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I'm calling it right now: Best Comedy of the Year.

"I just wanted to dance and hang out, Dad. And now all of this..."

I didn't realize that facing both a deadly disease and the physical manifestation of evil could be so succinctly summed up.

Dustin, this is for April Fools right? This isn't a real movie? Please?

looks even worse than the acting in some of the videos the military makes for educational purposes.

You mean the STD ones? Little known fact: Ryan Reynolds' first onscreen role was as "Private with discharge from his privates".

My favorite part is when the father crosses his arms and says "The Devil sure won't like this!" like the Devil is the grouchy old neighbor and the kid just trampled his tulips.

Also C Me? That is fucking dumb.

The C is for cookie, right? That's good enough for me.

this is "funny or die", right? right?

hmm.

pssh.

I was taught the same thing by the nuns. Right after their failed in their attempts to make me one of them.

Daddy, I'm so scared!

Ballet is not a gentle art. It wrecked my feet and has left me with a serious back problem. Maybe I should be expecting a visit from Satan?

I refuse to see bullshit like this before I indulge in delicious, delicious pancakes.

Thou shalt have no other devils before Pacino.

"Diaboli virtus in lumbis est. Diaboli virtus in lumbis est."

Oh I know we've got a good sense of humor, rayliotta, but it's just so hard to convince other people of that some times... This movie is ridiculous, the website is even more so.

And since you set me up for it...

LOLJEZUS: I CAN HAZ LOAVES IN FISHUS?

Oh boyz. You guys crack me up, 4 realz. That "just in the butt" thing fell to the wayside when we Catholic youth discovered...actually, I'm not gonna go there. Just, not.

Kayanne your lolspeak is impressive.

So many things that are Christian or moral these days are voiced by a crowd that lacks self-deprecation. We should Monty Python their asses.

I'm frankly surprised that no one has posted yet under the name "The Devil" and told us what he really thinks.

I'm frankly surprised that no one has posted yet under the name "The Devil" and told us what he really thinks.

Posted by: Steven Lloyd Wilson at April 1, 2009 10:23 PM
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You have it backwards, stipe, The Devil posts here under the name ... well, put it this way:

"The greatest trick Pookie ever pulled was convincing Pajibans he doesn't exist."

Verbal Rowles

Leigh Hacksaw, HA!

Dustin, please, please, please tell me someone will be reviewing this movie. If there's no review, the devil wins.

rayliota, I don't know if we should waste the engergy. They're gonna stay pissy no matter what.

Steven, I actually have The Devil on the horn right now and he was wonder what you think of, excuse me, lemme check my spelling... ah, ok, got. He was wondering what you think of deez nuts. HIs emphasis, not mine. If you could get back to him on his cell, he'd appreciate hearing your thoughts.

You know what, I have no idea. That fucker called me collect. I had to pay my own money just to pass on zinger from the 90s.

Got me again, Devil.

Ugh! And now I found out I wasn't invited to the biggest social event of the spring!? That's it, I am so not giving him back his Lost DVDs.

Kayanne: I think you were supposed to go undercover to the Ball for the Blessed and spike the holy water.

Ahahhahaha! I totally did not get to watch this earlier. It looks fantastic! When does it come out? I need to see this.

Ohh! Oh! two more days! It's going to be "in theaters"! This is excellent news; it means DVD in oh, say, a week. I really hope this isn't a joke. *fingers crossed*

I shit you not...this trailer opened the showing of I Love You, Man here in glorious ol' Birmingham, Alabama. I mean, is that REALLY the target audience to see this film? All I heard throughout the theater when the trailer finished were peals (yes, peals) of laughter amidst groans of disgust.

That being said, I'm pretty sure I'm going to watch this when it comes out on DVD, since as a gay man, I'm contractually obligated to watch any movie with choreographed dance scenes, but damnit, I promise you I'll, at the very least, turn the viewing into a drinking game.

I just wish the tagline had been:

"She's so excited...she's so excited...she's so...scared..."

I did love the Cohen-esque directorial decision to have her speak the lines looking straight at the camera. Top notch stuff, right there.

I wonder if the devil is a Pajiban. Oh, probably.

Oh, melligan, are you trying to start a fight? Do you know how many Pajibans (including me) currently lay claim to that title?

