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A ridiculous republican wet dream?


Why is this movie so over-rated? I found it silly and ridiculous.

A nun teaching a young boy to fight.
A catholic school praying every day to get a new building.

This was made to cater a Christian nation and feels quite dated today.


http://www.imdb.com/list/ZN26QIXaX_k/

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The only issue I had was with the way the movie treated Patsy's father. He's an *beep* who dumped her mother and didn't even call her in 13years and she takes him back. Like "we have a real home now". BS.


"Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!"

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Of course you aren't going to like it since you’re obviously biased against Christianity. I'm sorry it's not one of these cool new movies that bash religion every chance it gets.

EVERYBODY DO THE COOL DANCE!

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You do realize there are Catholic Democrats, right? The Kennedys come to mind. Oh, I forgot, religion is only bad when Republicans practice it.

Why shouldn't the nun teach the boy to fight? It was stated that she was a tomboy so possibly she had brothers and fought with them?

Also, back in that time period Hollywood overly promoted marriage which made for some really silly plots. The worst I can remember is a movie in which a father divorces his wife, keeps her from being in their daughter's life while she grew up, then when the kid was all grown up, they got back together. Yeah, there's no way I'd ever go back to a man who kept me estranged from my daughter all throughout her childhood.

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You do realize there are Catholic Democrats, right? The Kennedys come to mind.


Catholics were also big supporters of FDR, who was still president at the time this movie began filming.

No blah, blah, blah!

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Why are Americans o sessed with politics and have to insert it on every film?

And yeah, a Christians film for Christians, who would've thought it?

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