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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAll Hell Breaks Loose On ‘Rotten Tomatoes’ After Kirk Cameron Begs His FB Fans For Positive Reviews
http://samuel-warde.com/2014/11/kirk-cameron-rotten-tomatoes/Oh, Kirk Cameron, what has happened to you? Oh, Chelsea Noble, youre awfully quiet, what must be going through your head these days? I have to ask.
Perhaps the best thing about Camerons new movie, Saving Christmas is the way it has effectively inspired viewers to tap into their higher, more artful natures in search of how best to describe this attempted assault on holiday movie audiences everywhere.
The former teen heartthrobs latest cinematic fiasco tells the tale of Camerons brother-in-law who has lost the spirit of Christmas. Cameronwhose mannerisms and facial expressions seem to indicate all of his marbles have evaporated into outer spaceattempts to convince his b.i.l. named Christian, (?) that all of the materialism associated with the holiday is, in fact, all good and well because it is how we honor Jesus.
A thinking individual might be confused as to how celebrating materialism puts the Christ back into Christmas when Jesus despised materialism. No matter, logic is a foreigner here. Cameron goes on to sound the War on Christmas dog whistle brought on by those who have the audacity to wish you Happy Holidays. Then the whole thing wraps up with a hip-hop dance off.
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exboyfil
(17,862 posts)ProfessorPlum
(11,253 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)A self inflicted reputation.
jmowreader
(50,530 posts)Just the trailer makes me want to ask Santa and the Baby Jesus for a battalion of howitzers and the coordinates of Kirk Cameron's house; I don't want to think about what watching the whole movie would do!
cali
(114,904 posts)I can't stop laughing.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)You might think that most right-thinking people, even those who wholeheartedly embrace the season, would have little reason to argue with such sentiment, especially when delivered by someone who is taking pains to keep it to himself so as not to spoil the mood. Well, Kirk has something to say about that and it boils down to "You're all wrongyou drank the Kool-Aid." To his eyes, every gaudy symbol of the season that is putting Christian off has deep-seated religious roots, and only by venerating them in the most ostentatious manner imaginable can one be truly close to God. Take Christmas trees and Santa Claus, for exampleeven though such things are never mentioned in the Bible, Kirk uses cherry-picked Biblical details, a certain degree of extrapolation and no small amount of smugness ("Last I checked, God made the Winter Solstice" to prove his points with such stunning finality that Christian instantly realizes that he has been the jerk all along for "terrorizing" his family by not realizing, for example, that the giant stack of presents under the tree can suggest the skyline of the new Jerusalem.
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/saving-christmas-2014
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)That most would not see on DU. So I decided to take a look at the preview to see if all the hoopla is warranted. Wow! A horrid mess. If I refuse to see this, I know it is horrible!
Ghost of Tom Joad
(1,354 posts)Plan 9 From Outer Space as the worst film ever made.
MADem
(135,425 posts)bmbmd
(3,088 posts)back in Christmas.
classof56
(5,376 posts)I mean, it fits so perfectly in the human hand, what else but Intelligent Design could account for that?
And then there were those indescribably awful Left Behind movies. Maybe Kirk should get himself a red-letter Bible (the ones where Jesus' words are printed in red ink) and refresh his memory as to what his Lord and Savior actually taught. Just a thought..
LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)I'll go.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)i hope he gets some help.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)The thought of actually seeing him move and hearing him talk is just more than I could ever endure. I'd rather muck the reindeer stalls for eternity than sit through 80 minutes of this! *shudder*
bluesbassman
(19,361 posts)was so he could throw Himself a big birthday bash.
Poor Kirk, all that blow on the set back in the eighties has left a mark.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)The plea for positive reviews smells faintly of an actor's desperation rather than of evangelism. I'm sure he'd like to continue to be employed.
William769
(55,144 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)These productions aimed for the "Christian" audience are worse than anything put on Lifetime/Hallmark.
Initech
(100,042 posts)But some of those comments had me rolling:
"Jesus preached love, tolerance and non-violence. But this movie is so bad it would make Jesus want to bitch slap Kirk Cameron. Lori G"
"Ive had hemorrhoids more enjoyable than this movie. John M"
"This movie turned me from bisexual to full lesbian. Ashlee V"
FSogol
(45,452 posts)a shitty HOLIDAY movie." - Frank Conniff