Saturday, September 15, 2012

Innocence of Muslims

I had seen this described as amateurish, but this doesn't even begin to describe how badly it is done.  I had assumed from the level of rage that Muslims are exhibiting about this that it was a reasonably well-done attack on Islam.  It's not.  It is actually unintentionally funny in places.

UPDATE: There are hysterically funny or at least brilliantly witty comments below:
The real problem with be film school riots in California.
and:

How anyone could take this ninth-rate attempt at a Monty Python treatment, seriously enough to be incited to violence, is beyond me.
If there is any value in the work, it is as a massively risible counterexample to be dissected in a film class. The green screen work alone is an anti-marvel of ineptitude. 

6 comments:

  1. I would wager at least 99.9% of the protestors have not seen this "movie" but rather are being told about it by the Imam (chief rabble rouser) and many of these "protestors" are the typical unemployed teenage/early twenty Muslim male that doesn't have a job (probably can't find one either) so can't get married and therefore has a lot of built up anger and tension as a result (you know what I mean).

    They are idiots (murderers) and the clown that made the "movie" is also an idiot as he also has blood on his hands.

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  2. The real problem with be film school riots in California.

    This film makes industrial safety training films look good.

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  3. That was a heavily edited out-of-order pile of excerpts. A spotty viewing of what might be the full work, however, suggests that the excerpts are not unrepresentative, and are very likely to sufficiently represent the full work.

    How anyone could take this ninth-rate attempt at a Monty Python treatment, seriously enough to be incited to violence, is beyond me.

    If there is any value in the work, it is as a massively risible counterexample to be dissected in a film class. The green screen work alone is an anti-marvel of ineptitude.

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  4. No. It makes "Terror of Tiny Town" and "Plan Nine From Outer Space" look good. Ed Wood is not turning over in his grave, he's standing up and shouting, "What now, bytches?"

    I guess there were no riot over "The Last Temptation of Christ" because it had better production values?

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  5. I will suggest there is a need for a scapegoat for the failure of a naive foreign policy of a certain politician.



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  6. I wonder if it was made by Islamists trying to provide an excuse for a riot.

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