been hate-watching this lately, now it's time to share
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90PWFEeRApA&feature=player_embedded
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
Sorbo*
― am0n, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:55 (ten years ago) link
so hyped.
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:56 (ten years ago) link
That professor is so mean!
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
"you get to decide who the most important person in your life is: me, or professor radisson"
WHAT ABOUT JESUS
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 01:00 (ten years ago) link
"who are you really looking to fail.. me? or god?"♫ god's not dead / he's surely alive ♫
― am0n, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 01:04 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au8zdGnDLoo
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 01:05 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrPxrSy5n8w
― am0n, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
is it just me or is sorbo like, "i'm not anyone's dadd-- whoa my daughter has boobs."
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 01:10 (ten years ago) link
Professor Radisson can't handle the truth.
― jmm, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
sarbo talks!
― slam dunk, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
Is the main character kid's name JOSS WHEDON? Why?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:12 (ten years ago) link
You can hear it at 0:37, when the other dude asks for his full name... Seems totally random, unless Whedon is well-known in God-hating circles, or something?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
hahah this movie is based on a chain email
― max, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
Tuomas it's "Josh Wheaton" according to Wikipedia.
also lol that this is based on a song by that shitty band the Newsboys
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:22 (ten years ago) link
feel like I see these "HOW DARE THEE PERSECUTE US" films in theatres every other month, one day I will attend one of them in a wizard's hat and throw mustard at the screen
Okay, "Josh Wheaton", but still, it can't be coincidence, right?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
idk, were Christians that up in arms about Firefly?
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
Maybe they were angry that last year's biggest movie had Norse gods and space gods but no Christian gods?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
And Cabin in the Woods was even more blasphemous.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
when can i see this movie
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
don't give them your money! you'll have to find one of those evangelical torrent sites. "god's love we download"
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
god sees you when you pirate.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
no, that's the NSA
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
god hates pirates.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/christandpopculture/2013/10/gods-not-dead-but-this-trope-is/
There's even a Chick tract!
http://www.chick.com/m/reading/tracts/readtract.asp?stk=0055
http://media.chick.com/tractimages67491/0055/0055_04.gif
http://media.chick.com/tractimages67491/0055/0055_05.gif
― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
Tract kinda has the opposite effect of what it intends. Typical Chick.
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
"What If?" might be crazier. What about his poor fiancee?
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 23:55 (ten years ago) link
i love how jack chick sets up these ridiculous straw men, and then uses footnotes to correct them.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 28 November 2013 03:44 (ten years ago) link
his stuff appeals to people who participate in that Meet Me at the Flagpole shit at schools
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 November 2013 03:50 (ten years ago) link
does jack chick's work appeal to all that many people un-ironically?
don't answer that
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 28 November 2013 08:51 (ten years ago) link
Chick is a joke for kids. There's much more interesting stuff out there like here:
http://www.apologetics.org/
― Noodle of the Vague family (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 November 2013 08:57 (ten years ago) link
the Apologetics movement seems to me a bit like 'missing the point', but I still find it adorable that they try so hard
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 November 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
i couldn't make heads or tails of that website
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 30 November 2013 06:16 (ten years ago) link
it seems to me that all metaphysics is built on sad but some of the Christian apologetics guys build great big huge elaborate skyscrapers on sand
― Noodle of the Vague family (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 November 2013 10:21 (ten years ago) link
built on sand i meant but i guess that was a serendipitous typo
ty nv, seems quite interesting at first glance
― veneer timber (imago), Saturday, 30 November 2013 12:58 (ten years ago) link
"all metaphysics is built on sad" is beautiful
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 2 December 2013 03:28 (ten years ago) link
"God's Not Dead" continues to surprise at the box office. The Freestyle Releasing film about one Christian college student's quest to defend his faith grossed an additional $7.7 million with 580 more theaters added to its release. Now in its third weekend in theaters, the film from director Harold Cronk stands with an impressive $33 million to its name.
― polyphonic, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
director Harold Cronk
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
new display name there for the taking
I can't wait to see this.
― Eric H., Monday, 7 April 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
Heaven Is For Real will cut this movie's B.O. success story down in a week and a half.
OK, then.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Monday, 7 April 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
prefer Solaris
― MV, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
when the philosophy prof quotes shakespeare like an angry credo
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 7 April 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
Saw Under the Skin tonight and saw ppl leaving this movie and they looked exactly what i woulda expected.
It was one of three Bible-thump movies in the cinema.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 02:23 (ten years ago) link
colton burpo #3 movie this weekend
― balls, Sunday, 20 April 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
how did this presumably ridiculous movie that i assumed would be nothing but a source of in-jokes become an actual success?
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 20 April 2014 02:43 (ten years ago) link
They should hand out Burpo kooshes at HIFR
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 02:52 (ten years ago) link
What's the proportion of people who've paid to see this movie ironically?
― art, Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
don't pay money for this movie, seriously folks. if you have to go for the yuks, then sneak in.
how did this presumably ridiculous movie that i assumed would be nothing but a source of in-jokes become an actual success?― Merdeyeux, Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:43 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:43 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
christians--they are everywhere
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:07 (ten years ago) link
the success of this film is one of those depressing reminders that i share this country with millions upon millions of bigoted, willfully ignorant nutcases
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:08 (ten years ago) link
We need a series of GG Allin biopics to bring some equilibrium
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:10 (ten years ago) link
aleister crowley biopic IIRC
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:14 (ten years ago) link
This shit used to be straight to vhs/dvd fodder :(
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:15 (ten years ago) link
in some ways it's a symptom of the growth of mega-multiplexes—they need stuff to fill all those screens.
the weird thing is, these films aren't even fundie-lite like the "son of god" thing ("Jesus was a very nice man who could do magic"). these are fairly hard core "Xians are being persecuted by the godless elite!" stories—or at least "god's not dead" is.
well not as hard core as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5o_LwqX77I
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:20 (ten years ago) link
1/2 of that film is really gory violence like communist thuggos decapitating people or sending a spike through a kid's ear etc.
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:21 (ten years ago) link
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Saturday, April 19, 2014 10:15 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
actually i think the building blocks of the current success were things like screenings in churches, churches renting out single screens, etc.
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
nah it got limited releases and would spread by word of mouth in smaller markets (there's a similar model now w/ certain movies targeted to the hispanic audience). it's just now fundie flicks have the distribution and marketing muscle and competence of real studios behind it. the audience was always there. it's similar to how every few years hollywood will remember that black ppl exist and go to the movies.
― balls, Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:27 (ten years ago) link
Ave Sathanas
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:28 (ten years ago) link
nah it got limited releases and would spread by word of mouth in smaller markets
yes, but before that there was a bible-belt circuit for christian movies, consisting of churches, community centers, rented-out high school auditoriums, etc.
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 05:15 (ten years ago) link
o yeah ron ormond, etc
― balls, Sunday, 20 April 2014 05:29 (ten years ago) link
Frailty increased the number of believers iirc
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 07:02 (ten years ago) link
Kind of amazed that this movie appeals to anyone, really. The premise is beyond ridiculous.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 20 April 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
fairly sure if this came out when I was in high school, it would have been a youth group field trip to see this movie. Fundies eat this kinda faux-persecution bullshit up like hotcakes. Most liberal Christians, on the other hand, are embarrassed by movies of this ilk. On the other hand, the reason Heaven is For Real (ugh) is doing well with critics is apparently it has distanced itself from the blatant hammer-to-the-face propaganda stylings of films in this genre (I can't speak to the validity of those claims obv).
It was amusing - a similar film, Last Ounce of Courage, came out last year to really terrible reviews. And this one Christian movie critic, of the more liberal variety, wrote an extremely critical review of it on her blog, calling it "bigoted", "mean-spirited", as well as questioning its motives. Her comments section filled up with angry fundies attacking her, one of them calling her a "bigoted liberal"!
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, April 20, 2014 11:06 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah but it's the same premise as one of the most popular email "memes" w/in the evangelical milieu
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah every negative review of one of these xian films on variety, film international, wherever automatically gets a million comments from fundies screaming that the author is just one of the hollywood liberal mafia.
there's usually one or two poor souls who actually try to explain that thinking a movie about christlove is bad doesn't mean that the same person thinks jesus is bad.
fundies not down with critical thinking, news at 11.
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
Well what Jesus said/did and what fundies do in his name are more or less complete opposite ends of the spectrum as far as I'm concerned. If this was really a movie about Christlove it would be all about helping poor people, healing the sick, and casting out money lenders. Not two idiots having a pride-off.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 20 April 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
I'm waiting for the Cliven Bundy movie to come out, it will probably have the same fanbase
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
Bad review = "I told you so."
― Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Sunday, 20 April 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
yeah the movie Last Ounce of Courage was about a bunch of 'courageous' Christians standing up for the 'real meaning of Christmas' when evil Atheists stop city hall from displaying a manger, and how in the end they bully the town into ignoring sep of church and state and get their way.
I saw some of it but the unintentional LOLs faded quick when I realized how much sway some of these people hold IRL
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
I remember when I was a Fundie, we had these green workbooks (I forget what they were called), and one of them had a sad story about how a science teacher had the audacity to teach Evolution, and how little Billy raised his hand and stammered "b-b-but I believe in Jesus and the Resurrection" and the teacher of course replies "Well I'm sorry, Billy, but Evolution is a scientific fact!", concluding with a summary of how this is proof persecution against Christians still occurs.
The workbook also said "Evolution is ridiculous! If you saw a car in a garbage dump, would you assume it had evolved from the materials around it?"
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
yeah the movie Last Ounce of Courage was about a bunch of 'courageous' Christians standing up for the 'real meaning of Christmas' when evil Atheists stop city hall from displaying a manger, and how in the end they bully the town into ignoring sep of church and state and get their way.I saw some of it but the unintentional LOLs faded quick when I realized how much sway some of these people hold IRL― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, April 20, 2014 1:41 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, April 20, 2014 1:41 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i feel like these folks live in another country, almost literally. trying around small-town kentucky i saw tons of christmas mangers and ten commandments etc. planted just outside of country courthouses. something that would pretty much never happen around here. it's not they didn't get the memo--it's that nobody in town has any interest in challenging the displays, and prefer to ignore/defy the memo.
i admit i don't have many "christian" feelings toward these assholes.
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link
DRIVING around
This is shit is tribal, not theological. Negative film criticism is always taken on as a personal attack by those who identify (a LOT) with the movie's subject matter/genre/etc. And since you get pissed off people on the internet who feel personally attacked, they harden up into defensive mode and respond in (perceived) kind. Want another example of this with another subculture? Folks who really likes the Star Wars prequels.
