Isn't Hollywood unholy?
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We've been screaming for years that Christian folks are a large market looking for a\ngood movie to take their families to see," says Hank Erwin, an Alabama state senator and Christian broadcaster. "They like movies like\nanybody else but don't like to be insulted." \n\n\nThose in showbiz, not surprisingly, largely disagree with the notion that they're spiritually bankrupt. "Hollywood isn't a godless place, but the\npeople who run the major entertainment companies are a pretty homogenous group and don't understand where the rest of the country is,"\nsays producer Gavin Polone (Panic Room and Curb Your Enthusiasm), whose miniseries based on the Book of Revelation will air on NBC in\nthe fall.
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trust me ..any Hollywood movie will portray us as bad as possible!...it's called propaganda!
422686
You have to remember that Hollywood is made to believe certain things, and think that life in certain countries like the states brink loads of alcohol.. but in fact in the states and the uk.. n everywhere alcohol is always taken but depending on the family it depends how much alcohol they take..
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Respectable?? NO. Lucrative?? Yes.   The problem here is that business is about making money, and making money is the only concern. Porn is degrading and exploitive, but you can buy plenty of respectability with the huge amounts of money that a porn star rakes in.
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I'm Catholic, and if I want to be told that I'm evil and going to Hell, I'll log onto Yahoo!Answers for free, rather than paying Tom Hanks $11.00 plus popcorn.\n\nThank you!
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Actually yes. It's just a lot of slashing and blood. They is no point to watching those movies. It just encourages people to kill. I mean, what's the point? I totally agree with you and I think what draws us to watch them is probably the crave to watch movies.
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When people make such a big deal out of these so called movie stars. \nIn my book most of them just got a lucky break, and they need to realize it. And people should stop feeding they're ego.
686473
Election of a government in USA is one great movie and I guess hollywood is taking lessons from that hyperbole. Can you ever undermine the acting skills of a politician? How good would be the actors in front of hardcore politicians? Have you not seen politicians coming out to cameras with a wonderful plastic smile when they are into deepest of problems? Hollywood will never catch up with the US politicians - they have a class much higher than OSCAR. What have you missed in US in the last decade than in the Hollywood movies? You had sex, terror, fighting and what not!!
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Most conservatives dispise hollywood and the crap jobs they've been coming out with. Movies have gotten horrible with violence and language. Why even use cuss words? Does it make that actor 'cooler'?
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well , Hollywood appears to set the standard for stereotypes i suppose.  Me , I was born in San Francisco and lived in L.A. for a bit, bit lived most of my life in a non-descript little crime addled town in Northern California.  Now i live in a Mid-south U.S. town that has nowhere near the crime rate of bigger cities, the people are real genuine and polite, and everyone can have all that overpopulated road rage rat race.  As far as i'm concerned , people in "Small Town America" are way better off than anyone else! So they shouldn't knock it till they.......nevermind - stay away , we're doin fine without them.
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No.  It is interesting to me that the same people who bash Christians and deny the authority of the entire Bible are always the first to jump on the latest theological bandwagon as long as it runs contrary to accepted beliefs.  Take for instance the Divinci Code.  Now the hot topic is the gospel of Judas.  It reminds me of the way Hollywood is quick to make movies about the powers associated with the devil and demons, but rarely makes one portraying God's side of the picture.  How many horror movies have been made about demons?  How many movies have been made about Christian faith?  Beware of the latest fad -ALWAYS!  To me the good news about the latest debate is that anyone seriously engaged in it, has already admitted some very basic truths.  Namely that Jesus existed, that he was crucified, that his follower Judas handed him over to the authorities.  Those truths have never been in question.  Any historian will tell you that the life of Jesus is THE most well documented event in history.  That in itself should tell you something.
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It's a ploy by Hollywood to keep people from pirating their movies. They have to set examples by suing someone. Look at the case against Napster-it was a similar intent by the record companies to keep people from cutting into their massive profits.
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If one's faith is so weak that it is undermined by a work of fiction, then there's something wrong with the person not the book.  Why does a fictional book and movie which by the accounts I've read was rushed and not well put together threaten some religious people so much?  Is it really that scary a prospect for people to examine their faith?   I don't understand it.  But hey, if people want to boycott, more power to them, it won't hurt the theaters.
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I think we're secretly blood-thirsty beneath the veneer of civility and restraint we use in day-to-day life. Not that it's all doom and gloom, but there's some allure to  blood lust, some sense of primacy and immediacy in violence. It's mostly, of course, denied, dealt with, whatever. But I think the films are made because we'll continue to watch them, we'll continue to devour one stylized scene of blood spatter on a white wall after another. And while I don't necessarily enjoy, say, gangster flicks or whatnot, I certainly don't stomp out of the room when Al Pacino's just beating the living hell out of someone. Long and short of it, I think we're a bit transfixed by it, pulled toward by our ability to relate to it on some level and equally pulled away by our revulsion.
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Is that that Hollywood in India thing again?
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I'm sure it's difficult for some of them. But these people are actors, and it's their job to pretend they're something they're not. Some may agree with the messages of the movies and others might not. I guess it really depends on who you're talking about.
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Absolutely ... as a form of entertainment but not as a supernatural power.