So... "Red Box" lists Ben Stein's "Expelled"...

[BenBurch]

...but they list it as COMEDY. :D


For those who don't know, "Red Box" is a video rental service that uses vending machines, and they have a real-time online listing of what titles are available at which machines so you can find and reserve what you want before you get into the car.

[ParrotPirate]

I think "comedy" might be too light of a word. I suggest "anti-scientific idiocy"

[steve s]

Just as long as it's under Fiction.

Steve S.

[tomwaits]

Well, I think it's meant to be a comedy. Sort of a Michael Moore type Comedy Propaganda film.

The only problem is that it's funny for a reason different than what Ben Stein intended.

[Wowbagger]

Not a very funny comedy.

[fuelair]

...but they list it as COMEDY. :D


For those who don't know, "Red Box" is a video rental service that uses vending machines, and they have a real-time online listing of what titles are available at which machines so you can find and reserve what you want before you get into the car.
I thought it was funny - in a brainless kind of way!!:D

[Tumblehome]

...but they list it as COMEDY. :D


Good call by Red Box. :D Ben Stein plays a perfect stooge.

I'd like to think it's a comment on the content of the movie, but more likely it's because Stein is known more as a comedic actor.

[learner]

Spotted at a car boot sale near where i live ( southwest England ) "Expelled". Price, 50p,
Shocking! .
I bagged a near mint hardback copy of " the ascent of man".. Bronowski. Also 50p.

I didn't buy the former. I only had 50p left. What a dilemma.

[blutoski]

Not a very funny comedy.

No, not at all. Not a lot of comedies with Nazi extermination camp footage.

[rjh01]

I belong to another rental company that has 35,000 DVDs. They do not even have this movie.

This site says the movie is no good http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1091617/#comment. They give the movie only 3.7/ 10.

[alfaniner]

Perhaps because it was marketed as a comedy, to deceive people enough to get them into the theaters. The TV ads made it look like a "Ben Stein goes back to school and hilarity ensues!"

[ParrotPirate]

There was/is a site called "Expelled:exposed" that was set up to debunk the whole thing. I don't recall who put it together,but it took eveything Stein put in the movie apart.

[BenBurch]

Perhaps because it was marketed as a comedy, to deceive people enough to get them into the theaters. The TV ads made it look like a "Ben Stein goes back to school and hilarity ensues!"

I missed that entirely. Maybe because weeks at a time can go by in which I never turn on the TV...

[tomwaits]

No, not at all. Not a lot of comedies with Nazi extermination camp footage.

Bowling for Columbine included the Columbine footage, plus the 9/11 footage. However, those could be considered "comedy". I haven't seen the movie, but I think that was what Stein was going for.

[Wowbagger]

No, not at all. Not a lot of comedies with Nazi extermination camp footage.There is at least one:

Life is Beautiful (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/) (1997)

Bowling for Columbine included the Columbine footage, plus the 9/11 footage. However, those could be considered "comedy". But, not those parts. BoC was a documentary with a message, that infused some humor to get its point across. But, I'm not even sure how many would even categorize the whole thing as a "comedy". Not that it matters, much.