Last month, Religious Right activist Janet Porter announced that she had secured funding for a movie that she has been working on for years about her efforts to pass the first “partial birth” abortion ban in the nation. She was especially excited about this because, she said, self-proclaimed prophet Cindy Jacobs had told her that her semi-autobiographical romantic comedy/anti-abortion polemic would be “the tipping point to end abortion” in America.
Yesterday, Porter released a trailer for the new movie, called “What’s a Girl to Do?,” confirming that it will feature cameos from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Rep. Steve King of Iowa, and will include performances by Victoria Jackson as Porter’s best friend and Stephen Baldwin as her future husband, David Porter. Although the plot of the movie is unclear, it apparently deals with a romance Porter had with the son of a pro-choice state legislator before meeting her husband. Porter discusses that romance in her 2004 dating book “What’s a Girl To Do? While Waiting for Mr. Right,” and revealed in a WorldNetDaily column in 2008 that writing a screenplay based on that book eventually led her to her true “Mr. Right,” David Porter.
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"Religious Right activist Janet Porter announced that she had secured funding for a movie that she has been working on for years about her efforts to pass the first “partial birth” abortion ban in the nation"
Anyone working on a movie where the US comes under nationwide martial law because certain people come forward claiming to have been attempted recruited to or actually being part of a conspiracy to overthrow president Trump?
Excerpt:
"So? There are people who are ambidextrous!"
"Yeah, but these two aren't among them; I checked! No! Until they made their testimonies about this conspiracy to overthrow the president, the senator was left handed and the police detective was right handed!! Something truly WEIRD is going on here!!!"
" her semi-autobiographical romantic comedy/anti-abortion polemic would be “the tipping point to end abortion” in America. "
Why didn't you release this movie in 1973? It would have saved us a lot of trouble.
It's heartening to see the delusion of the documentary filmmaker isn't limited to one side of the aisle. "This film is going to change the country!" Yeah, no, it's not. It never has, and it's never going to.
Ah! Another crappy bit of cinema for The Nostalgia Critic to shred!
Another bit of B-Movie silliness to riff at like Joel/Mike and the Bots!
Another cinematic abomination to join the likes of "Saving Christmas", "God Isn't Dead", "Fireproof", "Left Behind (both versions)", "The Room", "Birdemic", "Food Fight", "Manos: The Hands of Fate", "Hobgoblins", "Plan 9 From Outer Space", etc.
Huh boy! Victoria Jackson and Mr. Biodome! We're in for a real doozy, guys!
Victoria was super-cute in UHF , though....but that was when she was young, slim, pretty, relevant and not "out and proud" as a wingnut.
I'd highly doubt that she and Weird Al are still good pals, now....[IMG]http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/SpukiKitty/All%20Reactions%20-%20LGBTAQ/weird%20al%20noh8_zpsufy33mjs.jpg[/IMG] image
Will Kevin Sorbo be in this sad piece of trash, too? I think there's still a single flickering spark of my boyhood adoration for its hero, Hercules, for him to snuff out.
@SpukiKitty : The difference is that those movies were entertaining to watch, whereas I assume this is just going to be a maudlin, preachy, underproduced bunch of garbage.
@SpukiKitty , Jamaican Castle
Janet here never watched the Nic Cage "Left Behind" remake, then.
I torrented that (naughty! X3) and watched it. Once. Just as I borrowed a friend's copy of the Japanese horror film "Audition" and watched it. Once.
Frankly, I don't know which had the worse effect on my psyche; at least the latter was grounded in reality, extremely well acted, and with it's flawless cinematography it would be worth another viewing; even if I would never watch the "Human Centipede" films (and I've watched all the "Saw" & "Hostel" series!).
After viewing the latter - once - I gave it back to my friend. The former I decided the HD space would be far better used in storing an infinitely better film, and used the 'Shredding' facility (turning it into an unrecognisable mess that not even the best data recovery software can restore) of my AVG Antivirus software to do worse than delete that planecrash of a so-called 'film' that will hopefully be an object lesson to Nic (as per "Battlefield Earth" for John Travolta): don't appear in bad films.
@Senomaros
That's how they do it, it's not a fault in their agenda it's the feature. Sorbos Atheist spiel? Stuff that Atheists don't fucking ever say. The Expelled movie? Not one case of expelling anyone. The Banana lecture? Not one fact. Hams Ark? A fucking steel girdled building that he continually calls an all-timber construction.
They have no intention of ever being honest, things are actually too good and they've been making these ridiculous claims for decades. Solution, start telling people these things are actually happening. Step the fear mongering up.
The only mystery here is will they continue this “partial birth abortion" bullshit a year after this or claim victory in the lord Trumps name when red states enact pointless redundant laws against it.
@Duckie!
Critic, Bum and Snob! My fave movie reviewers!
I LOVED Brad Jones takedown of religious crap in his DVD Hell show.
@freako104
"So she's going to waste the money or is she keeping it?"
Her only possible hope is to do a "The Producers" - especially if she's got more naive fundie investors - and pray that it bombs more than "Dr. Strangelove" didn't.
Because she's got a lot of explaining to do if it succeeds, and said investors expect her to make good on her financial promises.
For if not even a big name such as Nic Cage could save the concept of a (C)Rapture film franchise, thus making that 19th Century heresy cinematic poison in Hollywood, therefore...!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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