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MrZoom
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Yes, the current audience rating is 52%.
The Nun (2018) | Rotten Tomatoes
When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together, they uncover the order's unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their...
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Mike_from_NJ
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This is like that scene in The Simpsons where Nelson, Milhouse, and Bart walk out of “Naked Lunch” and Nelson goes, “I can think of at least two things wrong with that title.” 
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Mary888
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Hey that’s my country! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:Why would they pick on the Roman Catholic community and not the Eastern Orthodox that are above 80%? Oh wait! I get it… to involve the Vatican and give a Dan Brown-ish vibe. And probably they had no EO advisers to write the script. No point in watching cool movies about religion. They, more likely than not, will show you that religion is one spooky thing. And if it says thriller in the beginning it is pretty clear.
You will eventually forget it.
Did the nun have a mistress? Then if she did than it is a remake of another local movie based on a real case when one nun committes suicide follwing an exorcism. They were Orthodox. In reality it is unclear why she committed the suicide so the film maker invented a forbidden love affair with another nun. Affair was artistic license. The real investigations showed no reason for the suicide and nobody accused the exorcising priest. The critics loved that movie at Cannes because “it shows the dangers of religion”.
You will eventually forget it.
Did the nun have a mistress? Then if she did than it is a remake of another local movie based on a real case when one nun committes suicide follwing an exorcism. They were Orthodox. In reality it is unclear why she committed the suicide so the film maker invented a forbidden love affair with another nun. Affair was artistic license. The real investigations showed no reason for the suicide and nobody accused the exorcising priest. The critics loved that movie at Cannes because “it shows the dangers of religion”.
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Mary888
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That’s the movie I am referring to
I am not the only one who saw the connection
For instance, the closest relative to The Nun isn’t a schlocky scary movie at all, but a quaint Romanian drama. Director Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills, with zero jump scares and nearly twice the run time, manages to evoke more fear than most modern horror films. It’s part lesbian romance, part psychological thriller, and part exorcism horror. It’s unfortunate for The Nun that it must be held to such high standards.
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I am not the only one who saw the connection
For instance, the closest relative to The Nun isn’t a schlocky scary movie at all, but a quaint Romanian drama. Director Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills, with zero jump scares and nearly twice the run time, manages to evoke more fear than most modern horror films. It’s part lesbian romance, part psychological thriller, and part exorcism horror. It’s unfortunate for The Nun that it must be held to such high standards.
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The Nun review: The final nail in the Conjuring series’ coffin
The Nun movie review: Featuring idiotic character, a thinly written plot and lacklustre thrills, this Conjuring spin-off is the final nail in the coffin. Rating: 2/5.
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ZMystiCat
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I liked Calvary a lot. It also might be worth re-watching in light of the Pennsylvania report.
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TheLittleLady
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I long for a good horror movie. Last one I saw was “The Visit”.
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BoomBoomMancini
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It’s just a cheesy horror movie, dude. No one thinks it’s like an actual realistic depiction of nuns.
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Mary888
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I have talked with people I consider of high intelligence who actually do remember and take for granted exaggerations about monasteries and quote movies as documentaries. So never say never…
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giuseppe96
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Have you even seen the trailer? It contains loads of anti-Catholic and satanic imagery.
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ZMystiCat
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That kind of imagery is used in horror to unsettle the audience, not because of any endorsement of anti-Catholicism or the occult. If anything, it seems to be the opposite of an endorsement by basically saying, “When you see [occult image], something is wrong.”
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BoomBoomMancini
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Yeah. It looks like a cheesy horror movie. If something was actually meant to be anti-Catholic, it wouldn’t be so obviously not intended to be taken seriously.
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giuseppe96
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I prefer not to see such vile depictions
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Lee1
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I remember a time when I as a child heard a story about a baby born in a manger. It eventually had a profound effect on my life.
I often find it difficult to find something to watch that isn’t going to give me pathogenic thoughts and so I turn off the sound and read something edifying instead.
The images and ideas are stored in your memory and there is a theory that memories do not disappear. I watch what I digest as a rule, for my health.
I remember a time when I as a child heard a story about a baby born in a manger. It eventually had a profound effect on my life.
I often find it difficult to find something to watch that isn’t going to give me pathogenic thoughts and so I turn off the sound and read something edifying instead.
The images and ideas are stored in your memory and there is a theory that memories do not disappear. I watch what I digest as a rule, for my health.
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LilyM
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Funny - I watched the trailer, as a friend asked me if I wanted to go to the movie with her. My first thought was ‘it’s set in an abbey in Romania? Then aren’t they Orthidox? Why is the Vatican getting involved?’’ Then I saw the Latin inscription on the door and was like ‘no way!’
Mind you, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole when looking up Romnian Orthidox nuns - there was a rather awful story of a nun who died shortly after being subjected to an exorcism. Authorities blamed her death on the exorcist and convicted him of murder. Evidence.suggests she may actually have died from being given too much adrenaline by paramedics who attended her. Now THAT is a story that would make a million times more interesting movie than ‘The Nun’.
Mind you, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole when looking up Romnian Orthidox nuns - there was a rather awful story of a nun who died shortly after being subjected to an exorcism. Authorities blamed her death on the exorcist and convicted him of murder. Evidence.suggests she may actually have died from being given too much adrenaline by paramedics who attended her. Now THAT is a story that would make a million times more interesting movie than ‘The Nun’.
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Fuerza
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A little later than I originally intended, but here’s the article.
www.catholiclane.com
Upcoming Movie, The Nun Tackles Evil Onscreen
The Nun, is a film that releases this September about a priest and a woman who is in training to become a religious sister sent to investigate the mysterious death of a nun at an isolated, ancient …
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Hope1960
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It sounds too scary for me, but maybe I’ll check it out when it comes on cable and I can change the channel whenever I want to.
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End_Timer
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Ignoring my reviews, innertainment-starved public went off for 53 Mill
on this foggy flick
on this foggy flick
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7_Sorrows
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They are making money off of the success of the previous 2 Conjuring movies.
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