products will eat it anyway, those who don't wont even go near a review of such creme in the first place. Chances are, if you like this kind of fodder, kudos. There is a lot of this stuff out there; I envy your easily entertained simplicity for you will never have a weekend bereft of a 'great' and/or 'provocative' film. A great example of "Bad-Film": (mainly a work of trite mediocrity, dull, banal, perdictable, poorly written, topical--read: trendy and soon to be dated 90's ephemera, and attempting to pass itself off as important or "thought-provoking", which it may be to those lacking grey-matter above the eye-brows.)
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Summary: I Want My Money Back!
Review: What a piece of garbage no story, bad acting (the only one who knows is Gabriel Byrne all of the rest don't know how), Bad effects, go rent the excorcist has a similar story and is way better or if you want something newer just go see The Sixth Sense.
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Summary: Pretty good movie
Review: If you disliked this movie for lack of story, plot, or overuse of special FX, than that's fine. But if you disliked this movie because it was "anti-Catholic propaganda", then get over yourselves. It was a movie that I enjoyed, and felt had a good message. There are those out there that would hide any truth that would destroy the Church, especially one as influential as the Catholic Church. Do I feel all priests, or all religious people, are this demented? Of course not. But there are those that are. There are points where the movie starts to drag, but all in all I thought it was a good movie, not an "abomination" or "product of Satan".
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Summary: Great movie
Review: I really liked this movie. Of course, it helps that it had Gabriel Byrne (one of the hottest men in Hollywood today). I myself think that it brings to light many of the problems lying within the Catholic church today. It's a real thriller that keeps you wanting more.
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Summary: Thought Provoking
Review: I never intended to see this movie. I rented it, out of boredom on a Saturday afternoon. Only because I love Gabriel Byrne. I was stunned! A very intense film. I'm now quite sad that I didn't see it in a theater. Beautifully done!
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Summary: STIGMATA IS MY NUMBER 1 MOVIE OF ALL TIME NOTHING IS BETTER
Review: I SEEN THIS MOVIE 3 TIMES ALREADY AND I LOVE MORE AND MORE OF IT EACH AND EVERY TIME.THE BACKROUND MUSIC FITS THIS MOVIE LIKE NO OTHER.PATRICIA ARQUETTE LOOKS VERY PRETTY.THIS IS PROBABLY HER BEST WORK YET.I PERSONALLY LIKE THIS BETTER THAN "THE EXORCIST" CAUSE STIGMATA CAME OUT LATER AND THERES BETTER KINDS OF EFFECTS.BUY THIS MOVIE NOW.
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