It's "C" because she obviously contracted Hepatitis C, thereby opening the door for SATAN to suck on her heathenous soul. The irony, of course, is that the REAL Satan dropped this damned movie on us.

"WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF HELL, CREATURE!"

Fabmax, they would if they where Miley Cyrus, and if the response was going to be 'I know baby, but our love is special and we shouldn't be afraid to share it with the world. Just because they dont understnand us,that don't mean we should be hidin''

Ew. Totally skwicked out now. I agree 'God has given you a gift...and the Devil is not gonna be happy about it' or...what ever it was, might be the best line ever comitted to paper, as if the Devil is sitting there being all Evil in hell then goes 'wait...wait he made her a great what? A great DANCER? That DICK!!! Oh that is IT, that's the last frikkin straw, get my leather coat, I'm dealing with this, someone one GET MY COAT, I GOTTA GO RECLAIM A GOD DAMNED SOUL!!'

I mean...obviously the devil is a euphamism for doubt etc in the face of her mums death but that makes that 'the devil is gonna be PISSED' or words to that effect line all the more ludicrous.
I have a love/hate thing with the fundamentalists and evangelicals. On the one hand, they're (with a few exceptions to whom i intend no offence) generally sort of scary lunatics who make me honestly very afraid and angry. But on theother hand, you put enough of them in a room with some typewriters and a camera, and they spin gold like this?
Damn their confusing bids for affection/loathing. DAMN IT TO HELLLL

OHMYGODOHMYGOD

I have decided to youtube christian movies and ohmygodohmygod

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0_JMnxl77g

I really thought Satan would be more menacing, he looks like a vampire from one of the early episodes of Buffy.

As I read all these negative comments from people that have not seen the movie, I can't help but think, you might want to step away from your online girlfriends, put on your grown up pants and either see the movie and then make a comment, or go back to playing Warcraft. Some of you probably shouldn't go because it doesn't have sex or a disgusting and degrading content. You will be bored with a wonderfully intense story well told by talented people. Oh yeah, and the movie will reach the lost souls and encourage mankind to maybe stop destroying each other.

Did no one click on the link Nadine provided? Seriously, THAT movie has it all.

Satan in the form of a snake taunting a crippled kid about his blindness. Parents who apparently leave their kid in his wheelchair at the edge of the road at night to watch bikers pass by (except that, oh, HE'S BLIND. Does he get off on the exhaust?) A mystical healer who takes off the kid's sunglasses (what does he need them for? HE'S BLIND) and restores him to perfect health. He couldn't have done that, say, 12 years ago?

And why is the kid thanking the tree? Why did God give him the ten commandments on a CD? Aren't they pretty well spelled out elsewhere? How does bike racing factor in? I am dying to know.

And it ends with two lovers running (well, trotting, maybe--actually it's more like a brisk walk) towards each other on a beach, joining hands and spinning in a circle while the camera alternates between each of them. Seriously. I was tearing up.

a wonderfully intense story well told by talented people

Really, jc1? Have YOU already seen the movie?

Thing is, I have no problem with movies with a direct Christian agenda. I just don't know why they all have to blow. Poor acting, poor dialogue, poor plots. I mean, can't the Church afford a little better than Mike Seaver or Buddy Lembeck? Maybe if they'd divert some of their funding from abortion rallies to their production studios, they could get Michael Bay on board and make a Christian movie where things blow up and change shapes to get a bunch of teenaged boys excited about the Lord. But seriously? A dancing contest? Not likely to reach the masses they're hoping to touch.

And for the record, I don't have an online girlfriend or play World of Warcraft. I have an online boyfriend and have gay sex. There's a difference...there's a difference...

I'm calling it now: my co-worker will see this. She will come in on a Monday and tell me, "I saw this *really* neat movie this weekend. Have you heard of it? I don't know if it's something you would normally like, but keep an open mind and do yourself a favor! It had a *really* great message."

She considers herself "in the know" and "hip" and "special" because she saw that Kirk Cameron fireman thing at an advanced screening. The "special" part is right...

Stardust, regarding your first comment: that 11th commandment IS on the back of the 2nd tablet. it Was on a third, but we ALL know what happened to the tablet with the last 5 commandments don't we? (Thank God for Mel Brooks and his educational films)

Now I'll go back to my Warcraft. Thanks for the reminder JC1!

