Unlimitedia Sick Product of a Sick System

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Rainey Dawn A film I ended up with from Mill Creek's Drive-in 50-pack. This film is not my cup of tea. It's basically like some critics and reviewers say it is a "Mormon Propaganda" flick.The film basically portrays *almost everyone* as "savages" except the founder of the church Brigham Young. There are very few "good people" in the film and mainly, you know it, Brigham Young. Brigham Young is the only "good and holy" person around.I'm sorry I don't by into the whole Brigham Young was the only non-savage person and basically the only "good" person around during those years. I'm not falling for this gimmick.They wanted to portray Brigham Young as a martyr and basically the only person that is "Christ-like" but it comes off as propaganda that I'm not going to swallow.1/10

bletcherstonerson After an apocalypse, the world is in some weird post apocalyptic pioneer era, imagine "Little House on the Prairie" meets " A Serbian Movie". This guy gets tarred and feathered and then ends up being cleaned up by the preachers wife. He then has sex with the older woman and then does the walk of shame, only he can't run far enough to escape his secret cuckholding activities, He goes on the run with Bull from night court, who aids him in his quest to build a utopian society of where men own as many women as they like and breed litters of child laborers. The rest of the people outside of their group are an angry stupid and violent group of survivors that cannibalize their victims. They kill Bull by burning down his quarters forcing him through a window , then they lynch him. The rest of the group wander further west being chased by scavengers and other survivors of the Defcon 5 event. They make friends with a Native American that is so realistic in his appearance and demeanor that you can actually tell your friends that you know a real Native American and can actually call yourself an expert on Indian culture after seeing this film. The utopia is built and Brigham Young becomes their king, until one day, he runs into the Wu-Tang Clan. After a series of fights up to the top of the tower, a battle to the death takes place with the Mormon Masters of Kung Fu. In a violent free for all the marbles, young bites his opponents to death. Triumphant is Young in the 20 minute brutal breakdown a scene that is a must see for for the true Post apocalyptic Mormons. Young rules his land with violent blood reign of kung-fu and swordsmanship that he believes to be prophesized on Golden plates from God, which also supplement as flying guillotines. What this film does so effectively is to give the secular viewer a romanticized story about the the start up of the post apocalyptic society that we know as Utah, which oddly is almost exactly the same as it has ever been.

lastliberal I only about the Mormon Church through the haters that run it today. I have no knowledge of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. I am told that this portrayal is accurate about the early years of the church and of the men.I only remember Richard Moll as Bull from Night Court. Here, he plays Joseph Smith to a Brigham Young played by Maurice Grandmaison, who also played Brigham Young in the 1977 movie of the same name.Watching the massacre of women and children at the hands of the rednecks was tough.The acting was terrible and the production values were decidedly amateurish, but the story was compelling about the struggles of a people who have lost their way.

FightingWesterner Savage Journey is an interesting and ambitious, though somewhat amateurish and turgidly acted history of the Mormon faith from the meeting of Brigham Young and Joseph Smith, through the days of violent oppression in Missouri and Illinois, to the trek west and the founding of Salt Lake City.Made (I assume) with the cooperation of the LDS church, the film's decidedly pro-Mormon and thus not very objective, but it doesn't get too preachy, making it accessible to "gentile" viewers such as myself. It is sometimes pretty corny. (like the film's final scene)Richard Moll is pretty hard to take serious as LDS founder Joseph Smith. With his imposing look and shaggy black hair (I'm used to seeing him on "Night Court".) he looks more like a scary "fire and brimstone" preacher than a wise and gentle prophet.I'm surprised that something this frequently amateurish film is written and produced by Hollywood veteran Phillip Yordan and that the director of this fundamentalist Christian production is also responsible for the nudie movie Wilbur And The Baby Factory!