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I LOVE YOU for posting this. Seriously.
While it is a bit embarrassing to know that this movie hasn’t been picked up yet, I absolutely loathe that the filmmakers make the assumption that the United States is some sort of Evangelical Cult–outside of New York and L.A. of course (I’m not denying their progressiveness, but man, I hate being lumped into the crazy “rest of the states”…my city went blue last election, doesn’t that count for something?) and that’s why this movie is being blocked. Like you said, we don’t know yet why this movie hasn’t been picked up. I mean, Religulous got a pretty nice distribution (aka it came to my city) and that does more Christian bashing than this Darwin movie does, I’m sure.
I LOVE YOU for posting this. Seriously.
While it is a bit embarrassing to know that this movie hasn’t been picked up yet, I absolutely loathe that the filmmakers make the assumption that the United States is some sort of Evangelical Cult–outside of New York and L.A. of course (I’m not denying their progressiveness, but man, I hate being lumped into the crazy “rest of the states”…my city went blue last election, doesn’t that count for something?) and that’s why this movie is being blocked. Like you said, we don’t know yet why this movie hasn’t been picked up. I mean, Religulous got a pretty nice distribution (aka it came to my city) and that does more Christian bashing than this Darwin movie does, I’m sure.
Right. It's definitely an issue, but hardly one to stop the wheels of commerce.
I don’t think that it is an active cabal trying to block this movie, but I believe that distributors will avoid touching this one at all. Sure, Last Temptation got some release, but it was extremely limited and highly protested, and gosh, was it dull. I also believe that religious people have become more willing to be publicly unhinged and even violent than when Last Temptation was released twenty years ago. Abortion clinic, Olympic park, gay club bombings anyone? The religious people may decry the Sodom of Hollywood, but try looking at something like Saw through a religious lens; A person puts himself in judgement over others’ moral failings, forcing them to go through a brutal and bloody physical trial to find redemption. Many reliegions are just soaked in imagery of blood, brutality and redemption, as is Saw. Many of the recent crop of torture porn, as well as their precurssors, the 80′s slasher pics, are moralistic cautionary tales. However, many religious people see Darwin and Evolution as a direct attack on the validity and sovereignty of their God.
I see what you're saying about Saw and the subgenre it's spawned; however, I do find it repellent. I also agree with you in that extremists are more willing to get unhinged and violent, but at the same time, no one should have to live in fear of that. Creation would probably never get a wide release here, instead opening in select cities like NY, LA, Philly, and some other largely progressive places. There is a market for it, albeit small.
BTW, for Jesus movies, Jesus Christ Superstar is where it's at.
You bring up a valid point about the abortion clinics and gay club bombings and stuff. They think they're doing these things to support their religions but they're directly violating their religions by doing so. I say religious tolerance should be a law if they're gonna make it a serious offense to be openly racist.
Religious freaks HATE Darwin—period. And this country has to have the most insanely religious population of any developed country. I think we’re right around Turkey for the most people that don't think evolution is real. Heh, heh. Gawd, we're stupid! (And you're right—Blood = Woody, in these here United States of America!)
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I shared this article on FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/worldofhiglet/15d10dbd/evol… and it's garnered quite a lot of interest, with people mostly agreeing – it seems to be an attempt to generate interest. Which is a bit sad – is the film so bad it needs to resort to this?
I shared this article on FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/worldofhiglet/15d10dbd/evol… and it's garnered quite a lot of interest, with people mostly agreeing – it seems to be an attempt to generate interest. Which is a bit sad – is the film so bad it needs to resort to this?
I shared this article on FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/worldofhiglet/15d10dbd/evol… and it's garnered quite a lot of interest, with people mostly agreeing – it seems to be an attempt to generate interest. Which is a bit sad – is the film so bad it needs to resort to this?
I shared this article on FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/worldofhiglet/15d10dbd/evol… and it's garnered quite a lot of interest, with people mostly agreeing – it seems to be an attempt to generate interest. Which is a bit sad – is the film so bad it needs to resort to this?
I shared this article on FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/worldofhiglet/15d10dbd/evol… and it's garnered quite a lot of interest, with people mostly agreeing – it seems to be an attempt to generate interest. Which is a bit sad – is the film so bad it needs to resort to this?