At least it wasn't a cartoon depiction of muuuhamhead (Pigs be inseminating him)!
Proof why satanic Hollywood should be ground zero for the doomsday asteroid/comet.
Why anyone would pay to see a Will Ferrell movie is beyond me. His schtick, while sometimes funny on SNL (I saw a few minutes here and there) is so OLD.
If these Christian film critics hated this movie, it must be better than I thought.
Stone him! Stone him!
As a kid, I thought Amos and Andy was funny, and to this day I wonder why some found it offensive. Were they poking fun at black people or did they have funny characters who were black? Eddie Murphy seems to make far more offensive characterizations than Amos and Andy did, yet his humor is accepted and "edgy."
Andy Griffith plays to southern stereotypes, but no one complains about Ernest T Bass.
If you went to see this movie to be entertained, you probably were. If you went to this movie to be offended, you probably were. Funny how that works.
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Dale's (#3) Mama don't like it. Case closed!
Fatwa! Fatwa!
NASCAR lost me when they stopped using 'Stock Cars'. Before that I really enjoyed the fact that my '67 Satellite was basically the same car, stripped, doors welded shut, single seat, that Petty was driving.
As far as the religious aspect of the film. If you dont like movies that might be blasphemous to you then stay home. I never liked Will Ferrel, so I don't plan on seeing it.
actually I found the commercials a real turn off because it is portrayed as a direct race based insult comedy on white nascar men.
(those guys that never came through for the democrats)
It is a hollyweird wet dream of what the left believes is athe moron nascar fan.
If this had been a black based "comedy" the naacp would be screaaaaaming like maniacs.
and no I have not seen the film, just the commercials they used to try and persuade me t see the film. It persuaded me not to want to see this movie.
(of course there is always moviespoiler.com to give the cold summary of a movie too.)
Nothing different in this movie and your average tv commercial. They all make the same groups out to be dim witted imbicles.
It seems this author needs to get his wig loosened a bit. We can't laugh and poke good natured fun at one another anymore?
From what I saw, this was nothing but good slap stick comedy. Not my favorite, but I laughed until I almost wet myself at times.
First, this Ferrel guy gives Elfs a bad rep, and now he stars in a movie doing the same to Christians. Oh yeah, he made Human men look pretty silly in Bewitched also.
LLS
Speaking of NASCAR, anybody know if one of the TV networks ever sent 'Middle Eastern looking' men to NASCAR events to film other attendees's responses? Remember that thread?
Yes, Ricky Bobby thanks Dear Baby Infant Jesus Lord for the pizza, his foul-mouthed children, and his smokin' hot wife. He is set up as the ultimate bad example for his family, as someone who puts on a great churched-up show but has a stunted understanding of the Christian life. (Maybe this hit home for the author, too...)
Later, when his world comes crashing down and he moves in with his mother, his mother institutes GRANNY LAW. GRANNY LAW introduces discipline into the lives of Ricky Bobby's feral children and gets them into church for a proper formation. That the author failed to notice that speaks volumes.
I really appreciated the Grandma character. She was one who led a wild youth (running with deadbeats, loose morals) but finally grew up, learned from her life's hard lessons, and got grounded.
"Baehr believes the movie will probably be overtaken and passed when the more meaningful and faith-affirming film, World Trade Center"
Funny that the author thinks that anything by Oliver Stone is 'faith-affirming'. I have yet to have my faith affirmed by any of the scum of Hollywood.
IT isn't just Christianity being made fun of - it is the actual intended market that the producer was intending to make fun of. The whole movie makes fun of Christianity, southerners, white men, and generally every other thing that makes up the stereotypical NASCAR fan. Yet that is the exact target audience, and apparently that same group is eating it up.
Maybe some of the suggestions in the film about NASCAR fans is true....????
Give it a rest.