New Charles Darwin film is 'too controversial' for religious American audiences

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highwaystar101 said:

Kasz216 said:
Also i'd note... that "Anti-christian" documentaries actually do big money in the US.

Bill Maher's movie was 10th on the box office charts it's opening week. The problem has nothing to do with it being anti-christian or whether or not people believe in what Darwin did.

It has everything to do with not being interesting to the average movie goer.

In the US more then anywhere else... it is near impossible to make a profit on a movie for movie theaters and the like. That's why documentaries and such only get limited releases.

It's not even anti-Christian though in my opinion.

I've never understood how people can draw a link from the theory of evolution to being anti-Christian. It is seperate from the religion, it is a scientific theory, it's contained within itself with no accusations that Christianity or any other religion is false. The link was completely drawn out of nothing in my opinion, and if Christians want to hang on to the, quite frankly, antiquated notion that it somehow offends them, then so be it, but there is no reason for it.

It wasn't drawn by Christians.  The Anti-Christian link was drawn by the author of the documentry himself.  This is what he blames for his film not getting released.

Which is pure 100% Bullshit.

It's not being released because nobody wants to go to the theatre to see a documetnry about Charles Darwin.

Or rather not enough people to make a profit based on what he's asking for.