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- BBryan, on 10/27/2008, -10/+241answer: there are more pro religious people than anti religious
- Jektal, on 10/28/2008, -16/+199Because I couldn't find a theater showing Religulous?
- ScreenRant, on 10/27/2008, -32/+129I find it incredibly ironic that considering the way sites like Digg work, with people following power users and the cascade effect of posts being virally Dugg and passed along (quite often without people ever even taking the time to read the target post before Digging), that if something similar might happen with a Christian film it's suddenly a bogus concept, lol.
Oh irony, let thy name be "Digger." - twertyto, on 10/29/2008, -5/+91BREAKING NEWS: The majority of Americans apparently don't share a common world view with the majority of Diggers!
- magic6435, on 10/29/2008, -4/+72Ive never heard of fireproof until this post.
- IIECONII, on 10/28/2008, -13/+73Maybe because people are sick of talking about it?
If you want to be a god-fearing, creationist, faith-seeker, that's fine.
If you want to be a godless, soulless, faithless, temporary entity, THAT'S FINE TOO!
Believe in whatever the hell you want to believe in. As long as it doesn't directly involve conversion of me to said religion, I'm fine.
See? If you stop talking about it and just deal, everything's fine. - FredFredrickson, on 10/29/2008, -7/+64On reading the title, I found myself wondering: what the hell is Fireproof? I may not have seen Religulous, but at least I've heard of it.
- rmtamm, on 10/29/2008, -22/+77Religulous is only showing in SELECT THEATERS. It's a LIMITED RELEASE. Duh.
- MovieGuys, on 12/04/2008, -48/+102Ha! You're absolutely right VIc! I've always felt like too many people automatically discount the opinion of Christians just because of what we believe. Sometimes I'm even made to feel like I'm some ignorant drone in a cult just because of my faith. Can't we just stop slamming what other people believe just because we don't believe in it ourselves?
- Trublmakr, on 10/28/2008, -22/+73Religiolus was actually a bit depressing. Don't get me wrong,.. I loved Maher's irreverent sense of humor but essentially proving there are so bloody many stupid people in the world - and how pervasive the problem is - was not something I could so easily laugh off.
- Sendai129, on 10/29/2008, -17/+67You pride yourself on faith. Faith is the belief in something without any evidence. So if you believe things without any proof then yes I'm going to automatically discount your opinion. However it's totally your choice to believe what you want to believe. It's also totally my choice to discount whoever's opinions I want to. Yay freedom!
- jts10, on 10/29/2008, -4/+47Fireproof
Weeks Released: 5
Total Gross: $23.6M
Theater Average: $2.4k
# Of Theaters: 898
Religulous
Weeks Released: 4
Total Gross: $10.6M
Theater Average: $2.1k
# Of Theaters: 452
Fireproof is earning twice as much because it is in twice as many theaters, plus it has been out 1 week longer. Theater average is more accurate 2.4k vs 2.1k, Fireproof is still doing better because religious people need to go support Fireproof, atheists/agnostics don't feel the need to support any movie. They will see it when they see it. - diggit83, on 10/29/2008, -5/+42Same here, we have 9 theaters in a 15 mile radius, and yet NONE of them had religulous.
What I get for living in the south =( - ericdano, on 10/29/2008, -52/+85Maybe because Bill Maher isn't funny?
- BXRWXR, on 10/29/2008, -25/+57I think that whatever gets a person through the day is fine by me. Live and let live, let people believe what they want to believe.
For instance, I believe Bill Maher is a ***** mongler. - FredFredrickson, on 10/29/2008, -8/+38And as long as your ridiculous religion doesn't seep into politics and start dictating how the government wants me to live, I'm fine with it too.
- omikun, on 10/29/2008, -10/+36No offense but I felt Religulous was a pretty mind-numbing entertainment. Suffice to say if you were expecting Hitchens-D'Souza level of brain activity you will be disappointed.
Having said that, I still lol'ed through out the movie. Also, I haven't heard of Fireproof until now. - mevans05, on 10/27/2008, -99/+125These films should never be compared. One promotes using your brain while the other promotes shutting your brain off. I'll let you decide which is which!
- Kosh, on 10/29/2008, -9/+34What's the point of tolerance if you won't tolerate people whom you strongly disagree with? It's easy to tolerate people who appeal to everyone and won't say anything for sure. Tolerance is only really valuable when it's tolerating someone you REALLY don't agree with, but you respect them for being human anyway.
