God's Not Dead - The Cinema Snob

hey i remember in death wish 2 when paul kersey's daughter jumped out the window impaling herself on a fence want to see the most hateful movie i've watched this year and i own this [ __ ] on blu-ray first of all what [ __ ] building is this and why is this kid desecrating it with his not sign god's not dead is the breakout christian movie hit of 2014 a movie so successful that well it's why you started seeing more and more of these movies pop up see even the critics quote on the box says breakout hit that doesn't say whether or not the reviewer liked it even i could say this about the movie and look 5 out of 5 from the dove foundation so the movie isn't just good it's kirk cameron saving christmas good the movie is supposedly about a debate between a christian college student and his atheist philosophy professor as the back of the box states let the debate begin if by debate you mean straw man argument then i'd say that's a fairly accurate representation it's a debate so strong there's about a million other subplots in the movie to pat itself out to an hour and 52 minutes who in the [ __ ] made this movie the opening cinematography is shot in beautiful old-fashioned vision even the birds won out of this movie oh thank you i do need booze to get through this and apparently so do the actors hell some of them can't even get out of bed this movie is directed by some guy named cronk figures it was made by someone who speaks squirrel the hero of the movie is so well i'll just let the movie say his name name uh wheaton josh wheaton you got your pre-registration sheet they were either gonna go with josh whedon or ryan singer and whedon stepped up to the plate whedon is signing up for a philosophy class but uh oh he's given quite the warning you might want to think about a different uh instructor because let's just say you're wandering into the snake pit it isn't that the professor is an atheist it's because he's a vampire your crucifix offends him another one of our characters is amy a liberal blogger as you can tell by her bumper stickers she believes in evolution this movie is not gonna end well for her but she's got a hot scoop on her next interview well i'm on my way to an ambush interview of duck commander willie robertson and i am going to crash that party and hold his feet to the fire truly hard-hitting news coming up next a balls to the wall interview with the duggars no time for that we need to be introduced to old lady with dementia who likes chicken i don't know when was the last time i had chicken that would be yesterday for lunch and dinner are you serious why are you smiling her daughter mina visits her on a daily basis i don't see a ring it's complicated yeah come on mom haven't you checked her facebook status kevin sorbo co-stars as the evil professor radisson here to spend most of the time talking about how much he hates dwayne johnson and kellen lutz the class's introduction to philosophical thought lost on some people either of those facts is news to you then now would be our turn to leave oh sucks to be him he thought he was going to be studying lasers if you're looking for an easy grade without much work well then now would be your turn to leave i'm out great not even 20 minutes in and we've already had two walkouts the editing is making me very confused at the point of this class that we refuse to waste our limited time together debating the existence of the big man in the sky the myth of a benevolent all-powerful supernatural being so they're going to be debating whether planes exist oh more characters it's david a r white here playing reverend dave original god is good all the time and all the time god is good in case you didn't know the class is starting off very poorly as radisson wants all of his students to write down that god is dead thus ending any debate the class would have about the existence of god whatever [ __ ] you're the one who brought it up cause you know you can't teach a philosophy class unless every one of your students renounces their religion naturally jack snyder doesn't want to do that nor should he have to and since everyone passed their papers to the right he could have just handed the professor the stack and radisson would be none the wiser that josh didn't turn one in but now it turns into a thing if you cannot bring yourself to admit that god is dead for the purposes of this class and you will need to defend the antithesis so you're fired josh now has to take 20 minutes in the next three classes proving the existence of god with the class serving as the jury and more of the students should have left because these two [ __ ] egos are wasting everyone's time even josh's girlfriend wants none of this so the answer's simple drop the class yes please drop the class then i wouldn't have to watch anymore of this and in case you want to know more about his girlfriend why am i salutatorian of our graduating class here at my third choice school because you're mastering in clunky exposition all right forgot about the ambush interview of the robertsons how dignified is this gonna be for all parties is my wife corey hi i know i'm actually surprised to see you here i thought you'd be home barefoot and pregnant it really helps the movie's case that they're being interviewed by a cartoon of course this scene only exists to make her and her kind look bad and the robertsons look sticky uh i guess when you say you you're referring to the whole group of my family which would be y'all you just change it to y'all that'd be a easier expression that way it'll get everybody in there y'all you don't really talk like this and this quote-unquote blogger would indeed have a website but no one would read it so what do you say to people who are offended by your show not just because of the hunting but because you openly pray to jesus in every episode yes what do you have to say to those five people jesus said this whoever