« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Crap filmmaker Emmerich will destroy Christian symbols, but not Muslim ones  (Read 2593 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline jinxmchue

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3841
  • Reputation: +114/-26
Crap filmmaker Emmerich will destroy Christian symbols, but not Muslim ones
« on: November 04, 2009, 07:33:41 PM »
http://scifiwire.com/2009/11/5-best-things-2012s-direc.php

Quote
The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican

That includes the famous frescoed ceiling by Michelangelo depicting Adam touching fingers with God.

"I always try to come up with what makes sense for the story, you know?" Emmerich says. "And it's not only about the destruction. It has to kind of stand for something. One of my favorite pieces of art is Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: ... God ... reaches out to Adam, and the crack goes through it. It's just an interesting kind of notion."



St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican

"Why ... don't [we] have the church fall on people's head?" Emmerich said. He added: "The whole Vatican kind of tips and kind of rolls over the people. It said something, because in the story, some people ... believe in praying and prayer, and they pray in front of the church, and it's probably the wrong thing, what they would do in that situation."



Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro

"Because I'm against organized religion," Emmerich says.



The one that got away

Emmerich said that he got approached by people who wanted their landmarks destroyed, such as the 101 Tower in Taipei, the world's tallest building (pictured below).

But Emmerich was thinking of something even more explosive: the Kaaba, the cube-shaped building at the heart of Mecca, the focus of prayers and the Islamic pilgrimage called the Hajj; it is one of Islam's holiest sites.

Really?

"Well, I wanted to do that, I have to admit," Emmerich says. "But my co-writer Harald said I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie. And he was right. ... We have to all ... in the Western world ... think about this. You can actually ... let ... Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have ... a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is. So it's just something which I kind of didn't [think] was [an] important element, anyway, in the film, so I kind of left it out."

Yes, all this does say something.  It says that people who attack Christianity have nothing to fear, contrary to what many atheists constantly claim, and Islam is the religion to watch out for.
Logged

Offline ColonialMarine0431

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2692
  • Reputation: +167/-18
  • DEUS VULT
Re: Crap filmmaker Emmerich will destroy Christian symbols, but not Muslim ones
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2009, 07:42:38 PM »
Meh...

It looks like a stinker of a movie anyway.
Logged
I'll See Your Jihad and Raise You One Crusade

Offline DixieBelle

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12143
  • Reputation: +512/-49
  • Still looking for my pony.....
Re: Crap filmmaker Emmerich will destroy Christian symbols, but not Muslim ones
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2009, 07:52:26 PM »
total stinker. Someone posted a comment at one of the news sites running this story and it was hilarious. It basically said that this director wouldn't destroy a Muslim monument but saw nothing wrong with destroying a coherent plot.
:rofl:

What I don't get though is that if you don't respect organized religion, why worry about a fatwa? Hmmm......
Logged
I can see November 2 from my house!!!

Spread my work ethic, not my wealth.

Forget change, bring back common sense.
-------------------------------------------------

No, my friends, there’s only one really progressive idea. And that is the idea of legally limiting the power of the government. That one genuinely liberal, genuinely progressive idea — the Why in 1776, the How in 1787 — is what needs to be conserved. We need to conserve that fundamentally liberal idea. That is why we are conservatives. --Bill Whittle

Offline Odin's Hand

  • is your new god!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5486
  • Reputation: +366/-25
  • Quarters Champion
Re: Crap filmmaker Emmerich will destroy Christian symbols, but not Muslim ones
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2009, 07:58:10 PM »
Big-mouthed ***** is just afraid he'd get the "Theo van Gogh treatment".
Logged
"Hell is full of good wishes and desires"~St. Bernhard of Clairvaux

"Brave men are found where brave men are honored."~Aristotle

"Generally speaking, the "Way of the Warrior" is resolute acceptance of death."~ Miyamoto Musashi

Offline ColonialMarine0431

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2692
  • Reputation: +167/-18
  • DEUS VULT
Re: Crap filmmaker Emmerich will destroy Christian symbols, but not Muslim ones
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2009, 08:01:27 PM »
John Cusack as the action hero lead?  :lmao: You MUST be insane. Emmerlich peaked with Independence Day, but his only "big" flick since then has been that mego-million box office flop The Day After Tomorrow . This movie has been posponed from a July release date already. Not a good sign.
Logged
I'll See Your Jihad and Raise You One Crusade

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1998/-134
Re: Crap filmmaker Emmerich will destroy Christian symbols, but not Muslim ones
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2009, 07:51:23 AM »
I'm thinking of a word...a name for  Emmerich...something like "Chickenshi*".

