When the Hollywood Video near my house went out of business, I ended up buying a lot of $2 movies, one of which was the film Religulous. I had heard a lot of good things about this movie, so I figured I'd pop it in today and see what all the fuss was about. I was not impressed.
At first I was just put off by how annoying and belittling he was to the people he was interviewing, but as the film progressed I noticed something that bothered me a lot more- other than a small section where he made fun of Scientology, he only talked about the Abrahamic religions. While I learned later that they wanted to focus on the religions that mainstream America would come in knowing about, it still kind of irritated me. I also didn't like that all of their talks about Islam were about violence, as if only the fundamental, violent forms of Islam were the only true forms of the religion and everyone else is misinformed.
There was only one guy that I really liked in this movie- Father Foster, who was interviewed outside the Vatican and was the most fascinating person in the entire movie. I wish he was the one interviewing everyone instead of that comedian guy.
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