A Mighty Wind... from hell?

April 17, 2003 9:04 AM

So, I'm trying to look up the site for the new movie A Mighty Wind. I wanna see it and trying to figure out when it'll make it's way here. (Answer: It won't!) Anyway, you'd think "amightywind.com" would be it wouldn't you? Sometimes there's no amount of money too steep to buy a domain back. And somehow REALLY religious people and web design don't mix. I wish they would. (Site info: hit enter waaaaaaaaaaaay at the bottom of the homepage, "meet the ministers", and be sure to click for the "nav bar, and listen to the Midi Juke box)
posted by Dome-O-Rama (32 comments total)

Wow...I'm sure they probably didn't want to sell after going through that much work with their website. I mean, check it out -- flames, meteors, animated god on horseback...

Either that or its the fact that they're roadtripping right now. No telling when they'll be coming to YOUR town.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 9:11 AM on April 17, 2003

my wife said that movie was great. i've yet to see it though.
posted by cachilders at 9:13 AM on April 17, 2003

Next to 'Meet the Ministers': Warning! If you are sent to these ministers or this ministry set to destroy, we remind you of the DOOM and judgement of your master Satan which has been set at the time appointed....
[ more ]

Can't wait to see the movie though.
posted by widdershins at 9:20 AM on April 17, 2003

I love that their pastor is using a photo from Glamor Shots on her homepage. Might as well look your sexiest when you're helping the lord.
posted by mathowie at 9:22 AM on April 17, 2003

Sometimes there's no amount of money too steep to buy a domain back.

Looney or no, I think they had prior claim, since the domain was first registered in 1997.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 9:26 AM on April 17, 2003

Man, what is it with fundamentalist Christians and eye makeup? Goths and Vegas showgirls probably secretly think these evangelists need to take the mascara down a notch.
posted by padraigin at 9:34 AM on April 17, 2003

And somehow REALLY religious people and web design don't mix. I wish they would.

C'mon, atrocious web design and nutballs go hand in hand! I wouldn't have it any other way.
posted by mikrophon at 9:35 AM on April 17, 2003

The epic Beauty for Ashes (Real Audio) just blows me away. Hey you troops of the Lazarus End Time Generation, let's all sing along!
posted by eatitlive at 9:43 AM on April 17, 2003

Oh well, it's one of the "Messianic Jewish Top 100 Sites" of course...
posted by ph00dz at 9:57 AM on April 17, 2003

I'm 90% sure I saw this story in the Weekly World News.
posted by MrMoonPie at 10:16 AM on April 17, 2003

funnily enough, my friend was trying to squat on www.whahappened.com after attending the preview of this film.

the money, as usual, would've been better spent on buying me a drink.
posted by fishfucker at 10:22 AM on April 17, 2003

Wow, they're going where Detroit fears to tread...looks as though they've been trying to raise money to install a "solar energy system" on their SHKHINAH GLORY Miracle Bus. I wonder if it's an old-fashioned Miracle Glory school bus, or a VW Mini-miracle-glory bus.
posted by tpl1212 at 10:27 AM on April 17, 2003

Warning to all witches, warlocks, shamans, evil medicine men, satanists, evil Kabbalists, voodoo priests, evil rabbis who say they are Jews but they are not, are of the synagogue of satan ( Revelation 2:9)! anyone practicing the occult and the black arts, when you try to come to Apostle Elisabeth Sherrie Elijah in the spiritual realm, no unwelcome guest is allowed in her house, ministry, ministers, loved ones, and congregation!!!

I think a simple 'No Soliciting' sign would suffice.
posted by wfrgms at 10:29 AM on April 17, 2003

That site is so frightening that Mozilla crashed rather than display it.
posted by Mars Saxman at 10:53 AM on April 17, 2003

What's with the animated GIF Flash animation of Aragorn leading the legion of the dead from Return of the King about halfway down the page? I thought those religious groups hated Tolkien.
posted by robbie01 at 11:03 AM on April 17, 2003

Dome-o-Rama, I did the exact same thing last night looking for the movie's website.

