RS Pres just said that they want all SPs in the USA to make sure we all know about the movie and share it on social media.

another example of tscc getting into business and telling tbms to go and buy the product.

What's next? Have them all go out and buy it on Blu ray or DVD!?? Stupid cult!

it's gonna be in the legacy theater afterward....RS Pres asked us to request it in a theater near you...it's gonna bomb. we'll have to track its failure.

Of course it's gonna fail at the box office. But the morg is laughing all the way to the bank...maybe if was like "Noah" with Russell Crowe it'd have a chance at the box office? Or "Heaven is For Real"?

Mormons have an expertise at defining failure as success and success as failure. It has been done now for over 180 years.

Read the William Law letters to the SL Tribune I posted. He was exposing everything in Salt Lake City. Our Mormon ancestors just ignored the facts, oblivious or indifferent. Complicit.

If there were some hot shirtless SPs in the movie, I'd consider seeing it.

But of course he would.

How about all of us EXMOs go and treat the film like a Rocky Mountain Horror Show? We could throw popcorn, call out double entendres, and bring in umbrellas for the "testimony tears." We could yell "oh flip!" at some of the outrageous parts. Hey, MtM could become a classic like Reefer Madness! Boner.

I'm in. Tell me when and where!

Love it!

It's already a cult classic.

+1 You brightened my mood a bit today. Thank you for the laugh.

Most theaters go after the movies they want to show. Many have a working relationship with production that they will show X amount of their movies per year. The theaters have to purchase the right to show these movies. They in turn make a profit from this transaction. To ask a theater to show a movie, especially like this on means only one thing to a theater owner. What profit can I make from this. "Meet the Mormons" will be seen by them as a negative in money making especially outside of the Mormon valley.

That's true, even the independent art theaters go after the movies they want to show, based on what will make them a profit. Outside the Morridor, I don't see too many theaters agreeing to buy the rights to show this propaganda film because it's not profitable enough for the theater owners. In areas where Mormons are a tiny minority, theaters would lose money if they bought the right to show this film.

How can it NOT bother people that the church is assigning them to pay money to see a movie that's basically an advertisement, and that the church will make money from?

What do you bet it goes to DVD within a month? Then they can send the missionaries around and pressure members to buy it for $19.99 each to share with all their non-member friends.



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My prophecy: It will go to DVD in time for it to become the go to Christmas gift for TBM's to give to wayward family members, etc. Regifting is perfectly appropriate in this circumstance.

I love your screen name. I'm thinking that re-gifting the DVD should involve putting a different DVD in the Meet the Mormons case. Porno? Three Stodges? I can't think of anything perfect. Suggestions?

It will definitely go to DVD. They have a lot invested in it. All members will be highly encouraged to buy it and share with non-member friends / family. It will also be part of the missionary discussions to push this on the investigators. Of course the missionaries will have to fork up the money to buy them out of their own pocket. The SP's will push this.

pathfinder Wrote:
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> It will definitely go to DVD. They have a lot
> invested in it. All members will be highly
> encouraged to buy it and share with non-member
> friends / family. It will also be part of the
> missionary discussions to push this on the
> investigators. Of course the missionaries will
> have to fork up the money to buy them out of their
> own pocket. The SP's will push this.


I expect to receive several as Christmas "gifts" from TBM friends and neighbors.

I sure as hell better not receive this movie as a Christmas present. If I do I'll be sure to send the giver a copy of "8: The Mormon Proposition." And I'll include a nice note: "Thank you for your gift. Here's another point of view for you to consider."

bezoar Wrote:
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> I sure as hell better not receive this movie as a
> Christmas present. If I do I'll be sure to send
> the giver a copy of "8: The Mormon Proposition."
> And I'll include a nice note: "Thank you for your
> gift. Here's another point of view for you to
> consider."


Excellent suggestion!

I love that the church paid for the production of this with tithing money (it's all tithing money), and now they're asking members to pay for it a second time in a movie theater.

This reminds me of the whole "Flood the earth with the Book of Mormon" campaign from the late 80s.

I think I've already met enough Mormons. Oh, and weren't we supposed to stop referring to ourselves as "Mormons"? I guess that applies to everyone *not* associated with an approved public relations campaign.

Old saying: if you have a bad product, advertise so you can fail quicker.

So crude., Let the people decide if they want to see this tripe of a movie or not.

Doesn't Amway make all their people buy their damn laundry detergent, too?

Cinema's make very little money on ticket sales (about 20%).

They make money on Food & Beverage sales. Mormon's are classic budget shoppers. Especially the young married's with kids. If the do see this out of some religious duty - I really don't think it will be a POPCORN and DRINK kind of film.

Ticket sales benefit the film's makers and distributors.

My TBM bro just posted last night that all profits of the film are going to the REDCROSS.....awwwwwww....

It's like when the Federal Govt. gives a 3rd world country a $100 million dollars.....aawwwwww.....wait!....where did that money come from?

Think. The US government gives $100 M to an impoverished country to pay off the officials there so that mining companies, oil companies, palm oil exporters, Coca Cola, tobacco companies, construction consultants, large equipment manufacturers and every other big ticket spending, and resource or poor people exploiter can remain active in the country. The US government supports US interests. Whether large US interests should be subsidized by the income taxpayer (reduce that corporate tax!) is another question.

I think you missed the point which was people getting warm fuzzies about a rich church corporation donating to charity or a rich country giving money to a poor country (awwww, how nice of them) -- but their "generousity" is actually coming out of the pockets of the church members or tax-payers.

let me get this straight:

There's a movie, made by the church, called: Meet the mormons..
and that is a different one from the documentary on the tube, about this young missionary and his shadow who keeps hiding out in the hallway...

This movie will play in movie theatres and people will have to PAY to go see it!???

(Who in their right mind would do that!??)

And church leaders are now telling the members to spend their own money to go see this movie while the purpose of this movie is to tell nom members feel good mushy stuff about mormons??


Seriously??

I mean.. really... really?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

First of all, how is this film different from other LDS propaganda films? It's target audience is non-Mormons yet 90% of its viewers will be Mormons. Vignettes about 6 people living as Mormons? Yawn!

The theatre release is a gimmick to give it legitimacy. No one is going to see this except as a joke, so now they have to corral TBMs into the theatre to boost box office and give a perception of interest. LDS, Inc. gets more money and publicity, TBMs get to feel good about helping the cause. Number of people converted: infinitesimal.

In 2 years, they will be showing this movie for free at church just like they did with other church videos. Missionaries will have copies to show investigators. It's not the next Harry Potter film, so a smart TBM would save his money and get it for free shortly, but that's a bit of an oxymormon, isn't it?

This is like Scientologists going out, buying copies of Dianetics by the carton-load, and then turning right around, repackaging the same copies, and putting them back out to market. Rinse and Repeat.