Adrian Corscadden
re·li·gu·lous – adjective
1. When religious ideas, beliefs, claims are patently absurd, comical, ridiculous.
Religulous is not just a new word to rememberize, it is also the name of the upcoming Bill Maher documentary. It is slated to be released on easter, but IMBD is reporting that it won’t be released until June in the US.
I am not quite sure what to expect from religulous. I really don’t know Maher that well, apart from some his atheist monologues on youtube (if you haven’t seen them, check one out here; it’s a gooder). With directing from Larry Charles, the director of Borat, I am expecting it to be more of a comedy than a serious intellectual movie. Bill Maher is too well known to pull off Borat type humour, but I think that he will be able to achieve Michael Moore style comedy, even though Maher denies this.
Here is Maher on Religulous:
“We talked to everybody. We went everywhere. We went to every place where there is religion. We went to Vatican City. We went to Jerusalem. We went to Salt Lake City. And I think I’ve insulted everybody!”
Apart from Maher’s interview on Larry King (embedded below), there is little information about this upcoming documentary. I hope that it actually makes it out by easter. It’ll be a good laugh.
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I haven’t heard of the movie but you can be sure I’ll be there opening weekend. Two years ago, over Christmas break, we had a 14 hour drive to go camping on the other side of Saudi. We borrowed an audiobook from the library to listen to on the ride down. It was written by, and narrated by Maher. It was humours and poignant at the same time, check it out, it’s called “When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden”
This is going to be gooooood! :p
Hadn’t heard about this movie, but then I’m often a “Let’s wait til it’s out on cable” kind of gal. :o) Now you’ve gotten me curious!
[...] Mayer 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 [...]
Interesting to note that it is against the law in Italy to publicly mock the Catholic Church, so this movie will probably be banned by the censors (in a supposedly modern liberal western democracy….???????)