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1 posted on 07/26/2007 7:17:56 AM PDT by ParsifalCA
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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.


2 posted on 07/26/2007 7:19:28 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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Someone actually thought "Evan Almighty" would attract the conventional religious crowd?

"Dogma" (a great and underrated movie) didn't even do that, IIRC.

-Eric

3 posted on 07/26/2007 7:20:00 AM PDT by E Rocc (Resident Smartass and Myspace "Freepers" group moderator)
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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.


4 posted on 07/26/2007 7:20:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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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.


9 posted on 07/26/2007 7:26:40 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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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.


10 posted on 07/26/2007 7:27:24 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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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.


13 posted on 07/26/2007 7:29:16 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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They should have learned something from Mel Gibson.


14 posted on 07/26/2007 7:29:21 AM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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Ah, c'mon, it wasn't THAT bad.
It wasn't a religous movie, just as Bruce Almighty wasn't a religous movie.
C'mon people, it was a COMEDY.

It did have a moral behind it, just as Bruce Almighty did.
It didn't preach that moral with every scene but it did get the message across, at least to me.

Just because you don't understand what G*d plans for you, that's no reason to try to get out of what G*d wants you to do.

When G*d has a specific task for you, he will let you know. When you try to get out of that specific task, G*d will always bring you back to it.

29 posted on 07/26/2007 7:36:33 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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Religion to the Hollywood crowd is two people in bed screaming, “Oh, God!”


52 posted on 07/26/2007 9:11:10 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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Just what I want to see, another SoddomWood movie making fun of Christians and Noah. Glad I missed this disaster.

Pray for W and Our Troops


72 posted on 07/26/2007 6:42:51 PM PDT by bray (Member of the FR President Bush underground)
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