Posted on 10/03/2008 10:33:07 AM PDT by truthandlife
This weekend, a deeply divided America will have another round of new films to choose from at the theaters. One is Religulous, a comic documentary in which Bill Maher, America's best-known agnostic humorist, presents a vision of the destructive forces of organized religion, a vision no less apocalyptic than the end-times scenarios promulgated by some of his targets.
Then there's An American Carol, which its maker, Airplane! and Naked Gun alum David Zucker, describes as "the opposite of the Bill Maher movie."
Mr. Zucker's proudly conservative comedy isn't primarily about religion. It reworks the Charles Dickens Christmas Carol scenario so that a leftist filmmaker based on Michael Moore, painted here as an unpatriotic, America-hating boob out to banish the Fourth of July, is visited, schooled and slapped around by ghosts of Americans past, George Washington (Jon Voight) and Gen. George Patton (Kelsey Grammer), plus a ghost of the future, played by country star Trace Adkins.
According to Mr. Zucker, the film is more about supporting America's war in Iraq and taking down liberal filmmakers than getting people into churches and synagogues.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
I just saw it and it’s hilarious—my post is elsewhere (just made it). Note that the s- word and the a-hole word do pop up, along with a scene where two terrorists in a stall
trying to _defuse_ a bomb are mistaken for gay guys having
sex, but other than that pretty clean and well worth it
for the message.
I’ve already scouted times this weekend and look forward to posting a review.
I may not be able to see this but I’m buying tickets from MovieTickets.com anyway.
I want to support them.
Will be watching “An American Carol” this weekend. Can’t wait.
I’m so disappointed. I’ve been promoting this movie for the past 2 months and it’s not showing anywhere near me.
I am leaving in one hour to go see it. I can’t wait!
Mrs. Banquo has given me the honor of accompanying me to a viewing this evening.
“America’s best-known agnostic humorist”
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“America’s” - not MY America
“best known” - only via some form of nepotism in which the utterly talentless are giving steady work (Think Richard Dreyfuss, Sarah Bernhard, Al Franken, Howie Mandel).
“agnostic” - maybe God doesn’t believe in the always odious, amoral Bill Maher either.
“humorist” - only humorous if we can laugh at the ugly little troll. In the same vein as Chris Rock- habitually unfunny, prejudiced and mean-spirited. It is amazing how consistently unentertaining these two pricks are.
Our family will be seeing it this afternoon. We are looking forward to it.
Ummmmmm . . . . . . doncha have to be a little bit funny to be a humorist???
Where do they find money to make movies like the Maher film?
Even leftists don’t like to LOSE money. This film is going to be a bomb. Will it even break even?
Obviously not. Just be a cokehead liberal who hosts a biased show and say that you are a libertarian so that you can feign objectivity.
Bill Maher is an arrogant jackass who nevertheless once “had” Ann Coulter. Still not as gross as Laura Ingraham’s “relationship” with Bob Torricelli before she got religion.
There, fixed the typo in the article.
This film deserves support.
What do you mean “had” Ann Coulter.
Splain Lucy.
Supposedly, Bill and Ann dated years ago, and had, uh, relations.
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