Wednesday, March 03, 2004

The Culture War is SO ON

The Culture War is “SO ON,” says Bill Maher in his blog.

With the Mel Gibson movie, the gay marriage debate, and Howard Stern getting yanked from stations because of indecency, the culture war is so on. And that’s just how Karl Rove wants it, because nothing gets white people to the polls like fear. In fact, the right wing is so fired up about Jews and gays and the potty mouth they’ve almost forgotten who the real enemy is – brown people.

FEAR.  So much for “the home of the brave...” People won’t even open their minds, or more importantly, their mouths anymore.  It’s disgusting.

Tuesday, March 02, 2004

Jesus Scores!

At the box office, that is.  $125 million to date.  Now, can someone please explain to me what the hell is so “daring” about putting up one’s own money to produce a Jesus movie - especially a pro-Christian Jesus movie?  Not only is Mel making a killing on actual theatre attendance, but as with any blockbuster Hollywood film, there’s the requisite licensed official merchandise.  And then the DVD, and on and on… it’s what Hollywood’s about.  Jesus is NOT difficult to market… or has no one been paying attention for the last 20 fucking years?

I won’t go see The Passion of the Christ.  Call me crazy, but watching a man be tortured for most of an entire movie can’t possibly succeed in making me accept the fairy tales in the Bible as magically true, any more than seeing pictures of aborted fetuses will.  Fixating on death and sacrifice is just creepy…

A comment I made even inspired Les (who’s a much better blogger than I!) to post about the marketing of Jesus over at his place: Stupid Evil Bastard: Making Cash from Christ’s Crucifixion.  SEB’s yet another great place I stumbled upon whoring around on the Yahoo! boards… nuggets of gold buried in piles of manure… ah life!