Ask and ye shall recieve eh? This should damned entertaining!

(Should I use the word 'damned'?)

I'm just fucking flabbergasted by the whole thing.

DR, You're really gonna let PissBoy do this one?

*does happy dance and scratches -- see what I did there? -- Rowles off list of "The Devil incarnate"*

Maybe we need a "5 best Satans" random list. Be some great actors on there. Much better than the list of actors who have played God (DeNiro and Pacino rain fire and brimstone all over Alanis and George Burns).

I'm just glad I talked my daughter out of taking Latin for her three year foreign language requirement. It's obviously the LANGUAGE OF THE DEVIL!!!! So French it is!

Hey jc1 I don't have an online girlfriend, I don't even know what Warcraft is, and this movie completely sucks balls. I don't need to see the whole thing to know that, just the trailer. Though I really do WANT to see it, for the laffs.

And I promise to be completely objective while i watch it.

Movies like this are why non-Christians think Christianity sucks. First is the angle; God doesn't care about the millions suffering brutal war, epidemics, famine, and crushing poverty, but one photogenic ballerina gets sick and the Big Guy must get personally involved. Maybe if Africa's AIDS orphans knew how to dace God would care more? Secondly is the Devil; all evil comes from a scary Latin-speaking mannequin with crazy eyes. Most evil is banal, why do Christian movies insist otherwise? If there has to be a personification of evil, why can't it be the Jobian Devil--the one who likes to poke humans with a stick and call them disloyal to God when they complain? Third is the fact it's all personal; in movies like this God and Satan are in your face, doubting is like being the one guy in a werewolf movie who says "I don't believe in werewolves". If you're going to convince nonbelievers your faith is worthwhile, you ought to address why someone would believe in a loving deity despite all evidence to the contrary.

The perfect example of why the widespread ability for anyone to make a movie these days is both a blessing... and a curse.

Ok, I put Paddy's comment into one of those free online translators (since I never took even a minute of Latin) and this is what I got:

Lorem itself pain he is amet consectetur to come up to elit , but her transitory cut when to sink and pain magna some. When in fact to in the least degree grace , anyone our work at ullamco labor if not when someone out of this to make fit according to reason. Anyone but to swear an oath reprehenderit upon pleasant skirmish to be cillum pain good to flee nulla to pay. To take out sint obcaecat ambition not proident , are upon fault quae workshop to leave gently breath this is to sink

I'm pretty sure that's not what she said.

The lorem ipsum is a placeholder used to demonstrate how text will appear in a given layout. It's not really supposed to mean anything, but it was derived from Cicero.

Stardust savant - our particular brand of church decided to let gay people become pastors just like every other kind of sinner...didn't go down well with the slightly more fundie members of the community. Hence, anyone associated with the church, espcecially the person who answered the phone, must be in the pocket of Satan.

I've seen this movie recently. I can honestly say that I was pleasantly surprised to see a clean movie that had suspense, drama and action. No matter what you do on a Sunday, this movie will be entertaining. Sure it might not have had the $100 Million dollar budget that Hollywood usually produces, but I can tell you it didn’t have other things too. For example, it didn’t have sex, swearing, nudity, innuendo’s, blood, gore, senseless violence and the typical garbage that the majority of ticket buyers sell their souls for every Friday.

A movie screen is a very powerful tool. For Christians, passing along a positive message is always a good thing and a responsibility. Why not the positive word of God? After seeing this film, if a non-believer or someone who has strayed from God starts asking questions to a friend or someone who has accepted the Lord, budget or no budget, it is worth the effort. I imagine the producers of this film were not thinking about Hollywood when they were making this movie. That’s the point.

The movie is not marketed at the theater as a Christian film. Even though it is a Christian production, God is only the message, don’t ignore the storyline. It is well written and holds up its own with the recipe of a good story. I can tell anyone that it does not use scare tactics to convert anyone and I saw no evidence of spiritual warfare. These terms have been unfairly used in this blog. This is yet another example of making assumptions before you find out the facts. The devil in the movie is portrayed not as a main character but more as a symbol of the young girls fear. So, don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. This might be the only case that seeing is believing!

