A Litany of Harvey Weinstein’s Catholic-Bashing Films

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Oh, how fun and safe it is to target Catholics!

Can’t wait for all the sequels about Buddha, Mohammed and the pagans…
 
I think that the Church should be very careful at expressing glee that this “bad man” who made negative films finally got his downfall. This article is nothing more than a pathetic nanner-nanner grade school level drivel trying to capitalise on the downfall of a single man. Not that he has not done evil to both individuals and to Catholics. But this article reads like a giant gloat.
 
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As far as I can tell, so far these are all allegations and nothing has been proven in criminal or a civil court.

I’m not celebrating anything here, and sadly, this is nothing new with Hollywood-----or even MGM. The corruption there used to be REALLY bad. They owned the local government.
 
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As far as I can tell, so far these are all allegations and nothing has been proven in criminal or a civil court.

I’m not celebrating anything here, and sadly, this is nothing new with Hollywood-----or even MGM. The corruption there used to be REALLY bad. They owned the local government.
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I’m not saying you are. I’m saying that this article is, very much, a puff piece to get in with the news of the day.

Given the # that are going around, and are doing so legitimately, I find this pseudo-victimization card played by the article rather tasteless.

Someone in Hollywood dumps on Catholics. :roll_eyes: That’s not news, that’s everyday life. The article is simply clickbait.
 
Priest, The Butcher Boy, Dogma, 40 Days and 40 Nights, The Magdalene Sisters, Bad Santa, Sin City, Black Christmas, and Philomena.

I haven’t watched any of them, either in the theatre or on video… I know I live under a rock, but I’m curious how many people in this thread have seen five or more on that list. 🙂
 
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I’m not saying you are.
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I know, I know, it’s fine, really.

The dump on Catholicism isn’t surprising. Even though we live in a country with a God-believing/Protestant super-majority until very recently, one doesn’t push an agenda without someone targeting the Church.
 
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Xanthippe_Voorhees:
I’m not saying you are.
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I know, I know, it’s fine, really.

The dump on Catholicism isn’t surprising. Even though we live in a country with a God-believing/Protestant super-majority until very recently, one doesn’t push an agenda without someone targeting the Church.
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My issue is that there are likely many worse producers out there. (Perhaps the creators of South Park and Family Guy???) But this article is about Harvey Weinstein because he’s in the news.

No one would click it if he wasn’t already being (deservedly) bashed to smithereens.

I’m also slightly annoyed at the “poor us” tone of the article as if Catholics were unequivocally targeted. Looking at his record–both personal and professional–they were not. He simply went with whatever fodder that was popular.

Unfortunately, given the scandals of the Catholic Church, they provided a ton of interest and free advertising for his works. In some respects, when it comes to the “desiriablity” for a number of films listed, we only have ourselves to blame.
 
Never seen any of them either. They sound like low budget movies anyway. Like, really low budget. Vampires and priests…how original.
 
I want to say the 1994/1995 “Priest” was this one.:

“Father Greg Pilkington (Linus Roache) is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.”

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“A priest tries to reconcile his love for another man with his love for God, but when a girl steps into the confessional and reveals that her father sexually abuses her, he’s frustrated by the laws of the church and questions his faith in a God who would allow this to happen.”

So, I don’t know if the original article author got the year of “Priest” mixed up with the 2011 vampire version (“A priest disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece.”) or if he got the 2011 plot mixed up with the 1994 priest-with-a-gay-lover-who-questions-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people. I remember hearing something about stripping him of his producer credits, so I’m not seeing him credited on either movie at IMDB… but I don’t know if that’s because he’s higher up the food chain, or because he’s been erased.

The NYT review from 1995 seems to indicate that Weinstein’s was the gay-priest movie, though.
 
Hollywood always was anti-Catholic and anti-Christian. It is just they weren’t able to get away with blatantly tearing down either until more recently.
 
The only reason everybody and his brother is piling on Harvey right now is he apparently ticked off the wrong person and now all the guys doing the exact same stuff are pointing the witch burners at Harvey to distract from the fact that the vast majority of them have done the exact same stuff.

Not a big fan of this man or his movies, but he’s hardly the only bad apple in that barrel. I would love to know who decided it was time for him to pay the piper after he’s obviously been “getting away with it” for decades. Sounds like something out of The Godfather.
 
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