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Porcupine_I on 10 January 2011

lately churches tend not to fall for the "free advertisement through controversy" scheme any more.

when there used to be bishops and arch bishops to condemn movies only dealing remotely with the subject, nowadays even big budget productions struggle to find some priest in some remote village to comment.



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’

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Beuli2 on 10 January 2011

Never heard of this movie.



Above: still the best game of the year.

Kasz216 on 10 January 2011
Porcupine_I said:

lately churches tend not to fall for the "free advertisement through controversy" scheme any more.

when there used to be bishops and arch bishops to condemn movies only dealing remotely with the subject, nowadays even big budget productions struggle to find some priest in some remote village to comment.


I guess that... kinda makes sense, but I always thought those guys liked to be on TV just as much as everybody else and that's why some of them did it.

I mean, there are tons of priests who seem to like to be on TV.

Who knows, maybe it's the down economy.  It'd be funny if all this time the movies and games were actually paying the priests for virual marketing controversy.

 

Like EA but not so eaisly traceable!



starcraft on 10 January 2011

I thought it was pretty funny.  Didn't offend my religious sensibilities.



starcraft - Playing Games = FUN, Talking about Games = SERIOUS

megaman79 on 13 January 2011

Because it made no money.

What i wonder is, and especially after the LOST finale, why isn't there more controversy over religious morals influencing entertainment in general? How about the news? What the hell are moral crusades? We're in 2011, not the middle ages.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

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Cypher1980 on 13 January 2011

Actually the Media did try to whip things up, but the Bible Bashers didnt take the bait.



highwaystar101 on 13 January 2011

I remember once being shown a review of it on a fundamentalist Christian website, and when I say fundamentalist, I mean Fred Phelps style overkill fundamentalist.

In short the review was hilarious because of how badly the reviewer reacted to it. I can't remember the name of the site, but they also did a review of "I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry", which was one of the best things I've ever read.

So to answer your question, I know of at least one person got upset over it, that reviewer.



Reasonable on 13 January 2011

The film simply didn't have the pofile to raise attention and I think these days the Church (to be a bit all embracing) has realised not to bring attention to something that doesn't have any.



Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...

HappySqurriel on 13 January 2011

I think more people were more offended by the brutally unfunny delivery of a movie concept that had promise ...



badgenome on 13 January 2011

Do Christians still get worked up about this sort of clichéd shit? I'd imagine it's old hat by now. They probably greet it with the same great, big yawn that I do.