Posted on 06/18/2004 2:24:57 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
Edited on 06/18/2004 2:28:50 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
With "Saved!" having gone wide last week, the rest of America now has a chance to see Brian Dannelly's satire of life at an evangelical high school. Or, as the film's producer, Michael Stipe, put it: "Saved!" is "like those monster vampire high school kind of movies, only here the monsters are Jesus-freak teenagers."
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Its ridiculous all the publicity about this movie. Its been for 3 weeks and only has grossed $3.7 million. It is number 9 this week. Passion of the Christ made more money in 3 hours then this movie has made so far. I do not know of one anti-religious moves that has done will in the box office: Last Temptation of Christ, Priests, etc. Hollyweird will never learn.
It appears to me that some of these reviews are far more offensive than the movie itself.
Yet, not one movie about murderous Islamofascists.
Well, to be fair to this anti-Christian movie...for 2 weeks of its release, it was in 'limited' release (about 400 screens or so). Passions...tons of screens when it debut. Even the third week, it is only on 589 screens. So even if a bunch of people (Michael Moore, anti-American, anti-Christian crowd) wanted to see it, they couldn't due to the limited screens that it is on.
That being said...now that it is in wider release, it could make a lot more money, or it could not. Now, it will DEFINATLEY not make the amount of money Passions has made (few movies will). Though whether or not it will be considered a hit in its own right...is another story though (its also considered a low budget film so something as modest as 30 million, they could still claim that it is a hit).
True Lies was about Islamofascists.
The Islamofascists were the good guys in 'The Living Daylights.' Hahaha!
I'm sure you remember how 'The Sum of All Fears' had the villians re-oriented from the book's realistic portrayal of the followers of the Religion of Peace® to "European Neo-Nazis."
As far as I can figure out the reasoning, to the atheists (universally) of Jewish descent (primarily) that make the decisions in Hollywood, resurgent Nazis are a more credible threat than, say, Islamic terrorists, or totalitarian Communists. The fact that Nazis were beaten but good 60 years ago and have never dared show their toothbrush mustaches in public again, while the commies have killed 100 million and the Muslim religion hundreds of thousands in that same period, seems to have made no impression. (Nor the fact that those two ideologies are no kinder to Jews than Hitler was). The movies always come back to Nazis for villains.
Other good, reliable, Hollywood villians include scientists and businessmen, indistunguishable from Nazis to the average person raised on TV.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Is this producer Michael Stipe the fairy from the washed-up pop band R.E.M.? That might explain how one of the "good guys" is a gayster. Of course, it could just be explained by the Hollywood Commandments.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
In that case, I can't wait until Michael Stipe does the followup film, "Jihad," about the lighter side of Islam. I'm sure that Muslims would be chuckling about having burkhas and honor killings satirized on the big screen.
Yeah, I remember True Lies. It was the movie in which the Arab community pitched a fit about being "stereotyped."
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought the Islamofascists were the villians in the Kurt Russell flick, "Executive Decision."
And that is the very reason I did not see "The Sum of All Fears". Enjoyed the book but refused to see the movie. A PC version of a Clancey novel. No thanks.
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