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		By: Rodney		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rodney]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fernbyfilms.com/2012/04/26/movie-review-devil/comment-page-1/#comment-7171&quot;&gt;Dan&lt;/a&gt;.

Really? Man, I couldn&#039;t, but then, I&#039;ve never been that great at figuring out twists in films. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.fernbyfilms.com/2012/04/26/movie-review-devil/comment-page-1/#comment-7171">Dan</a>.</p>
<p>Really? Man, I couldn&#039;t, but then, I&#039;ve never been that great at figuring out twists in films. </p>
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		By: Dan		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some of this was quite enjoyable but I could see the twist ending coming a mile off. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some of this was quite enjoyable but I could see the twist ending coming a mile off. </p>
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		By: FrontRoomCinema		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[FrontRoomCinema]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ooh a new comment plug in? I never was a fan of Disqus, but I understand why people use it. 
 
DEVIL I enjoyed more than I thought I would. Even though I worked out pretty early on who the baddie was it didn&#039;t stop me enjoying it. The opening sequence made me feel sick too! ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ooh a new comment plug in? I never was a fan of Disqus, but I understand why people use it. </p>
<p>DEVIL I enjoyed more than I thought I would. Even though I worked out pretty early on who the baddie was it didn&#039;t stop me enjoying it. The opening sequence made me feel sick too! </p>
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		By: fernby		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[fernby]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fernbyfilms.com/2012/04/26/movie-review-devil/comment-page-1/#comment-7114&quot;&gt;ruth&lt;/a&gt;.

&#160;That&#8217;s an interesting point, Ruth. It&#8217;s amazing that one of the  
worlds most creative talent pools can be so ambivalent towards, or  
completely against, most of the major religions around the place. You&#8217;re 
 right in saying that Hollywood usually mocks (not outright per se, but  
in subtle ways) the Christian religion, and I think it&#8217;s a brave  
filmmaker who uses religion of any kind in an honest way. Films such as  
Saved (a great little film starring Mandy Moore and that Culkin kid)  
push the Nutty Religious agenda, while people of a Muslin faith are  
usually portrayed as scary/terrorists/untrustworthy &#8211; it&#8217;s a cliche to  
use Muslim backgrounds for the Bad Guys as a rule, moreso in the 80&#8242;s I  
think, and to this point I think Hollywood&#8217;s managed to skirt  
controversy with their constant picking on those with faith as slightly  
weird.  
 
That being said, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with a blatant steal of  
religious iconography &#8211; such as the Devil &#8211; as a generic villain as  
well. End of Days, for example, stacked the Ultimate Villain up against  
our worlds greatest action hero&#8230;. but it was never to the point of being sacrilegious. I actually enjoyed the religious motifs running through  
Signs, and thought it was handled beautifully &#8211; Mel Gibson&#8217;s Catholic  
preacher figure had to deal with one of man&#8217;s most painful questions:  
how do we deal with God when he takes a loved one and makes us question  
our belief?  
 
Taking all this into account, Devil was a bit of stupid fun with few  
lasting doubts. M Night badly needs a success to put him back on top&#8230; ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.fernbyfilms.com/2012/04/26/movie-review-devil/comment-page-1/#comment-7114">ruth</a>.</p>
<p>&nbsp;That&rsquo;s an interesting point, Ruth. It&rsquo;s amazing that one of the<br />
worlds most creative talent pools can be so ambivalent towards, or<br />
completely against, most of the major religions around the place. You&rsquo;re<br />
 right in saying that Hollywood usually mocks (not outright per se, but<br />
in subtle ways) the Christian religion, and I think it&rsquo;s a brave<br />
filmmaker who uses religion of any kind in an honest way. Films such as<br />
Saved (a great little film starring Mandy Moore and that Culkin kid)<br />
push the Nutty Religious agenda, while people of a Muslin faith are<br />
usually portrayed as scary/terrorists/untrustworthy &ndash; it&rsquo;s a cliche to<br />
use Muslim backgrounds for the Bad Guys as a rule, moreso in the 80&prime;s I<br />
think, and to this point I think Hollywood&rsquo;s managed to skirt<br />
controversy with their constant picking on those with faith as slightly<br />
weird.  </p>
<p>That being said, there&rsquo;s nothing wrong with a blatant steal of<br />
religious iconography &ndash; such as the Devil &ndash; as a generic villain as<br />
well. End of Days, for example, stacked the Ultimate Villain up against<br />
our worlds greatest action hero&hellip;. but it was never to the point of being sacrilegious. I actually enjoyed the religious motifs running through<br />
Signs, and thought it was handled beautifully &ndash; Mel Gibson&rsquo;s Catholic<br />
preacher figure had to deal with one of man&rsquo;s most painful questions:<br />
how do we deal with God when he takes a loved one and makes us question<br />
our belief?  </p>
<p>Taking all this into account, Devil was a bit of stupid fun with few<br />
lasting doubts. M Night badly needs a success to put him back on top&hellip; </p>
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		By: ruth		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nice review, Rodney. The premise does sound intriguing, though I remember people chuckling out loud at the trailer when it was shown a few yrs back. Goes to show how M. Night&#039;s gotten such a bad rep.  
 
Dealing with faith in a horror movie is tricky as a lot of people would automatically gets turned off by it or feels forced upon like Dan mentioned. I personally welcome the religious/faith themes in films as long as it&#039;s done in an honest way and not a mockery. It&#039;s quite rare of course as most of Hollywood are atheists and vehemently anti-God. Sounds like this one explores such a theme somewhat, which intrigues me. I know M. Night went to an Episcopalian school, and he&#039;s dealt with the theme of faith in Signs also. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice review, Rodney. The premise does sound intriguing, though I remember people chuckling out loud at the trailer when it was shown a few yrs back. Goes to show how M. Night&#039;s gotten such a bad rep.  </p>
<p>Dealing with faith in a horror movie is tricky as a lot of people would automatically gets turned off by it or feels forced upon like Dan mentioned. I personally welcome the religious/faith themes in films as long as it&#039;s done in an honest way and not a mockery. It&#039;s quite rare of course as most of Hollywood are atheists and vehemently anti-God. Sounds like this one explores such a theme somewhat, which intrigues me. I know M. Night went to an Episcopalian school, and he&#039;s dealt with the theme of faith in Signs also. </p>
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