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Timeless Appeal posted:
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.
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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. I had the same thought, and then decided I didn't really care. The Christian movie thread is pretty dead anyway, and this one will die off soon too. We wind up having this conversation across multiple threads every few months anyway. The only way I think a Christian movie megathread would ever really be sustainable is if someone took the time to routinel update it with upcoming movies or reviews of existing ones, like the Who Greenlighted thread. And even then, lot of these movies get posted in that thread anyway.
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I haven't consulted them in a long time so I don't know what they look like now, but Christianity Today used to be one of the better review outlets out there, because they were one of the few review sites that really conducted any kind of in-depth analysis and talked about themes and subtext.
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May 2, 2014 18:21
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Dopilsya posted:I just got back from visiting home, and my parents had me watch a really poo poo movie called Faith Like Potatoes. It didn't have quite the strawmen that other ones of these apparently love so much, but it was inarguably the worst sort of drek I've ever seen. I've been thinking about this a lot lately too, and I think what it comes down to is that one of Evangelical Christianity's basic tenants is "go out and convert as many people as you possibly can", whereas Judaism I believe is not. So these films are seen as conversion tools. The only religion which would come close to that in terms of conversion needs is Islam, and I don't think we'll see an Islamic propaganda film recieve wide release here in the US anytime soon.
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