Christians on Football Film: Give Us a G!

WASHINGTON — A low-budget, inspirational football movie made by Baptist pastors in Georgia has triggered a flood of attacks by Christian groups that accuse Hollywood's main trade association of penalizing the film by giving it a PG rating.

In the last week alone, the Motion Picture Assn. of America, which oversees the rating board, has been swamped with more than 15,000 e-mails arguing that "Facing the Giants" deserves a more family-friendly G rating. The complaints — the number of which may be 10 times the previous record for reaction to a ratings decision — say the movie is being unfairly targeted for its religious themes.

The filmmakers say they were told that those themes had prompted the PG rating. MPAA officials deny that was the reason.

Across the Internet and on talk radio, religious groups and conservative commentators have seized on the rating flap as evidence that Hollywood is anti-Christian. And the third-ranking House Republican has written to MPAA Chief Executive Dan Glickman demanding answers.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-fi-giants21jun21,0,698170.story

is right in the middle of this one. You know, Roy Blunt, the congressman who said Terri Schiavo was "aware of her surroundings. She attempts to communicate."

Now he's a film critic.

http://chatterbyrondavis.blogspot.com/

You never hear much about him.

Suppose this film had Satanic, Jewish or even--gasp--Muslim themes. Would these people be equally angry? I doubt it.

:headbang:
rocknation

murder, adultery fornication, slavery, murder, stoning women, more murder.

Msongs

www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

Is this where we are at with our "morals" & "values" today- where Christians cannot explore adult themes?

The Bible itself is hardly G-rated- I call BS.

from the article:

"Joan Graves, chairwoman of the MPAA's rating board, said Tuesday that the decision had nothing to do with Christianity but was based on football violence as well as the inclusion of mature topics such as depression and infertility."

Sounds like the MPAA was spot-on in giving this a PG rating.

So everyone who's seen the movie thinks it should be a PG; there was just some misunderstanding of the reasoning, at some point.

I could quite see some fundie who thinks there should be no sex education at all until 12 (when they would put the fear of God into them if they ever thought about sex), complaining they took their 4 year old to a G rated movie, and then had to explain to them what 'infertility' means.

And doesn't that mean you can take your 12 year old to the film?

Isn't going to the movies with your child "family friendly?"

So what's the problem?

I'm so sick of the whiney bitches.

Ice Age II is rated PG, as well. Are the freaking Darwinists whining?

Shooting themselves in the foot.

A "G" rating is the kiss of death.

But of course - Christians are sooooooooooooooo persecuted in this country.
Especially in the South, dont'cha know. :sarcasm:

:kick:

(O.K., this "Christian Fundimentalists are the victim" thing is getting a bit rediculous)

Filmmakers claim PG rating for religious content

Updated Thu. Jun. 22 2006 11:33 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

American censors gave a film about high school football a PG rating -- not because of violence, nudity or coarse language, but because it was too religious, the filmmakers claim.

Facing the Giants is about a down-on-his-luck coach, who finds God and uses the gospel to inspire his players to victory. The film's promotional website calls Facing the Giants "a dynamic story of the fight between faith and fear."

"We need to give God our best in everything we do," the coach tells his team in one scene. "If we win, we praise him." The producers said such lines led the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to label the film as too preachy, and decide that parents should be warned about the film's religious content.

"It's interesting that the Bible, which used to be the standard for what is good and right and virtuous and true, is now taboo and we have to warn people about it," said star and director Alex Kendrick.

However, the MPAA denied rating the film PG -- or "parental guidance suggested" -- for its Christian themes. "It may well have come up, but it wasn't the reason they got that rating," said MPAA executive vice president John Feehery. "The reason they got the rating was because of some of the more mature themes that were in that movie."

(more at link)

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And this is taken as fact why?

...idiot "film makers" are whining about.

I see nothing wrong with the way this is being reported, it's the whining film makers, who apparently don't realize that just the "Football Violence" is enough to get a PG, who are being dorks here.

"It's interesting that the Bible, which used to be the standard for what is good and right and virtuous and true."

I almost squirted milk out of my eyes seeing that and I'm not even drinking milk.

That book promotes murdering children, women, gays. Owning slaves is ok. Selling your daughters is ok. Slaughtering entire cities is great as long as it's in God's name.

Good and right and virtuous and true? Maybe if you're Ted Bundy.

of course it promotes what is good, right, virtuous and true...as long as we're the ones doing the murdering, daughter selling, city smiting and general prickish behavior! :evilgrin:

Creationists are morons. They think one book is all they need and they hate science.

Many parents would be concerned to know that their children were being preached to in an overt fashion in a movie.