Y'know...atheism is unprovable too. You can't prove or disprove the idea of "God". Religious people will say to every accusation "God made it that way" while atheists will just shrug and say "Random chance made it that way". Both are infalsifiable. Similarly you can't disprove FSM.
So...try...try to show a little respect.
Oh, and I didn't see the part where Deadpool tried to convert you. Must have missed it. - linuxps2, on 10/29/2008, -8/+32Not gonna lie, i usually like Maher, but he was essentially the Dane Cook of anti-religious people in Religulous, anyone who wants an actual in-depth look at the merits (or lack thereof) of Christianity will be disappointed. I could make anything look good/bad if I interviewed the right dumb-asses too, Maher's movie straight out sucked - no real content - haven't seen fireproof and probably won't but i would assume it was actually enjoyable to watch :-/
- manogamez, on 10/29/2008, -13/+34It's simple, really; Negativity doesn't sell as well as optimism.
- Rhendal, on 10/29/2008, -2/+21No, but making fun of things well does.
- Markers, on 10/29/2008, -6/+24If you really want to impress me... make a movie about Jesus running through burning buildings fighting feral animals.
- inactive, on 10/29/2008, -3/+20in other news, passion of the christ is one of the most money making movies of all time
- Fjosnisse, on 10/29/2008, -3/+20Reason: there's life beyond digg.
Religulous may be portrayed as a popular/mainstream thing on this website but I doubt it's seen as this popular anywhere else. - Kohaxx, on 10/29/2008, -6/+22Not really, in order to be a fundamental atheist they would have to:
Want to remove all non-atheists from the world.
Push atheistic values into politics.
Put their atheistic issues above all others.
Believe there should be severe consequences for anyone who disagrees with them.
Deny rights based off of atheistic doctrine (or lack thereof).
You can't really have fundamental non-religion. I don't see atheists going around holding signs condemning all religious people to stupidity for committing sins against atheism.
Just saying,
-A Christian. - thetylerhayes, on 05/15/2009, -4/+20I'm not going to talk about the religion factors of these movies because, well, that's not my business. Believe what you want to believe! :)
As far as the box office results, I think Vic nailed it on the head in the original article, and that's that Religulous opened in many fewer theaters. I live in Minneapolis, one of the top places you'd expect something like Religulous to show, and there was only 1 theater showing it the first couple weeks, and then 2 more opened up after that.
Also, there was almost no marketing for Religulous, and even less for Fireproof. It's pretty obvious that each movie was not intended for wide audiences but to please those who are already comfortable in their respective camps. - mrsteveman1, on 10/29/2008, -3/+19Maher isn't promoting beliefs he is asking people why the ***** they CLING to religion in hardcore fashion and why they are so sure they are correct.
Maher specifically makes the point of saying he doesn't know what is correct, only that people who claim to be sure are almost certainly wrong. - funkstrong, on 10/29/2008, -2/+18Tell that to the major news networks.
- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 10/29/2008, -1/+16Have you ever seen Kirk Cameron and Ryan Seacrest in the same place at the same time?
- scooby0110, on 10/29/2008, -7/+22Bingo! I'm glad someone agrees with me.
- Trublmakr, on 10/28/2008, -6/+21We can't help it,.. there's something in the water that makes all Canadians 1337.
- chrissku, on 10/29/2008, -8/+2314.1% of Americans do not follow any organized religion. This is an unusually rapid increase -- almost a doubling -- from only 8% in 1990. There are more Americans who say they are not affiliated with any organized religion than there are Episcopalians, Methodists, and Lutherans taken together.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_prac2.htm - enclaved, on 10/29/2008, -3/+18This is.
I am better than you. - sugarazor, on 10/29/2008, -3/+18See, that's the problem with religion, anyone who questions it is suddenly intolerant.
I don't care what people privately believe, but when you attempt to enter the political discourse, you open your beliefs to scrutiny. Blame Falwell, Robertson and Dobson, not Bill Maher. - ostracize, on 10/29/2008, -4/+19That's not it either.
Religulous is a comedy/documentary that hits a small and precise target audience of atheists and open-minded theists. Fireproof is just entertainment that happens to have a Christian message.
