This is an amusing article from The Daily Utah Chronicle, by Chris Bellamy:
LDS films get Oscar shaft again: Speaking of godliness, ominously missing from the Oscar noms were such local darlings as 'The R.M.,' 'The Work and the Story,' 'The Book of Mormon Movie,' 'Day of Defense' and everyone's favorite classic, 'Pride and Prejudice'-the hallmarks of Mormon cinema 2003. That's right, folks-the LDS cinema epidemic...er, 'movement,' just keeps on growing. Think of it as a mini Renaissance...except crappy. Keep in mind that I'm saying this as a Mormon (that's right, freaky long hair and all). But the phenomenon of Mormon movies grows more baffling by the year. All of a sudden, it's trendy-it's a fad, the new thing for all young, ambitious, completely untalented Mormons everywhere. First, it was scrapbooking. Then everyone realized there are only so many ways one can decorate a makeshift picture frame, and the whole thing just became blas?. So the LDS faithful started making movies instead, quality and talent be damned! Devout Mormon and former Daily Herald of Provo columnist Eric Snider said it best in his review of the shockingly bad 'Day of Defense.' 'Even non-filmgoers-even obscure humans who have never set foot in a movie theater-ought to be dismayed that a movie of this caliber was created by their fellow man. A national day of mourning ought to be set aside, and then there ought to be mass suicides.' A note to Mormon filmmakers everywhere: Stop it. If you think you're somehow, in some way, spreading the word, you're not. Were I not Mormon and caught one of your movies in the cineplex, I'd not only never convert to Mormonism, but I'd make it a point to swear off casserole, green Jell-O and marital procreation forever.
