Godless Movies
Normally I don’t give a plug to an organization that rates movie not on artistic merit, but on how they offend Christian values. I’ve never quite understood how being a Christian means you have to be a right-winger, but somehow in most media outlets, that is how it plays out.
This preamble brings me to Movieguide: A Family Guide to Movies and Entertainment. Recently, Movieguide, in partnership with the Christian Film & Television Commission, announced the Rotten Banana Awards: The 20 Most Unbearable Movies of 2006. Turns out I agree with a few of the choices and I must give them their props for coming up with creative categories.
For example, they gave the Pontius Pilate Award in the category of Worst attack on historical biblical truth to The Da Vinci Code. If we stuck to the historical truth of the bible women would still be second-class citizens, and slavery would still be an accepted practice.
While I didn’t see a movie called The Celestine Prophecy, I love this award title: The Shirley MacLaine Lunacy Award for Worst New Age adventure.
And, I agreed with this notion: Best Case for Closing the Borders Award, which goes to Borat for Worst American ambush comedy.
Here’s one that is a bit puzzling, even for war mongering rightists: the Benedict Arnold Award to Letters From Iwo Jima for Worst anti-American revisionist history. It’s an anti-war film you jackasses!
Not to mention the Socialist Fear Mongering Award that goes to An Inconvenient Truth for Worst Environmental hysteria documentary. Socialist? Environmental hysteria? What, you want New Jersey to fall into the ocean?
Of course I do applaud the Red State Slander Award with goes to Talladega Nights for Worst Ridicule of the Bible belt.