A great, GREAT deal of the screaming bullshit done by rightwing/evangelical types makes far more since if you find+replace "Christian" with "Roman" or "Klingon" or "Trekker" or "Juggalo." It's a people in a rightwing authoritarian subculture wrapping themselves themselves in a trademarked term they call "Christian" and get away with it because they grab the most screentime and we're never called on their shit in the 60s-80s by media types giving them airtime.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Sunday, 20 April 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
Since = sense.
Dysgraphia and smartphone text entry make for interesting randomized word substitutions.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Sunday, 20 April 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
There's nothing new about this. Remember a lil top grossing film called The Passion of the Christ? Same audience.
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 20 April 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
there were definitely non-religious folk that saw it ironically for the gore factor though.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 22:18 (ten years ago) link
one of my atheist friends came back from it and was like "dude it was awesome! Jesus got his skin flayed off!"
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 22:19 (ten years ago) link
Atheists down w supporting antisemitic racist assholes, cool
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 20 April 2014 23:20 (ten years ago) link
ey I didn't say I supported that line of reasoning. but I do remember sites like Ruthless Reviews reviewing it in this manner too.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
I think you are really on to something irt Christian/Klingon/Juggalo/etc maybe religion is objectively dead (due to picking fights w science, due to reading the Bible wrong/not at all) but the void has been filled with pop culture. Think about it, it makes lots of sense, there are rituals, there is idolization, there is intense attention to detail, deification of canonical works, expanded ("apocryphal") universes, etc.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 20 April 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
For people that don't dress up, they can read People magazine and get their mythos weekly. Or live another life vicariously through following a TV series.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 20 April 2014 23:50 (ten years ago) link
Is there a siingle actual irl incident that this could even be seen as a reference to, of a US philosophy professor (at a state institution?) insisting on converting every student in a lecture hall to atheism/secularism?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 20 April 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
single
as observed above I think this is based on a forwarded email, and on a Jack T Chick tract called "Big Daddy."
http://media.chick.com/tractimages67491/0055/0055_06.gif
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 21 April 2014 00:17 (ten years ago) link
Reality probably doesn't come into it as much as a really strong gut feeling about being persecuted, brought on by not having any evidence to back up what you believe and needing to not face that. It's kind of a plot that writes itself.
― boner of a lonely horse (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Monday, 21 April 2014 00:18 (ten years ago) link
LIke that image of the professor is probably how professors look to you if deep down you have to not face that you're full of shit.
― boner of a lonely horse (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Monday, 21 April 2014 00:20 (ten years ago) link
I'd definitely go see God's Not Dead if it had a scene depicting the 'atheist professor vs marine' Facebook meme.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 21 April 2014 00:25 (ten years ago) link
♫ god's not dead / he's surely alive ♫― am0n, Tuesday, November 26, 2013 8:04 PM
― am0n, Monday, 21 April 2014 00:28 (ten years ago) link
HOLY SHIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLYafQUDrOk
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 21 April 2014 00:30 (ten years ago) link
Wait is Hercules in this or not
― 龜, Monday, 21 April 2014 00:36 (ten years ago) link
Ah, read the previous links, thanks.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 21 April 2014 00:52 (ten years ago) link
that 'most emotional scene' makes the prospect of seeing it for lols a bit grimmer.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 21 April 2014 01:10 (ten years ago) link
Holy fuck, just watched that.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 21 April 2014 01:21 (ten years ago) link
that was tremendous
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 21 April 2014 01:40 (ten years ago) link
i had to watch it on mute - it's about some fundie finding out his daughter is a lesbian (after clearly having been recruited at school) and kicking her out right?
― balls, Monday, 21 April 2014 01:47 (ten years ago) link
The pop culture bits aren't what I meant; I meant the tribal aspects. Think politics as college football; routing for teams and gang colors and battle standards(which is why I mentioned "Roman"). Trying to approach these people thru religion is the wrong way about it;
The perceived persecution thing is close to it; remember the War on Christmas and the fact that current republican/evangelical leaders are authoritarian social dominators(to use Bob Altemeyers term). The flocks are people are told time and time again by all their trusted sources and leaders(i.e. "Epistemical closure")that Those People are evil and worldly and atheistic and hate them and, at the very least, are not Real True Christians. In other words, anybody else not wearing the right colored jersey or supporting the right team are the enemy and not to be trusted.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 21 April 2014 02:00 (ten years ago) link
So know you got a population deliberately carved out of and separated from mainstream American culture, who can only partake of culture approved by their tribal gatekeepers. Some of you are my age, and can remember when Amy Grant first showed up on te pop charts. I can remember other teenagers talk about how she got branded apostate because she was no longer making records just for te evangelical/CCM crowd. I'm vetting Jars of Clay or Creed got shit for crossing over the following decade.
So you have a not-insignificant amount of Americans surrounded mass American pop culture, but not really allowed to participate in it(e.g. Harry Potter is a mass phenomenon but evil). Now some shit comes along like the Left Behind series or Passion of the Christ or Son of God or Gods Not Dead or whatever, and finally, you have consumable culture aimed at you and directly, precisely marketed to you. You have a mass audience "Thing" that you can be a part of, since the tribal gatekeepers have deemed it kosher. And you consume that shit with a vengeance. Remember those stories about church groups renting out theater for "Passion of the Christ" or how many millions the Left Behind books sold? That kinda thing. The pent-up blue-balled desperation of wanting a pop cultural thing you can enjoy too, free of worry that it's treyf and you're sinning and worldly by embracing it.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 21 April 2014 02:10 (ten years ago) link
Goddamn do iPhones suck for large posts.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 21 April 2014 02:11 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah, another example: how many of your youth groups went to go see Stryper?
