I may be in the minority, but I get not pleasure in seeing anyone bashed by Hollywood. I’m not saying this movie does that. It may not. But I have learned not to trust anything out of Hollywood for accuracy or opinion. Most of their stuff has a purpose and that purpose is contrary to all people of faith.
They are kind of like the Yankees. I root for whoever plays them.
BTW - The Mountain Meadows incident is a serious black-eye to the Mormon Church, but no more than the theocracy that is the state of Utah. That’s what I ame waiting to see changed. We can not even have a nativity in small town city hall, but they have a State Park dedicated to Brigham Young in Salt Lake City.
It seems strange, but sometimes Hollywood fights for faith, specifically the Catholic Faith(which I find interesting)… Case in point “The Exorcism of Emily Rose”(A brilliant, Brilliant film about the much misunderstood sacrament), “The Nativity Story”, the animated classic “The Prince of Egypt”(An idea of Steven Spielberg, who wanted Dream work’s first blockbuster to be an animated remake of Demille’s “Ten Commandments”) and the countless other pro-Catholic and Christian films out there including the straight to video “Joseph: King of Dreams” a nice animated prequel to “Prince of Egypt”. Heck I’d even include that Arnie action flick which tried to capatalise on the usual end of the millennium “end of the world” chaos…
The interest in investing in faith films seems to have risen slowly in the 1990s, until “Prince” came out, then slowly other films came too. It wasn’t a “film movement” however until “Passion” pulled $300 million and opened the flood gates.
I think “The Passion” has finally made some Christian and specifically Catholic filmmakers realize Hollywood will support them if they speak up. Hollywood has once again opened the doors to faith, and they have all arrived like it’s the 1950s all over again.
Jon Voight seems to have taken up an interest in exploring faith roles, He played Noah in a 2004 tele-flick and stepped into the role of Pope JP2 last year. I don’t think he picked this role because it was “unfaithful”, thats very doubtful to me because Voight is a “cradle Catholic” who lost the faith in Hollywood and has slowly appeared to have found it again. More like he choose to make a film which expressed concern over the Mormon faith specifically rather than in faith in general. After all a practicing believing Catholic filmmaker made the pentecostal criticizing documentary “Jesus Camp”, if a Secular filmmaker had of made it, they would have been labled “Anti-faith” too.
Yes Hollywood has a strong anti-christian/faith thing too, but there is a strong pro-christian/faith movement which has altered that perspective yet again. And Mr Voight is right there standing along side it and starring in it’s films.
This film is a critical analysis of Mormonism’s founding fathers, not “an anti-faith film”.
That said the 9/11 thing was more than a bit tacky and tasteless marketing.
indians, it will not be worth seeing because it will not be anything but an lds wash job.