Yeah I already made a thread about this a while back

If God = Jesus

And Jesus bled when the Romans nailed him to the cross

So God bled

If it bleeds, we can kill it.

Therefore if there needs to be a sequel to God's Not Dead, we can prevent the trilogy.

Quote from: Verbatim on November 07, 2015, 10:29:48 AM

I took a film class during my first semester of college, and on the first day, the professor, of course, had us all name our favorite movies along with our little introduction for the class. We had people saying shit like Charlie St. Cloud, Pitch Perfect (ugh), The Fault in Our Stars (UGH), and one girl even said God's Not Dead.

ironically, she ended up having the best taste in the class, having had the best reactions to all the best films we watched
go figure

Verb are you telling me that a movie where two kids get applauded for making out in the memorial house of a holocaust victim isn't the best movie ever?

YouTube

HAHA

That trailer. What's up with the victim complexes so many Christians have these days? I mean, saying something like that in a college class won't get you fired unless it's completely irrelevant and inappropriate for the class (like say, you do it to try to convert people- that's not your fucking job as a professor). I've seen professors pose god as an example because it was done in a neutral manner. Big deal, it wasn't going to sway or push anyone to accept or reject religion.

Most of the time it's like "you're BULLYING me by not letting me say horrible things and discriminate against you also my views are the only right views because muh FREEDOM OF SPEECH" and that's not how a teacher should ever teach.

Quote from: Sandtrap on November 07, 2015, 10:00:57 AM

Quote from: Cheat on November 07, 2015, 09:27:05 AM

I ran into Blaze's family at the theater when I was going to see some other film and they seemed kind of embarrassed to be there to see the first one (as they should be). I don't expect this second film to be any better than the first.

So, I never watched the movie. Can you give a brief summary of what it's about, or, in particular, why it's disliked?

Have you ever read the Albert Einstein copypasta? You know, the one where there's a professor talking about how evolution can't be real and then a genius student disproves him and the whole class stands up to clap, and then it ends with, "And the name of that student? Albert Einstein."

This movie is basically a two-hour version of that.

It's a fundamentalist Christian wet dream and it ticks off on all the right marks. I could go on for days about how stupid that movie is and the vast amount of strawmen they use. Nothing about Christian movies or anything of the sort is wrong, and the overall message of the movie is a good one from a Christian perspective (it's pretty typical - that God is great and will uplift your spirit into everlasting harmony - but a good one from a Christian perspective nonetheless) but literally every single other quality is ridiculous.

The student is, of course, a Mary Sue - this genius good little Christian boy who excels in all his classes and everything he does. His first day of college, one of his professors who's supposedly the resident "hardass" tells everyone in the class to write "God is dead" on a piece of paper or they will fail the course. Right off the bat we've got our evil strawman liberal atheist professor who wants nothing more than to steal the soul out of all the good little Christian boys going off to college. Main Character challenges him and they have a series of debates throughout the movie - all of which are laughably incorrect from a historical, scientific, AND religious perspective, because the student is not only a Christian but a virulent creationist and says that Charles Darwin said he was wrong before his death about his theory of evolution, which is just...not true. Of course this all ends with the MC "catching" the Professor in an argument by forcing him to say that he "hates god" and then rebuttles with "how can you hate something that doesn't exist?" While that's stupid in itself because I hate a ton of things that don't exist like Jar Jar Binks, it's also playing into the "everyone who's atheistic is just angry with god and not really an atheist" stigma that so many fundamentalists love to play up. The best part of the movie, though, is that, at the end, the evil liberal professor is going to a Christian Rock Concert to apologize to his fundie girlfriend and is run over by a car. A preacher (one of the side characters in the movie) finds him and gets him to convert as he's drowning in his own blood while his lungs fill with his fluids and people LITERALLY start clapping and saying "it's a miracle" on the sidelines TO SOME DUDE FUCKING DYING ALONE IN THE STREET.

Of course there's tons of other things wrong with the movie. The liberal hippie chick who hates Christians with a passion for some reason converts to Christianity because she has fucking cancer, the Islamic dad beats his daughter and kicks her out of the house for reading the bible DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE FUCKING BIBLE IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE THREE HOLY BOOKS OF ISLAM, AND IT'D BE LIKE A FUNDAMENTAL CHRISTIAN BEATING THEIR KID FOR READING THE OLD TESTAMENT because dae le islam is evil? And so, so much more.

But it was written by a bunch of guys who think gays are the devil and who are only rich because they shoot birds really well so, I mean, it's not that much of a surprise.