Cinematically Incorrect
Last week, I feuded with a couple of readers about the relative merits of An American Carol compared to Bill Maher’s Religulous (you didn’t miss anything). Someone pointed out that as a documentary, Maher’s film had out-performed expectations.
Documentary? Not so much:
CNN looks into complaints from people appearing in the new Bill Maher film, Religulous, that filmmakers misrepresented their aims in interviews. Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) claims to have been taken out of context, but others claim that Maher and director Larry Charles flat-out lied. Both of them admit to it.
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In the end, a documentary exploiting the extremists in any endeavor for laughs does nothing but feed the smug superiority of the filmmakers. It’s the worst kind of self-indulgence, and in this case exposes the bigotry of Maher and Charles. We already knew that much about Maher, and now we know he’s also intellectually dishonest as well, without the courage to stand in front of his project and have a valid debate….
Quoth Ed Morrissey, and it’s hard to top that.
Except to add that no one cares.
No one cares.
No one cares.