Hey, remember The Hunt, a movie supposedly about killing deplorables for fun? We had a thread about it: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=880125s. I thought it was pretty likely that the redhats would turn out to be the protagonists of that film, but I guess we’ll never know, because it got shitcanned.
But now the shoe is on the other foot! I bring news of The Reliant, in which Kevin Sorbo navigates a dystopian hellscape where guns are outlawed, and he has to take his Godfearing family on the run from molotov-hurling, dirtbike-riding, black clad hooligans. At one point Sorbo runs a protestor down with his car, because subtlety is not a strong suit of the Faith and Guns crowd.
The Reliant? Sounds like a good movie. I assume Bosworth in the Khan role? And Sorbo is the innocent Starfleet officer that gets in his way of galactic conquest.
It may not be about ‘killing liberals’ but it has a strong pro gun, christian conservative lean, and I don’t doubt that some people who watch the movie will get the wrong ideas from it.
From the synopsis: " Sophie (Mollee Gray), who questions the morality of gun ownership but soon learns that in God all things are good, including her family’s Second Amendment right to defend themselves.
Rumor has it that the producers had wanted Charlton Heston in the film…
Oddly, the only thing I know about Mollee Gray (and don’t ask me why) is that she’s a married, out-and-proud lesbian. Which doesn’t preclude her from being in a Christian film (or being a Christian herself, if she is*) but it still seems like an odd match for this particular flavor and intended audience of Christian film.
Kevin Sorbo has been in so many right-wing Christian films it is a wonder that he hasn’t publicly apologized for portraying a false (half)god on television.
The final second of the trailer promises a “Features a Discussion on Gun Advocacy” so maybe the audience can work through it then. I can’t imagine a more fun cinema experience.
I never finished reading The Bible; it was slow and plodding, so I never got to the part where God wanted mankind to turn the earth into a gun-crazed dystopian nightmare.