For what it's worth, I'm super excited to go see the flick tonight. It's gotten stunning reviews.
posted by arielmeadow at 11:17 AM on April 17, 2003

You know what's really hysterical about this website? How it's pretty obvious that they intended to use the domain name "ALMIGHTYWIND.com".
posted by padraigin at 11:29 AM on April 17, 2003

You know your soul is safe with a fellow like Chad.
posted by grabbingsand at 12:00 PM on April 17, 2003

Pagraigin: Hehehe, they own both, but it took them 7 months to catch their typo. Ahh, fun with domain registration records.

Domain Name: AMIGHTYWIND.COM
Updated Date: 10-mar-2003
Creation Date: 04-apr-1997
Expiration Date: 05-apr-2004

Domain Name: ALMIGHTYWIND.COM
Updated Date: 12-oct-2002
Creation Date: 25-oct-1998
Expiration Date: 24-oct-2006
posted by betaray at 12:21 PM on April 17, 2003

That totally kicks ass. If anyone can get me into heaven, these folks can.
posted by padraigin at 12:30 PM on April 17, 2003

MetaFilter: Are You Here To Cause Trouble?

Can't wait for the movie, also.
posted by LinusMines at 12:52 PM on April 17, 2003

Cute. A few years back one of my co-workers was really into Guy Ritchie movies when Snatch came out. Her web-surfing experience was similar, and yet entirely different.
posted by furiousthought at 1:05 PM on April 17, 2003

Where I am employed, we call graphics like that "explosions at a font factory". You should see some of the portfolios and resumes I receive from freshly minted technical school graphic design graduates. Just because you can change font styles and colors doesn't mean you need to.
posted by sharksandwich at 1:17 PM on April 17, 2003

Try crack.org.
posted by password at 1:48 PM on April 17, 2003

are you RAPTURE ready?
I don't know if Fezboy! is rapture-ready, but he is sufficiently hypnotized after grabbing the scrollbar and running it back and forth really fast. . .

Yowza!
"~~[[[[8^)
posted by Fezboy! at 1:52 PM on April 17, 2003

Lord, save me from the HTML skills of your followers.
posted by elwoodwiles at 2:40 PM on April 17, 2003

You know what's really hysterical about this website? How it's pretty obvious that they intended to use the domain name "ALMIGHTYWIND.com".

Read Genesis 1:1, if you would, and get back to us on that.
posted by dhartung at 4:29 PM on April 17, 2003

MetaFilter: Might as well look your sexiest when you're helping the lord.
posted by kirkaracha at 7:07 PM on April 17, 2003

[tangent apologies]

I really want to see A Mighty Wind too, Dome-O-Rama! I so hope that Eugene Levy (who co-wrote) and the other character actors involved, like Catherine O' Hara (Kevin's mom in "Home Alone" is probably her best-known role) will become, after this tantalizing film, more visible and recognized. The NYT review (reg.req.) bodes well.

Good thread, btw!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 1:06 AM on April 18, 2003

Man, what do these religious guys have against Satan? I mean, the guy's no Bobby Orr or nothin', but he earns his pay... Now if they were false-prophesizing, soul-destroying minions of Eric "Whiny Contract Holdout" Lindros, that I could understand.
posted by arto at 2:19 AM on April 18, 2003

"If you think the Ruach Ha Kodesh wont tell her, you're wrong it has been proven already!! For she has the authority and the anointing in the Name of Yahshua to use the spiritual rod and the double edged sword to CUT YOUR SILVER CORD!! For the innocent ones who don't know what this means, you need not fear, but the evil ones know that they could die when this happens. For they use the silver cord to travel out of body. As one warlock told Her who was coming to here out of body, no you can't do that for he could die and she says you been warned!"

So is, like, websurfing an out of body thing? Is she talking about cutting our internet connections? Who dies from not having internet access?

Freaks.
posted by kaibutsu at 9:59 AM on April 18, 2003

indeed, kaibutsu; I think some fundamentalist Christians believe in more of the new-age wackiness they rail against than anyone who supposedly practices it.
posted by Mars Saxman at 11:22 AM on April 18, 2003