You know what I am bloody sick and fucking tired of? Not religious groups protesting things in movies… but rather studio PR departments who find one insignificant person or small group of people somewhere on the planet who happen to be religious and have a problem with a certain movie, and then spreading the story of “RELIGIOUS GROUP PROTESTS OUR MOVIE” or “CHRISTIAN IN UPROAR OVER MOVIE” in order to get some free press for their flick.
It happens all the fucking time and I’m sick of it. Take for example the latest bullshit PR of “Clack Christmas”. The press headlines would have you believe that the entire Christian faith has organized themselves into one cohesive unit to (in unison) protest and cry about the latest Hollywood film. Just look at the headline from IMDB: “Christian Groups Fume Over Christmas Horror Film”
The reality is when you finally read the story, it was a quote from ONE FUCKING GUY belonging to some insignificant group who said something negative… and the studio PR machine gets sites like the IMDB (a site I like a lot by the way) to fule the “Look how cool our movie is, it’s getting the Christians upset… so it must be cool right kiddies?” engine of the studios.
It’s all bullshit. I guess I can find 2 or 3 Americans who don’t think the Holocaust really happened and then write a big headline that says “AMERICANS DISMISS THE HOLOCAUST AS A MYTH”. That would be stupid of me… but it’s the same bloody thing happening here.
All these lame ass movies come out that are so desperate for attention they’ll hunt down SOME RELIGIOUS PERSON SOMEWHERE ON THE PLANET to say something … and then print headlines that say “Religious group demand answer for sacrilegious movie”. Good god (forgive the pun), are we really all that stupid???
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why is it so easy for hollywood to poke fun at christians? why are they not protected like the jews, muslims, or any other “group”
i remember the jews crying about mel gibsons movie last year because its showed the jews killing christ. never mind that jesus was a jew! why did you not post about the whining jews….
im tired of the anti-christian attitude of those in hollywood and the country.
By the way, I knew some Liberal Left Leaning Mushhead would bring up Fox News or the Republicans. That’s what Liberals do — when they know you’ve caught them in a lie, instead of defending it, they divert it by accusing someone else of doing something wrong. I.e. For a Liberal, moral relativism is the key to everything. If you can excuse your bad actions by pointing to someone else’s bad actions, you believe you are vindicated, thus you are just to have committed your bad actions in the first place.
Funny, I heard the commercials for “Black Christmas” saying this, too, and I thought it was stupid. Really? I’m supposed to go see a movie because some group doesn’t like it? Then again, I spit in the face of peer pressure, so maybe these tactics do work on the brain mush crowd.
Grow up, Jay. The networks perfected the art of lying and exaggerating way before FOX News was a twinkle in Rupert’s eye.
As for the original post, exactly right, John. The media cannot report anymore. They’ve forgotten how. We have a whole industry that needs to create controversy in order to validate their existence.
Or perhaps it’s just another opportunity for them to blast one of the Left’s most hated things – Christianity.
Holy crap! Do I see someone waking up from the hazy mental fog of liberalism here?
I think I do!
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the original black christmas is a horror masterpiece. A truly under rated great horror film. Totally inspired carpenter for halloween.
This remake I imagine will be terrible.
Obviously someone is otherwise those headlines wouldn’t make it to press.
I think even the smallest of Christian groups should not have even given the horror remake this much attention. It isn’t a question of class, what is/is not offensive. As a Christian who leans somewhat right, I have this to point out:
Is anybody really going to see ‘Black Christmas” on Christmas day? No, didn’t think so.
The film will hardly be a blip on the radar. Thanks to one protesting crowd (and only one) that problem is slightly corrected. But…and I want everyone to take note of this prediction.
“Black Christmas” will be the last film of 2006 not screened for critics. Wear it like a badge.
It is the nature of the beast, but I do believe that a good portion of the globe hates not just certain films, but the system as a whole. It is difficult, if not impossible for indegenous cinemas to compete with the Hollywood model. But that begs the question: is it that Hollywood films are so good, or that the distribution cartels so strong as to exclude outsiders? I read an article by Howard Suber in which he discusses these very issues:
http://digg.com/movies/Why_half_the_world_HATES_our_movies_Huffington_Post_essay_by_Howard_Suber
Great article by an outstanding film scholar.
The problem with your point Alfie (and in principle I agree) is that no news site will make a front page issue out of any group of 3 or 10 people someplace… and then make a headline that reads “CHRISTAIN GROUPS OUTRAGED”. The only reason it gets press… and the reasons the studios push the stories on the media outlets is becuase it’sa religious group. Doesn’t matter if its 5 of them or 5000. And they put a blanket statement on it to make it “Big”.
TONS of small non-religious groups do crap and try to get attention all the time… the media and studios understandabley ignore them… who cares what 6 crackpots in Mariland think about legalizing Pot???
But wait… two christain women in Kansas say god will judge the earth for “name the movie here”. EXCELLENT!!! Run it front page with the title “Religious organization condemns new Hollywood release!!”
You are never going to get a studio to not take advantage of potential free publicity…….and i agree with you the studios make mountains out of molehills
bbbbuuutttt…..
it goes both ways john…..sometimes these people pipe up as they are want to use their “outrage” at a film or a song or a band or a art exhibition to get their little organization publicity.so it is not entirely the studios or the media faults…these typws of people go to the media themselves as they see this as a chance to get some attention.
Personally all these people do is bring more attention to something and make it more widespread then it ever would have been had they have just ignored it – how many times due to some stirred up controversy has a film which would have gone under the radar become a talking point due to the peoiple who want people not to see it….
Lying and exaggerating is par for the course for the media.
I dont know if you’ve ever heard of Fox News but I think they perfected the craft.