acknowledges me before men he will acknowledge for the father in heaven whoever disowns me i'll disown him to the father yeah when's the first time you read that when you looked at the script what an ambush interview are you barefoot and what do the robertsons think of y'all any newspaper would be lucky to have you she's so professional her microphone is facing away from them and now for our 10 000th character aisha the muslim student with a strict upbringing i wish you not to do that it's for my father he's very traditional yes he's almost sid hague tomorrow he'll pick her up in clown makeup how traditional is he well he makes her wear a hijab to school but doesn't give a [ __ ] about her t-shirt and does this conversation always come up when he picks her up when you look around at all those people there is no one who worships god not the way he deserves and demands to be worshipped quite a truthful review of all pure pureflix movies and their filmmakers ron favreau then walks into church to ask for forgiveness before he cuts professor radisson's dick off in the bathtub that is after he asks reverend jesus man's advice on hair highlights before it even gets to the conversation these two have we just gotta know that apparently amy is using wikipedia as her main source and possibly adding the word y'all to every section anyway back to reverend dave's advice so your acceptance of this challenge if you decide to accept it may be the only meaningful exposure to god and jesus they'll ever have that's sad i'm sure some of them have seen oh god you devil reverend dave gives him some scripture to read check out matthew 10 32-33 hmm i know that verse and the disciples all went to town and bought food get the class a bunch of big macs actually that's not the right verse at all but it's okay when josh reads from that verse in matthew he's actually looking at the book of luke reverend dave also gives him the advice to destroy his eagles album in front of the class i think that's a terrible idea good to know they exchanged phone numbers so dave can tell him not to be clever you know the same advice they gave to the filmmakers i remember when i said that things wouldn't turn out well for the liberal blogger your results came back positive you have cancer boom cancer [ __ ] i don't have time for cancer neither does this movie there's too many plots here truly the only cure for liberalism in this movie is a [ __ ] death sentence subtle just as subtle as josh and his girlfriend adding more exposition on their anniversary happy anniversary six years ago your youth group collided with mine you remembered i didn't ask i already know that you're a couple she actually gets mad at him for taking on professor radisson but never mind that josh everything you do is about us okay we're a team we were what six years going on forever right i already know you've been together for six years you just said it she then makes him choose between her and radisson decide who's the most important person in your life me professor radisson what if it's god then that's a terrible anniversary present we haven't even gotten to the debate yet because you know the reverends are on their way to disney world but oh no the movie is stalling same as their car we're caught on range for the rental car but how will we get to the rental car they'll deliver it to us are you serious yeah absolutely they'll deliver us the car we had to drive yeah thanks movie now i know how rental cars work now time for josh's arguments aka nap time for the class we're going to put god on trial i'm not so sure about the second season of american crime story josh has it lucky this doesn't seem to be the brightest classroom george lemaitre a theist who's actually also what's a theist a theist is someone who believes in the existence of god well that's the look of a professor who just realized his entire class is stupid the debate and josh's randomly put together presentation has truly begun it's a good thing they cut to this we can meet the choir director talk about song choices for the upcoming concert or we could meet the women's club about the details for the next crap bizarre are you so unsure of your movie's arguments that you need to cut to david a r white wondering what to do with his day josh proposes the idea that it's possible it was god himself who put everything into motion with the big bang theory while as professor radisson wonders who created god i see you carefully avoided the fact that stephen hawking the world's most famous scientist and who is not a theist has recently come out in favor of a self-designing universe i haven't avoided it i just didn't you just didn't know about it yeah look he was too busy that day seeing birdman instead of the theory of everything josh can't answer radisson's retort about how god isn't necessary for a self-creating universe and the audience is clearly on radisson's side oh great so radisson can go home happy knowing that he showed up a student for no reason do you think you're smarter than me whedon do you think there's any argument you can make that i won't have an answer for or he can lay his hand on him like an [ __ ] in that classroom there is a god and yet i'm him i'm also a jealous guys who do not try to humiliate me in front of my students was this supposed to go later in the movie you weren't being humiliated the classroom was on your side oh and he offers threats too if you truly feel a need to continue with this charade i will make it my personal mission to destroy any hope of a law degree in your future again so fired and if you don't want him to speak in front of your class don't let him speak in front of your class you're the professor and the professor's not much better than the girlfriend who actually breaks up with josh because of his speech not even sure are words to describe what i'm feeling right now um [ __ ] uh she's way out of his league anyway he looks like an adult