Last week, a lot of new information was revealed about Bill Maher’s upcoming movie, Religulous. I have been tracking the term religulous with google alerts and my inbox has exploded with stories. I started tracking the term about a month ago and had received about 5 alerts about it in the first 3 weeks. Over this past week, I have received over 50 alerts.
Here is a roundup of the writing from around the blogosphere that I found to be the most interesting.
Religulous was originally planned to be released around easter, but easter came and went and the movie didn’t get released. At the time, I was left wondering why Maher’s camp was quiet about the film not getting released. It was not until I read Phil Brown’s article that I realized this was due to the writer’s strike, which I had completely forgotten about. I guess this is because I don’t watch enough TV.
Slashfilm was one of the first blogs to notice and post the new trailer, which is where I found out about it in the first place. They had good statements from both Larry Charles and Bill Maher:
Set to the rhythms of Sympathy for the Devil and Jesus Walks, from the Western Wall to the Vatican, from self-professed messiahs to self professed Pariahs, we will not only expose the hypocrisy and corruption in organized religion but the absurdly hilarious logic that holds it together. – Larry Charles
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As a comedian, religion has always interested me — it was the single easiest subject to make jokes about. I think that tells us something: comedians look for things that don’t make sense, that are illogical.
Join me in the final battle between intelligence and stupidity that will decide the future of humanity. Coming soon to a house of false idols near you. – Bill Maher
Not everyone found the trailer funny….
Rama over at Rama’s Screen missed out on the humour:
Religulous has hit the web and Bill Maher surprisingly is not as funny as he is on his show.
Eddie couldn’t even come up with any ideas of his own to diss the film. He just copied and pasted some weird poetry that sounds pretty ancient and hardly makes sense, instead of coming up with any arguments himself.
There was a wide range of reactions, but overall most were positive. Even some humour blogs, like gorillasushi, posted the trailer. I am actually pretty surprised about how little controversy it has stirred up. I am sure people will start voicing their opinions closer to release time.
If you still haven’t seen the trailer, check it out here.
This is for my mom, who has one of these in front of her computer.
On Friday, I announced that Bill Maher’s new movie, Religulous, got a new site, but I still moaned that a trailer hasn’t been released yet. My prayers were answered today, with news of a new trailer.
Check it out below. (Here’s a link for HD versions)
I was planning on avoiding anything to do with religion this Friday, as I have had quite a few comments to deal with this last week. I am not complaining about them, as sparking some controversy was my plan from the start.
Bill Maher is currently working on a movie called Religulous, which I have blogged about previously. There has been little news about the movie since his interview on Larry King Live. On that interview, he announced that he was planning on releasing the movie around easter. Easter has now passed, and religulous didn’t get released. The new site, disbeliefnet.com, is claiming that it will show up in theaters on October 2nd.
It looks like there is quite a bit of content on the new site, which I haven’t had an indepth look at yet. Done in Mayer’s normal satirical style, the site has many articles done in a similar fashion to the onion.
PS…..there’s still no trailer
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