Someone posted this in GD, and I had to share. This is what we have to deal with.

[pink-o]

This POS waste of celluloid (yeah, I know: Bandwith. But the former sounds better) actually got produced and is in IMBD. I'm sure if there was a Jesus he would weep for the unlimited ignorance of his followers.

[Tobin S.]

1. Yeah, I'm probably not going to see that one.

There were enough shitty cliques in the trailer to blot out a Christmas tree. I wouldn't want to sit through two hours of that.

[NastyRiffraff]

2. Looks like a well done, beautifully produced film

Not.

It bombed at the box office. Big surprise.

[Curmudgeoness]

3. "He hates god"

I love that one. No no no no no. They just don't get it. We do not hate god. God does not exist. How can we hate something that doesn't exist.

Gotta love that in the end, he is turned around. The traditional happy ending. Kinda like Bambi's mother getting killed.

[pink-o]

4. And the most ridiculous thing: I have NO problem wishing someone Merry Xmas

Just cuz I don't believe in fairy tales and I'm aware that Early Xians hijacked a solstice celebration and called it the birth of the Messiah doesn't mean I'm gonna ruin someone else's joy. I also don't eat meat; I don't go around criticizing carnivores.

The idea of the evil, immoral atheist is such a stereotype.

[PassingFair]

5. Hey! I posted that!

Meant it as a joke!

My family actually WATCHED it at Christmas last year or the year before for laughs....
which it DID deliver.

[onager]

6. Mitch BRIGHT?!?

OK, so one of the writers heard that atheists were re-branding themselves as "Brights" and worked that into the script. But they didn't hear that many atheists thought it was a really dumb idea (including me, FWIW).

And what's even funnier? Having "Mitch Bright" played by the quantumly stupid Daniel Baldwin.

If you need more Daniel Baldwin, you can occasionally find him - appropriately enough - on TRU-TV's "World's 20 Dumbest xxxxxx" show series. He's one of that show's crew of former Z-grade celebs, along with Danny Bonaduce, Todd Bridges and Tanya Kneecapwhacker.

[Act_of_Reparation]

7. Stephen Baldwin must have been unavailable....

...though I can't imagine just what in the hell he could have been doing... certainly not starring in good movies. He hasn't done that since The Usual Suspects.

[onager]

8. Stephen was in one of my favorite movies...

"The Beast." Low-budget 1988 movie about a Russian tank crew that gets isolated and stalked in Afghanistan. (Though it was filmed in Israel, since the real Russian/Afghan war was still in progress at the time.)

One crew member is an Afghani and a Muslim. He gets some good lines about reconciling Marx with Allah.

It makes interesting watching nowadays, considering everything that has happened in Afghanistan since the 1980s.

[Iggo]

9. Hell of an ending, too.

I like that movie.