This is a great reviewAntoine Doinel wrote:Richard Dawkins crashes a screening.
Evangelical Cinema and Culture
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Here's a clip. I love how scary it's apparently supposed to be, based on the music.
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The film uses John Lennon's "Imagine" without permission, but the filmmakers are claiming some kind of First Amendment rights in regards to its use.
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Of course they are. They'd be appealing to that portion of the fair use clause that allows for use without permission if the copied portion of the work is a small enough portion compared to the work as a whole. Why would the filmmakers want to use a song that contains the line 'Imagine there's no heaven' in a movie about creationism?Antoine Doinel wrote:The film uses John Lennon's "Imagine" without permission, but the filmmakers are claiming some kind of First Amendment rights in regards to its use.
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More on the whole music licensing fiasco here, including this line that was fed to the Killers when obtaining the use of their music:
The film is a satirical documentary with an estimated running time of 1 hour and 50 minutes, exploring academic freedom in public schools and government institutions with actor, comedian, economist, Ben Stein as the spokesperson.
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I caught this movie last night (got in for free, mind you), and I can safely say I've seen few things more hysterical than this. Every single interview with the ID proponents is underscored with this insane, overdramatic music that sounds like something that should play when the plane crashes at the end of United 93 - Oh the tragedy of it all and whatnot. And watching Ben Stein, of all people, playing dumb so he can be "shocked" when he hears about these strange new concepts like "God" and "science" is laughable.
It was almost like Kent Hovind was supposed to host this film but had to drop out so Stein stepped in and read Hovind's feverish/delirious script verbatim.
It was almost like Kent Hovind was supposed to host this film but had to drop out so Stein stepped in and read Hovind's feverish/delirious script verbatim.
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Not that anyone here needed it, but in case a co-worker or family member tries to convince you of the film's claims: Expelled Exposed
I kind of chuckled that even with all the church pre-selling and 1000 screens it was only able to pull in $3 million this weekend
I kind of chuckled that even with all the church pre-selling and 1000 screens it was only able to pull in $3 million this weekend
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That's actually a pretty good opening for a documentary, especially for such a small screen count. It earned double per screen than Morgan Spurlock's new film.domino harvey wrote: I kind of chuckled that even with all the church pre-selling and 1000 screens it was only able to pull in $3 million this weekend
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Spurlock's film opened in very few theaters, and to almost zero marketing fanfare. The intelligent designees have been banner'd across the Internets for weeks now, and getting a lot of free publicity as well. Still, I had thought they'd do better than 9th place. But one can't imagine the budget for this colossal waste of celluloid was that high. They've already recouped their costs on the sales of DVDs for your child's public school science curriculum.
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That's the saddest misuse of the word 'documentary' since the last time a Michael Moore movie came out.Antoine Doinel wrote:That's actually a pretty good opening for a documentary, especially for such a small screen count. It earned double per screen than Morgan Spurlock's new film.domino harvey wrote: I kind of chuckled that even with all the church pre-selling and 1000 screens it was only able to pull in $3 million this weekend
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A thousand screens is a wide release. They promoted it at churches and presold a lot of tickets, this should have resulted in much more business than it did, showing that perhaps there are plenty of Christians who aren't idiots. I've known several Christians who accept evolution as part of God's plan and that seems like a far more logical way to marry science and religion if it must be married at all.jesus the mexican boi wrote:Spurlock's film opened in very few theaters, and to almost zero marketing fanfare. The intelligent designees have been banner'd across the Internets for weeks now, and getting a lot of free publicity as well. Still, I had thought they'd do better than 9th place. But one can't imagine the budget for this colossal waste of celluloid was that high. They've already recouped their costs on the sales of DVDs for your child's public school science curriculum.
I was reading an article somewhere (Hell, maybe it was linked on page one of this thread-- I'm not taking ten seconds to check!) about a teacher whose school received promotional material (a DVD with clips) from Expelled for the purpose of instigating "debate" in her students.
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I would argue Spurlock does indeed have a built-in audience. Super Size Me and 30 Days put him in a pool along with Michael Moore and his crowd. And this movie had it's fair share of pre-release buzz including countless interviews with Morgan Spurlock in nearly all the big media outlets (everything from the NY Times to the AV Club), not to mention the brilliantly constructed festival buzz around the film (did he actually find Osama?) and of course the trailer floating around online for the past two months.domino harvey wrote:Morgan Spurlock didn't have a built-in audience like this film did.
I think the fact that Expelled is cracking the top ten at all is terrifying.
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I said "a built in audience like this film did"-- If you think there are less Evangelical Christians in America than Super Size Me fans, you're mistaken-- also, Spurlock's film DID open in limited release, unlike the wide (ten times as many screens) release for the Stein "doc"Antoine Doinel wrote:I would argue Spurlock does indeed have a built-in audience. Super Size Me and 30 Days put him in a pool along with Michael Moore and his crowd. And this movie had it's fair share of pre-release buzz including countless interviews with Morgan Spurlock in nearly all the big media outlets (everything from the NY Times to the AV Club), not to mention the brilliantly constructed festival buzz around the film (did he actually find Osama?) and of course the trailer floating around online for the past two months.domino harvey wrote:Morgan Spurlock didn't have a built-in audience like this film did.
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But Evangelicals are rarely known to be avid filmgoers, even with projects aimed square at their demographic. And the fact that this film skews to an even more niche market than Passion Of The Christ and it still managed to crack the top ten is frankly, remarkable.domino harvey wrote:I said "a built in audience like this film did"-- If you think there are less Evangelical Christians in America than Super Size Me fans, you're mistaken-- also, Spurlock's film DID open in limited release, unlike the wide (ten times as many screens) release for the Stein "doc"Antoine Doinel wrote:I would argue Spurlock does indeed have a built-in audience. Super Size Me and 30 Days put him in a pool along with Michael Moore and his crowd. And this movie had it's fair share of pre-release buzz including countless interviews with Morgan Spurlock in nearly all the big media outlets (everything from the NY Times to the AV Club), not to mention the brilliantly constructed festival buzz around the film (did he actually find Osama?) and of course the trailer floating around online for the past two months.domino harvey wrote:Morgan Spurlock didn't have a built-in audience like this film did.
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