The Lair of the Emerald Serpent

Izzie truly believes that sacred cows make the best burgers. So what a tasty feast there has been in the last few weeks. Even in normally peaceful Australia protesters have been rampaging on the streets while their kids barely out of nappies held placards calling for the beheading of those who insult their prophet. Izzie thinks it would not be a bad idea to save just such a punishment for the more militant protesters. Not just their heads but the hands that wrote those placards along with the rest of them. We would then toss the lot into the mincer and serve them up as pork sausages with a nice cold beer

Had the sneaking suspicion that like certain cartoons, this movie had been around for a while before some Mullah decided to give it extra publicity for his own nefarious purposes. This cynical serpent wouldn’t put it past some pathetic Pakistani politician to distract attention from the real crime of letting 260 workers burn in hell while the boss slinks off into the sunset or at worst gets a slap with a wet lettuce leaf. Nice to know some people have got their priorities right.

It’s far more important to accuse mentally impaired members of a minority of blasphemy or to declare national days of worship for their prophet than to bother with health and safety regulations and much less to properly enforce them.

Been a bit preoccupied with assignments and stuff but finally got around to googling a certain movie to see what all the fuss was about. Thanks to a sucky slow internet service it took ages to feast on the freakery. Had to check several times just to make sure it really was kosher and not some hatchet job created to stoke the flames of intolerance

This isn’t the Protocol of the Elders of Zion or even “The Life of Brian” If only it was a zillionth as funny. Oh it was hilarious but for all the wrong reasons

Was falling about in fits of hysterical laughter. Some things are so bad that they are good. This movie is even beyond that. Totally camp and kitsch. It is seriously hard corn. So pathetically mutant that even Monsanto would be incapable of producing such a monstrosity

There is some brain dead boof head army bloke and a horde of other critters all claiming to be some incarnation or other of Mohammed. Then there’s all the paste on Santa Claus beards, actors just slapped onto sand and tent backgrounds almost floating in the air and some seriously hammy acting.

If these actors declared that two plus two is four the Izzie would be getting out her calculator. That is how credible they were. How anyone could get their knickers in a knot over this film is beyond belief.

But just when you think it could not get any more ridiculous decided to turn on the captions. That elevated it to stratospheric levels of silliness.

But what so seriously amuses this serpent, one would swear that all these protesters were being paid by the producer. Sam Bacle might be a crappy film maker but he is a marketing genius. On the last count the Youtube page had more than ten million views.
As for the comments, they are of a similar intelligence level of the movie itself especially from those who oppose it.

If there is one way to guarantee that millions of people will watch this Z rate effort, then making such a murderous fuss about it is just the right way to go about it.

There is far more dignity in simply ignoring such silliness and turning the other cheek. Their rampaging and rioting in the streets has proven the very point that the film maker wanted to make
It is one thing to expect believers to observe certain protocols concerning the depiction of their prophet but once they go demanding the same behaviour from the infidels and everyone else then they are guaranteed to annoy the hell out of us. And since their poor sensitive little buttons are so easy to push then that is exactly what any self respecting iconoclast will do.

They should fight words with words not guns and bombs. Surely some one in Saudi Arabia could fund some defamatory film about Jesus or some American sacred cows to give them a taste of their own medicine. It could be pretty damned awful and still be not as stupid as the one they are so fussing over. But then no one would bother watching it. What they really need is the Monty Python mob.

Izzie’s favourite films of all time is still “Jesus of Montreal” Cannot help but wonder what Denys Arcand would have made of the life of Mohammed and what the mob’s reaction to it would be