A Deservedly Forgotten "Historic Moment"?

Boy, Jon must really need the paychecks if he keeps doing all this trash in 2007 (Bratz, September Dawn) or he is trying break a record on how many movies that one actor can be in one year (I don't count Transformers or National Treasure 2 as part of his trash). Maybe he is just trying to throw us off.

P.S. Still have no idea what this film is about or what is so Historical???

I have yet to see this film, but I've read some of the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, and my reactions are based on those.

I don't know of any GOOD movies about any point in Mormon history, not even of the lives of Joseph Smith or Brigham Young, let alone the dark, "we don't want to talk about this" points in their history, those points which every religion I've read about has.  If HeadRAZZBerry or others could name a few of those movies, I'd appreciate it.  I'd love to see a GOOD movie about gunslinger/U.S. Marshal/Joseph Smith bodyguard Orrin Porter Rockwell (he's a wonderful character, but there's only one apparently poor movie about him).  I'd also like one about the voyage of the Brooklyn with its 200 plus Mormons who decided to leave the United States for California only to take a detour to the Sandwich Islands (a.k.a. Hawaii) and when they finally arrived in California, it's now part of the U.S. (but the movie must honestly deal with the widow Lucy Buell Eagar (I'm not making up her name) and the three men, all of which newspaperman Captain Brannan excommunicated for bad doctrine and immorality--seeing the daily ship schedule, I want to know where they found the time!) as well as the rest of them, who the non-Mormons claim were the epitome of virtue.

That said, it shouldn't be hard to do a well done, sad but historical movie about the Mountain Meadows Massacre.   It's easy to bash the Mormon church about this incident because they covered it up, but I could point to other incidents other religions, Christian or otherwise, have covered up, too.  A movie about this incident should show it all, the paranoia between Mormons and non-Mormons at this time, the ill-fated Baker-Fancher party in yet another case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, the build-up of bizarre logic used to justify the massacre and the heartbreak of Haight when he received, well too late, the notice from Brigham Young to let them through.  A few paragraphs at the end can mention the cover-up until recent times.  But just let the movie tell the story; don't moralize over it. 

Last year we had an excellent film called Blood Diamonds.  The makers of that film could have moralized about how wrong everything was until they were blue in the face.  If they did, they would have failed to make their case.  Instead, they showed the brutality and the humanity.  The conclusion was inescapable, but they NEVER HIT YOU OVER THE HEAD WITH IT.  They put it all out there and let you decide.

Talking about horrible events with religious overtones may be trickier, but it seems to me the same approach should be taken. 

And please don't saddle it with the "star-crossed lovers" storyline.

Angelina, however, has been targeted by the Razzies for quite a while, though she was missed out for 2 straight years. All that was from 2001-2004, 5 times she's been nominated, and yet she hasn't even "won" a Razzie. A 4-time Worst Actress Razzie nominee for 7 films, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Original Sin (2001), Life or Something Like It (2002), Beyond Borders and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) and Alexander and Taking Lives (2004). She's also been nominated for Worst Razzie Loser of Our First 25 Years in 2004, but lost that award to Ah-Nuld Schwarzenegger.

Isn't it weird how they've both got Academy Awards and razzie nominations? Like Father Like Daughter.

Maybe Scott Holleran is MovieWizGuy's secret Identity...Sure sounds like the same person!  

I think Jon Voight and Christopher Walken are in a contest to see who can make the worst batch of movies this year while playing strange characters. I'd say it's a match between two of their movies, "Bratz" (Voight and his fake noise) and "Balls of Fury" (Walken with his weird clothes and hair).