Posted on 07/26/2007 7:17:53 AM PDT by ParsifalCA
I've produced three books, The Rock & Roll Rebellion, Faith, God & Rock n' Roll and Pop Goes Religion, all making the case for lowering the wall of separation between faith and entertainment. But if the result is both dumbed-down religion and comedy as in the box office flop Evan Almighty, it may be the strongest argument yet for reinstating that wall and keeping religion and the movies as far apart as possible.
In its aftermath, once again the chatter from Hollywood is how, despite another earnest and sincere attempt to make a movie for "those people," the elusive faith-based audience that came out to see the Passion of The Christ has once again failed to turn out en masse for a movie thought to be tailor-made for them. [more]
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Whats funny is Hollywood will lament slow box office sales later this year, but not make any connection to the bad movies they keep churning out...nor will they realize the insertion of their own politics, and PC, are the root cause.
"Dogma" (a great and underrated movie) didn't even do that, IIRC.
-Eric
How could they be so stupid, the Bible said that God promised not to flood the Earth again, but what happens in the movie? God floods the Earth again.
Gee, I can’t imagine why Christians would have a problem with that.
I didn't see the movie. It looked like a stinker -- and choosing Morgan Freeman as God just seemed so uninspired and politically correct. Spare me such pap.
From this review:
Then there was the show-stopper: when, as the credits rolled, "Noah" held up a replica of the Ten Commandments, then turned it around to reveal an 11th Commandment, "Thou Shalt Do The Dance."
Isn't that like the Child's joke/riddle: "How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark?"
Let's try to keep our patriarchs straight, people!
No kidding. We dropped all our premium movie channels from our Dish Network package awhile ago. We got really tired of so many decades-old movies on the premium channels, and when there WAS a current movie, it was either really bad, propaganda, or both. We figure we can rent a good one if one is ever produced again.
No kidding. We dropped all our premium movie channels from our Dish Network package awhile ago. We got really tired of so many decades-old movies on the premium channels, and when there WAS a current movie, it was either really bad, propaganda, or both. We figure we can rent a good one if one is ever produced again.
I’m getting around to that point of view, thats for sure.
If that movie was supposed to be tailor made for them it truly missed the mark.
The movie was ok, but just because you show “god” and don’t take pot shots at religion in the process doesn’t mean you’ve made a movie for the religous.
What blows my mind about this film, is not the movie itself, its not bad fair... sort of think of it as a poor imitation of “Oh God.” What blows my mind about this movie is that they spent 175 MILLION making this thing... I can’t for the life of me figure out how they spent that much money on this thing. This is not nearly a 200 Million dollar movie.
Yes, there are CGI animals in it, but even that cannot justify the ungodly (yes pun intended) price tag.
They spent way way way too much in production of this movie. It should have been a 50 Millionish if that budget, no way it should have been 175 Million. I don’t know where they spent all that money. And if they had produced it for that budget, it would have made them a handsome profit... nearly 100 Million gross so far.
I don’t think the movie was the problem, it was the budget... And frankly I can’t see where the hell they spent that much money on this film... I’d have had no issues making such a movie if pitched to me for a reasonable budget, however if you pitched this film to me and said, yea, its’ going to cost 175 Million to make, I’d have told you get bent.
Best comment I read on this said it would be like Hollywood making a movie with white actors in black-face, then puzzling over why blacks didn’t pour out to see it.
>>I’m glad someone else recognizes how good Dogma was.. way, way underrated and misreported on..<<
For those who think Catholic = Cult.
I loved the movie. I’ve got a “Buddy Christ” on my tv stand, but really, if you think the message in Dogma will appeal to any intelligent religious person (not a Kevin Smith fan like me who gives him a pass) then you will LOVE Evan Almighty.
I didn’t see the movie.
Most people didn’t. The last movie theater I went to was showing ‘Gods and Generals’.
Although I must admit...I have a strange desire to hit the drive in with my wife and some friend and see Transformers, of all things....(chuckle)
Little bit o popcorn for the mind is good for you.
If Hollywood wants good box-office from Christians, they’ll continue making movies of the Narnia books, and stick even closer to Lewis’s text in the future ones than they did in the first.
They should have learned something from Mel Gibson.
If you grew up Roman Catholic, particularly if you went to Catholic School, Dogma is a movie you have to see. Yes you will likely be offended at parts, it does work of some pretty insane premises, but you won’t be able to not laugh at parts of it.
View it as entertainment, and you’ll be fine, think of it purely from a religious view and you’ll probably vomit.
I enjoyed it... recovering Catholic schoolboy that I am... and no I haven’t lost my faith either.
Really? What "cult" do you belong to?
Actually, in the movie God doesn’t flood the earth again.
Gods and Generals is one fantastic movie.
I don’t belong to a cult.
But some feel that being Catholic, as I am, makes me a cult member.
Dogma was a giant slam on Catholics.
But from the previews, that’s the impression I get, and I suspect many Christians who saw the previews thought the same.
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