WOW this is fricking shocking, what in the fuck type of world do we live in...

I just utterly cant believe those polls, I mean where the hell did they conduct those???
In the deep south or something???

LOL, I kid I kid Southern Hick Redneck Right Wringers....

Okay look, this whole thing is fucking DISGUSTING to me...

I mean studio's put out Brokeback Mountain, and Milk how can this be ANY DIFFERENT!!!
- not only put it out, but made a lot of $$$$$

Evolution & Gay Marriage both controversial (to some) but stories THAT MUST BE TOLD!!!

However I must say I have read, some not too kind critiques of the film, perhaps that has something to do with it as well...

Hey I wonder what Sarah "im just a hockey mom" Palin thinks HAHA

Matt Damon "I need to know if she believes in dinosaurs" HAHA...instant CLASSIC
I LOVE MATT DAMON!!!

My memory is that Brokeback bombed in U.S. theaters but found success on home video. I know it performed very well indeed on pay-per-view, even in the Bible Belt. I have to imagine Darwin would perform likewise. Don't be surprised if it's not a big hit on Netflix a few months from now.

Ah, geez guys. This is the film business we're talking about! They'll put out any "controversial" movie they want as long as it means a good ROI! It's simply a case of asking for too much money for something with limited appeal.

The producers know they can drum up controversy in The States (and really, nowhere else, hence the impending release of it everywhere BUT the US) & are hoping to use the "Controversy sells tickets!" angle to sell the distribution rights to some studio at a ridiculous price. With the mixed reviews it's receiving at film festivals (read: good subject, dull movie), distributors aren't exactly champing at the bit to pick up something that's boring to those interested AND has limited appeal. Once that price drops to a reasonable amount in the next few months, you'll see some distributor picking it up.

Studios got it all wrong, people will go see the movie to hate it. The Howard Stern effect.
They will see it to see what it says so they can argue against it.

It blows me away that movies like "Monty Python's Life of Brian" and "The Last Temptation of Christ" were able to be shown in US theaters, but not this one? WTF??

This is proof that entrepreneurship is dead and the movie industry is a politically correct oligopoly.

Now if it was shot from a handy cam and it had Darwin teamed up with a movie monster from the 80s torturing to death a scantily clad barely 18 year old nun in training daughter (played by a 25 year old d cup super model) of an explosives company mogul who is secretly a terrorist Muslim, only to be saved in the nick of time by a square jawed chest shaven brooding rap star ex-marine fbi agent who accidentally killed his brother while saving an orphanage from a rampaging alien rape machine, culminating in a hilariously embarrassing wedding held during a high-school reunion, preceded by a bachelor party, a slumber party, a road trip, and an air plane full of cash, serial killer secret government robots, and marijuana, with a sound track by beyonce well, then it'd probably find a distributor.

Hey, Colin,
The Japanese are carrying this story just the same way you are. When my wife (who is Japanese) read it to me, I smelled a fish and a gullible delivery agent.

I am less concerned that the "distributors" (who I don't always credit with the best of intentions) are afraid of the film. What is the price tag comparative to the market potential? This stars a husband/wife team who were ostensibly a strong part of it getting made. Critical reaction to the film, which is crucial to any "art house" performance, appears to have been tepid or worse, linking critically to the film not being able to perform in the marketplace, importance of the subject matter or not. In fact, though I have used Darwin to spur my son's thinking as a potential scientist, I would not have any personal interest in his wife's puerile thinking or emotional blackmail on the topic, which plays completely against the grain of the Evolutionary debate. I see this press push as a clever last-ditch trick to get a film out into a market that would have little interest in it. It sounds, frankly, as if just her staunchly defending the "religious" angle would be meat for the creationists, but then that pesky Darwin is in there, too. Wow, what a non-starter all around, no matter which angle you come from.

If American distributors won't touch this film, it's time for a Canadian distributor to step up to the plate and take a good swing at it.