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 21 April 2014 02:12 (ten years ago) link
i'm always amazed that these movies are so pointedly hateful (e.g. islam-bashing above) when they could just easily be "jesus loves me yes he does, I am going to go volunteer to help the homeless now."
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 00:35 (ten years ago) link
but do you want to see groundhog's day starring stephen baldwin?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 00:38 (ten years ago) link
Josh questions Radisson, asking why he hates God. After Radisson gives his response, confirming he hates God for his mother's death that left him alone despite his prayers, Josh asks Radisson how he can hate someone that doesn't exist. In the end, every member of Josh's class, including Martin, stand up and say "God's Not Dead", causing Radisson to leave the room in defeat.
This is even dumber than I expected.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 01:59 (ten years ago) link
man that makes the infamous Dead Poet's Society scene give me a fuckin' boner by comparison
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 02:03 (ten years ago) link
Josh questions Radisson, asking why he hates God. After Radisson gives his response, confirming he hates God for his mother's death that left him alone despite his prayers, Josh asks Radisson how he can hate someone that doesn't exist. In the end, every member of Josh's class, including Martin, stand up and say sing the title tune, "God's Not Dead", causing Radisson to leave the room in defeat.
fixed
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
no wait
Josh questions Radisson, asking why he hates God. After Radisson gives his response, confirming he hates God for his mother's death that left him alone despite his prayers, Josh asks Radisson how he can hate someone that doesn't exist. In the end, every member of Josh's class, including Martin, stand up and say sing the title tune, "God's Not Dead", causing Radisson to leave the room in defeat horror.
now fixed
Now I'm wondering… why do I hate unicorns?
― boner of a lonely horse (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 02:46 (ten years ago) link
God's Not Fat
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 02:51 (ten years ago) link
So in conclusion believing something doesn't exist is the same as denying it?
― Evan, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 02:55 (ten years ago) link
I like to imagine the movie ending with someone in an adjoining class room coming in and screaming "WOULD YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP? WE'RE TAKING FINALS IN HERE!"
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 02:58 (ten years ago) link
Sorbo believes Hollywood has limited his career because of his conservative political and Christian views.[19]
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link
He's a really good actor, then, possibly on the level of the guy in the Twisted Sister videos.
― boner of a lonely horse (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 03:21 (ten years ago) link
I bet he's DISAPPOINTED
― Evan, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 03:47 (ten years ago) link
struttin' around like the 5th grader who got an extra piece of cheese in his Lunchable
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 04:45 (ten years ago) link
Took me a while to realize but one of my students was wearing this shirt today:http://www.familychristian.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/300x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/5/259218.jpg
And I, as a raging liberal agnostic soon-to-be-college-professor...helped him with some questions he had about HTML and CSS.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 05:54 (ten years ago) link
"sure, I can help you fix that line of code... IF YOU ADMIT THAT GOD IS DEAD!"
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 13:40 (ten years ago) link
He'll just come back with his DVD copy of pi.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 13:44 (ten years ago) link
Why do you hate JAVA?
― Evan, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 14:15 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bux3vnJIYAEC_Js.png
― polyphonic, Monday, 11 August 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0OJqNp6aJU
― da croupier, Monday, 11 August 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
What a banner year this is turning out to be.
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Monday, 11 August 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
Lotsa scare-quotes in that advert
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 11 August 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
Not to mention multiple record-scratch sound effects
― joygoat, Monday, 11 August 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
I predict a sudden rash of conversions among 30-something female marketing executives with killer wardrobes, dream apartments and great friends as a result of this movie. Jesus will be proud.
― dustups delivered to your door (Aimless), Monday, 11 August 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
plz tell me they got Trent Reznor to do the soundtrack for this
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Monday, 11 August 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Hwyneth Gayden
― mattresslessness, Monday, 11 August 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
hey, that's my thing
― switching letters guy, Monday, 11 August 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
sorry, switching letters guy
― mattresslessness, Monday, 11 August 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Freestyle Releasing
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 11 August 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
My heart weeps for Stephen Tobolowsky.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 August 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt3398066/
Not only is he co-starring in it, Corbin Burnsen is writing, directing, _and_ producing! Just like Orson Welles!
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 11 August 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
eh, I prefer to look at it as great fodder for one of his podcasts down the road. people joke about Samuel L Jackson, but Tobolowsky really is the actor that won't say "no"
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 11 August 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
Just like Orson Welles!
Ha!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 August 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
Is Burnsen a crispie, or just an opportunist?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 August 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
Here's the guy doing the music:
http://m.imdb.com/name/nm4209833/
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 11 August 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H9A9zTorrw
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 11 August 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
Perusing the list of us domestic gross. Pretty good year for religious films!
21 Noah $101,200,04424 Heaven is for Real $91,443,25332 God's Not Dead $60,755,73233 Son of God $59,700,064
...
but not so good for:
88 Magic in the Moonlight $7,189,54591 The Wind Rises $5,209,580 93 Snowpiercer $4,428,209
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 August 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
There's a light at the end of the tunnel, Armond!
