Zack and Miri Make a Porno

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I'm pretty sure the wingnuts are somewhat tolerant of people poking fun at their religion itself, I didn't hear about any protests or the like when Religulous came out a few weeks ago, it's not like they're muslims.
Nipples and the word porno though? Tainting the youth of america, etc, etc.

There was a HUGE stink about Dogma from the Catholics. The only one who had their panties bunched about the donkey fucking was that film critic from ABC that just died recently.

"Dogma" had the most complaints lodged about it of any film released in that year, from memory.

[shiznitz]

I also saw Zack and Miri because Bond was sold out. I was pleasantly surprised. The wife liked it too. In fact, she probably was happy Bond was sold out. The naked girl tryout scene had me dying.

[Ingmar]

If they'd watched it they would have realized it was just some guy's totally deep junior high school thoughts about religion made into a movie with poop jokes and that they had nothing to fear.

While it had poop jokes it was actually a bit deeper than what you're making it out to be. It was just subtle. But when I watched it I was struck by how you could almost feel him working through his issues when he wrote the script. In fact, I find it parallels many of my own thoughts in this regard in that it takes a basic principle of a church and applies logic to it and then sees where it goes. IE, nowhere logical. I love that a paradox is worked in to show that if it works like the priests say, then reality can be undone.

Oh, and this is the movie that was picketed in Smith's town. He and I think Jason Mewes picketed it too with the other protesters and even got interviewed by a local reporter without him/her knowing who it was.

Subtle is maybe the very last word that should be used to describe that movie. 

[Sjofn]

Dogma might have not seemed to totally obvious and silly to non-Catholics, maybe. But Dogma was basically putting on film what every Catholic high schooler angsts about. And it's really just not that interesting. 

Not that Ingmar is Catholic. He's a dirty heathen.

[HaemishM]

NECRO!

Saw this on DVD this weekend and loved it. If you like pr0n, or Kevin Smith movies and can stand Seth Rogen, this is hilarious. It's a romantic comedy for guys. Worst part - seeing Seth Rogen's OOOHHHH face. Funniest (and wrongest) part - "SHE FROSTED ME LIKE A CAKE!"

[Selby]

Saw this the other week and must say I agree with Haemish.  It didn't really annoy me at all and there were some genuinely funny moments that don't come around too often in a movie like this.

[Fraeg]

saw it about a week ago on dvd the two disc bonus thingies version.  I enjoyed it, but I have to be honest, the bonus material was at some points more interesting than the actual film. Justin Long's parts were  and I do mean Drilling and Manliness and there is a quite a bit more of that in the bonus material.  Katie Morgan's interviews brought a smile to my face at just the sheer  of her personality.  My favorite quote from her was something along the lines of "wow, my first film thats actually being seen on a movie screen and not just straight to dvd"



It was the first Seth Rogan film I had ever seen, now after seeing Pineapple Express I can understand the dislike oh him, but he is a bit more low key in Zack and Miri.

[K9]

Justin Long made the movie for me, the rest I found fairly meh and below what I am used to from Kevin Smith.

This isn't Seth Rogen's best film, better than Pineapple Express, but he puts in a much better show in Superbad, Knocked up and the 40yo Virgin.

[HaemishM]

For some reason, I alwasy forget who Justin Long is and have to look him up. Yeah, his little performance was stellar in this. In fact, he made Die Hard 4 for me as well. Maybe he'll shake the "Annoying Mac Kid" typecast.