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I just watched this, and shook my head, as expected. My favorite part is right near the end where that religious tourist woman talked excitedly about how she is going to come back after the reckoning on a white horse. What’s so great about a white horse?
The editing seemed weird in certain scenes, as if the most effective humor was formed from separate splices.
Maher did a lot of attacking and humiliating, which is entertaining, sure. But I’d rather watch more intellectual support like from Christopher Hitchens.
Gotta love equine supremacists.
Sammy said:Gotta love equine supremacists.
Eqwhite supremacists?
Paris said:The editing seemed weird in certain scenes, as if the most effective humor was formed from separate splices.
Yeah, that was pretty obvious, and par for the course for “documentaries” like this one. I didn’t really watch this for intellectual stimulation, though.
This made “Expelled” look well made.
Having seen neither, I still highly doubt your claim, there, Ev.
Religulous was poorly edited, to the point that interviews mostly look like they’re chopped up to make the people he talks to look like idiots. A lot of the cutaways are painfully obvious edits, and at some points they didn’t even bother trying to cover it up.
Expelled, while total crap, at least looked and sounded good.
Evan said:Expelled, while total crap, at least looked and sounded good.
1. While I haven’t seen Expelled, every review I read made mention of how poorly made it was.
2. Opinions of the topics aside, the difference between the two films is that Religulous is designed and edited to be a comedy.
3. Bill Maher, while an asshole, is right.
I speak in the technical sense, as someone who does video editing for a living, and I feel I can quite definitely say that, unless it was extremely poorly shot or the audio was poorly recorded, I could have done a better job. As far as story and content, it was terrific.
The bad reviews of Expelled, in the sense of it being poorly made, mostly hinge on imagery that didn’t correspond to topics, strange b-roll, and questionable editing of interviews. And being total bullshit. All of those are bad from the perspective of a reviewer who knows about films and what they’re supposed to have, but the producers of Expelled knew exactly what they were doing and did all of that on purpose.