Still, after all the negative comments that these bloggers and commentary have spread on the net, they are trashing a good movie that they never seen. Doesn’t anyone think twice to question that? Does that make sense to anyone? Go see it for yourself. You be the judge and don’t let anyone dictate or make decisions for you. Find out for yourself what the movie is all about. It is by no means a Bible thumping flick, but a true good spirited, entertaining 89 minutes. Truthfully, it only leads me to conclude that the negative people in these blogs have a real need to see this movie.

If it is a Hollywood $100 Million+ film that you demand, then I will stand proud outside of the stuck up Starbuck’s line. Movies do not have to be blockbusters or have high over exceeding budgets to be a good picture to see. Can anyone tell me the last time you could take the whole family to see a film without slamming into any of the uncomfortable situations that are named above? Cartoon animations don’t count. Anyone? Anyone? Take a second to think about. It’s sad.

I’m suggesting to anyone reading this to step out of their assimilated Hollywood, Starbucks line and grow a little intellectually and maybe a little spiritually. If you are one of the negative commentators, please stand up and show us all that you are the bigger person. Just don’t sit there behind your laptop eating Doritos in your three day old T shirt and completely afraid of something new and nothing to do with yourself but be negative to things you have never seen or experienced. See the light…it’s just outside your bedroom door. Go toward the light.

One more thing. Trailers are meant for “teasing” potential audiences. A commercial. It is designed to entice or intrigue people. Today, more times than not, after watching a trailer on TV, you almost come away with the entire storyline. Why do that? If I was going to skip a movie, it would because of those trailers. Then again, I never judge a book by it cover.

Peace.

Hey, "Christian", looking on imdb (how did this even get on there??? they need more due diligence) you are obviously Greg Robbins, "writer", "director", and "actor" of this "film", or someone related to the production.

You should not call yourself a Christian. You need a new name. You write with no respect for anyone else. And this trailer has nothing to do with TRUE Christianity.

I have not seen the movie and do not ever plan to. But I have watched the trailer you put out there and it is even worse than all the "negative comments" listed above and elsewhere. Words cannot describe the injustice and disservice "Uplifting Entertainment" has done to filmmaking, writing, acting, directing, to Christians, and to human kind in general. No one is asking for a higher budget c me dance (good lord, no!) (and even a Hollywood budget would not have helped you).

This is clearly an abuse of religion, targeting the Christian audience to bankroll yourselves.

I can't decide what's worse: that you can't take criticism (which is what a critic, by definition, gives) or that you respond with such hatred and personal attacks and judgments to those writing comments on the product released to the (limited) public.

If the film or the trailer were any good, we would say so. The trailer just sucks. The movie must, too, since as it is the "commercial", one puts some of the film's best material in it to entice a potential audience, eh, Chris?

National Motion Picture Premier Launches in Washington, PA

2009-03-27 -- WDC Media News --
Proceeds to Help Leukemia-Stricken Teenager from Pittsburgh

West Middletown, PA. (March 25, 2009) – The national motion picture premier of C Me Dance will occur next Thursday night, April 2nd, at the Hollywood Theatres in Washington, PA. C Me Dance is the first film produced by Uplifting Entertainment, a new Christian-based company located outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The film has been endorsed by the Lymphoma Foundation and the Dove Foundation for excellence in filmmaking.

Most of the film’s stars will be in attendance at the Washington, PA premier including Greg Robbins, Christina DeMarco, Laura Romeo, and Peter Kent. C Me Dance tells the story of a teen-age girl named “Sheri” (played by new actress Christina DeMarco) who has trained her entire life to dance for the Pittsburgh Ballet, and as her dream comes true she comes to find she is dying from a rare blood disease.

Through the illness, God uses Sheri to bring people to Christ but the devil tries to intervene. Sheri and her father Vince (played by veteran actor, writer and poducer Greg Robbins) are sent on a spiritual adventure to bring revival to America. Greg Robbins announced that all premier proceeds would go to Ms. Jacqueline Gordon, a real-life teenager from the Pittsburgh area who is battling leukemia. Mr. Robbins said, “We are giving all the money Uplifting Entertainment makes off the opening weekend at Hollywood Theatre in Washington, PA to the Gordon family. This makes me happy helping Jackie and her family as she’s been an inspiration to all of us.”

Ms. Gordon said, “I am overwhelmed with the support and love from everyone involved in C Me Dance.”

Greg Robbins said, “This heart warming and tear jerking thriller will keep audiences on the edge of their seats and touch everyone, giving us a rejuvenated love for Christ and a deeper passion for life.”

