Religiulous

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Has anyone seen this Movie yet?...it came out yesterday,its about the topic of religion and all that entails...Bill Maher is in it....was just curious if anyone has seen it yet...how was it~!.......Zerker
 
any movie mentioning fahrenheit 9-11 in its commercials I automatically assume is retarded
 
OLYMPIAN said:
Did Warner Bros misspell the title like that on purpose??
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Religulous
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Religulous

Theatrical poster
Directed by Larry Charles
Produced by Bill Maher
Jonah Smith
Palmer West
Starring Bill Maher
Distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment
Release date(s) October 1, 2008 (NY and LA)
October 3, 2008 (limited)
Running time 101 min.
Country United States
Language English
Official website
Allmovie profile
IMDb profile

Religulous is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Larry Charles and starring political comedian Bill Maher. According to Maher, the title of the film is a portmanteau derived from the words "religion" and "ridiculous," implying the satirical nature of the documentary that is meant to mock the concept of religion and the perceived problems it brings about.[1]
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* 1 Contents
o 1.1 Interviews
* 2 Production
* 3 Reception
o 3.1 Critical
o 3.2 Commercial success
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

[edit] Contents

A range of views on the various world religions are explored as Bill Maher travels to numerous religious destinations, such as Jerusalem, the Vatican, and Salt Lake City, interviewing believers from a variety of backgrounds and groups, including Jews for Jesus, Christians, Muslims, polygamists, Satanists, Hasidic Jews and Ra?l of the Ra?lian Movement.[2][3][4] He travels to Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, London and satirically preaches Scientology beliefs.[5][6]

[edit] Interviews

* George Coyne, former director of the Vatican Observatory.
* Father Reginald Foster, Catholic priest, senior Vatican scholar, Pope's principal Latinist.
* Pastor Jeremiah Cummings, or Jerry Cummings, former member of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. Cummings is founder of Amazing Life World Outreach in North Carolina.
* Ken Ham. young earth creationist and founder of Answers in Genesis.[7]
* Jos? Luis de Jes?s Miranda, founder of Growing In Grace International Ministry in Miami, Florida.
* Aki Nawaz, Muslim British rapper also known as Propa-Gandhi.
* Andrew Newberg, MD University of Pennsylvania research neuroscientist. Newberg discusses the process of imaging people's brains as they pray, meditate or speak in tongues.
* Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, spokesman for the anti-zionist organization Neturei Karta.
* Mark Pryor, the junior U.S. Senator from Arkansas and a believer in creationism.

[edit] Production

Maher stated he used a fake title for the film to obtain interviews: "We never, ever, used my name. We never told anybody it was me who was going to do the interviews. We even had a fake title for the film. We called it 'A Spiritual Journey.' It didn't work everywhere. We went to Salt Lake City, but no one would let us film there at all."[8] Creationist Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis, who appeared in the movie,[7] was critical of what he called Maher's "deception" to obtain the interview.[9][10]

The documentary was produced by Thousand Words and is being distributed by Lionsgate. Originally slated for an international release date coinciding with the Christian Easter holiday 2008 (March 23), post-production delays resulting from a screenwriters guild strike pushed the release date back to July 11, 2008.[11] The movie was released on October 3, 2008.[12]

[edit] Reception

[edit] Critical

Reviews for Religulous were generally positive, with some mixed and negative reviews. The film received a "Fresh" rating of 65% at Rotten Tomatoes based on 20 reviews,[13] and a "mixed" score of 55 out of 100 at Metacritic based on 29 reviews.[14] Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film a rating of three and a half out of four stars, and wrote: "I report faithfully that I laughed frequently. You may very well hate it, but at least you've been informed. Perhaps you could enjoy the material about other religions, and tune out when yours is being discussed. That's only human nature."[15] Roger Moore of The Orlando Sentinel gave the film a rating of four out of five stars,[5] as did Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News, who characterized Religulous as "Bill Maher at his best".[16] The film received a rating of three out of four stars from Kyle Smith of the New York Post.[17] Robert W. Butler of The Kansas City Star gave the film a rating of three stars, and commented: "The film is one-sided, less a measured argument than a bunch of rants and barbed observations. But it?s also very funny, which trumps everything else."[18] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a rating of A-, and wrote: "The movie is funny as...well, hell."[19] Steve Persall of the St. Petersburg Times also gave the film a rating of A-, and commented: "If he offends your particular faith, Maher will soon have you laughing at someone else's, wondering how 'those people' could be so gullible."[20]

