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Old 02-15-2012, 10:28 PM   #11132 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine View Post
@MrD00d, personally I found Holy Mountain a bit... much. I think any real message it might have contained was lost in the utter insanity of it all. Like many films these days are rather gratuitously violent, this was gratuitously insane. The re-enactment of the Battle of Tenochtitlan using toads and iguanas? The Robot Vagina? That entire section where "Jesus" was being told about the various different superpowers of the solar system was just... what? If the entire film was meant to be an exhibition of pointlessness, then fair enough, but I would consider the entire film to be rather self-indulgent.
Oh it certainly is a bit much (and that's intended), but there is a point to it.
The thief character (the Jesus look-alike) goes with the alchemist (the director/the guy in all black/all white) to meet a group of elite, powerful people who want to travel to the Holy Mountain and displace the immortals on it and take their place.

Spoiler for The ending pretty much:
They train to fight the immortals on the mountain, but when they get there, there's no one there. Just dummies. So they take the place of the dummies. But they still aren't immortals. The alchemist breaks down the fourth wall and shows them that this is a movie, and they aren't real anyway, and that everyone should go out and live their lives while they have the chance. Or something similar


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I just watched The TrollHunter. It's a documentary style movie. Basically, trolls. Entertaining. Now I think there really are trolls all over Norway.
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