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
you're kind of comparing apples and oranges there - the bottom three were all limited releases that played in far fewer theaters
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
the wind rises played on 500 screens nationwide, magic in the moonlight under 1,000, snowpiercer at under 400
noah, son of god and heaven is for real all played at over 3,000 screens
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
also if you compare global gross
Noah - $359mThe Wind Rises - $118mHeaven Is For Real - $100mSnowpiercer - $86mSon of God - $67m
and Magic In The Moonlight hasn't even opened in most woody-favoring countries
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
I'm comparing movies I thought were bigger with movies I thought were smaller (apart from Noah I mean).
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
Apples, oranges. What about the bananas?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ogyWXNsKt3I/SwTfnhLupOI/AAAAAAAABLw/sYdTGbyXPq4/s400/kirkbanana.jpg
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
so basically, yes, movies about biblical characters with wide openings did far better than foreign-oriented and upper east side-oriented movies in limited release
i bet snowpiercer could have done better if the weinsteins put any promotional weight behind it, but they hedged their bets
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
Also I was talking about domestic and I still am.
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
it's not like all these films were released with the same amount of accessibility and promotion and america just ran to the jesus shit
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
Pretty good year profits for the financial backers of religious films!
― Aimless, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
I didn't realize how many screens God's Not Dead had played on. I thought it maybe did some bible belt screens and then went to VOD.
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
don't get me wrong cheap jesus movies are potentially even more profitable than cheap "ack! i just filmed a monster on my camera!" found footage movies
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
I know, I was just surprised. Sheesh man
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
i'm just saying it's no surprise. the fact that they did better than art movies (and for better or worse, distributors releases snowpiercer and wind rises like art movies)...well, the fix was in before we even had a say
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
Snowpiercer is an action movie with Captain America in the lead. Everyone I know saw it, some more than once. I thought it was much bigger.
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
well now you know you have hip cool friends that saw a movie based on internet buzz while the distributors decided it wasn't worth pushing the film outside of urban markets
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
more evocative numbers
title US Box Office Number of screens releasedSex Tape $38,029,974 3,062 Deliver Us From Evil $30,577,122 3,049Heaven is for Real $91,443,253 3,048 Million Dollar Arm $36,457,627 3,019
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
gah i swear i spaced those out more damn formatting
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
noah's relative standing is less impressive
Hercules (2014) $70,264,908 3,595 Noah $101,200,044 3,571 Blended $46,290,741 3,555 Edge of Tomorrow $99,992,247 3,505 300: Rise of An Empire $106,580,051 3,490
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
jeeeeeez that's a pretty good per-screen rate for Heaven is for Real
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
meanwhile
Snowpiercer /$4,446,463 /356 Fading Gigolo /$3,769,873 /356 Veronica Mars /$3,322,127 /347
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
Veronica Mars is sort of a religious movie tbh.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
this suggests the weinsteins probably should have given the odd foreign-born action movie they bought starring someone from captain america 2 a chance
Son of God /$59,700,064 /3,271 Earth to Echo /$38,173,560 /3,230The Expendables /$29,202,472 /3,221 Lucy /$115,079,315 /3,202
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
The old gods?
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
Well, at least in terms of how it was marketed and received.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
They had marshmallows for communion wafers at the door.
i wonder how many people funded the movie, got their lil doodads and still paid to see it opening week
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
the vm kickstarter brought in 5.7 million
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 August 2014 19:36 (nine years ago) link
Kevin Sorbo has been making the promo rounds lately talking to evangelical or fundie media outlets and of course has been saying kevin sorbo-like things:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/kevin-sorbo-explains-why-more-christian-movies-arent-made-jews-run-hollywood/
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/gods-not-dead-actor-kevin-sorbo-laughingly-tells-jews-news-bulletin-you-did-kill-jesus/
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/actor-kevin-sorbo-ferguson-unrest-let-black-protesters-be-the-animals-they-truly-are/
Which are either him expressing his actual sentiments or desperately trying to mention as many tribal shibboleths as possible to market to his target demo
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Thursday, 18 September 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-q-Llzww-8
― 💻 👀 (am0n), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
Best. Movie. Ever.
(Wasn't there a subplot about a girl abused by her Muslim father in there somewhere?)
― Eric H., Tuesday, 30 September 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
v disappointed w the ending was hoping for descent into Hell in true Jack Chick-like fashion
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
2:18 Atheist. (Obviously.)
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
B-b-but he accepted Jesus in his life as his true savior at the very last minute! The rain stopped!
― Eric H., Tuesday, 30 September 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
god should just hit everybody with cars
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
That is an amazing ending. Taking advantage of a mortally injured crash victim who is probably in shock: the Christian thing to do!
― jmm, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
WOMAN: You really should go see mom. She's not doing well.
FAT DEAN CAIN: She hasn't been doing well for years. That's why they call it dementia.
oh word?
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
can someone explain to me what the dean cain scenes were all about or were those just dropped in from a different also
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
different movie
Dementia, from the Latin demens, meaning "not doing well for years".
― Portly Backgammon (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
Against the backdrop of the debates, a series of peripherally related subplots develop. Radisson dates Mina (Cory Oliver), a Christian whom he often belittles in front of his fellow atheist colleagues. Her brother Mark (Dean Cain), a successful businessman and atheist, refuses to visit their mother, who suffers from dementia. Mark's girlfriend, Amy (Trisha LaFache), is a left-wing blogger who writes articles critical of Duck Dynasty. When she is diagnosed with cancer, Mark dumps her. A Muslim student named Ayisha (Hadeel Sittu) secretly converts to Christianity and is disowned by her father when he finds out.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
Mark's girlfriend, Amy (Trisha LaFache), is a left-wing blogger who writes articles critical of Duck Dynasty. When she is diagnosed God punishes her with cancer, Mark dumps her.
