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Evan Almighty

2007-06-24

OK, I will preface this post clarifying that I haven't spent my $9.00 yet to see the movie. But I have been waiting for it to open, since I saw the previews. It has a great cast, and it is a sequel in a sense to Bruce Almighty. Now we are following Evan Baxter on his journey.

I don't listen to paid critics. Normally they don't like these kind of movies, and if you vaguely follow what happens at Cannes, the small indie film wins with a political statement or the like. Yawn. Regardless of what you believe, if a movie is made from that Producer/Writer/Directors views, its still their views and not all sides of the story, so I'll take a pass.

What I do like to check out though is IMDB.com under normal circumstances. Its a great resource for basically every movie out there, and its a useful tool. Like a song in a soundtrack and can't think of what it is? You can find it there.

So last night, I decided to check out IMDB for Evan Almighty. Ratings by the public weren't great, but it still didn't deter me from wasting money or time. What I was kind of interested in were the comments left by viewers.

Now regardless of what my beliefs are now, based on my experiences in life and with people, I still believe you have to take your kids to church to give them basics. When they are older and experience life then they can make their own decisions but everyone should at least have some kind of moral compass. But it was apparent to me reading the threads, that some of the younger viewers didn't even know the story of  Noah's Ark.  Some viewers didn't understand at all why the animals were in the movie, and thought it would be a better story without them. Must be vegetarians.

Other users took it upon themselves to attempt to educate the unknowing about the biblical story, but it was met with disbelief. Someone even explained what a rainbow meant as "gods promise to never flood the earth again" to which another user replied, and I'm sure was told as a child, that a rainbow was a sign that " a puppy had just been born."  LOL, Oh my, if that were the case it would be gay paradise every spring... and in case anyone cares , here's the meaning attributed to the stripes on the rainbow flag that is used to denote gay friendly establishments:

  • red: light;
  • orange: healing;
  • yellow: sun;
  • green: calmness;
  • blue: art;
  • lilac: the spirit;

That's from the maker of the flag Gilbert Baker whose been turning them out since 1978. Now they've thrown an 8 colored version out there that came out Valentines Day that seems to be drawing puzzled looks throughout the gay community. LOL..silly homosexuals. Now don't get me wrong, I have plenty of gay friends. Which for any straight woman would mean one, I happen to have three, but don't see them as much anymore.  But we'll let the gays have their 6 colored flag, as anyone knows there are 7 colors in a real rainbow. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Indigo. Which when you view a normal rainbow, as I did last week red is on top, unless you are viewing a double rainbow where the second bow has the colors inverted. But I've gone offtrack, but at least it was a colorful and somewhat educational one.

I was channel flipping as I ate my breakfast and only half paying attention to the tv, when I heard Steve Carrols familiar voice. It was the making of the movie, and after watching that, made me decide that I would take the time to view it, not necessarily for the story, but the logistics and effort that went into producing it.

The movie has the most number of animals ever used in an epic production, the Producer is a green freak, and he even went so far as to donate the wood used to build the ark to Habitat for Humanity. He bought 400 bicylcles for everyone to get around on except for Morgan Freeman, owning up to his last name and age I suppose, he was driven around, which proves that the universe does even thing out even in the cinematic world. 10 points if you get the reference.

So for the movie to break even they just have to take in 250 million which was what it cost to produce this film. Before you think to yourself how big budgets are getting, they filmed most of this in Virginia and had to either build barns or rent them out for all the animals and lord knows how much it cost to feed elephants, bears, and the like. Shame about the gripper..that was a free meal....just kidding.

I go to the movies to be entertained and regardless of the flack the movie is taking, I like the cast, and it will get me out of the house and off the computer for a couple of hours, but I will wait for a rainy day. Nothing like setting the mood. 

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surrogate (2007-06-24)
I get the ten points Miss Witqueen.

Author3000 (2007-06-24)
Mind if I add you on my blogroll. It would be great if you add me too.

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