The movie has compiled an impressive soundtrack with recording artists such as Lincoln Brewster, Eowyn, Staphanie Fraschetti, and Terri Shamar featured.

A.v.Beaverplatz, how true it is. "Kathy", the one telling us that we are so terrible for watching a trailer then giving our honest opinions, is a wreck of a hypocrite herself.

And the poor, poor actors -- yes, everyone has to start somewhere: how about acting school? These are not mean comments; they could be helpful if you guys were open to learning anything new at all. And if you can reach the actors and the director and suggest some basic schooling, I'm sure they'd appreciate it.

Faith-based anything has the potential to be good, but does not MAKE it good, Kath. you actually have to BE good by normal standards for even *main stream* Christians to like it. And launching a movie to the public is asking for -- beggin for -- public opinions.

The marketing team on this one tried to play it safe by only putting it in the bible belt. Too bad for them that a lot of those people have eyes, ears, and - gasp! - a brain, too.

Try to be GRATEFUL once in a while that anyone is taking a moment of their precious time to even discuss this piece of shit trailer.

Oh and "how dare all of you put other people down because you think you have the right to judge them!!" isn't a judgement it's a STATEMENT!!

But your statement previous to that, Kathy, was a judgment on how everyone in this thread is likely to spend their money, and how what they spend their money on is affecting their brains. That is the definition of the hypocrisy that you, yourself, accused everyone in this thread of.

"Kathy", you can talk yourself into and out of whatever you want -- you are clearly not listening to anyone outside of your head and are chock-full of self righteousness. And do you really need the sarcastic, multiple punctuation marks? Reminds me of the lack of communication skills in that trailer ...

Ah, statistics. I've read some of those, too -- and it's people that write like you that are bringing this country / religion down. I read that somewhere. Really. And you are responding to us -- people who didn't like that "trailer", so yes, you are talking to us. If you meant something else, then say it more clearly next time.

And thanks for the wishes, but no need to follow your bitchy emails with a false wish for my nice day. You could give a shit about how my day is going, and I'm ok with that.

Clarins you seem like such an angy person. "And do you really need the sarcastic, multiple punctuation marks?" I did the punctuation marks because I was including myself. And I don't see where I was being bitchy. Maybe you should read your own remarks before you call mine bitchy. And guess what? When I say have a nice day I mean it! Is it really a bad thing that I liked the movie or that I have respect for the kids who put themselves out there? Or that I hope for better choices for our youth? And how in the world am I bringing this country/religion down? People like me? I didn't realize that liking a movie or having respect for the kids would bring the country and religion down.

Au contraire, SWSTF. The only things that have failed here are the trailer, the film, and the pleas to verbally convince us otherwise. The film speaks for itself (and it is shamefully begging for mercy).

Oh, but here you are ... BLOGGING! None of us was bashing PEOPLE; we were critiquing a shit movie. It's appalling and shameful that you would speak of us being pathetic and our parents (somehow also pathetic? in your unbelievable judgment) doing a horrible job. I'll tell my Catholic (saintly, and the most beautiful person I have ever met) teacher-mother you said so. She speaks a few languages so she could have helped you on the German you wanted the devil to speak, if you had only found her and asked nicely. Oh, but she likes and respects her kids, so that may not have worked for you.

I hope you do not call yourself Christian. Please, please, please just be a Republican.

What a horrible example such mean-spirited writing is setting. You are the only ones (you and Kathy; related?) bashing people. This is so sad. And nobody even cares about this movie any more! It was fun to watch the pathetic trailer and parts of the movie for a few days (I couldn't waste my time sitting thru ALL of it ... I DO value my time and I saw PLENTY) but now, eh, we have better things to do with our lives. But how sad your writing style made me, Seenthemovie!

You are mean and troubled and clearly part of the production team who after all this will still not show the least bit of humility. I am joining the rest of the real world and retiring from looking at these posts or the 1 star rating the project got on IMDB or the terrible reviews that bashed the "work", not the people -- and not the people's parents. Just the work. This isn't kindergarten. You don't get gold stars just for effort any more. You gotta actually do something of quality.

Go back to Christian TV made for the Christian TV channel. Or, better yet, go get a job you can actually perform. Please.

Filmmaking/writing/acting is not your calling.