Mormons/LDS are encouraged to not watch movies that are rated R. Why did the producers make September Dawn rated R? Do you think they didn't want Mormons watching it? Was the rating even considered?
2007-08-27 06:17:31 · 15 answers · asked by Senator John McClain 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dances With Penguins, Love!Chuck, Norris Penguin, whatever you are going by :-) - I admit I've seen rated R movies in the past. But I've gone 8 years now without seeing one, and I don't wanna break my streak.
2007-08-27 07:27:51 · update #1
many reviewers called the movie blatant anti-mormon propoganda. If that is true, the movie makers don't actually care if mormons see the movie, they're not the audience they're trying to reach
2007-08-27 06:28:20 · answer #1 · answered by lindsey p 5 · 11⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe that Cain really cared if the LDS ever watched it; in fact, I'm sure he knows that most intelligent LDS will know it for the crap, the absolute waste of good celluloid, taht it really is. Except for those Mormons who are looking for any paltry excuse to leave the church.
edit: Tonya, I saw the trailers online and if they are anything to go by, this movie is the most disgusting piece of anti-Mormon crap since "The Godmakers". In fact, "The Godmakers" was so bad, it was almost funny. "September Dawn" isn't even there. It's so bad, even honest non-LDS movie reviewers saw it for the trash that it is. I gotta say, I have lost what little respect I have ever had to actors Dean Cain, Jon Voight, and Terrance Stamp. I liked Voight in "Pearl Harbor". It's too bad he wasn't that discriminating in his choice of parts this time.
edit: Beta fishy, I personally like it that the LDS church has taken the moral high road and completely ignored this film. Dignity. That's the name of the game.
2007-08-28 12:29:37 · answer #2 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My thought is that those making the movie either don't want us watching it and causing a big stink over it, or they know so little about us that they didn't even realize that we wouldn't watch it because of the rating.
Had they been thinking, they would have made it PG-13, then used the publicity (even if it's "bad" publicity) to make more money than they probably will with an R rating.
Personally I've only heard about it once, when Dennis Miller interviewed Jon Voight several months ago. I haven't even seen a tv preview for it.
2007-08-27 06:47:04 · answer #3 · answered by Tonya in TX - Duck 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Mormons aren't the target audience. I've read quite a few reviews on September Dawn and most point out its blatant propoganda against the religion. This coming from non-mormons. The film tells a slanted view on one of the most controversial moments in LDS history...its safe to say again, we're not the target audience at all. Interesting too, that they chose to make a film about one of anti-mormons pet subjects.
2007-08-27 06:43:45 · answer #4 · answered by Sherpa 4 · 8⤊ 1⤋
I doubt very much whether or not Mormons could or would watch the movie was taken into considering.
However, from what I understand it was a pretty awful massacre. And while the makers of the film probably could have created a movie about a massacre without actually showing it, they probably would have gotten flack for "sanatizing" it under pressure from the Church.
You see, it is a fillmmakers "craft" to depict the world around them as they see it. Just as Martin Scorcese decided to include the F-word as many times as possible in The Departed; the makers of High School Musical decided to include no sex, no drugs, no drinking and no raunchy music in their movie.
The filmmaker ultimately caters to the audience they want to see the movie.
2007-08-27 06:42:22 · answer #5 · answered by socmum16 ♪ 5 · 9⤊ 1⤋
I think it's a lot like most of the other things that one can find on anti Mormon websites. The producers more than likely know it's going to be very controversial and don't care about facts. Only care about $$$$$$$.
gw
2007-08-27 07:29:52 · answer #6 · answered by georgewallace78 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
My maximum favourite thank you to computer screen video clips is at a rigidity in theater. different than that, at homestead I reckon. i like to have drink with my action picture, and something to munch on....yet no longer popcorn (i won't have the capacity to stand the scent.)
2016-10-17 02:59:30 · answer #7 · answered by coiscou 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The movie isn't aimed at the LDS audience. It's aimed at the general public, which doesn't have as high of standards as the LDS audience.
I'm surprised that there hasn't been more of an outcry against the movie, which seems to be ignoring historical facts in its effort to blast the LDS church...
2007-08-27 06:26:34 · answer #8 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 9⤊ 2⤋
Spreading the hate, baby!
The makers of the movie are obviously trying to propagate anti-Mormon sentiment. Even blatantly anti-Mormon people who see it have stated that it just throws historical fact out the window to be replaced by propaganda.
The film makers don't want too many Mormons to see it... that way they can skew the facts any way they please.
2007-08-27 06:37:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
Why make a movie about aliens that most of them won't watch?
2007-08-27 06:30:39 · answer #10 · answered by Dreamstuff Entity 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