Adultery is okay, drug abuse is harmless and hilarious, and Christians are corrupt scum.
The same themes, over and over again, in movie after movie. Sigh.
This is an independent film and not a hollywood one, however it is sad that Christians are often not well represented. Of course, in too many cases they don't do very good job of representing themselves. In my own life experience, I find people who adverstize their christian morality are seldom trustworthy.
Recent movies that do have positive christian portrayals: The Blind Side, The Book of Eli, and The Apostle.
You know, that's true. I've certainly encountered my share of bad "Christians" in my travels.
But my point is that Hollywood has done this so many times that it is now a cliche. Quite frankly, whenever I watch a movie and there is an overtly Christian character introduced, I sit there just waiting for that Christian character to be exposed as a hypocritical scumbag villain.
Hollywood does not routinely do this to, say, Hindu characters, or Buddhist characters, or Jewish characters, or atheist characters. But Christian characters? Oh, yeah.
That being said, I saw "Cowboys and Aliens" today. Decent movie, nothing great, but watchable. Interestingly, there is a single clearly Christian character in the movie, and he is presented in a decidedly positive light. So it's fair to say that Hollywood doesn't do this in ALL movies.
But it does it a lot.
It is kinda a reverse descrimination. Your average white, christian man is fair game.
Did you ever stop to think that maybe, just MAYBE, people are sick and tired of thousands of years of "Christian" judgmenatlism, CONSTANT judgmentalism toward anything they disagree with or anyone who doesn't think the same way that they do, and that people (including Hollywood) are finally firing back?
share..and you want me to think the same way you do. I am not the one who will judge you.
shareFrom all the comments I seen for this movie and this subject I am thinking that a lot of people should have had their parents explain comedy to them. Comedy comes from showing people and things in a un-normal setting that is not really being how things should be. We laugh at the coyote because he is hit by trucks over and over as he is putting the Acme bird seed on the road and has a sad helpless look after every truck hits him. But they are not really advocating having an actual coyote be run over time and time again as you hear bones break and blood flies. Same thing here. It is funny to see these normally very moral people go to a very small convention of insurance agents in a backwater town (Sorry Iowans but it is, does not mean it is a bad town), go crazy and act immoral so fast; yet not really hurting others. It is funny when Bree comes out of a room with a customer and Tim asked them innocently what have they been up too. It would not be funny if the customer started slapping Bree around. It is funny to see the high moral Orin takes a bribe as soon as one is offered. It is funny to see Bree when they take her home, kissing Tim he can **** her in the a$$ and he says says like a kid would say, "I heard of that I want to try it."
If you still do not still do not see how this movie is funny. I would like to suggest some classic comedies you may like. Such as "The Ghost and Mr Chicken", "The Reluctant Astronaut" or "The Apple Dumpling Gang."