Comments on: Weekend Box Office: Anti-Religion “Invention of Lying,” Great “Zombieland,” Butch Feminist “Whip It,” Mikey Moore Agit-Prop

By: Stefan Fairweather

Stefan Fairweather — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:37:12 +0000

Wow, you Debbie schl-whatever, are the reason the world hates America. How many poor Americans must be cringing in their socks at the verbal diatribe you poison the electronic world with? 3 1/2 reagans (that murdering goon doesn’t get a capital letter) – give me a break – lol!
Hail bejesus full of toast, i lay thee down to snore – haha!!

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:10:24 +0000

This is obviously a politically-feuled and incredibly biased site. I’m not a liberal, but keep your politics out of your reviews for films…bringing them up as much as you do is unprofessional.
Also, it really pisses me off that Christians seem to think that movies should ONLY be made for them. There are plenty of movies that cater to the Christian audience, but when one is released that caters to atheists, you go on a rage about it?

By: ebayer

ebayer — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:59:00 +0000

Rented ZombieLand yestarday:

OMG.did that suck!

Debbie,love ya babe,but that was a complete waste of time and money.Sooooooo predicatable and repetitive.There’s a zombie:shoot him,repeat as often as necessary.

I can’t believe you enjoyed that nonsense.I had to fast forward through it in order to make it to the end.Otherwise,there’s no way I could’ve sat through the whole thing.

By: Pandora

Pandora — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:35:52 +0000

I recently watched the Invention of Lying and couldn’t help but feel turned off to the mockery of his version of the ten commandments on pizza boxes. I don’t care if some people find it ridiculous to think it’s offensive or not, I agree with your statements. I also find it comedic that people will argue with one another over what they believe. Who cares what someone else thinks or writes, I’m not going to say down with Ricky Gervais b/c he’s not a Christian. That’s his perogative such is the same as mine to not watch that film again. Let’s just agree to disagree and keep religion or anit-religion out of Hollywood period. There was much more that could have been done w/ that script seeing as being the first man to ever be able to tell a lie is monumental.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:31:30 +0000

hey to say invention of lying is anti religious is ridiculous!
if he did this movie and didnt do the whole religion thing it would be a massive cop out done just so they didnt offend. me as someone who doesnt believe in god or religion doesnt think bruce almighty or dogma or the millions of movies tv shows books music ect that say there is a god are offensive,its ENTERTAINMENT if you dont find it entertaining thats one thing but to attack this movie for being “anti-religion” is like attacking the bible for being pro-religion its beyond stupid, how many mainstream movies do people who dont believe in religion have anyway jeeez and your attacking the one movie weve ever had that says what we feel I FIND YOU OFFENSIVE how about them apples?

By: HuwOS

HuwOS — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:23:05 +0000

The writer is Jewish for some reason pandering to the pseudo christian loons so prevalent in the states.
Even so, expressions of such hatred towards this movie’s treatment of religion is still the far greater insult to people who believe in religion than the mild mockery in the film.

By: HuwOS

HuwOS — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:44:29 +0000

The invention of lying is a disappointingly poor comedy.
But criticism of it for being anti-religion is just pathetic, knee jerk stupidity.
Its a world in which there were no lies, no comforting lies, no hope giving lies, so no religion. You and everyone else knows darn well that even should a god of any kind exist, what we actually could have evidence to reasonably claim to know the truth of is zilch.
Gervais’ character creates his man in the sky to comfort his dying mother, other people want to know about this afterlife so he tells them. They ask the questions that demand more answers, do bad people have a wonderful afterlife too etc etc.
So he answers them trying to stay consistent to his story and what people know of real life.
To see how you could end up with anything radically different from the Hebrew style god is difficult, valhalla wouldn’t comfort many old women.
At worst its gentle poking of fun at religion, not out and out hatred, which seems to be the emotion a certain type of person jumps to in reaction to anything but veneration of their chosen crutch, that that certain type of person would style themselves as christian would be an far greater insult to christianity than this movie was.
One thing I will say though, the statement that
“Ricky Gervais . . . Bill Maher’s English counterpart”
a complement if ever there was one.

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