Wait is Hercules in this or not
― 龜, Monday, 21 April 2014 00:36 (ten years ago) link
as observed above I think this is based on a forwarded email, and on a Jack T Chick tract called "Big Daddy."
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