Isn’t that cute! And look who they got to make a cameo appearance…
Ted Haggard continues to get work. That’s amazing. Also amazing: the producers of this Christian non-sex non-comedy couldn’t afford to hire any real actors… but they could afford to license “All the Single Ladies” and “You Can’t Hurry Love.”
Marriage has been pretty unsucessful so far with a 50% plus divorce rate. I’m not sure why anyone would think abstinence is the answer.
@1: I don’t think they actually “think” abstinence is the answer – at least not for themselves; for everybody else, sure, but, you know, they’re “Spayshul”, so the rules they expect everyone else to follow to the letter don’t apply to them, or at least that’s the way it appears to me.
And Dan, by the time they paid for the licensing rights to those two songs, my guess is they didn’t have much left in their budget for anything else…
I think it looks kind of fun. The movie, that is.
Aww this actually looks pretty cute!
Looks like a badly made, very poorly acted rip-off of “The 40 Year Old Virgin.”
My guess is they are using the songs without permission. Time will tell.
COMTE, maybe think was the wrong word, I probably should have said believe. But then again everyone has their own belief system and is certainly entitled to it.
Can someone explain why 97% of heteros have premarital sex (they admit it in the trailer) but are never kicked out of homes by their parents, never told they’re going to Hell by their preachers (they are), never kicked out of Boy Scouts/military/certain jobs, never denied the right to marry by 60% of the voters in their state like I was? It is a sin just as much as gay sex is.
Yeah, Rob @7, “The 40 Year Old Virgin…By Choice”. I just can’t muster up much interest in the wacky hijinx that result from arbitrary self-denial. Oh well.
I dunno. It’s amateur, sure. And it has a silly POV. But it looked more genuine and much less cynical than say Atlas Shrugged (pt1). I might watch it. Could be the next Show Girls.
Are you sure?
Christians seem to have a fairly poor gr….
The website for this movie has the trailer and nothing else. Could this be some sort of viral marketing thing for abstinence? A really stupid viral marketing thing? The Birdemic-level production values might support that.
i would totally watch that movie. i love the girl from the church group. “you need jesus! with jesus comes wisdom of how to drive!”
I feel ashamed, but I laughed at “This little piggy went to Supercuts.”
Somehow I doubt that licensing a song for a movie actually costs much. It’s free advertising for the song, after all, and the rights owners stand to earn plenty from people who get it off iTunes after hearing it in the movie. It’s not in their financial interest, then, to charge a price that will lead to the moviemaker balking and finding a cheaper song.
I had a friend who lived this life. You should see the chick he eventually settled down with. I wouldn’t say it was worth the wait.
@17: you have no idea how crazy the protectionism goes for shit like this. You use their IP without paying a fee, they’ll nail you. Doesn’t even matter if you’re making money on it or not, “free advertising” or whatever. Unless you’re able to work directly with the artist, of course, but the big corporations that own the rights to most music? Uh-uh.
Yep. A shitty rip-off of “The 40 Year-Old Virgin”. With shitty lighting, shitting acting, shitty editing, and a kinda charming Rob Riggle-looking lead actor for whom I want better than this.
After watching the trailer I can tell this is filmed in Colorado Springs (where I currently live) and is the home of Focus on The family and The New Life Church (where Ted Haggard used to work).
Isn’t presenting marriage as something that one does specifically in order to have sex , like, seriously fucked-up in the Christian worldview (and possibly many other worldviews)? This thing is for real, you say?
I liked the Wii chess joke.