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
Mark at last visits his mother, only to taunt her; she responds that all of his financial success was given to him by Satan.
So Mark doesn't get hit by any cars at all?
― jmm, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
http://doyoubelieve.com/_images/landing_title.gif
― Infostealer.Steamfishi (am0n), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
That image prompts me to believe, because it provides me with evidence of things not seen.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
lol that fucking Ted McGinley and former NFL/"STone Cold" star Brian Bosworth are in this.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 20 March 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link
can't believe they didn't go with God's STILL Not Dead
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 March 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
that is practically artisanal, aimless, bravo
― j., Friday, 20 March 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link
God's Not Dead 2: Not Deader
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 20 March 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
Godlier, Aliver
― creaks, whines and trife (s.clover), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 04:04 (nine years ago) link
Oh God, You Deader
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 05:08 (nine years ago) link
God's Not Dead is on Netflix streaming now btw. Trying to talk myself into watching it, but I have not unlocked that level of self-hate.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 05:50 (nine years ago) link
weekend at god's
― drash, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 07:50 (nine years ago) link
Custos's Not Dead
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 09:40 (nine years ago) link
I GIS'd God's Not Dead and there were a lot of Duck Dynasty guys are they in that movie too or is this just Walmart-style synergy at work.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
^^^winner
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
God's Not Dead 2: The Goddening.
― nickn, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
god's not dead 2: electric jubilee
― creaks, whines and trife (s.clover), Friday, 27 March 2015 02:10 (nine years ago) link
Uhhh
http://www.avclub.com/review/little-boy-shockingly-miscalculated-world-war-ii-f-218415
― Duane Barry, Thursday, 23 April 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
And so he stands on a dock and points his hands in the direction of the Pacific Ocean, defying the setting sun, focusing all his desire on one point in the distance, until…
Well, it has to be seen to be believed, frankly. Giving the title a whole new meaning, one that World War II buffs should have no trouble guessing, the moment is almost too tasteless for words.
lol, is he saying the kid telekinetically destroys Hiroshima?
― jmm, Thursday, 23 April 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link
It seems so! And "This Little Light of Mine" is playing while the bombs drop!
― Duane Barry, Thursday, 23 April 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
The spoiler page (at the bottom of the review) gets into more.
― poxy fülvous (abanana), Thursday, 23 April 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
Rex Reed is into it.
http://observer.com/2015/04/keeping-the-faith-little-boy-featuring-jakob-salvati-has-a-big-heart/
― jmm, Thursday, 23 April 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
Ugh, Emily Watson is in this thing?
Get a new agent, Emily Watson!
― Eric H., Thursday, 23 April 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
Dang, this sounds pretty evil.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 23 April 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
7-year-old Pepper Flint Busbee
― slam dunk, Thursday, 23 April 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
There is a motherfucker in the building I'm in with a God's Not Dead hat on. A HAT. this film had MERCHANDISE?
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 21:23 (eight years ago) link
large market yearning to spend tastelessly
― j., Wednesday, 22 July 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
I feel like approaching him and breaking the bad news
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
Oh, Melissa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxz-Y-c2UUc
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link
GOD'S NOT DEAD 2: NOT DEADER
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 14:49 (eight years ago) link
Just tell me how many shirtless scenes Jesse Metcalfe gets.
― thread of getting sw0le and lena jokes (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 15:09 (eight years ago) link
Oh God! You Non-Zombie!
― Chris L, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 15:13 (eight years ago) link
lol @ gavel-breaking judge
sadface @ ray wise involvement
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
Truly can't wait for Clarissa to finally explain it all.
― thread of getting sw0le and lena jokes (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
i legit teared up watching that diverse group of xians fight the evil aclu #powerful
― LEGIT (Lamp), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
http://evskingston.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/5911032tlv_o1.jpg?w=300&h=225
I sure am tired of all these culture wars.
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 17:36 (eight years ago) link
oh good i was looking for this thread recently so i could post this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link
the overalls...
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link
The stillframe for that trailer makes Melissa Joan Hart look like she just realized she's not going to make it to the bathroom. Melissa Joan Shart.
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 17:48 (eight years ago) link
The next movie ought to address the even more crucial question of whether Catholics, Seventh Day Adventists, Mormons, Unitarians, Quakers or Jehovah's Witnesses are real Christians who faithfully preach God's sacred word, or just unwitting minions of Satan.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link
although the video mordy posted raised some great points in a humorous way, theres really nothing funny about how fascist liberals are ruining our education system
― LEGIT (Lamp), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
i can't believe classes have started awarding grades based on relative privilege. it's a scandal.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
i want to go to a school where u get a free trip to NYC for getting the best test score
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
it really goes to show how ppl who carry around research papers divided with a surprisingly large number of black binder clips to their first day of class are undervalued in our society but ppl who wear really cool-looking overalls get all the credit. a strong condemnation of our image obsessed, social-media addicted society
― LEGIT (Lamp), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
One thing it did accurately depict is that the gay classmate is always the dumbest.
