"An American Carol: What are conservative movie makers afraid of?"

[Robb]

An American Carol: What are conservative movie makers afraid of?



I've been asking the folks distributing and publicizing David Zucker's conservative satire An American Carol about whether or not they're previewing this Kesley Grammer, Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper Christmas Carol spoof about a Michael Moore-styled leftist documentarian who is visited by various ghosts from America's past and "sees the light" and becomes a righteous conservative.

Naturally, I've been getting the run around. I say "naturally" because this movie's pre-release previews are following pages from the Conservative and Christian conservative film release playbook. As in "We don't want this discussed, don't want its point of view or "facts' vetted by skeptics. Let's show it only to fellow travelers."

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Oy. :eyes:

[YOY]

1. They can't do comedy.

They're too nasty and spiteful.

And putting voices to the founding fathers without knowing who or what they were is sickening.

They could make me "see their light" if their policies actually worked. They don't. They haven't. And those that half have had effect have had far worse repercussions.

[Puglover]

3. You're right.

Remember that god awful fox show? Right wingers cannot do comedy. This movie will more then likely get panned (rightfully so) and they will howl about the liberal media.

[YOY]

5. I try to forget that show but "Don't Tell Mama...I'm for Obama" sticks in my craw...

Ebonics coming from white folks or even black folks trying to parody for less-than-jovial spiteful purposes sickens me.

Putting the show on a "news" channel made it even more sickening.

[DesertRat]

8. That show was painfully unfunny

I'm sure that this movie will be a bomb as well.

[Marr]

2. Most of the founding fathers would've been disgusted by the Conservative movement.

It's the antithesis of everything they were trying to accomplish. They've trampled on the Constitution-- from individual rights to the dictatorial "unitary executive". Today's Conservatives would've been yesterday's Loyalists.

If they read many of Jefferson's writings they'd call him a godless pinko.

[LeftinOH]

4. The very premise -that filmmaker 'Michael Malone' (Michael Moore) would try to abolish July 4th-

is stooooooooopid. It grossly misrepresents the intent of Michael Moore's work: Question authority = traitor.

[Dukkha]

6. It will bomb as hard as Ben Stein's god awful (pun intended) documentary

His propaganda film pushing creationism in schools failed miserably on a multitude of levels.

This type of comedy fails because it only works on the premise that the story is told from the perspective of a minority viewpoint thats strives to overcome oppression of its ideals. You cannot rally in support of the majority repressive establishment. It just doesn't work as a comedy and comes off as vindictive, condescending, and mean.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Young people today just love conservatives.

The 16 to 30 crowd is just falling over themselves to vote for McCain, and I'm sure they'll rush out to see this movie.