American audiences preferred movies with strong conservative content and values

I was happy to har that the movie makers are making more religious and family based movies and making a bundle doing it. Hopefully the public is getting sick of these Liberal type trash movies that swarm with bad lanquege. sex and drugs.movies


What’s a good recipe for box office and DVD sales success? It seems in 2011, pro-America sentiment mixed with conservative values and faith-centered themes equaled a hit.

This according to an annual study conducted by the Christian-focused entertainment advocacy group Movieguide, which found that in 2011, American audiences preferred movies with strong conservative content and values over movies with liberal or left-leaning values by an almost six-to-one margin.









The 760-page report claims that films with a conservative or pro-American edge, such as “Captain America,” “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” “Soul Surfer,” “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” and “Battle: Los Angeles” raked in significantly more box office green than more liberal films like “Red State,” “Super 8,” “J. Edgar,” “Glee” and “Ides of March.”

“People want good to overcome evil, justice to prevail over injustice and liberty to conquer tyranny. They respond to strong heroes and even strong heroines, but they are turned off by radical social engineering and big government programs,” Movieguide publisher Dr. Ted Baehr said of the report, which rates movies using several criteria such as “anti-communist content,” “strong biblical morality,” and “strong pro-capitalist content.”

The study also claimed that the stronger the Christian worldview in the film, the more money it made.

Films considered to have a significant redemptive or religious focus such as “Pirates of the Caribbean: Stranger Tides,” “The Help” and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” made more money in theaters last year than those with a non or anti-Christian core, or a mixed/humanist perspective, including “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” The Hangover II” and “The Rum Diary.” In fact, Movieguide’s report asserts that the Christian-motivated movies, on average, earned four times as much in box office returns – $64.3 million as opposed to $15.9 million.

“Most people dedicated to a particular faith are likely to find the violence, substance abuse, sexual immorality, and mocking of traditional values in most modern movies offensive," said Megan Basham, entertainment editor at Christian news site, World Magazine. "The rare well-made film that offers the opposite is going to appeal to church-goers of every stripe."

In addition, Movieguide reports that among the Top 25 DVD sales last year for theatrical movies, 52 percent had at least a small amount of patriotic or pro-Christian content, while only 8 percent were considered to be on the left side of the spectrum.

Baehr also pointed out that more than three quarters of Americans (238 million people) and 2.3 billion people globally, identify themselves as Christians, and Hollywood is finally starting to realize that this niche is an important one.

“When we started Movieguide in 1985, there were only one or two movies being made with a strong, explicit Christian content or values, but now there are well over 50 each year,” Baehr continued. “Every studio now has a Christian film division, and several studios are doing major movies with strong Christian content. And now all of the major studios, not just Disney, are making movies for young children and families.”

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...in-2011-than-their-left-leaning-counterparts/

 

Movies are already mostly terrible. Dialogue, plot, etc. are so unoriginal and unentertaining that I can't stand most of them. As soon as I start hearing that loud music when somebody is fighting in what are now all Matrix-copycat action scenes, I shut it off. What really irritates me though is that these guys love to slip their agenda into movies as if I also need to see what these idiots think about politics.

I'm hard pressed to come up with the last movie that really made me forget it was a movie.

 

lol, sure, seems like an independent bunch...

not sure how pirates o´caribean and mission impossible got into the conservative category; but sure, if these are conservative movies, it seems conservative movies are doing quite well..seems like laughable arbitrary categorizing..

weird to me tho, aren't people always claiming hollywood is completely liberal?
i can only notice that there appear to be a lot more movies that are critical towards govt´s and the US in general (hunger games etc.); 20-25 years ago, there were virtually no movies made that were critical on the US...
there are certainly a lot more movies that don't portray homosexuality and homosexuals as something bad then there used to be in 1985 (start of this study); actually homosexuality is pretty much universally considered as something normal by hollywood (maybe thats what u mean with christian values: tolerance towards the other), i can't recall the last movie i´ve seen that portrays homosexuals in a bad way
i also never heard of a successful "christian movie", i see some from time to time in the place i "borrow" my movies, they are always unknown and horribly rated

the term "christian values" seems not to mean the same for everybody anyway...for most christians in the western world a film that doesn't portray homosexuality as something negative represents more of a christian value then a film that does the opposite.