People go to the theatres for entertainment (especially in the midst of today's political/economic turmoil). I guarantee Religulous will do better in DVD sales - hark, on 10/29/2008, -3/+17Your logic has no place in theists minds.
- sugarazor, on 10/29/2008, -0/+13"the Theory of Evolution is still just a theory my friend. "
So is gravity. Are you not sure about that one either? - sugarazor, on 10/29/2008, -0/+13Twice as many as Religulous.
- bonk2k, on 10/29/2008, -3/+16I'll stop slamming it once people stop killing each other in the name of God. I'll stop slamming it when there are no more people who believe that we put saddles on dinosaurs and rode them around. Seriously people ***** believe that. Look at this picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/williac/1036693826
I'll stop slamming it when my Government stops basing its decisions on religion. Once religion is no longer shaping my world I will stop slamming it, but until then I'll say whatever I want. I'm sure you disagree with a lot of the things that are being done in the name of religion, but there are enough who don't. - akeldama, on 10/29/2008, -5/+18Maybe it has to do with the fact that the average American thinks Bill Maher is a smug, elitist jackass?
- Midorikawa, on 10/29/2008, -9/+22I'm a Christian as well, and my pastor never once mentioned the movie, and no I'm not uninvolved in the church either. I run sound on my "off weekends" - when I'm not on stage playing guitar, plus all the extra time I spend around the church remodeling and such. Pastor never ONCE mentioned it, and neither did my parent's pastor, or any other friends I know of.
Your automatic assumption that the pastors of various churches are telling members to go support the movie seems to be unfounded and outright wrong, or the hundreds of people I have contact with who attend churches all over the US all attend the few churches that don't mention it. Statistically, that's improbable. :-P - Lucas123, on 10/29/2008, -9/+22I watched an extensive interview with Maher and director Larry Charles on Religulous and it was painfully obvious they knew next to nothing about their subject matter. Their project was a mockery based on surface observations of different religions, including Christianity. For example, trying to compare Scientology with Christianity will always fail. Scientology is a cult, Christianity has a historical and spirtitual basis. That's why the movie isn't doing well. People love irreverent material, but this movie is shallow, and, not surprisingly, lacks real substance.
- FredFredrickson, on 10/29/2008, -12/+25For your enjoyment, Rottentomatoes.com ratings:
Religulous - 70%
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1188454-religulous ...
Fireproof - 38%
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10010214-fireproof ... - FreddieD, on 10/29/2008, -2/+14Wow, Kirk Cameron. Until I read the article, I thought the picture was of Ryan Seacrest.
- ScreenRant, on 10/27/2008, -17/+29Ok, I read the post you're referring to and I'm wondering why people who flock to Kevin Smith movies, the Saw franchise or every Judd Apatow flick aren't considered "sheep."
I went to see Fireproof this weekend and I wasn't exactly jazzed about it. I only heard about it AFTER it had opened. Beyond the cheap production values I found it to be an emotionally powerful film.
And that STILL doesn't explain the piss-poor performance of Religulous and why it had no staying power at the theater. Where the hell were all the Digg users who haunt this site when it came time to see that movie? - FredFredrickson, on 10/29/2008, -3/+15Oookay, ScreenRant... all the world's peoples are educated to the college-level, and everyone has a very deep spiritual reason for believing what they do about religion.
That's not 'elitist,' is it? It's also fantastical, untrue, and a complete fabrication. - mishabear, on 10/29/2008, -4/+16I am atheist. I saw Religulous and I was almost offended. It seemed like a vehicle simply to take cheap shots at the faithful. There was very little that was educational or respectful. It was simply mocking others for 90 minutes.
- StormCommander, on 10/29/2008, -5/+17Fire Proof is a movie about marriage. Completely boring I'm sure, but it amazes me how people think this article matters. I'm sure Bill Maher's movie is equally boring. But who really cares? How about you watch the movie you want to watch and mind your own business after that.
- inactive, on 10/29/2008, -1/+13"Let me guess, you probably call the Bible 'fiction', too, right?"
Pretty much. The historicity of the Bible is a big topic, and a majority of the research done by genuine scientists and historians point to many discrepancies (to use a mild word) in the Bibical record. It might even help to think of the Bible as a history book itself, as much of what is written in it was composed long after the events depicted, albeit without the superior contemporary tools and information historians now employ.
But "fiction," fartcloud? Yeah, mostly. -
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