I apologize to you, to Dio, and to the participants in the thread.
Are religious types their target audience with this movie? I’ve known some very religious Christian types, and they tend to take offense at any secular portrayal or use of Christianity that could be viewed as not positive. I can’t imagine those sorts of people would want to go see this movie - they’re more likely to shun it.
So I found it interesting that people thought they were trying to appeal to a religious crowd. Maybe the vaguely religious types who think they’re Christians but don’t actually know much about all that.
I heard Carrell in an interview saying that when they were filming a baboon brought him some lemonade and spilled it on him.
Carrell, trying to be funny, turned to the baboon and said something like, “Can’t you do anything right?”
The baboon bared his teeth and growled at him. The trainer said, “yeah, you better not do that. As a matter of fact, don’t look him in the eye.”
THAT sounds funny.
The movie? NSM.
I think that wouldn’t be a good philosophy for me – I disagree with the critics too often. For me, several of those films are superb (War and Peace, King Kong, Metropolis) and quite a few others are defintely well worth watching.
I saw this film. It was OK. Not great, not worth the $$ they paid to make it, but I didn’t want my money back or anything. Of course the fact I saw it on a bargain matinee helped there.
But I also wondered about the “firing” bit. Congressmen can’t be fired. OTOH, they do have to kowtow to their seniors and the Party whips (you can read about party whips discipling those that don’t follow “orders”), etc. Goodman was supposed to be big time senior Congressman, head of a Committee and all.
It’d take months of hearings to suspend a Congressman, not easily or lightly done. Yes, they do take the nice offices and other perks away, though.
Now’s your chance to mention some specific “people with power being guided by God” who’ve done good.
No…it’s not. This is CS, not GD or the BBQ.
Let’s not give the preachers a pulpit here, please.
-Joe
I saw this last night. Big mistake.
I was home, just finished making dinner- the family is at the beach this week- and the power goes out. I eat in silence and since the house is now getting warmer since the A/C is out, I head to the theater to kill some time. I had hoped to catch Ocean’s 13, but when I got there I was 20 minutes late. The only movie with a starting time in the next 30 minutes was Evan Almighty. What the hell, I thought, it’s nice and cool in here and maybe by the time I get home the electricity will be back on.
Man, that movie sucked. In addition to all the reasons DtC pointed out, it made a career in politics seem like the easiest job in the world. His first day, he’s essentially told “Congressman Long (Goodman) wants to destroy protected parklands for profit, and he wants you to co-sponsor the bill. Whaddaya think?” Would anybody really go along with that?
Also, since when does being a junior congressman entitle you to a brand new enormous mansion? The president only makes around $200k/year, so I can only assume a member of congress makes less. The house Carell’s character bought would require an annual income of around $1.5M, maybe more in the DC suburbs. So they get to the house and it’s still under construction- workers with power tools roam about, dropcloths on the floor, and the general contractor asks him what kind of wood he wants to use to make the kitchen cabinets. They go to bed that night, and the next day will be his first day on the job. He comes home at the end of the day and the house is not only finished, but all the furniture is in place, the place is beautifully painted, everything’s unpacked, and dinner is on the table that night. I wish I could get my general contractors to work that fast.
I heard laughs in my theater but on the way out I saw that the place was filled with giggly high school kids. That’s really the best audience for this kind of movie, they have no real appreciation for comedy so slapstick kicks to the crotch still seem funny.
The only part that I found worthwhile was the outtakes during the credits. Still, that two-minute segment hardly made the first 90 minutes bearable.
Oh- and the power was still off when I got home. Stupid electricity.
Well, that’s Wrath of God for ya. Darkness, boils, plagues of frogs… I’d put some lamb’s blood on the door ASAP if you love your firstborn.
Frequently, congressmen of ordinary means will share an apartment. That would have made a better movie. Evan shares an apartment with Jerry Nagel. And Make Evan kind of a neat freak. Oh yeah, and lose all the God stuff.
They do when I am playing Scrabble.
I am so pissed that I can’t go to John Krasinksi’s movie because of the effing Robin Williams and that extremely stupid movie plot. He’s too smart for the slapstick crap involved in that thing. :mad:
And I can’t believe the previews for Evan Almighty show a flood. Hold something back people.
How many people don’t know that Noah’s Ark involves a flood?
Hey! I liked The 13th Warrior. From one of the few Crichton books I can stomach.
Well, Graham did do a heck of a job as a alcoholic bartender with a Santa fetish in Bad Santa ;).
- Tamerlane
I never got the impression she was alcoholic. Rather, Thorton’s character was the raging drunk.
I liked The 13th Warrior, too, but I never would have guessed from what I saw that so much money had been spent.
I gotta say, a lot of these big budgets are wasted on me. If all Hollywood is going to make any more is Roger Corman movies, they might as well make them on Roger Corman budgets as far as I’m concerned.
Did your ears just pop?
I’m trying to remember if Corman was the one who liked women with big boobs and skimpy outfits. If so, I heartily concur.
If not, I probably will do so, just a little less heartily.
-Joe
You’re probably thinking of Russ Meyer.
Not that Roger Corman was averse to using skin in his movies, but he’s more known for no-budget sci-fi and horror.
She was matching him shot for shot when they met at the bar. The first time she showed at his place it was with a couple of bottles of booze and reeling a bit. And if you watch carefully she always seems just a bit lit in virtually every scene. To me, anyway.
It didn’t really hit me until second watching, mostly because Thornton is so much more of a monumental lush by comparison. But I think Graham was definitely intended to be a boozer. Which, really, makes sense. For example it explains why she had any attraction to to Thornton at all, past the Santa thing :D.
- Tamerlane
Sorry, this wasn’t actually a whoosh on my part. I thought perhaps there was some doubt as to whether this guy was sane and whether he was really building an ark for good reason.
Clearly I am expecting too much of the movie. :smack: