Another awful movie is Knowing. I hated that movie so much after watching it that I basically swore off Nicolas Cage movies for a long time, and only recently have I begun realize that it wasn't his fault that the movie is abysmal, though he really should have read the
entire script before accepting the deal. Then again, he'll seemingly take any offer now-a-days, so maybe he did read it and thought "Yay another crappy movie to star in, I've been in too many good ones, this will help balance it out..."
Either Eragon The Last Airbender or Get him to the Greek, that movie was not even close to anything remotely funny <_<
I liked Get Him to the Greek. I loved how all the fake songs actually sounded decent (for the most part), and it made me laugh a fair amount. I can understand how someone wouldn't like it though. :shrug:
I heard they had exactly 20 seconds to film that scene because that's all Tommy Wyseau could afford to rent the flower shop for.
I believe that was just the joke the Nostalgia Critic made about the scene when he got to that part, to explain why it was so rushed. I don't think that's the actual reason why that scene is so awful (in a good way).
Now, here's the obvious question: do you hate it because you dislike the film for its comedic context, or because it's blatantly atheist?
First off, I hope you don't shrug off any hate you see of this movie as "lol angry religious person," because that'd be incredibly ignorant of you. That said;
The issue is more that it devolved into a religious movie
at all, regardless of it's stance. If it had become a movie praising religion, it wouldn't change my feelings (especially because I'm not very religious). What I took issue with (among many other things) was the fact that, after having to sit though the most god-awful, boring "comedy" I have ever,
ever seen, this film decided to completely screw over the people who bought the tickets by turning into a boring movie about religion. Understand that whenever a movie devolves into religion, assuming it was never about that earlier in the movie, it instantly loses points with me. That was the case with Knowing, which I talked about above. The ending ruined the whole thing because it used religion to end an otherwise religion-free movie, and that simply was not needed. This is my point. In movies that don't need religion, don't bring religion into it. The same goes for Lying. This was supposed to be a comedy, but it was simply a thinly veiled religious message, which is not what I bought my ticket for. Imagine if The Hangover halfway-through started preaching about not wasting money in Vegas and instead sending it to starving children around the world? Or if Anchorman turned into a documentary about some genocide? These movies are comedies, and while it's fine to have an underlying message, it should never be done the way Lying did it. Somebody inventing lying and using it to found religion is not the plot for a comedy, maybe another genre, but not a comedy.
In case you still don't understand why I hate this movie so much, note that one of my friend's started crying buckets halfway through (when Gervais' mom died, as it reminded them of their aunt who just died), making the movie even more uncomfortable, and that my other friend, who was in fact atheist, had to sit through this religious movie that she thought was supposed to be a comedy, which made it
even more uncomfortable for all of us because
none of us were particularly religious, and none of us liked biased religious movies (no matter what side that bias was for), and, as I said, we didn't like being lured into the trap of seeing a boring religion mocking movie disguised as a boring, terribly written comedy. Making my friend cry wasn't technically the movies' fault, but it only served to make the level of unconformableness raise to astonishing levels.