Sarah Palin pimps Mark Burnett's sequel to his television series on the Bible. Suggests that it is as important as "American Sniper."

Courtesy of Mary Mangled Words Facebook page:

Can there be an even bigger reason to watch The Voice than to get to see Blake Shelton?  (Yeah, Christina Aguilera. Duh!) Well tonight there is. Jesus is coming to NBC! Thank you Roma Downey and Mark Burnett for your faith and your boldness. Much like Clint Eastwood sharing his talent with the world in making one of the best, most important films of our time, "American Sniper," so many of us appreciate these artists who jump off the political correct bandwagon to just do the right thing. (And boy aren't the similiarities between a man who preached love and forgiveness and a man who shot men, women, and children to death from a great distance almost impossible to miss?) They bless us when they allow good to work through them!

So apparently Jesus is now getting his own reality show. With about as much "reality" as the "Jersey Shore" and "Sarah Palin's Alaska."

As far as I can tell Palin is talking about some crossover promotion for Burnett's re-imagining of the death and resurrection of Christ on the The Voice tonight, but I cannot find any mention of it anywhere else as of yet.

However I did find this rather interesting video where Mark Burnett calls his effort "Game of Thrones meets the Bible."

It is probably worth pointing out that this is NOT history, and should not be advertised as such.

It should also be noted that the first part of this series only received a rating of 13% on Rotten Tomatoes and the critics were devastating.

One critic had this to say:

Much of this is tediously drawn out, with crazy fly-overs between Biblical Chapters that may make you think it’s “Survivor: Holy Lands,” which, of course, it is.

So whether you believe the story or not, I think comparing it to the record breaking appeal of the HBO series "Game of Thrones" is going to leave a lot of viewers very disappointed.

I also find it interesting that we are again seeing Palin attempting to curry favor with one of those Hollywood elite types. Kind of makes me wonder if she is not angling for a show that is NOT relegated to the darkest corners of cable.

Could be.

The movie, "Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas," wins multiple awards. Not sure these are the ones they wanted to win however.

Courtesy of Vulture:  

The Razzies, the annual awards for the worst of film, found a fitting target for their derision Saturday night. The committee bestowed Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas with four dubious honors, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Screen Combo for Kirk Cameron and his ego. 

Here are the categories that this pile of merry pile of crap managed to sweep:  

WORST PICTURE 
Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas 
Left Behind 
The Legend of Hercules 
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 
Transformers: Age of Extinction 

WINNER: Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas.

WORST ACTOR 
Nicolas Cage – Left Behind 
Kirk Cameron – Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas 
Kellan Lutz – The Legend of Hercules 
Seth MacFarlane – A Million Ways To Die in the West 
Adam Sandler – Blended 

WINNER: Kirk Cameron.

WORST SCREEN COMBO 

Any Two Robots, Actors (or Robotic Actors) – Transformers: Age of Extinction 
Kirk Cameron & His Ego – Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas 
Cameron Diaz & Jason Segel – Sex Tape 
Kellan Lutz & Either His Abs, His Pecs or His Glutes – The Legend of Hercules 
Seth MacFarlane & Charlize Theron – A Million Ways To Die in the West 

WINNER: Kirk Cameron and his Ego.

WORST SCREENPLAY 

Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, Written by Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey 
Left Behind, Screenplay by Paul LaLonde and John Patus, based on the Novel by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins 
Sex Tape, Screenplay by Kate Angelo and Jason Segel & Nicholas Stoller 
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Written by Evan Daugherty and Andre Nemec & Josh Applebaum, based on Characters Created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman 
Transformers: Age of Extinction, Written by Ehren Kruger, based on Hasbro’s Transformers Action Figures

And the WINNER is: Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, Written by Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey.


It is also worth noting that on Rotten Tomatoes this flop rated a 0%, which is pretty damn difficult to accomplish. 

Gee, do you think that NOW Cameron will finally stop trying to make these movies?

Yeah, me either.

Kirk Cameron's craptastic, fact free, Christmas movie is now officially the worst movie ever made.

As I am sure many of you remember Cameron went on Facebook to beg people to give his truly ridiculous movie a good review on Rotten Tomatoes because it was being trashed by regular movie goers.

You know, people with taste.

Well clearly that didn't help at all, and today the film has the unenviable rank of 0% on the Tomatometer.

If that were not bad enough (And really it should be don't you think?), the film also found itself on the absolute bottom of IMBD's list according to ratings.

It is even considered worse than Son of the Mask, Glitter, and something called Invasion of the Neptune Men.

Which only goes to prove that you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you simply cannot force your obvious Christian propaganda down people's throats just because you were once a semi-famous sitcom star.

(H/T to the Friendly Atheist.)

Kirk Cameron is begging his Facebook "friends" to artificially inflate his craptastic Christmas film's Rotten Tomato ratings. Apparently most people thought it sucked jingle balls.

This from the Christmas revisionist in chief's Facebook page: 

Help me storm the gates of Rotten Tomatoes! 

All of you who love Saving Christmas - go rate it at Rotten Tomatoes right now and send the message to all the critics that WE decide what movies we want our families to see! If 2,000 of you (out of almost 2 million on this page) take a minute to rate Saving Christmas, it will give the film a huge boost and more will see it as a result! Thank you for all your help and support in putting the joy of Christ back in Christmas!

Now I have no personally seen the film because I don't feel it appropriate to go on a murderous rampage right before Christmas. but I have written about it. 

However apparently many of the people who were tricked into thinking they were going to see a....a...well you know an actual movie that made sense, have not been holding back their criticism.

Here is but a sample courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes:

First the critics:  

With a smile so wide and laughter that sounds so forced you half-expect the camera to pull back to reveal hostage takers, Mr. Cameron explains how several facets of the holiday - the tree, Santa Claus, gifts - have roots in religious tradition. 
Ben Kenigsberg New York Times 

Perhaps the only Christmas movie I can think of, especially of the religious-themed variety, that seems to flat-out endorse materialism, greed and outright gluttony. 
Peter Sobczynski RogerEbert.com 

As a movie, Saving Christmas is not good. But as a teaching aid for congregants about having their fruitcake and eating it, too? Sure, why not. Go nuts, guys. 
Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle

Now the audience members:  

Beware! This movie will make you a dumber person. When you look into Kirk Cameron's vacant eyes, they will suck the intelligence from you like a particularly stupid industrial vacuum. His complete inability to form logical thoughts can be dangerously contagious. Do not under any circumstances allow children near this movie. 

As a struggling Christian, I saw this with hopes of finding comfort and peace in religion. After watching this, I feel more frustrated and disgusted by others who claim to be Christians. I think this would be more entertaining to unquestioning, uneducated people. What a waste. 

I don't think Jesus is going to come back now after seeing this! 

What a terrible movie. This should come with free eye bleach and a time machine capable of giving me back 2 hours. 

Falsification of history by a clueless faded child actor, making a bleak attempt to hide the fact that "Christian" traditions were borrowed from earlier cults and religions. 1h 20 mins you won't get back. Avoid.

There are forty six pages of these, almost all overwhelmingly negative. 

Hay Cameron do you know how to get good reviews for a movie, besides begging for them on Facebook?

By actually making a GOOD movie that does not attempt to change facts to suit your fundamentalist religious views! Or one that does not treat its audience like they have only six brain cells to rub together!

Just a thought.