The Canadian Press said the movie "delivers a laugh-out loud attack on the most sacred of cows."[21] Christie Lemire, of the Associated Press, wrote: "If you're an atheist or an agnostic, you'll be completely on board and happy to tag along with Maher as he travels the globe asking people about their faith - everywhere from Jerusalem to the Vatican to Amsterdam, where he finds not only the Cannabis Ministry but also a Muslim gay bar (with two people in it)."[22] John Anderson of Newsday wrote: "much that's funny, insightful and thought-provoking. But it certainly doesn't give the religious a lot of slack."[23] Jay Stone of Canwest News Service described the film as "hilarious, sacrilegious and exhausting".[24] Writing for Variety, Robert Koehler wrote that Maher has made a successful transition from a minor comic to a social critic: "Considering he was once a minor comic and a supporting thesp in generally awful film comedies, Maher?s transformation into one of America?s sharpest social critics is remarkable. He takes no script credit, but his periodic monologues to the camera are undeniably written, and written well."[25]

In a review for The New York Times, Stephen Holden wrote that "the movie has the same loose, on-the-road structure" as Larry Charles' previous film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and commented: "Much of Mr. Maher?s film is extremely funny in a similarly irreverent, offhanded way."[26] Claudia Puig of USA Today wrote: "those with a taste for irreverent humor and clear-eyed analysis will find it funny, enlightening and disturbing."[27] Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter characterized the film as "An often hilarious but relentlessly shallow attack on religious fundamentalism by humorist Bill Maher".[28] Louis Peitzman of the San Francisco Bay Guardian wrote that "It doesn't even matter that he goes out of his way to be offensive, as he's consistently funny enough to pull it off."[29] Scott Indrisek wrote at Style.com that: "Religulous earns many of its laughs from skillful editing, with Maher's interviews jazzed up by video clips".[30]

Some reviews have been negative. James Berardinelli wrote, "If the subject of religion is as important to Maher as he claims during his end comments, then he should have followed those words with actions and made a movie that's more than a sum of inauthentic interviews, ranting attacks, and obvious observations. The choir may hum along with Maher but the rest of those watching this movie will be singing the blues." [31] Nick Schager of Slant Magazine called it an "atheistic wannabe-dissection of modern faith" and compared it to Ben Stein's Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed in that he considered both films to have "[employed] a similar, debilitating brand of smug disingenuousness, feigning interest in discussion while arrogantly and speciously preaching in the very same manner that their subjects are ridiculed for". [32] Armond White wrote a critical review of the film in New York Press, and commented: "To scoff at the foundations of charity, justice and love that hold people together, that?s what?s ridiculous."[33] Ben Kenigsberg of Time Out New York gave the film a rating of three out of six stars, and wrote: "The worst scenes in Religulous are appalling for their methods; the best are appalling for their information."[34]

[edit] Commercial success

Religulous had a strong opening weekend with $3.5 million from an early October 1 release in LA and NY and also a limited 502 theater release, averaging $6,972 per theater making it #10 in the box office that weekend. Its per-screen receipts were almost thrice those of its diametrically opposite rival, the politically conservative "An American Carol", which actually edged out Religulous to finish at #9 over the same weekend, but had a per theater average of only $2,325.[35] Only the #1 movie, "Beverly Hills Chihuahua", at $9,020, had a higher per-sceen average than "Religulous".[36].
 
Sounds like another shitty anti-religious propaganda piece. You couldn't pay me to watch it.
 
It appears he just goes around and bash's everyones religion..
Pretty stupid if u ask me
 
ill go see it! hahaha

i actually heard it was very good, smart, and thought provoking.

wasnt him as much making fun. just people making fools out of themselves contradicting crazy beliefs. all u gotta do is give a religious nut a microphone and it's comedic gold
 
I may watch it when it comes out on the Internet if it hasn't already.

The thing is, I believe a certain way and it appears that Maher follows along my beliefs.

http://www.celebatheists.com/index.php?title=Bill_Maher

I believe he is trying to expose those that wish to profit off religious beliefs not unlike the WWE and their agenda, etc.

I despise those like Jim Bakker, Benny Hinn, etc.

# 1 List of Christian Evangelists

* 1.1 Aimee Semple McPherson, 1920s-40s
* 1.2 Lonnie Frisbee, 1970s - 1980s
* 1.3 Oral Roberts, 1977 and 1986
* 1.4 Jim & Tammy Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart, 1986 and 1991
* 1.5 Peter Popoff, 1987
* 1.6 Mike Warnke, 1991
* 1.7 Robert Tilton, 1991
* 1.8 Frank Houston, 2000
* 1.9 John Paulk, 2000
* 1.10 Douglas Goodman, 2004
* 1.11 Kent Hovind, 2006
* 1.12 Ted Haggard, 2006
* 1.13 Paul Barnes, 2006
* 1.14 Lonnie Latham, 2006
* 1.15 Richard Roberts, 2007
* 1.16 Bishop Earl Paulk, 2007
* 1.17 Coy Privette, 2007
* 1.18 Phil Driscoll, 2007
* 1.19 Joe Barron, 2008
* 1.20 Todd Bentley, 2008
* 1.21 Michael Guglielmucci, 2008
* 1.22 Tony Alamo, 2008
 
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