“For Greater Glory”: Day Two

Jun 2

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Only today and tomorrow to decide the US destiny of this movie…

I know, it may seem obnoxious, but then I am obnoxious…

It seems to me there is so much to be gained. If this movie survives the first weekend and goes to a reasonable success, this will contribute to keep the very actual issue of religious freedom in the foreground.

Besides, the movie being so unashamedly Catholic (which is one of the main criticisms posed to it) I think it not improbable this will contribute to a number of conversions, and certainly do a lot of good to the image of Catholicism in the US.

I reflect that there are thousands of us out there running Catholic blogs. All very fine of course, but one film of these can do as much as thousands Catholic blogs together. 

Then there is the sheer fact of the rarity of such events. We are not in the Fifties or early Sixties anymore and such productions have become rather rare. You need to have people like Mel Gibson, or like the production house which made this movie.

They don’t grow on trees; $20 million productions are rarer; and the possibility of going out on 700 screens are rarer still.

By 700 screen this weekend there should be plenty of opportunity to go and see this movie even in a country the vastness of the United States. Next weekend they could actually be zero, or a couple of dozens, because if the movie flops with 700 screens I can’t imagine it will be given another weekend to see if during this one everyone was sleeping. 

Find me obnoxious if you wish (I know, I know you do… 😉 ), but if a Catholic blog doesn’t drum up support when an occasion like this arises, I am at a loss to know why the blog exists in the first place. We are all insignificant compared to an occasion like this.

Please email, phone, put the movie in your conversation with friends, explain the dynamics of the cinema distribution (that is: if this weekend doesn’t work, there will probably be no second weekend), do what you can to help this movie be a success. If it is, there will be other productions like this, and Obama will have a problem more. If it isn’t, the Obama camp will think Catholics don’t really care, and they can eat them alive after the reelection. 

There is so much more at stake here than the money of a cinema ticket.

Mundabor

Posted on June 2, 2012, in Catholicism and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.

  1. Elizabeth Warynick (@FrancisFaustina)'s avatar Elizabeth Warynick (@FrancisFaustina) | June 3, 2012 at 4:18 am

    I JUST GOT BACK from Seeing this film!!! IT IS WONDERFUL!!! I Highly recommend EVERY CATHOLIC and even EVERY CHRISTIAN go see it especially (not that Jews or Atheists should NOT go….EVERYONE should see this!) but especially Christians as we here in the US are getting ready to do battle with the Obama Administration and actually already are!

    There are so many lines in the movie that the THEN President of Mexico said that you’d think it was Obama Himself talking! A REAL Eye opener for many as you see the slow progression of loosing your Religious Freedoms.

    My friend and I (she’s a Secular Carmelite!) just HAPPENED to choose the same theatre on the same night at the same time as the Bishop was having JOIN THE BISHOP AT THE THEATRE night! That meant there was a ton of Catholics there and people could NOT hold back and would yell “RIGHT ON!” when things happened and at the end they began the Chant “Viva Cristo Rey!”

    GO ASAP to see this!

    • Mundabor's avatar Mundabor | June 3, 2012 at 3:34 pm

      Yes! Yes!! YEEESS!!!

      M

    • Mundabor's avatar Mundabor | June 3, 2012 at 4:01 pm

      Elizabeth,

      what impression did you have of those who had not come with the bishop? Also involved and moved? Did you have the impression this might be a box office success, or a beautiful attempt only speaking to a tiny minority?

      Thanks

      M