― thread of getting sw0le and lena jokes (Eric H.), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
well i mean really what gay careers need advanced mathematics? architecture and maybe high-end identity fraud and thats it
― LEGIT (Lamp), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
exciting new preview of god's not dead 2:
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S05E19/1271552.jpg?b64lines=IEEgUFJBWUVSISBBIFBSQVlFUiBJTiBBCiBQVUJMSUMgU0NIT09MISBHT0QgSEFTIE5PCiBQTEFDRSBXSVRISU4gVEhFU0UgV0FMTFMsCiBKVVNUIExJS0UgRkFDVFMgSEFWRSBOTwogUExBQ0UgV0lUSElOIE9SR0FOSVpFRAogUkVMSUdJT04h
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 19 March 2016 15:11 (eight years ago) link
i watched the first one a few days ago. it's quite bad! great ending though. imagine how annoyed you'd be if you were dying in agony and some chirpy asshole started trying to convert you
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 19 March 2016 15:35 (eight years ago) link
♫ god's not dead / he's surely alive ♫
― am0n, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
feat. teenage witch and leland BOB palmer
― am0n, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
sry already posted upthread. goddamnit
― am0n, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 21:30 (eight years ago) link
just realized now that Sorbo's been misspelled in the thread title for a few years now.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 21:36 (eight years ago) link
maybe the "a" is for atheist?
so this is more a "spiritual sequel" than a literal sequel?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 21:44 (eight years ago) link
(in more ways than one, obv)
they had so many strawmen to choose from, I think they probably will do fine
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
as long as the next one is in 3-D
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 22:01 (eight years ago) link
God's Not D3A-D
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
And the early reviews are in!
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/filmchat/2016/03/review-gods-not-dead-2-dir-harold-cronk-2016.html
Interestingly, the reviewer follows the conceit of the filmmakers, and refers to everyone as "Christians" as opposed to the far more accurate descriptor "white Evangelicals"
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Thursday, 31 March 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link
previews for this are abt to either make me pay for ad free hulu or abandon western civilization forever as a lost cause
― art, Thursday, 31 March 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d91DJm0OnMw
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 31 March 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link
the original was hilarious, not sure if i have the patience to put up with another
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 31 March 2016 23:17 (eight years ago) link
Now the same company is doing a Columbine story
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt4950110/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=bI8LYSAUZCU
Oh it's a Newsboys ref: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Ashamed
http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/30/korie-and-sadie-robertson-duck-dynasty-join-cast-f/?page=all
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI8LYSAUZCU
fwiw that isn't the student who was supposedly asked if she believed in god
― remove butt (abanana), Thursday, 14 April 2016 01:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhe8KhSxWGo
― jmm, Monday, 3 April 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link
Robert Forster?!
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 April 2017 16:22 (seven years ago) link
that mustache is unfortunately evidence for the defense
― Neanderthal, Monday, 3 April 2017 16:38 (seven years ago) link
gettin some Zodiac vibes from the costuming/art direction
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 April 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
I might be supportive if this film is a 2.5 hour court case where a Federal judge is finally forced to admit "Christ exists" before taking off his glasses and walking out of the courtroom...
...by way of opening a window, and the courtroom is unfortunately on the 70th floor
― Neanderthal, Monday, 3 April 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
oh this is about Lee Strobel?
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
― Neanderthal, Monday, 3 April 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
lol the book this was based on got a rebuttal (not uncommon for non-fiction books of this type but typically it is the the atheist's book that gets 3 or 4 rebuttal books from angry theologians).
https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Christ-Testament-Reverend/dp/1578840058
― Neanderthal, Monday, 3 April 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
it is happening again
hen Sean Hannity isn’t fanning the flames of a uranium conspiracy, he likes to brag about “Let There Be Light,” a new movie he executive-produced, and in which he makes a sizable cameo. “I’d say 98 percent of people who watch it cry,” he told the Washington Times, as if the film’s mission is to harvest our tears. I tried to offer mine, but it wasn’t easy. Though Hannity’s studio is in New York, and though most of “Let There Be Light” is set here, the city is, to him, a liberal Babylon. Until today, when the film arrived at a single theatre in Flushing, it was nowhere in the five boroughs; New Yorkers who wanted to see the light had to go to New Jersey. I drove there one recent night, sat through the movie’s hundred and one minutes, and returned, dry-eyed, into the darkness.“Let There Be Light” is a “faith-based film,” a euphemism that makes it sound as if the director worked under divine guidance, yelling “action” and “cut” as the spirit moved him. In this case, that director is Kevin Sorbo, of “Hercules” fame, and the film he’s made is a cynical, xenophobic morality tale, as bitter as it is saccharine
“Let There Be Light” is a “faith-based film,” a euphemism that makes it sound as if the director worked under divine guidance, yelling “action” and “cut” as the spirit moved him. In this case, that director is Kevin Sorbo, of “Hercules” fame, and the film he’s made is a cynical, xenophobic morality tale, as bitter as it is saccharine
When we first lay eyes on Pastor Vinny, he’s painting a picket fence—you’ll never guess which color. A formerly “mobbed-up” “street guy,” Vinny approaches the mystery of Christ as a homicide detective might: Where’s the body? “I don’t buy into things too easy,” he tells a careworn Sol. “Jesus gets whacked, right? . . . They stick his body in a tomb, they seal it up tighter than a cement drum. What happens next? Bada-bing! The body disappears.” Harkens, a man of the world, knows a good thing when he sees it, so why putter around? After one talk with Vinny, he’s ready for baptism.
