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Post #731558

Author
darth_ender
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Ask the member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints AKA Interrogate the Mormon
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Date created
13-Oct-2014, 7:22 PM

I should have mentioned this a whiel ago, because you probably won't have the chance to watch it before it disappears from theatres.  Anyway, you all should see Meet the Mormons.  It's a Church produced film about six different Mormon families and how we are real people.  It is not about controversial doctrines, about establishing what makes us different or weird.  It is simply about six Mormon families, that's it.  It's a sort of documentary approach, and I found it quite enjoyable.  I suspect a big reason many won't see it is the price of a ticket for something that could have been a reality TV episode (or six), but just bear in mind that none of the proceeds go to my church.  Rather they are all donated to the Red Cross.  Rotten Tomatoes' eight critics who bothered to rate it were obviously looking for stuff about polygamy or Joseph Smith drinking alcohol or something, because apparently a simple PR piece (let's see, it's called Meet the Mormons) was simply too straightforward for our critics who like to see more negativity.  There is plenty of that to be had.  This was intended as merely an introduction to ordinary people.  If you can dig that and are okay with contributing whatever a ticket costs to the Red Cross, check it out before it disappears (quite possibly on Thursday).

http://meetthemormons.com/#/filter-all/page-1

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/meet_the_mormons/

(Note how well audiences enjoyed it; even if it is largely a Mormon audience that saw it, it couldn't have gotten that high a rating from Mormons alone, especially since you can rate a movie without even seeing it, just to be a jerk)