Tuesday, May 30, 2006

METATRON WATCH: Somehow I missed the 1999 film Dogma, in which the angel Metatron is a character. But Channel 4 News, UK, has a review, I guess of the DVD:
Dogma

avg. user rating (1-10): 9.39

(96 votes)
128 minutes
USA (1999)
15

starring Ben Affleck , George Carlin , Matt Damon , Linda Fiorentino , Salma Hayek , Jason Lee , Alanis Morissette , Kevin Smith , Jason Mewes

directed by Kevin Smith

The apocalypse as anticipated by high Catholicism comes to 90s New Jersey mall culture. And makes a few fundamentalists bridle

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck star as unlikely fallen angels Loki and Bartleby. Bored of Earth, they are trying to trick their way back into heaven on a theological technicality - the only problem with their plan is that if they succeed, all creation will end.

It's up to lapsed Catholic abortion clinic worker Bethany (Fiorentino) to save the world - being a distant descendent of Jesus it's her destiny, according to the angel Metatron (Rickman). She's aided in her mission by the forgotten thirteenth apostle, Rufus (Rock), muse-turned-stripper Seredipity (Hayek) and Smith's regulars Jay (Mewes) and Silent Bob (the writer-director himself).

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