Talk:The Reaping

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A plot summary needs to be added to this film article, or the current one needs to be expanded.

I've only seen trailers for this movie, but is this really science fiction? --...Wikiwøw 17:15, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Hard to say until we find out how it ends. Maybe there's a twist. 69.248.140.84 18:09, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

1 Poster
2 Citation for use
3 Not a good sign
4 Chile

[edit] Poster

Anyone know where an updated poster can be found? The current one features a release date in November 2006.Gunslinger 03:21, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I have seen about 4 posters for the show now, River of Blood, Locusts, Storms of Fire and Death of First Born, so is there really one poster that trumps them all? Anung Mwka 21:22, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citation for use

Thomas J. McLean. "The Reaping: Revisiting the Plagues in 3D", VFXWorld, 2007-04-05.

Visual effects coverage. —Erik (talk • contrib • review) - 18:00, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Not a good sign

I've seen the TV commercials for this movie. While they do feature scenes with Hillary Swank in them, there is NO promotional material at all that mentions her name. Did she refuse to allow this? If so, why? Is the movie that much of a dog? I don't think this movie is going to do any box-office reaping.

[edit] Chile

I am removing the following from the Trivia section of the article:

The film shows Concepción, Chile as a typical Central American town, which isn't really so. In fact, Concepción is the second major city on a relative developed country in South America. It shows the city as a place full of contamination and plenty of poor people almost dying on the streets, wich is quite far from the actual city. Other two wrong features about the scenes in Chile is the high amount of black individuals in it, while in Chile there is a very small population of persons of African heritage, and most of the ones you can see are American tourists. Moreover the "Native" people who speak in the movie possess an extremely prominent Caribbean accent thatcould not be more diffent than Chilean-spoken Spanish. No scene was filmed there.

In my opinion, this post belongs in the sandbox, rather than what is supposed to be an encyclopedic article. If a controversy about the film's portrayal of Chile is noted (i.e. a "group" of some sort highlighting the problems through the media), it may be appropriate to add an edited version of the above post into the article. Phimu222 18:31, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Text edited. Rdgo fdez 19:07, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I removed the section in question, someone seems to have readded it to the article. Zrekhan 22:41, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Agree. It should not be there. Simply because the demographics shown in a film are not representative of the region as a whole does not make it a factual error. samwaltz 00:06, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I think it should be. Maybe not in the trivia section, but it has to be somewhere. Concepción is now formally offended by the way the city is depicted in the movie (the city mayor is sending a letter to the movie producers) which ceirtanly demonstrates that it is a big error. FeniB84 16:59, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

If the above can be cited, I would suggest adding a separate category for "controversy" rather than sticking it back into "trivia." For example, something like this could be added:

Mayor (add name) of Concepcion, Chile formally objected to the movie's portrayal of the city. In a letter to producers Mayor (last name) stated " . . . "

Follow this with a source citation. Phimu222 19:15, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

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