10 First Impressions of the New Machine Gun Preacher Poster
I'm sworn to secrecy regarding my recent previewing of Machine Gun Preacher, director Marc Forster's forthcoming biopic about Sam Childers, a Pennsylvania junkie ex-con-turned-born-again-orphanage-building-gunslinging savior of Sudan. But there's nothing that I or anybody else can say about the film that isn't summed up in its new one-sheet featuring star and co-producer Gerard Butler, which is like whoaaa.
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Not to take the easy, cynical way out either -- Childers's real-life story is genuinely mindblowing -- but Jesus Christ indeed, pray for this poster. What to even say about it?
· Gerard Butler Packs Heat, Orphan in New Machine Gun Preacher Poster
· New Machine Gun Preacher Poster: No Condescending Racial Overtones at All, Nooooo
· New Machine Gun Preacher Poster: Say Hello to Gerard Butler's Little Friend
· Orange Blood, White Messiah All Over New Machine Gun Preacher Poster
· New Machine Gun Preacher Poster: Is That an Orphan in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
· New Machine Gun Preacher Poster: Have Sad African Child, Will Travel
· Hope For Another Machine Gun Preacher Poster is the Greatest Weapon of All
· New Machine Gun Preacher Poster: What Kind of Buddy Movie is This?
· New Machine Gun Preacher Poster: Hand Over the Oscar, and No Sudanese Kid Gets Hurt
· New Machine Gun Preacher Poster: That's Racist
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Comments
Why be so PC sensitive and play the race card. Given the premise for this film (and true story) it is an awesome poster!
What offends me the most is that he's clearly holding an assault rifle, and not a machine gun.
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Also, considering that it's based on the true story of a white man saving African orphans, I don't think they have many other choices when it comes to poster imagery.
Like I said, I've seen this thing, and trust me when I say that this movie is about a lot more than that, and there are 100 more creative options for marketing it than Gerard the White Giant and a kid _who isn't even the main one in the movie_. It basically purports to say, "If you've seen/saved one Sudanese orphan, then you've seen/saved them all." A Sally Struthers commercial has more conviction.
Is this a prequel to Cop and a Half?
When I saw the poster, I did not have one of your 10 first impressions. Why so negative?....Or maybe you are trying to be funny, don't know? I can't wait to see this movie. I am a Christian and a Gerard Butler fan, so I am excited.
^LOL
This world is full of white hero's, we are so lucky!
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