this study is just laughable and the conclusion untrue - action movies often have a small amount of patriotic content?? (oh really) > people like action movies > people like movies with conservative values.....pretty sound reasoning

some examples for christian movies that were successful wud be nice, maybe "passion of christ" is one..but, i mean there gotta be ALOT if this study is just remotely true

what bs

 

How did Atlas Shrugged Part 1 and 2 do on the survey?

 

Harry Potter was the highest grossing film of 2011.

The order went like this:
Harry Potter Part 2
Transformers Dark Side of The Moon
Pirates of the Caribbean
Twilight Part 1
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
Kung Fun Panda
Fast Five
The Hang Over pt2
The Smurfs
Cars 2
(That is the Wikipedia list)

Here is another list, slightly different.
http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view=releasedate&view2=domestic&yr=2011&p=.htm

 

Actually, dumb movies made for teenagers make most of the money. Period.

 

The Chronicles of Narnia was pretty good. It seems like that came out about ten years ago, though.

 

Seems like you didn't notice that the list came from a "christian" site with FOX NEWS reporting it! No bias there, right?

Now. . .here is a link to the WHOLE TIME most successful movies at the box office. . .I don't think you will see much "Christian" based movies.

But, EVERYONE, Christian or not, likes a story that ends well, and right overcoming wrong. . .THOSE ARE NOT CHRISTIAN (or Republican) VALUES. . .they are HUMAN VALUES!

Here is the link:

 

Couldn't say, but I suspect that they drew the wrong conclusion.

My default cable TV channel is Turner Classic Movies, where most of the films are g rated and in black and white.

This does not mean they don't examine uncomfortable issues like racism ("To Kill a Mockingbird"), injustice against the common man ("The Grapes of Wrath"), political and media demogoguary ("All the Kings Men", "A Face in the Crowd"), or religious bigotry ("Inherit the Wind")

Of teh movies in this quote, the only one I actuall saw was "The Girl in the Dragon Tattoo". I saw both the first film version in Swedish and later the American remake.

I suspect it didn't do all that well at the box office, because Americans aren't interested in and don't relate to films set in or from the outside world. The first "Pirates'" movie was entertaining ,but the successors were junks. I have to be just the right mood for moron fodder like "The Hangover". and I grew up in the world of "The Help", and I don't feel comfortable having it glossed over.

 

I love it when the bad guy get beat to hell at the end. Loved the Eastwood movie when the bad guy got blown to hell with a bazooka.

 

You are part of the problem, always have to have that justice. I prefer the unexpected, amuse me and entertain me but please don't be predictable.

 

You know what I don't like about some of the new move's I have been watching? It has a good story line then 3/4 th's way done it tricks the audience and the rest of the move it is Christian

I vote republican and am a Christian but kind of resent the way they twist the story line. Not cool with me.

If I want to watch a Christian movie I will, but when I want to watch a feel good movie don't bring religion into it.

 

conducted by the Christian-focused entertainment advocacy group Movieguide

Yeah, now there's a group I'll use to give me MOVIE CRITIQUES! (Maybe they are underwritten by DISNEY).

 

Sometimes if the bad guy wins, a bigger point gets made. Think "The French Connection" or "The Ususal Suspect".

Of course, this requires you to think. Most Dirty Harry movies don't put thier audience through that sort of inconvenience.

 

I want to see more movies like Lost, 4400, Stargate, ect... nothing wrong with spiritual movies, I think much of America liked those types of movies - those kinda movies make you think... and I think many liberals and conservatives liked em

btw, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” was not a "Conservative" movie, was a good movie, but hardly conservative, many Conservatives may also have liked it, but so did many liberals

well said, sounds kinda like the Christian review looks for top sellers and then tried to stamp the "“strong biblical morality" on it without ever watching those movies, Spiritual is far from "“strong biblical morality" lol




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