Christian groups call for movie boycott

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

A number of Christian groups are upset over the release of the re-made slasher film, Black Christmas on Christmas day and are calling for a boycott! The film studio has to be overjoyed...this remake figured to struggle at the box office and rightfully so...the original was terrible and remakes never seem to improve a product. My only interest is that Michelle T (Dawn from Buffy) has a major role...she's an excellent young actress but won't exactly advance her career with this role...nonetheless, work is work! Anyway, the spokespeople for various Christian groups feel it's anti-Christian and warn folks not to let their kids see it! I find that amusing since it's an "R" rated movie but anyway...where are these folks with their "sensitivity" when witches are presented as ugly hags with long noses having a wart on the end and riding broomsticks, eating babies and worshiping the devil?? Oh well..it's all a matter of who's ox is being gored! Anyway...this alone is certain to double the opening week's box receipts for the movie...

No such thing as bad publicity in the movie business. Remember all the hullabaloo over "The Last Temptation of Christ?" Really boring movie, but made a lot more money than it would have thanks to the protests.

Lovely book, though. And here's what I found so funny about those protests-- the stuff that made the Christian Right so angry was the stuff that happened in Christ's temptation-- rather than offering money and power, the Devil offered a chance to fall in love and marry have a normal life, and that's what Christ chose to give up for mankind. It wasn't real; it was a temptation. Which, it seems to me, is a lot more painful, and therefore more powerful than giving up a chance for money. But the Religious Right are so screwed up about sex (no pun intended) that they couldn't see beyond that particular tree to what the movie (and book) was actually saying.

I somehow doubt "Black Christmas" is offering any sort of similar message, though. Though I bet that movie will feature sex prominently. In fact, really, the religious right should LOVE slasher films, since they all seem to say, "Have sex and a crazy axe/chainsaw/knives for glove fingers wielding guy will kill you." Heck, I'm surprised they aren't organizing church groups to go see the film-- look what happens when you have sex on Christmas!