Holy Controversy: Religulous Reviews Hit Web

[tannybogus]

It is going to be quite fun watching film critics in the MSM tackle Religulous, the anti-religions (re: not anti-organized religions) documentary from director Larry Charles (Borat) and Bill Maher. Reviewing this film practically demands that one states his/her personal beliefs—sort of like with Iraq War docs, but, you know, bigger—and judging from two of the first reader reviews on AICN, Maher doesn’t leave much wiggle room: it’s the “you do” or “you don’t” proposition. And unlike Ben Stein’s Expelled, Religulous will have a much higher media profile when it’s released this October.

The first reviewer is an evangelical Christian who’s a fan of Maher’s canceled Politically Incorrect talk-show. While the film offered “chuckles,” the reviewer goes on to say that Maher’s take on religion(s) is ultimately one-sided. But isn’t that Maher’s point? There is no middle ground? Moreover, the reviewer took issue with the “mission statement” that Maher makes at the film’s conclusion (spoiler alert)…

“ dismisses all of Christianity based on the supernatural events in the Bible, which he says couldn’t have happened, and complains that it doesn’t present itself the way he personally wants it to. …The kicker is the ending. (MAJOR SPOILER - I guess): After 90 minutes of interviews, Bill states that all religion is evil and must be destroyed for the good of humankind. He comes to this conclusion based on the Koran’s and the Bible’s predictions of destruction of the world at the “end times” and feels that these religions want the world to be destroyed because God or Allah has ordained it.”

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/08/05/religulous-reviews-hit-web/

Oh boy! Watching the uproar about the movie will probably be more fun than watching the movie!
:popcorn: :beer:

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Marking my calendar for the October 3 release. Thank you for posting! n/t

[lob1]

2. Bill is going to piss off a lot of people. Heh.

[dbonds]

3. The little dig about his cancelled show, they don't talk about his succefull Real Time show.

http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/

And politically incorrect was as much canceled as Bill was fired for stating that to fly an airplane into a building took more courage than to attack people 100 miles away with cruise missiles.

[SoCalDem]

4. PI's error was in moving from cable to ABC..

There was never going to be freedom at the network.. They would have "gotten" him for something, eventually anyway..