“You two are doing ‘Sean Hannity’ tomorrow! Fourteen million listeners. Three million viewers! That’s radio and television, baby . . . you can’t buy that kind of publicity.” Except that Hannity just did, for himself.Soon enough, there he is, his American-flag lapel pin firmly in place, sitting in a conference room that touts Fox News’s “Fair and Balanced” motto, even though the network dropped it in June. “You’re literally going to try and convert kids to Christianity,” Hannity tells the Harkenses. “What about diversity? What right do you have to impose your religious values onto somebody else?”“Well, what right does ISIS have to cut people’s heads off?” Harkens retorts.“That’s a powerful point,” Hannity says.
Soon enough, there he is, his American-flag lapel pin firmly in place, sitting in a conference room that touts Fox News’s “Fair and Balanced” motto, even though the network dropped it in June. “You’re literally going to try and convert kids to Christianity,” Hannity tells the Harkenses. “What about diversity? What right do you have to impose your religious values onto somebody else?”
“Well, what right does ISIS have to cut people’s heads off?” Harkens retorts.
“That’s a powerful point,” Hannity says.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/sean-hannity-and-kevin-sorbos-let-there-be-light-is-pious-xenophobic-fun-for-the-whole-family
― What's the range of an Iranian frogman dipshit? (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 November 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mvl0xuT00LE/WckdKzqVJTI/AAAAAAAAHzc/KUklOEXatdsLY7nQw1lBkOawSt7P1LEmQCLcBGAs/s1600/abortinggod.png
― jmm, Monday, 6 November 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
I love how they decided on "Harkens" as an atheist kind of name.
― jmm, Monday, 6 November 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
fuckin' lol at that fake book cover
― mh, Monday, 6 November 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
there has to be some sort of self-reflection they skipped when they had to make the world's most popular atheist a hedonist rock star type instead of an irritating scold like Dawkins and his posse
― mh, Monday, 6 November 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link
God is aborted. God remains aborted. And we have aborted him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the abortionists of all abortionists? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
― j., Monday, 6 November 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
That's why they got Hercules to do it.
― jmm, Monday, 6 November 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
seems like a real asshole move to put a giant author pic on the front of your book about aborting god, even dawkins would think tw-
http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/DawkinsProper.jpg
oh
― What's the range of an Iranian frogman dipshit? (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
just had an idea for a sequel where Dorks and the Fundies have to team up to take on the real enemy...J K Rowling
― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
saw the trailer for the newest entry in theatres.
there's actually explosions and violence in it or something
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 March 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
omg there's a FIFTH movie in this series coming out this year, apparently
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God's_Not_Dead_(film_series)
Directed by Harold Cronk, the premise will follow Reverend David "Dave" Hill as he runs for office in a campaign against an opponent that seeks to remove religion from public policy; and the Reverend begins to question: "Is God dead in American politics?".
thinking of actively disrupting every showing of this movie at my local theatre.
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 May 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
Harold Cronk
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
Cronk returns!
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
Is Kevin Sorbo dead?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
I’d say that is just going to be like the Police Academy movies, where they’ll keep making them as long as the returns are greater than the costs, but these guys are doing an ideological project and getting funding from billionaires, so they don’t really need to rely on box office and licensing success.
So we’re probably going to get more of these than we got of cheap o Land Before Time sequels
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
The Land Before God
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:55 (one year ago) link
Love offerings from billionaires
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
Going to replace this film canister with Wicker Man brb
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
The teacher named Professor Radisson, begins the class by having each student sign a document that denies the existence of God.
Man, philosophy class was the best
― jmm, Monday, 1 May 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
my Classics course made us crucify a classmate
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 May 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
weirdly he was ok with it
God's Not Dead: Rise Up (2023)
#onethread
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 00:06 (one year ago) link
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal)
i use she/her pronouns now, but yeah, it was fun.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 00:11 (one year ago) link
My (tortured Catholic) photography professor just showed us prints of him naked on a cross. Sounds like the philosophy class was more fun.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 00:16 (one year ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z)
i love that the word "tortured" is twice-redundant in this sentence (with "Catholic" and with "naked on a cross").
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
other director in this series is named Vance Null.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 05:22 (one year ago) link
why do all Christian directors have names that sound like producers of second rate Abbott and Costello knockoffs
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 05:24 (one year ago) link
Vance Null sounds like an Alan Smithee alternate
― jmm, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 12:11 (one year ago) link
Vance Null should be the singer in a bluegrass motley crue cover band
― joygoat, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:46 (one year ago) link
vance nullo
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
xxp Definitely sounds like someone who doesn't want her/his real name associated with the project.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:52 (one year ago) link
Vance Null is known for God's Not Dead (2014), Samson (2018) and Tekken: Kazuya's Revenge (2014).
apparently "kazuya's revenge" does not live up to the standard fans of the first Tekken movie were expecting
to me that's impressive, that you take people who are like "look i loved the first tekken film but this is just crap, a real wrong turn for the tekken franchise"
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
when you've lost Manly Movie (re: Tekken sequel):
Manly Movie gave the film a score of 3 out of 10, commenting that:
"It's like the producers and writers have no idea who these characters are, and had no intention of giving a crap, but were advised that certain actors were free for a cameo – use them".
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:59 (one year ago) link