Yes, THAT Al Gore friend.
Posted on 12/27/2010 7:16:07 PM PST by The Looking Spoon
According to The Huffington Post Kevin Smith is going to make a movie about religious extremism that is "loosely based" on Pastor Fred Phelps of "God Hates Fags" fame.
He's calling the movie "Red State."
I love Kevin Smith's movies....but TIME OUT!
First of all, this movie is going to FAIL, make no mistake about that. Mariah Carey's "Glitter" is going to look like "Avatar's" box office cousin compared to this movie because only a bunch of ignorant liberals who think there is a semblance of reality in it will spend two hours of their life watching it.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country will find watching eskimos who observe ice melt in the middle of January to be way more informative.
This is "loosely" based on Fred Phelps? The man is a Democrat, he has run for elected office as one many times throughout his life. He has even been a delegate at the Democratic National Convention. It was George W. Bush who signed Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act passed with a vote from a GOP dominated Congress (that hailed from the states Smith is maligning) in 2006, based on the actions of Phelps's lunatic church.
So...what the hell is Kevin Smith thinking?
The fool is obviously TRYING to paint a portrait of Christian conservatism in America, and he's using a guy who would never vote for them as the backdrop for a work of fiction that's less believable than the comic book world he comes from.
Why doesn't he just make a movie about a guy who preaches the value of working hard, and fights tirelessly to preserve the right of people to keep what they worked to earn, and then say its "loosely" based on Barack Obama?
I've got a better idea, why doesn't he do a film that takes "a frightening look at religious extremism" that acts as an incubator for Sharia Law in America? Or would it be too difficult to get those guys to register Republican?
If you want you can see the trailer embedded at the original post here or at YouTube, and no I don't owe you a new keyboard because you didn't grab your barf bag before clicking play.
Kevin Smith wants to paint Christians as Fred Phelps conveniently omitting that they’re democRATS. Kind of how the make the KKK a republican group.
Hey, this is Kevin Smith that we're talking about here. By the time he actually releases something, we'll all be dead thanks to Obamacare death panels.
uhhhhmmmmm...who is kevin smith?
Yes, THAT Al Gore friend.
A “Red State” is a Communist state.
Phelps supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic Party primary election. In his 1984 Senate race, Gore opposed a "gay bill of rights" and stated that homosexuality was not something that "society should affirm". Phelps has stated that he supported Gore because of these earlier comments.According to Phelps, members of the Westboro Baptist Church helped run Gore's 1988 campaign in Kansas. Phelps' son, Fred Phelps Jr., hosted a Gore fundraiser at his home in Topeka and was a Gore delegate to the 1988 Democratic National Convention.[8] Gore spokesman Dag Vega declined to comment, saying "We are not dignifying those stories with a response." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_phelps#Democratic_Party
I posted a bunch of stuff on the YouTube link.
Mallrats, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Clerks...
He is also Silent Bob of “Jay and Silent Bob”
This movie is a MAJOR departure from the types of films listed above.
I saw some of them...good stuff.
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