Comments on: I won’t be seeing Expelled, after all

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:46:05 +0000

I think it’s remarkably hard to make the riffing-on-a-bad-movie schtick hold up for ninety minutes. The MST3k people spent years honing their craft. It’d be easier to make a short video called, let’s say, “Expelled in Three Minutes.” Imagine Ben Stein’s voice narrating like this:

“Intelligent Design is awesome. It keeps your children safe from uncomfortable ideas. What you don’t want, is Charles Darwin. He is the anthropomorphic embodiment of pure evil. Charles Darwin walked the Earth in Roman times and made the Jews kill Jesus, just so Christians would kill Jews later. Charles Darwin turned into a fly and whispered in Martin Luther’s ear all the bad things that Jews had done, and Martin Luther wrote a book called The Jews and Their Lies. . .

“Now, Charles Darwin’s spirit flies through the night sky like a flock of bats, biasing the decisions of tenure committees, and materializing as a beautiful succubus in little girls’ bedrooms to turn them into lesbians. . . .

“Wow.“

By: student_b

student_b — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:12:26 +0000

I don’t get your problem with the movie extract. They’re right on track.

Besides the silly narrator/questioner; PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins and Eugenie Scott speak very well and convincing.

Oh, what? You mean, that isn’t from a pro-atheism movie? Now I’m surprised… I mean, the society that PZ Myers explains sounds very nice and, yeah, religion is evil. (Cue to todays news about the death of a girl because of it.)

By: J-Dog

J-Dog — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:23:51 +0000

There is NO way you are dumb enough to have paid money to see this drek. But I went along with your premise, for purposes of art. Right?

By: Cephus

Cephus — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:04:44 +0000

I don’t know how well the redub idea would work, it isn’t necessarily a matter of taking a bad movie and making it funny like Steve Odenkerk did with Tiger & Crane Fists, turning it into Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. There are things in Expelled that need to be preserved so they can be made fun of. Think of how many Bueller jokes need to be made at Stein’s expense. Think of all the bad science and psuedo-science that screams to be made fun of. Even if it is intended to make fun of the film, it’s still a teaching opportunity to show just how dishonest these morons are.

Further, it’s just easier, from a legal standpoint, to do an audio track for the movie and put it online. You don’t have to worry about rights, you sure don’t have to pay the Expelled idiots for the use of their footage and, considering how successful people like the Phelps are at suing anyone they perceive has slighted them, you don’t have to worry about that either.