Why Hollywood Hates Christianity

FrontPageMagazine.com | 5/28/04 | Don feder

[little jeremiah]

Great article. I always like reading Feder's writing.

[narses]

The libertine revolution in action!

[Tribune7]

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[narses]

Thanks!

[Siamese Princess]

Open Range didn't do well at the box office?

boxofficemojo.com says Open Range earned $58 million in theatrical release. It's production costs were $22 million and its marketing costs were estimated at $20 million. According to my math, Open Range made a $16 million profit just in the theaters. DVD sales (which are BIG for Westerns) are gravy on top and I don't know those numbers.

It's about profit. If you don't spend $100 million making and marketing the movie, you don't have to sell $100 million in tickets just to break even.

You are correct -- it only was moderately successful at the box office but it did make money because it was modestly budgeted. Many performers today are pulling $15m, $20m or more -- including ones that haven't had a hit in years.

[Siamese Princess]

Hollyweird has to bash christianity because its validation of their own life choices.

I vaguely recall reading a comment somewhere (I think by Thomas Fleming in Chronicles) that one of the reasons for punitive moral legislation is that moral degenerates are all too often not content to enjoy themselves with like-minded individuals -- they want to corrupt and drag down other, decent, people to their level.

[Diva]

Christians help fund the ones who "hate" and ridicule them.

And a lot of Christians do not. Many Christians who had not been to a movie decades came out to see The Passion of the Christ, one of the reasons it made so much money.

[Diva]

They absolutely need him to be as bad as they say he is, for their own egos.

Very well said. And I would add that they need Christianity to be as "bad" as they say it is in order to excuse their life styles.

[lentulusgracchus]

And I would add that they need Christianity to be as "bad" as they say it is in order to excuse their life styles.

I think that's called recrimination....something criminals and the damned do a lot.

[Happy2BMe]

BTT - -

Current TRAITOR List

I voted for Saddam and all I got was this bloody T-Shirt!

Ask not what you can do for your country - ask what you can do for Iraq!

Same face - different war. HOLLYWOOD IS FOR IRAQ - AND ANTI AMERICAN

"Bush is a racist"--Danny Glover

"I think America has no experience with terrorism or even with war. In Europe, we know a little bit more about these things." --Peter Gabriel

"As dumb as this administration is, they don't look ahead. They don't know where any countries are...They don't really know much about anything."

"Now you have people [in Washington] who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil."-- Gore Vidal

“In my country the atmosphere is poisoned. Unbreathable for those of us who are not on the right. So thank you for inviting me to this festival and allowing me to leave there for a few days.” -- Jessica Lange

"So when I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'"

"'We're here, we're queer!' -- that's what makes my heart swell. Not the flag, but a gay naked man or woman burning the flag. I get choked up with pride." -- Janeanne Garofalo

"I believe he thinks this [war against Iraq] is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore...We can't beat anyone anymore" -- George Clooney

"[Bush is a] sad figure: not too well educated, who doesn't get out of America much. He's leading the country towards fascism... he wouldn't understand the word fascism anyway." --Larry Hagman

"It is inappropriate for the [Bush] administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war."

But, a few years earlier:

"...the bottom line is that I think it’s appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene [in Kosovo]. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level you have to say that at least somebody [Clinton] is doing something." -- Mike Farrell

"Hollyweird 10"

Alec Baldwin
George Clooney
Danny Glover
Susan Sarandon
Martin Sheen
Rosie 0'Donnell
Richard Gere
Spike Lee
Barbara Streisand

THEY DON'T ALL STINK IN HOLLYWOOD: A LIST OF THE *BAD* GUYS

American Anti War Protestors Just Don't Look The Same Anymore

Caption Hollywood's Finest At Antiwar Demonstrations (Danny Glover Fans Need Not Apply)

Eerie Silence in Hollywood as Anti-War Stars Vanish

And the OSCAR goes to . . Saddam Hussein!

[goldstategop]

Hollywood hates Christians because they can't stand people full of love. Odd but true.

[goldstategop]

I don't think its an accident the Western celebrates masculinity and rugged individualism. Both themes that offend feminazis and liberals. And the patriotic tenor of the Western is such too much for the Hollywood Left to bear. Sure Open Range failed at the box office but Hollywood has produced garbage that no one wants to see and keeps making it because its trendy to be politically correct.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Up through the 60's I believe that about 90% of Americans were regular movie-goers. Now that figure is less than 25%. It is also a well-known (though hated - at least by Hollywood) fact that family-oriented movies tend to do much better at the box office than other fare.

Personally, I believe that the huge prices charged to see movies are prohibitive for the average family. As such, families are much less likely to risk their money on something which is probably trash.

Because of the high cost, I take my family out to first-run theaters only at the drive-in.