# Is "Hollywood" more driven by liberal secularism or money? (Regarding Hannity's new film) **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 29, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-hollywood-more-driven-by-liberal-secularism-or-money-regarding-hannitys-new-film/800108 "2017-10-29T01:17:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-hollywood-more-driven-by-liberal-secularism-or-money-regarding-hannitys-new-film/800108/41 "2017-11-29T22:29:31Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > There are plenty of religious, even overtly Christian movies, that critics love. Critics fucking _loved_ Hacksaw Ridge, even though it was ostensibly about how incredible a particular Christian was specifically because of his beliefs. It’s just that if your work is _garbage_ like 99% of what Kirk Cameron and related filmmakers who are Christians first and filmmakers second puts out, pointing to its Christianity won’t get you far with film critics, who care about movies not sucking. It might get you somewhere with the right-wing lecture circuit who cares an awful lot about the culture war, though. My local newspaper’s movie critic is a Christian, and she usually pans the “Christian” movies for the reasons other people have said - bad acting and writing, unlikable and unrealistic characters and events, etc. However, there was a movie that came out a year or so ago called “War Room” that she, and a lot of other critics, loved, and it did fairly well at the box office. I haven’t seen it, but it was about a black family experiencing significant conflict, and they used faith-based methods to deal with it. A local Jewish organization regularly shows Jewish-oriented movies at a local museum’s theater; most are of Eastern European or Israeli origin, and while I rarely go to that theater because I find it claustrophobic, I get them through Netflix and they’re almost always quite good. There was, however, one called “Dough” that was just plain stupid. > **[Dough (2015) ⭐ 6.2 | Comedy, Drama](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517471/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)** > > 1h 34m | Not Rated [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-hollywood-more-driven-by-liberal-secularism-or-money-regarding-hannitys-new-film/800108.md?page=2)