come anticipate Kevin Sarbo as an evil atheist philosophy professor in the new film from Pure Flix Entertainment, GOD'S NOT DEAD

been hate-watching this lately, now it's time to share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90PWFEeRApA&feature=player_embedded

Sorbo*

so hyped.

That professor is so mean!

"you get to decide who the most important person in your life is: me, or professor radisson"

WHAT ABOUT JESUS

"who are you really looking to fail.. me? or god?"
♫ god's not dead / he's surely alive ♫

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au8zdGnDLoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrPxrSy5n8w

is it just me or is sorbo like, "i'm not anyone's dadd-- whoa my daughter has boobs."

Professor Radisson can't handle the truth.

sarbo talks!

Is the main character kid's name JOSS WHEDON? Why?

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?

hahah this movie is based on a chain email

Tuomas it's "Josh Wheaton" according to Wikipedia.

also lol that this is based on a song by that shitty band the Newsboys

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?

idk, were Christians that up in arms about Firefly?

Maybe they were angry that last year's biggest movie had Norse gods and space gods but no Christian gods?

And Cabin in the Woods was even more blasphemous.

when can i see this movie

don't give them your money! you'll have to find one of those evangelical torrent sites. "god's love we download"

god sees you when you pirate.

no, that's the NSA

god hates pirates.

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

Tract kinda has the opposite effect of what it intends. Typical Chick.

"What If?" might be crazier. What about his poor fiancee?

i love how jack chick sets up these ridiculous straw men, and then uses footnotes to correct them.

his stuff appeals to people who participate in that Meet Me at the Flagpole shit at schools

does jack chick's work appeal to all that many people un-ironically?

don't answer that

Chick is a joke for kids. There's much more interesting stuff out there like here:

http://www.apologetics.org/

the Apologetics movement seems to me a bit like 'missing the point', but I still find it adorable that they try so hard

i couldn't make heads or tails of that website

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

built on sand i meant but i guess that was a serendipitous typo

ty nv, seems quite interesting at first glance

"all metaphysics is built on sad" is beautiful

"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.

director Harold Cronk

new display name there for the taking

I can't wait to see this.

Heaven Is For Real will cut this movie's B.O. success story down in a week and a half.

new display name there for the taking

OK, then.

prefer Solaris

when the philosophy prof quotes shakespeare like an angry credo

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.

colton burpo #3 movie this weekend

how did this presumably ridiculous movie that i assumed would be nothing but a source of in-jokes become an actual success?

They should hand out Burpo kooshes at HIFR

What's the proportion of people who've paid to see this movie ironically?

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

christians--they are everywhere

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

We need a series of GG Allin biopics to bring some equilibrium

aleister crowley biopic IIRC

This shit used to be straight to vhs/dvd fodder :(

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

1/2 of that film is really gory violence like communist thuggos decapitating people or sending a spike through a kid's ear etc.

This shit used to be straight to vhs/dvd fodder :(

― 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.

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.

Ave Sathanas

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.

o yeah ron ormond, etc

Frailty increased the number of believers iirc

Kind of amazed that this movie appeals to anyone, really. The premise is beyond ridiculous.

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"!

Kind of amazed that this movie appeals to anyone, really. The premise is beyond ridiculous.

― ▴▲ ▴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

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.

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.

I'm waiting for the Cliven Bundy movie to come out, it will probably have the same fanbase

Bad review = "I told you so."

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

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?"

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

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.

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.

Since = sense.

Dysgraphia and smartphone text entry make for interesting randomized word substitutions.

There's nothing new about this. Remember a lil top grossing film called The Passion of the Christ? Same audience.

there were definitely non-religious folk that saw it ironically for the gore factor though.

one of my atheist friends came back from it and was like "dude it was awesome! Jesus got his skin flayed off!"

Atheists down w supporting antisemitic racist assholes, cool

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.

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.

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.

Kind of amazed that this movie appeals to anyone, really. The premise is beyond ridiculous.

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?

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

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.

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.

I'd definitely go see God's Not Dead if it had a scene depicting the 'atheist professor vs marine' Facebook meme.

♫ god's not dead / he's surely alive ♫
― am0n, Tuesday, November 26, 2013 8:04 PM

HOLY SHIT

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

Wait is Hercules in this or not

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.

that 'most emotional scene' makes the prospect of seeing it for lols a bit grimmer.

Holy fuck, just watched that.

that was tremendous

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?

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.

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.

Goddamn do iPhones suck for large posts.

Oh yeah, another example: how many of your youth groups went to go see Stryper?

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."

but do you want to see groundhog's day starring stephen baldwin?

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.

man that makes the infamous Dead Poet's Society scene give me a fuckin' boner by comparison

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

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?

God's Not Fat

So in conclusion believing something doesn't exist is the same as denying it?

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!"

Sorbo believes Hollywood has limited his career because of his conservative political and Christian views.[19]

He's a really good actor, then, possibly on the level of the guy in the Twisted Sister videos.

I bet he's DISAPPOINTED

struttin' around like the 5th grader who got an extra piece of cheese in his Lunchable

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.

"sure, I can help you fix that line of code... IF YOU ADMIT THAT GOD IS DEAD!"

He'll just come back with his DVD copy of pi.

Why do you hate JAVA?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bux3vnJIYAEC_Js.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0OJqNp6aJU

What a banner year this is turning out to be.

Lotsa scare-quotes in that advert

Not to mention multiple record-scratch sound effects

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.

plz tell me they got Trent Reznor to do the soundtrack for this

Hwyneth Gayden

hey, that's my thing

sorry, switching letters guy

Freestyle Releasing

My heart weeps for Stephen Tobolowsky.

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!

My heart weeps for Stephen Tobolowsky.

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"

Just like Orson Welles!

Ha!

Is Burnsen a crispie, or just an opportunist?

Here's the guy doing the music:

http://m.imdb.com/name/nm4209833/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H9A9zTorrw

Perusing the list of us domestic gross. Pretty good year for religious films!

21 Noah $101,200,044
24 Heaven is for Real $91,443,253
32 God's Not Dead $60,755,732
33 Son of God $59,700,064

...

but not so good for:

88 Magic in the Moonlight $7,189,545
91 The Wind Rises $5,209,580
93 Snowpiercer $4,428,209

There's a light at the end of the tunnel, Armond!

you're kind of comparing apples and oranges there - the bottom three were all limited releases that played in far fewer theaters

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

also if you compare global gross

Noah - $359m
The Wind Rises - $118m
Heaven Is For Real - $100m
Snowpiercer - $86m
Son of God - $67m

and Magic In The Moonlight hasn't even opened in most woody-favoring countries

I'm comparing movies I thought were bigger with movies I thought were smaller (apart from Noah I mean).

Apples, oranges. What about the bananas?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ogyWXNsKt3I/SwTfnhLupOI/AAAAAAAABLw/sYdTGbyXPq4/s400/kirkbanana.jpg

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

Also I was talking about domestic and I still am.

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

Pretty good year profits for the financial backers of religious films!

fixed

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.

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

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

I know, I was just surprised. Sheesh man

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

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.

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

more evocative numbers

title US Box Office Number of screens released
Sex Tape $38,029,974 3,062
Deliver Us From Evil $30,577,122 3,049
Heaven is for Real $91,443,253 3,048
Million Dollar Arm $36,457,627 3,019

gah i swear i spaced those out more damn formatting

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

jeeeeeez that's a pretty good per-screen rate for Heaven is for Real

meanwhile

Snowpiercer /$4,446,463 /356
Fading Gigolo /$3,769,873 /356
Veronica Mars /$3,322,127 /347

Veronica Mars is sort of a religious movie tbh.

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 /3,230
The Expendables /$29,202,472 /3,221
Lucy /$115,079,315 /3,202

Veronica Mars is sort of a religious movie tbh.

The old gods?

Well, at least in terms of how it was marketed and received.

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

the vm kickstarter brought in 5.7 million

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-q-Llzww-8

Best. Movie. Ever.

(Wasn't there a subplot about a girl abused by her Muslim father in there somewhere?)

v disappointed w the ending was hoping for descent into Hell in true Jack Chick-like fashion

2:18 Atheist. (Obviously.)

B-b-but he accepted Jesus in his life as his true savior at the very last minute! The rain stopped!

god should just hit everybody with cars

That is an amazing ending. Taking advantage of a mortally injured crash victim who is probably in shock: the Christian thing to do!

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?

can someone explain to me what the dean cain scenes were all about or were those just dropped in from a different also

different movie

Dementia, from the Latin demens, meaning "not doing well for years".

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.

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.

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?

http://doyoubelieve.com/_images/landing_title.gif

That image prompts me to believe, because it provides me with evidence of things not seen.

lol that fucking Ted McGinley and former NFL/"STone Cold" star Brian Bosworth are in this.

can't believe they didn't go with God's STILL Not Dead

that is practically artisanal, aimless, bravo

God's Not Dead 2: Not Deader

Godlier, Aliver

Oh God, You Deader

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.

weekend at god's

Custos's Not Dead

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.

weekend at god's

^^^winner

God's Not Dead 2: The Goddening.

god's not dead 2: electric jubilee

Uhhh

http://www.avclub.com/review/little-boy-shockingly-miscalculated-world-war-ii-f-218415

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?

It seems so! And "This Little Light of Mine" is playing while the bombs drop!

The spoiler page (at the bottom of the review) gets into more.

Rex Reed is into it.

http://observer.com/2015/04/keeping-the-faith-little-boy-featuring-jakob-salvati-has-a-big-heart/

Ugh, Emily Watson is in this thing?

Get a new agent, Emily Watson!

Dang, this sounds pretty evil.

7-year-old Pepper Flint Busbee

There is a motherfucker in the building I'm in with a God's Not Dead hat on. A HAT. this film had MERCHANDISE?

large market yearning to spend tastelessly

I feel like approaching him and breaking the bad news

Oh, Melissa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxz-Y-c2UUc

GOD'S NOT DEAD 2: NOT DEADER

Just tell me how many shirtless scenes Jesse Metcalfe gets.

Oh God! You Non-Zombie!

lol @ gavel-breaking judge

sadface @ ray wise involvement

Truly can't wait for Clarissa to finally explain it all.

i legit teared up watching that diverse group of xians fight the evil aclu #powerful

http://evskingston.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/5911032tlv_o1.jpg?w=300&h=225

I sure am tired of all these culture wars.

oh good i was looking for this thread recently so i could post this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM

the overalls...

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.

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.

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

i can't believe classes have started awarding grades based on relative privilege. it's a scandal.

i want to go to a school where u get a free trip to NYC for getting the best test score

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

One thing it did accurately depict is that the gay classmate is always the dumbest.

well i mean really what gay careers need advanced mathematics? architecture and maybe high-end identity fraud and thats it

exciting new preview of god's not dead 2:

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S05E19/1271552.jpg?b64lines=IEEgUFJBWUVSISBBIFBSQVlFUiBJTiBBCiBQVUJMSUMgU0NIT09MISBHT0QgSEFTIE5PCiBQTEFDRSBXSVRISU4gVEhFU0UgV0FMTFMsCiBKVVNUIExJS0UgRkFDVFMgSEFWRSBOTwogUExBQ0UgV0lUSElOIE9SR0FOSVpFRAogUkVMSUdJT04h

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

♫ god's not dead / he's surely alive ♫

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxz-Y-c2UUc

feat. teenage witch and leland BOB palmer

sry already posted upthread. goddamnit

just realized now that Sorbo's been misspelled in the thread title for a few years now.

maybe the "a" is for atheist?

so this is more a "spiritual sequel" than a literal sequel?

(in more ways than one, obv)

they had so many strawmen to choose from, I think they probably will do fine

as long as the next one is in 3-D

God's Not D3A-D

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"

previews for this are abt to either make me pay for ad free hulu or abandon western civilization forever as a lost cause

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d91DJm0OnMw

the original was hilarious, not sure if i have the patience to put up with another

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI8LYSAUZCU

fwiw that isn't the student who was supposedly asked if she believed in god

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhe8KhSxWGo

Robert Forster?!

that mustache is unfortunately evidence for the defense

gettin some Zodiac vibes from the costuming/art direction

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

oh this is about Lee Strobel?

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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

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

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.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/sean-hannity-and-kevin-sorbos-let-there-be-light-is-pious-xenophobic-fun-for-the-whole-family

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mvl0xuT00LE/WckdKzqVJTI/AAAAAAAAHzc/KUklOEXatdsLY7nQw1lBkOawSt7P1LEmQCLcBGAs/s1600/abortinggod.png

I love how they decided on "Harkens" as an atheist kind of name.

fuckin' lol at that fake book cover

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

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?

That's why they got Hercules to do it.

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

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

saw the trailer for the newest entry in theatres.

there's actually explosions and violence in it or something

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.

Harold Cronk

Cronk returns!

Is Kevin Sorbo dead?

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

The Land Before God

Love offerings from billionaires

Going to replace this film canister with Wicker Man brb

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

my Classics course made us crucify a classmate

weirdly he was ok with it

God's Not Dead: Rise Up (2023)

#onethread

weirdly he was ok with it

― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal)

i use she/her pronouns now, but yeah, it was fun.

My (tortured Catholic) photography professor just showed us prints of him naked on a cross. Sounds like the philosophy class was more fun.

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)

i love that the word "tortured" is twice-redundant in this sentence (with "Catholic" and with "naked on a cross").

other director in this series is named Vance Null.

why do all Christian directors have names that sound like producers of second rate Abbott and Costello knockoffs

Vance Null sounds like an Alan Smithee alternate

Vance Null should be the singer in a bluegrass motley crue cover band

vance nullo

xxp Definitely sounds like someone who doesn't want her/his real name associated with the project.

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"

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".