What are we afraid of?

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

Sounds like a good business decision.....

Sounds like another Vatican decision.

Yes, of course! They are putting "locks on the doors" and that will solve the problem.

[CID1990]

Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America'

A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... erica.html


Can you imagine if this would have happened with Passion of the Christ? This really has become a country of censorship run by organized religion.

Pitiful.

One day we are going to have a contest to pick out your dorkiest post, MJ.

A British film producer says Americans reject Darwin and you just jump all over it. I suppose their crop circles are made by aliens, too.

Why don't you consider for a moment that the Discovery Channel has something about evolution almost every day? Come out of the tabloid bubble and into the light, Nancy.

The guy is probably pissed because his film sucks and nobody wants to watch it.

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

One of the worst movies I ever saw was called Dogma. Anyone remember it? Affleck and Damon were in it. The one where Alanis Morrissette comes in at the end as "God" after a battle of good against evil. Its sucked. Made no sense.

one of my favorite movies of all time

loved it - great cast

but... you'd have to have seen the the three movies in the series that came before it for a lot of it to make sense

clerks
mallrats
chasing amy

I thought it was a great movie also. Ivy must just be getting too old to get it.

[Appaholic]

Sounds like another Vatican decision.

Yes, of course! They are putting "locks on the doors" and that will solve the problem.

[BlueHen86]

one of my favorite movies of all time

loved it - great cast

but... you'd have to have seen the the three movies in the series that came before it for a lot of it to make sense

clerks
mallrats
chasing amy

I thought it was a great movie also. Ivy must just be getting too old to get it.

It is also one of my favorites. I have the dvd of it and have watched it several times. Matt Damons character is hysterical.

I know a few people who have watched it and felt the way Ivytalk did. It's clearly a matter of personal taste.

[BlueHen86]

Sounds like another Vatican decision.

Yes, of course! They are putting "locks on the doors" and that will solve the problem.

[Chizzang]

Sounds like another Vatican decision.

The Vatican is against evolution all of a sudden?

As you know Andy the pope is more evolved than 44% of Americans
as it was stated in 1992 by the pope that Evolution and the Bible are 100% compatible

[JMU DJ]

It is also one of my favorites. I have the dvd of it and have watched it several times. Matt Damons character is hysterical.

I know a few people who have watched it and felt the way Ivytalk did. It's clearly a matter of personal taste.

"You're a pure soul.... but you didn't say "God bless you" when I sneezed."

[mainejeff]

sorry jeffy - but I actually agree with pwns on this one - you can get almost ANYTHING distributed in this country - Religiulus was widely distributed and was much more in your face - the studios and distributors took a pass because the film sucks eggs...

Is that your opinion or do you know that as fact?

[CID1990]

With the exception of maybe Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, most recent Brit movies are crap anyway.

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

With the exception of maybe Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, most recent Brit movies are crap anyway.

Those two are fantastic though.

You fuckin' Pikey.

[bandl]

With the exception of maybe Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, most recent Brit movies are crap anyway.

What are you scared of, Ze Germans?

[Chizzang]

With the exception of maybe Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, most recent Brit movies are crap anyway.

Seriously..!!! No kidding
I still can't figure out who's watching all of those Jane Austin sharts they keep sending over here

The remains of the day / Pride & Pregnancy / Colonel Mustard's dithering plot / Housemaids and Pomposity

All just crap..!!!

[mainejeff]

Well, at least its least it's easy to see why American movie studios make so many movies for Neanderthals now.

[JMU DJ]

Well, at least its least it's easy to see why American movie studios make so many movies for Neanderthals now.

That's what I was going after in my first post... but they're so good MJ, you should check this one out, it's droll and deals with evolution too!

[death dealer]

With the exception of maybe Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, most recent Brit movies are crap anyway.

RocknRolla is pretty good too.

[TwinTownBisonFan]

sorry jeffy - but I actually agree with pwns on this one - you can get almost ANYTHING distributed in this country - Religiulus was widely distributed and was much more in your face - the studios and distributors took a pass because the film sucks eggs...

Is that your opinion or do you know that as fact?

mj - if you think hollywood execs care about anything at all other than making money, you are deluded...

fact is, this movie doesn't have distributor because every single studio and distributor took a look at it and said "who the f would want to see this?"

you may want to attribute this to some sort of malice... but you are out of your damn mind. this isn't being picked up because well... who the fvck wants to see a movie about darwin???

[death dealer]

Well, at least its least it's easy to see why American movie studios make so many movies for Neanderthals now.

That's what I was going after in my first post... but they're so good MJ, you should check this one out, it's droll and deals with evolution too!

You know, that had great potential. It was a really clever story idea. It just had poor writing, directing, and casting. The Coens would have done a much better job with it.

[JMU DJ]

You know, that had great potential. It was a really clever story idea. It just had poor writing, directing, and casting. The Coens would have done a much better job with it.

Yeah, I think the poor writing you speak has something to do with the general stupidity of the movie itself... but hey, MJ!!! MORE FUEL FOR YOUR FIRE!!! This film wasn't released in theaters nationwide either! Those corporate fucks really got something against evolution... to make it even more "tin foil on your head"... IT WAS MADE BY FOX

[TwinTownBisonFan]

That's what I was going after in my first post... but they're so good MJ, you should check this one out, it's droll and deals with evolution too!

You know, that had great potential. It was a really clever story idea. It just had poor writing, directing, and casting. The Coens would have done a much better job with it.

yep... i was disappointed - though the concept appealed to me

i can't hear "electrolytes" without laughing now... i just wish they had used "antioxidents" at the hospital... woulda been perfect

[AZGrizFan]

With the exception of maybe Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, most recent Brit movies are crap anyway.

Those two are fantastic though.

You fuckin' Pikey.

Snatch. Possible in the top 5 funniest movies ever made.

[AZGrizFan]

Is that your opinion or do you know that as fact?

mj - if you think hollywood execs care about anything at all other than making money, you are deluded...

fact is, this movie doesn't have distributor because every single studio and distributor took a look at it and said "who the f would want to see this?"

you may want to attribute this to some sort of malice... but you are out of your damn mind. this isn't being picked up because well... who the fvck wants to see a movie about darwin???

Stop the presses!!!! AZGrizFan and TTBF agree!!!!

[Pwns]

I doubt it is a as sacrilegious as films like "religulous" or "The DaVinci Code". The producer is just playing the victim card because his film wasn't good enough to get a distributor.

This is a country that doesn't give a sh^t about the sorry state of math, physics, and technology education in America but goes ape-sh^t when anyone tries to put stickers in biology textbooks that say "evolution is a theory not a fact". Not buying that BS for a second.

Riiiighht.......

The film has won a sh*tload of film festival awards.......and it stars Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly.

Check it out for yourself (takes a minute to download): http://creationthemovie.com/flash/#/

Here's a trailer:

Hollywood makes a movie about gay cowboys that grosses $178 million, and you think they have qualms about a movie about Darwin in a country where every attempt to put "intelligent design" in classrooms has fallen flat on its face? Sorry, that's just hard to believe.

Probably cuz no one gives a **** about science in this country.... add that to a love story and you probably have a box office zero. Come on, don't you want to see movie with absolutely no tangible plot that involves robots blowing up buildings and each other while the human race struggles to stop a global Apocalypse... I know I do.


Pretty well renown actors in that movie... can't recall anything bad I've ever seen them in. Especially Jennifer Connelly... hummina hummina

You can make a successful movie about a mathematician that wins the Nobel Prize in economics, but you don't think you could make a good movie about a man who was as controversial and groundbreaking as Darwin?

[JMU DJ]

With the exception of maybe Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, most recent Brit movies are crap anyway.

RocknRolla is pretty good too.

Yeah it was good, felt like they were trying to recapture the Snatch vibe though after Ritchie's abysmal "Revolver"

"In Bruges" "Eastern Promises" "Hot Fuzz" were pretty decent British films too...

[JMU DJ]

You can make a successful movie about a mathematician that wins the Nobel Prize in economics, but you don't think you could make a good movie about a man who was as controversial and groundbreaking as Darwin?

Nah, not saying you can't... but it seems like the plot of this movie is much different than "A Beautiful Mind" where your taken deep into the mind of John Nash and his delusions. The plot of this movie is the conflict between Darwin and his wife over the publication of "The Origin of Species." From what I gather, seems more like a terse love conflict to me. You could make a movie about the controversial discovery that the earth isn't the center of our universe too... but I think it would be as welcomed by the masses as a 1 hour history channel documentary on the same matter.