yes, good one Karen!
Hey Leslei, how do your Christian ideals react to "Evan Almighty"? I found this blogger who wasn't too keen on it - I copy and paste his rant below, and below that my comments. I wonder if he'll approve them? "HAH! Dream on, monkey boy," he'll say.
comments? comments? comments?
"Evan Almighty" revisited
This morning I came across an interesting review posted at Fox News
that eloquently delves into some of the problems encountered with this
film.
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. The problem with such an
analysis is that it's not unlike making a movie featuring blackface
and wondering why the African-American audience isn't interested.
It's an unrealistic and insulting satire of the God of all creation,
and an attempt to make light of one of the most tragic events in human
history. We've softened the impact of The Flood a great deal ourselves
by making it a children's story with clean fluffy sheep, giraffes, and
a cartoon view of their little ark bobbing along merrily on the waves.
In reality, this should be one of the scariest, most grievous stories
one could ever imagine. It should produce repentance and thankfulness
for God's promise not to do it again, and horror that He was pushed to
that point in the first place.
It isn't a "cute story". The very fact that conversations about The
Flood are dominated by wondering where the animals fit, why weren't
there dinosaurs on board and how stinky it was, rather than focusing
on God's miraculous provision for His few faithful and destruction of
the multitudes who'd turned their backs on Him, leaves us often
totally bypassing the message of hope in the midst of the storm.
God cares for His faithful and He eventually reaches the end of His
patience. We ask why evil is allowed to prosper, but that won't last
always. We ask why His people suffer, but they'll be rescued in time.
The notion that millions of conservative Christians (a large
majority of whom are also politically conservative) were going to
flock to a movie that depicted obviously conservative political
leaders as corrupt politicians going against the will of both a modern
day Noah and God himself by trying to ruin the environment by opening
up government-owned land for development, is nothing short of madness.
It's one of the worst cinematic miscalculations this side of Ishtar.
But there's more. Between one of the characters noting with
confidence that God is "in everything" (an idea that many religions
hold to, but not the Christian one) and the notion that the
Judeo-Christian God is primarily concerned not with sin, salvation and
redemption but with encouraging "acts of random kindness," it was
clear that if reaching a faith-based audience was the goal, this one
was off by a mile.
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." For
at least some Americans that may have been the last straw that
cemented the film's descent from screwball religious comedy to
sacrilege.
………………………..
If Hollywood continues to create films like Evan Almighty,
millions of traditionalists may grow to rue the day when Hollywood,
with dollar signs in its eyes, began courting them with wilted flowers
and stale chocolate.
Mixing religion and entertainment has been long avoided for a reason:
It's difficult to do well. But if the result of this grand new
experiment is films that are neither faithful nor funny, millions of
traditionalists will likely find less expensive ways to be entertained
and inspired.
We should be doing that anyway. God's Word is holy, and not to be made a joke.
Phillipians 4:8
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever
is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is
admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such
things.
Posted by marklaroi on Monday, July 2nd, 2007 at 1:04 pm.
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AND NOW FOR THE BEST PART: MY COMMENT:
"The notion that millions of conservative Christians (a large majority
of whom are also politically conservative) were going to flock to a
movie that depicted obviously conservative political leaders as
corrupt politicians going against the will of both a modern day Noah
and God himself by trying to ruin the environment by opening up
government-owned land for development, is nothing short of madness.
It's one of the worst cinematic miscalculations this side of Ishtar."
Exactly! As the song goes:
Telling the truth can be dangerous business
Honest and popular don't go hand in hand"
("Dangerous Business" from the movie Ishtar)
This 20th anniversary year is going to be a great year for Ishtar…
There is a documentary film about Ishtar fandom in the works, the
manager of the Ishtar fan website
( http://www.ishtarthemovie.com/) is putting together a tribute CD
featuring cover versions of songs from the movie, and possibly a US
release on DVD (something the heathen in Europe have been enjoying for
years). So shake off that square world, get with the countdown, and
blast off to Ishtar!
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/ILoveIshtar/
http://www.waitingforishtar.com/
http://www.ishtarthemovie.com/
Left by Matt Love on Your comment is awaiting moderation. July 3rd, 2007
On 7/3/07, Karen Bayly <karenbayly@yahoo.com > wrote: Sorry, "Postal" is good ... why?
The YouTube scene is a pretty childish and lame attempt to make fun of Muslims and terrorists. And the interview PURLEASE, what a twat! Oh, and the guys who got into boxing matches with him ...what can I say? They're just like Uwe - too much testosterone, not enough brains - and really sucky fighters. All of them!
Yeh, I'll know you probably come back with a stream of invective that totally belies your Christian ideals, but dude, you're better than that, surely. Or is Uwe just a guys guy? You know, the sort of guy szome other guys think is cool but who makes women throw up on sight?
Leslie Morris <dr_spider_man@yahoo.com> wrote: I love Uwe Boll even more. As you might know he has challenged all of his hashes critics to
a boxing match. AND HE BET THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ALL OF THEM. One critic said that
Uwe Boll promised him training, then they didnt give it to them. Then he said "Dont worry,
its all for show" Then he beat the living shit out of them!!! I dont know if thats true or not,
but who cares.
His new movie "POSTAL" looks AMAZING!!! Have a look at the first scene
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vt_tv7t79WY there is a good interview
http://youtube.com/watch?v=716Dzdqs7IM&mode=related&search= Send
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