It's easy to bully people that turn the other cheek....but those that might cut your head off...OH NO.
Logged
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline DixieBelle

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12143
  • Reputation: +512/-49
  • Still looking for my pony.....
Re: Crap filmmaker Emmerich will destroy Christian symbols, but not Muslim ones
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2009, 08:23:37 AM »
Quote from: ColonialMarine0431 on November 04, 2009, 08:01:27 PM
John Cusack as the action hero lead?  :lmao: You MUST be insane. Emmerlich peaked with Independence Day, but his only "big" flick since then has been that mego-million box office flop The Day After Tomorrow . This movie has been posponed from a July release date already. Not a good sign.
The Day After Tomorrow - also known as "Al Gore's p0rn". :rofl:
Logged
I can see November 2 from my house!!!

Spread my work ethic, not my wealth.

Forget change, bring back common sense.
-------------------------------------------------

No, my friends, there’s only one really progressive idea. And that is the idea of legally limiting the power of the government. That one genuinely liberal, genuinely progressive idea — the Why in 1776, the How in 1787 — is what needs to be conserved. We need to conserve that fundamentally liberal idea. That is why we are conservatives. --Bill Whittle

Offline thundley4

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40571
  • Reputation: +2224/-127
Re: Crap filmmaker Emmerich will destroy Christian symbols, but not Muslim ones
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2009, 09:12:20 AM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on November 05, 2009, 08:23:37 AM
The Day After Tomorrow - also known as "Al Gore's p0rn". :rofl:

I saw the movie and it was totally unbelievable, much like global warming.
Logged

Offline Splashdown

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6729
  • Reputation: +475/-100
  • Out of 9 lives, I spent 7
Re: Crap filmmaker Emmerich will destroy Christian symbols, but not Muslim ones
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2009, 09:15:51 AM »
Quote from: ColonialMarine0431 on November 04, 2009, 08:01:27 PM
John Cusack as the action hero lead?  :lmao: You MUST be insane. Emmerlich peaked with Independence Day, but his only "big" flick since then has been that mego-million box office flop The Day After Tomorrow . This movie has been posponed from a July release date already. Not a good sign.

That wasn't a "peak" so much as a speed bump, in my humble opinion.
Logged
Let nothing trouble you,
Let nothing frighten you. 
All things are passing;
God never changes.
Patience attains all that it strives for.
He who has God lacks nothing:
God alone suffices.
--St. Theresa of Avila



"No crushed ice; no peas." -- Undies

Offline docstew

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4741
  • Reputation: +282/-187
  • My Wife is awesome!
Re: Crap filmmaker Emmerich will destroy Christian symbols, but not Muslim ones
« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2009, 09:22:45 AM »
Y'all are forgetting his other big budget film, Godzilla, starring Matthew Broderick as the action lead.  Man can this guy not pick 'em...
Logged

Offline Wineslob

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14480
  • Reputation: +816/-193
  • Sucking the life out of Liberty
Re: Crap filmmaker Emmerich will destroy Christian symbols, but not Muslim ones
« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2009, 09:34:51 AM »
Quote from: docstew on November 05, 2009, 09:22:45 AM
Y'all are forgetting his other big budget film, Godzilla, starring Matthew Broderick as the action lead.  Man can this guy not pick 'em...


But he knows how to lay a turd.
Logged
“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”

        -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC (106-43 BC)

The unobtainable is unknown at Zombo.com



"Practice random violence and senseless acts of brutality"

If you want a gender neutral bathroom, go pee in the forest.

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Re: Crap filmmaker Emmerich will destroy Christian symbols, but not Muslim ones
« Reply #11 on: November 05, 2009, 09:54:21 AM »
Quote from: Wineslob on November 05, 2009, 09:34:51 AM

But he knows how to lay a turd.

Hell, I think BlueStateSaint's 2-year old can do that.  I stopped rewarding my 5-year old for stinking up the place when he turned 4 and could hit the toilet 4 times out of 5.  What makes this jackass Emmerich think I'm gonna give him a prize?
Logged
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »