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PixieDreamGirl
Apr 29, 2014

2014; The year I whored myself out for title changes.

Yo, I don't care what y'all do,how y'all do or where y'all do it, just keep it gangsta and never pay for an av change, have someone else do it- Ya boy Pixie
I've noticed an increase in biblical and faith based movies at the box office. Are any of them worth watching?

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Call Me Charlie
Dec 3, 2005

by Smythe
No.

PixieDreamGirl
Apr 29, 2014

2014; The year I whored myself out for title changes.

Yo, I don't care what y'all do,how y'all do or where y'all do it, just keep it gangsta and never pay for an av change, have someone else do it- Ya boy Pixie
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Atlas Hugged
Mar 12, 2007


Put your arms around me,
fiddly digits, itchy britches
I love you all
They are all really hilarious strawmen though. You could probably make a pretty good drinking game from most.

Drink if:
-atheism caused by traumatic events
-atheist professor
-Christians in America openly mocked for their beliefs
-Christians in America openly mocked for their beliefs by an educator
-atheist converted by Christian
-atheist converted on his deathbed
-Catholicism never mentioned
-Catholicism portrayed negatively

The thing is, they are very cheap films to make and have a built in audience. Church youth groups love to organize trips to screening. The movies don't have to be well made but the audience is specifically asking to be catered to.

scary ghost dog
Aug 5, 2007
Noah was great.

Jenny Angel
Oct 24, 2010

Out of Control
Hard to Regulate
Anything Goes!
Lipstick Apathy
It's not... it's not real. God is dead. All is permitted.

PixieDreamGirl
Apr 29, 2014

2014; The year I whored myself out for title changes.

Yo, I don't care what y'all do,how y'all do or where y'all do it, just keep it gangsta and never pay for an av change, have someone else do it- Ya boy Pixie

Jonny Angel posted:

It's not... it's not real. God is dead. All is permitted.

I know that but do any of the films show the other side of the argument or is it an all out mud sling at non-believers?

Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

scary ghost dog posted:

Noah was great.

Yeah I liked it a lot

TrixRabbi
Aug 20, 2010

Time for a little robot chauvinism!

TheRatboyGenius posted:

I know that but do any of the films show the other side of the argument or is it an all out mud sling at non-believers?

What do you think?

Joey Gladstone
May 26, 2003

They are all worth watching. Now, for my free illustration I would really like a funny caricature of yourself please. Right beside that it would be cool to see a real photo so we can see how funny the caricature is. Thanks a lot, there's no pressure but I have a lot of sway with the mods and it could turn into a mod challenge so you should just do it

edit: i have it on good authority that this thread won't be gassed if you do this

Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



College Slice
Christianity is beseiged and persecuted on all sides by horrible forces such as abortion-loving harpies and gays who want the same rights as regular god-fearing folk and they're fighting back in the only option that's been left to them by the radical homofeminazi agenda; professionally-produced and distributed movies.

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat
Christian movies aimed at Christian audiences tend to be garbage.

Movies with Christian themes aimed at mainstream audiences on the other hand, they tend to be more artful about their message. They could be overt like The Mission, or subtextual like Wrath of Khan.

Noah, from what I've read online, is actually sourced in Gnosticism and not Christianity, so it's a religious film but not the religion everyone first assumed.

PixieDreamGirl
Apr 29, 2014

2014; The year I whored myself out for title changes.

Yo, I don't care what y'all do,how y'all do or where y'all do it, just keep it gangsta and never pay for an av change, have someone else do it- Ya boy Pixie

Joey Gladstone posted:

They are all worth watching. Now, for my free illustration I would really like a funny caricature of yourself please. Right beside that it would be cool to see a real photo so we can see how funny the caricature is. Thanks a lot, there's no pressure but I have a lot of sway with the mods and it could turn into a mod challenge so you should just do it

edit: i have it on good authority that this thread won't be gassed if you do this

https://i.imgur.com/MRUds1M.jpg Okay, there you go Uncle Joey. I'm a newbie, hope you didn't trick me into doing something I'm not supposed to be doing, but who couldn't trust Uncle Joey? Also my definition of funny and your definition of funny probably aren't the same. Anyways hope you like it.

MarioTeachesWiping
Nov 1, 2006

by XyloJW
Bruce Almighty

Atlas Hugged
Mar 12, 2007


Put your arms around me,
fiddly digits, itchy britches
I love you all

Pierson posted:

Christianity is beseiged and persecuted on all sides by horrible forces such as abortion-loving harpies and gays who want the same rights as regular god-fearing folk and they're fighting back in the only option that's been left to them by the radical homofeminazi agenda; professionally-produced and distributed movies.

Take a drink if the movie tells you to hate the sin but not the sinner.

JonathonSpectre
Jul 23, 2003

I replaced the Shermatar and text with this because I don't wanna see racial slurs every time you post what the fuck

Soiled Meat

Atlas Hugged posted:

Take a drink if the movie tells you to hate the sin but not the sinner.

I've heard this horseshit my entire life and it never fails to infuriate me.

"Well, I love you, I just think you're a godless monster destined to burn in the fire created by our all-loving God for people who don't toe the loving line 100%. But seriously, I do love you... just not, you know, you you, see what I mean?"

My comeback to this is, "Well, I practice something similar, love the Christian, hate the Christianity." For some reason this seems to offend them even though I'm just givin' em Real Talk (TM) about how my beliefs make me hate them, whoops, I mean not them, just like... the things they do and are.

kuddles
Jul 16, 2006

Like a fist wrapped in blood...

TheRatboyGenius posted:

I know that but do any of the films show the other side of the argument or is it an all out mud sling at non-believers?
Read the Wikipedia entry for God's Not Dead. The movie is literally that terrible Christian chain email about a god-fearing student totally owning apparently the most aggressively atheist and stupid professor in the world and stretching it to film length.

Danger
Jan 4, 2004

all desire - the thirst for oil, war, religious salvation - needs to be understood according to what he calls 'the demonogrammatical decoding of the Earth's body'
Elysium was a good Christian movie.

Iamblikhos
Jun 9, 2013

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Prometheus was a good Christian movie.

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat

Iamblikhos posted:

Prometheus was a good Christian movie.

Kidding aside, it's actually an interesting movie about the debate between atheism and religion.

*****

Tron and Star Trek and their sequels are hilarious.

Tron is a very simple "programmers and programs are like God and humans, isn't that neat-o?" and then when Tron Legacy rolls around, the movie's like "nope, God sucks, look at all this life that spontaneously evolved on its own!"

Star Trek was envisioned by Roddenberry as an atheist socialist utopia, where everyone had advanced beyond the need for religion. Then when the first film barely squeaks by in the box office they give the reins to Bennet and Meyer and they turn Wrath of Khan into "Space Jesus died for your sins, here, listen to Amazing Grace!"

I just imagine the directors of both sequels metaphorically mooning the directors of the first films.

Wanamingo
Feb 22, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Cyra posted:

Bruce Almighty

Yeah, but that was a comedy first and a christian themed whatsit second. Evan Almighty was a christian film first and a comedy second, and look how that turned out.

Snatch Duster
Feb 20, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
TRUTH BOOK DOT COM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJcf8n3sqM0

quote:

Adam and Eve arrived on Urantia, from the year A.D. 1934, 37,848 years ago. It was in midseason when the Garden was in the height of bloom that they arrived. At high noon and unannounced, the two seraphic transports, accompanied by the Jerusem personnel intrusted with the transportation of the biologic uplifters to Urantia, settled slowly to the surface of the revolving planet in the vicinity of the temple of the Universal Father. All the work of rematerializing the bodies of Adam and Eve was carried on within the precincts of this newly created shrine. And from the time of their arrival ten days passed before they were re-created in dual human form for presentation as the world's new rulers.

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Timeless Appeal
May 28, 2006
Night of the Hunter is a really good Christian movie and probably the most profound cinematic statement on the religion. Christianity, Jesus, and God are taken as a given as good things. It never sees Atheism or lack of God as the enemy of Christ. Atheism is never really considered by the film. The enemy of Christianity is itself. The film tells a tale of two Christianities. There is Rachel who represents humanistic Christianity. She does not assume God's nature and she's prone to accepting a relative view of the Bible. It is the core value of taking care of the little in a cruel world that defines her faith. Powell is patriarchal Christianity. He is all about shaming others and keeping the little in line. Of course, it's all a mask for the fact that he himself is a monster.

Night of the Hunter of course never feels like propaganda, and that's the difference between it and a lot of new Christian crap. There are great Christian artists whose faith is an engine for their work. And there are great non-Christian artists who can appropriate Christian ideas in interesting ways. The same is true with any religion. A film like Night of the Hunter works because its view point is thoughtful and nuanced. As much as Rachel and Powell verge more on being symbols than characters, they never feel like mouthpieces for an agenda. And in the end, despite being a huge Atheist, I think the moment when Rachel faces off against Powell and starts singing back to him, "Lean on Jesus..." might be one of the most badass things I've ever seen on film. The film does a good job of getting you to buy into everything Rachel represents.

Stuff like Christmas with a Capital C or God Isn't Dead is propaganda, and it isn't even loving good propaganda. They're hissy fits at the notion that someone disagrees with them or maybe was a dick about how they disagreed with them or doesn't let them have their way 100% of the time. They come off as stilted and silly because they have to exaggerate their opposition into parodies. What's really hosed up is that as much as Night of the Hunter despises Powell, it understands him. Powell is a gross monster, but he's a fully realized human being. You get him. He comes off as more real than the strawman atheist they throw in these films.

At least Heaven is for Real seems to be just simplistic reassurance about the fact that life goes on after death rather than trying to take part in any culture war.

Vargo
Dec 27, 2008

'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!

Timeless Appeal posted:


At least Heaven is for Real seems to be just simplistic reassurance about the fact that life goes on after death rather than trying to take part in any culture war.

Heaven Is For Real is a loving weird movie. It's so weird that I can't really hate it. There are so many bizarre direction choices in it that it comes across as a horror movie. Apparently in the book, the kid starts explaining about the coming war between God and Satan, but the movie literally only says the word "Hell" once, so it completely glosses over its own obvious questions. Also, the kid meets his miscarried sister in Heaven.

It is also the longest review I have ever written.

AYC
Mar 9, 2014

Ask me how I smoke weed, watch hentai, everyday and how it's unfair that governments limits my ability to do this. Also ask me why I have to write in green text in order for my posts to stand out.
I don't understand where this trope of colleges as atheist havens that persecute god-fearing Christians came from. There's approximately one atheist/agnostic student association on my campus and approximately 10 million Christian ones. And I live in one of the most liberal towns in California.

I think what happens is sometimes Christians students go to college, and then get exposed to thinking outside their parents' worldviews and sometimes (though obviously not all the time) become atheists or agnostics. Their parents, being rather dogmatic, assume that the professors brainwashed them, because knowledge can only come from an authority figure and not one's own independent thought. This gets misinterpreted as college campuses being bastions for atheists, which they're really, really not.

TL;DR Christian propaganda films are stupid. Though I do want to listen to the Rifftrax for God's Not Dead when/if it comes out.

FreudianSlippers
Apr 12, 2010

Shooting and Fucking
are the same thing!

Good movies about Jesus:

-Robocop.
-El Topo.
-The First Matrix
-The Iron Giant.

Danger
Jan 4, 2004

all desire - the thirst for oil, war, religious salvation - needs to be understood according to what he calls 'the demonogrammatical decoding of the Earth's body'

FreudianSlippers posted:

Good movies about Jesus:

-Robocop.
-El Topo.
-The First Matrix
-The Iron Giant.

The Star Wars pre-quels.

LaughMyselfTo
Nov 15, 2012

by XyloJW

FreudianSlippers posted:

Good movies about Jesus:

:colbert:

Timeless Appeal
May 28, 2006
-Donnie Darko
-Mothra vs. Godzilla

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

FreudianSlippers posted:

Good movies about Jesus:

-Robocop.
-El Topo.
-The First Matrix
-The Iron Giant.

The Big Lebowski

Twitch
Apr 15, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
A couple years back, my mom kept inviting me to go see Christian movies with her, they're pretty much all garbage. Evan Almighty was an inoffensive Hollywood comedy, and Amazing Grace was okay (but everyone else I saw it with was annoyed that it wasn't religious enough). Those were easily the best ones. I started declining her invitations when she wanted me to go see that weird Ben Stein propaganda movie.

FreudianSlippers posted:

Good movies about Jesus:

-Robocop.
-El Topo.
-The First Matrix
-The Iron Giant.

Cool Hand Luke
Angel's Egg

acephalousuniverse
Nov 4, 2012
Repo Man. Miller was Christ disguised as a hobo, come to Earth to spread his news: "John Wayne was a fag."

Periodiko
Jan 30, 2005
Uh.

Iamblikhos posted:

Prometheus was a good Christian movie.

God is a hairless giant destined to be raped by a space monster.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Well, everyone loves the end result of the immaculate conception...

Conal Cochran
Dec 2, 2013

This thread seems redundant. We already have a thread dedicated to Christian movies, which this has already become, since less than half of the posts are about this film specifically.

Joey Gladstone
May 26, 2003

Conal Cochran posted:

This thread seems redundant. We already have a thread dedicated to Christian movies, which this has already become, since less than half of the posts are about this film specifically.

This thread is a safe space to just chill and shoot the poo poo about the hot new Christian movies, the other thread is for analysis and posting a lot of words. Two threads might seem like a lot and you can think it's redundant but that is your opinion. We do things a little bit different here on the CD (Cinema Discussions)

Baron Bifford
May 24, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 3 years!
Noah is a good movie and that's because it was deliberately NOT made to be yet another cheap Bible-exploitation film. It's poetry. Some may call it a presumptuous film but I think it succeeds for the most part. It's like Hollywood is finally learning to treat Christian mythology the same way it treats Greek mythology: not to be faithful and church-approved but exploited to make brilliant and entertaining spectacles (this is not to say the film is heretical; I think religious types will find it matches the spirit of Scripture if not the letter).

BASF
Jun 16, 2011

by Ralp
Gravity.

Armani
Jun 22, 2008

Now it's been 17 summers since I've seen my mother

But every night I see her smile inside my dreams

TheRatboyGenius posted:

https://i.imgur.com/MRUds1M.jpg Okay, there you go Uncle Joey. I'm a newbie, hope you didn't trick me into doing something I'm not supposed to be doing, but who couldn't trust Uncle Joey? Also my definition of funny and your definition of funny probably aren't the same. Anyways hope you like it.

That's pretty Bruce Timm right there.

Ratman the Animated Series.

Anyway the best Christian movie will always be the Mormon edit of Bad Boys ll.

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SEX HAVER 40000
Aug 6, 2009

no doves fly here lol

FreudianSlippers posted:

Good movies about Jesus:

-Robocop.
-El Topo.
-The First Matrix
-The Iron Giant.

I know this is a little different, but The Exorcist is probably the most Catholic movie ever made.

Also, kind of obvious and weird, but Leap of Faith.

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