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    Default Darwin Movie not picked up in America

    Not sure if this has found it way here yet but

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...s-America.html

    Interesting, kinda of sad i would have like to seen it personally, thank you to all the dumb in my country, really.

    Anywho what are your thoughts and as always /discuss
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    how USA ever became a superpower with such imbeciles holding such power is a mystery to me

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    Quote Originally Posted by Exarch View Post
    how USA ever became a superpower with such imbeciles holding such power is a mystery to me
    What power?

    This was movie companies not taking a movie they think they will lose resources to.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Exarch View Post
    how USA ever became a superpower with such imbeciles holding such power is a mystery to me
    Yeah they know its wrong, it can be proved its wrong and yet they still cling to their ancient way of being controlled.
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    What a bunch of pathetic fundies.
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    ...With a typical comment dismissing evolution as "a silly theory with a serious lack of evidence to support it despite over a century of trying".

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    Quote Originally Posted by House M.D View Post
    Nay, good sir. The fail present in this incident transcends a double facepalm.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Poach View Post
    Nay, good sir. The fail present in this incident transcends a double facepalm.

    i was thinking this personally
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    I'll never understand it. Maybe it's just me, but I have no problems with sitting in a church talking about evolution.

    Anywho what are your thoughts and as always /discuss
    My thoughts? Read a book if you want to learn about Darwin. Like On the Origin of Species.
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    Sorry, but in America the government does not choose what movies are shown and what are not. It clearly says no distributor would pick it up, meaning no PRIVATE enterprise thought it was worth it to distribute the movie.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tiberius Tosi View Post
    Sorry, but in America the government does not choose what movies are shown and what are not. It clearly says no distributor would pick it up, meaning no PRIVATE enterprise thought it was worth it to distribute the movie.
    Precisely, if they thought it would make money they would pick it up. I find it hard to believe they wouldn't simply because the issue is controversial in America, controversy sells........
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tiberius Tosi View Post
    Sorry, but in America the government does not choose what movies are shown and what are not. It clearly says no distributor would pick it up, meaning no PRIVATE enterprise thought it was worth it to distribute the movie.
    That's probably much worse than a government censoring it.
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    That's probably much worse than a government censoring it.
    Private investors did not think it was worth the money, how is that worse than government censorship. This more or less proves that it was just a bad movie, as were it a good movie it would be highly controversial and get a big buzz about it which = box office tickets.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tiberius Tosi View Post
    Private investors did not think it was worth the money, how is that worse than government censorship. This more or less proves that it was just a bad movie, as were it a good movie it would be highly controversial and get a big buzz about it which = box office tickets.
    You mean like they are trying to do now?

    I think the official term for what they are doing would be 'being played'.

    US is the biggest single movie market out there. This movie would be a dog, most people just don't have the education to care enough to shell out what a movie theater charges, so lets claim censorship due to fundies.

    Someone is now going to pick it up, at a high asking price, and off it goes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tiberius Tosi View Post
    Private investors did not think it was worth the money, how is that worse than government censorship. This more or less proves that it was just a bad movie, as were it a good movie it would be highly controversial and get a big buzz about it which = box office tickets.
    Because it means that the government doesn't really need to censor it itself. The public itself already accepted the dogmas and are in no way interested in understanding of different ideas and well scientific facts. Such a society is simply rotten and highly ignorant. It's much much worse.
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    Because it means that the government doesn't really need to censor it itself. The public itself already accepted the dogmas and are in no way interested in understanding of different ideas and well scientific facts. Such a society is simply rotten and highly ignorant. It's much much worse.
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    At least his non-review can claim to run twice as long as the Telegraph's unabashed praise.


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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDarkLordSeth View Post
    Because it means that the government doesn't really need to censor it itself. The public itself already accepted the dogmas and are in no way interested in understanding of different ideas and well scientific facts. Such a society is simply rotten and highly ignorant. It's much much worse.
    As I stated in an earlier post, 60% believe in evolution in the US (30% believe God had a force or helping hand behind it, hence the creation of humans) so that is hardly the majority that don't believe in Evolution. Perhaps it is the movie itself that is not good, and so no one was willing to risk the high asking price to buy the rights to show it in the US (the US is the highest grossing country and costs a lot to get rights to show in) because they didn't think the movie was good enough to make a profit.

    Controversy over the movie would only make those that would generally not care to see the movie only want to see it more. Sure you would get protests, but so did you for The Last Temptation of Christ, The Davinci Code, Passion of the Christ, and all them did great in box office sales. Perhaps the movie is seen as too dry and talky talky for American audiences, so it would not receive good sales and would not be worth the high buying price.
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    A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer.
    Maybe its because maybe the movie sucks...

    Anyways too controversial is never a reason that a movie isn't picked. The Da Vinci Code has a sequel, movies about 9-11 have been made, Brokeback Mountain had its controversy. Hollywood loves controversial movies.
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    It's a nice movie suited for TV early evening.
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