Monday
18Aug2008
Praise Be! Three New Clips from Bill Maher's 'Religulous'
Monday, August 18, 2008 at 2:10PM
I expect to have a great deal of fun watching
Religulous,
the new documentary from
Bill Maher and Borat director
Larry Charles. If there's
an issue I have with it, it's that we already know Maher's thesis and he won't
include much in his movie that could make a worthwhile counterpoint. In that
sense, it's not really a "documentary," but a fun little exercise featuring real
people in which Maher holds all the cards.
Again, I think it's going to be a lot of fun to watch -
and I happen to agree with his argument, incidentally - but there's very little
chance this movie will be any more objective than the pilloried Intelligent
Design documentary, Expelled, which featured Ben Stein.
As you'll see from the following clips, Maher is
choosing his targets to fit his arguments, not that that makes the videos any
less entertaining.
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