Saved! Movie to piss off the Christians

[FatFreeMilk]

Saved! portrays the Christian students of a strictly evangelical Christian high school. These Jesus-praising students have embraced a superficial, judgmental, legalistic form of Christianity that leads them to treat unbelievers and troubled peers with condescension, arrogance, and "intolerance." When Mary (Jena Malone), one of the popular, outwardly pious Christian girls, finds herself pregnant after making a big mistake, she becomes a social outcast. Thus, she learns to sympathize with the other spiritual exiles in the corridors of the school—the wheelchair-bound cynic (Macaulay Culkin) and the Jewish girl (Eva Ammuri), who rejects this peer-pressure form of faith.

Most Christian film critics are appalled by the film, offended by the portrayal of Christians as judgmental, aggressively propagandistic, and condescending. Granted, Dannelly does tend to paint all Christians this way, betraying an unfortunate prejudice. But then again, the film does accurately reflect the un-Christlike behavior of certain sections of the church. Some Christians are speaking up that the film does reflect parts of Christian culture that they have personally experienced.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/fi...rum/040603.html (http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/filmforum/040603.html)
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ha ha, I think I'll waste my allowance to go see this treasure...

it's got mandy moore and our missed child star Macaulay Culkin!

see the trailer here (http://www.savedmovie.com/)

[Borincano]

I haven't seen the movie but I'm sure as hell going to. I've seen too many wannabe-Christian hypocrites in my life that finally there's a film to show them how stupid they are. Sometimes it takes to see or hear yourself doing what everyone knows is stupid to actually agree with them, lol.

[Red2K4]

Not only have I seen the movie but, It is dead on! For two years of my school life I went to a christian school. It was identical to that one. In fact the Main preppy girl (much like the one played by mandy more) go me expelled for swearing. just like in the movie. it was fucking scary how true to life it was.

[EneME]

:lol: yeah I really want to see it, I'll see it this week and update this post...I love it when they make fun of Christians..its the best

[Organic Revolution]

i havent seen it..............yet :ph34r:

[Urban Rubble]

Seeing as how Mandy Moore is herself a Christian, I don't think it's intended to "piss off Christians". They've already made a big deal to explain that it isn't supposed to offend good chruchgoing Chrisitian, only "fundamentalists" or some bullshit, maybe that wasn't the exact word, but you get what I mean. They're trying to seem like it only applies to a small minority of Christians, which, to me, doesn't seem to be the case.

It looks funny though, I've actually been impressed with Macauly Culkin lately.

[Marxist in Nebraska]

I got to see the film a while back, not long after it opened. It was strange, because Saved! actually premiered at the $2 theatre (usually a graveyard for bombs after their first week or two or blockbusters after six months). I guess they did not expect too many people in Lincoln, Nebraska to appreciate the movie.

I thought Saved! did a great job of skewering the shallow world of the narrow-minded, almost preppie Evangelical Christian. I really thought the hubris of Mandy Moore's character bemoaning the hopeless heathens in the "jungles" who are doomed to Hell because "they will never know Jesus Christ" was especially on target.

I was disappointed with the end, though, when the outcasts still seem to be Christian (and the Jewish girl still a Jew). I would hope someone who experienced that much cognitive dissidence would abandon religion, or at least give up the evangelical fundamentalism in favor of a liberal church like the Quakers.

Despite a disappointing finish, I still enjoyed the film and would recommend it to anyone who thinks it sounds interesting.

[Mr. Krinklebein]

HELL yes! I can't wait to see this. Someone very special to me saw this and said that I reminded them of Jena Malone's character (not the pregnant part, the rebellious part!)

By the way, this is a cross in a glass of urine that was exhibited as 'art'; whether or not it fits your definition of art, it's irreverent, anti-Christian and hilarious:

http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~blitz/41_serano_pisschrist.jpg

[Political Suicide]

I saw this movie the day it came out and i liked it alot. I really don't think that its meant to piss of christians, although i can see why it might. I think it just shows that christians are just as human and flawed as the rest of us, and at that certain age, are just as devious and outlandish as the rest of us. I loved it, and the satire was just beautiful. The plot, on the other hand, wasn't that great.