Comments on: Review: Four Lions is The ‘Spinal Tap’ of Jihad

By: Looksoverpark

Looksoverpark — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:30:07 +0000

This really does sound like it would be a fun film to watch. Glad to see some humour appearing in treatment of Islamic terrorists.

By: Howard Veit

Howard Veit — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:26:48 +0000

Trailer with foreign accents that are almost impossible to understand won’t help this movie one bit. First fix it then try selling t he movie. From the trailer it seems like a student film………

By: Party Girl

Party Girl — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:38:30 +0000

This seems like a genuinely “edgy” film, not the faux-edgy we so often get nowadays. Not too many people willing to satirize this kind of subject matter.

By: servethepeople

servethepeople — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:57:11 +0000

I think this sentence sums it up for anyone who is still wondering whether or not Hollywood is left wing and does not behave like a normal business (re. earlier discussion of the Bollywood film below):

“Four Lions was a big hit at Sundance earlier this year, and has already done killer business at the indie box office in the UK (it opened the same weekend as Iron Man 2, yet had a better per-screen average), but the film has yet to secure distribution here in the U.S.”

With this kind of pedigree and box office success in the UK there still can’t find a distributor? That is insane. If this had been some crazy anti-American terrorist-appeasing environmentalist-whacko BushHitler film that had made zero money, you know Hollywood would have snapped it up and it would be on 3000 screens in a month.

By: Trojan Horse

Trojan Horse — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:58:49 +0000

British humor is much more black and acidic than American humor. That may be why they’re willing to cover this subject matter while Americans (present company excluded, of course) are not. I’m a big fan of subversive British comedy (Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, etc.) so I’m glad to hear there’s a talented new British satirist on the scene. Will try to check this one out.

By: laurensmythe

laurensmythe — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:33:30 +0000

Great review Jason. I would really love to see this … the only problem is not much indie cinema makes it my way. I’m amazed this got made at all. Hopefully I can catch it on Netflix…

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