version of the my buddy doll but now we learn the twist with aisha's character she has shitty tasted music actually she's a closet christian who listens to her bible sermons when her parents aren't around damn millennials in my day we had talking vegetables to read scripture to us and then sinister music actually starts when her brother fahed catches her listening to the sermons you must never tell baba so where's him you will never say anything swear it another thing i see ending well speaking of sad amy meets up with her boyfriend dean kane ace attorney he's just gotten a promotion and i'm sure he'll be very sensitive towards her terrible news i have cancer this couldn't wait until tomorrow what good job movie no matter what arc kane goes through here you've just made him irredeemable as a character hell he actually breaks up with her on the spot you understand that i might die i'm sorry about that serves your right for having that evolution bumper sticker and ambushing hack reality stars oh but thank god they have their rental car which still stalls out and i don't know what's happening here i'm already kind of late for an audition an audition yeah the gang and i are doing death of a salesman and uh it's kind of a dinner theater thing i'm glad that i now know the hobbies of the rental car employee just as i'm glad for this line just remember god is good all the time and all the time god is good excellent now i know they're religious and yes kane continues to stick around in the movie he's mina's brother you're on with mark it's me dork your sister oh i should have just let the movie clunkily explain that she's trying to get him to see their dying mother but i'm still thinking about this previous scene i thought you loved me i do but you're changing our agreement which means i still don't give a [ __ ] about this character uh why is jk abrams checking out books he should use wikipedia they got great robertson articles y'all and in another twist mina's boyfriend is professor radisson himself you know i'm a christian you knew that when you first started seeing me yes and you know that i'm not this is a conversation they have with each other every day for the benefit of the audience and to show that even at home he's an ass there's only room in this relationship for two which means i don't get a mistress and you don't get to drag a two thousand year old dead carpenter turned it into a rabbi into our lives makes sense to me she doesn't mention jesus and he won't cheat on her i don't see the problem here god damn it i don't care about this car [ __ ] i draw dish and go pretty good i'm up for the roll of biff so and i don't care that this butt head is gonna ruin the character of biff tannen you can tell it's an atheist party cause they're all smug and drinking wine and giving mean a judgmental looks when she mentions being a christian i know i am in the minority here but i actually believe in god yes yes well she is uh she's a work in progress this is a character designed to make you hate him so much that it's manipulating the audience into immediately siding with josh won't work the whole movie is [ __ ] oh i forgot to mention the chinese student who wants to convert to christianity it's because i don't care nor do i care about the relationship with his father he and his dad are very close one speaks cantonese and the other speaks mandarin but back to the non-believer wine tasting nina this wine is awful it's been cooked it tastes like it was stunning in a moldy basement talk about your grapes of wrath well that wouldn't have happened with a fresh glass of clinker brick you can borrow one of my mini bottles and my copy of alucarda radisson only had to condescend to her and insult her about 20 more times before she leaves the party he's not going to be happy the next day when josh talks about how stephen hawking says the universe created itself because it needed to create itself and the retort is a quote simply calling it nonsense then he tries to battle radisson by saying hawking also stated that philosophy is dead because you know you gotta agree with hawking on everything and if you don't that means god exists oh sorry is there more darwin never really addressed it he assumed maybe some lightning hit a stagnant pool full of the right kind of chemicals bingo a living something but uh it's just not that simple well simple enough for his response to be just quoting the bible in a movie so simple that cancer cures atheism isn't there anyone you'd like to have here with you for this no there's nobody she has politics that don't line up with the filmmakers therefore she has no friends at least he gets the slow clap from radisson and an after hours argument it's easy to dismiss what you don't understand or what you don't want to understand your whole argument is based on stuff you don't understand like evolution and of course there has to be a tragic reason why radisson's an atheist when a 12 year old watches his mother dying of cancer it's only natural to beg god for her life oh he can't simply just be a non-believer you will find the most committed atheists were once christians but we took the blinders off we saw the world for what it truly is yes every atheist is no longer christian because of tragedy just like every muslim father is gonna beat the [ __ ] out of his daughter in the most awkward scene in the movie leading up to him throwing her out of the house after he finds out about her listening to christian sermons and i expected subtlety out of someone who directed a movie called war prayer also narc god amy's so sad she can't even bring herself to finish the blog post about the history of y'all mina however has decided to break it off with radisson i need to talk to you i you you know how i feel about that now on campus i'm professor radisson okay why would she break up with him he's so charming there's plenty more parties he can humiliate her at now aisha's turning to reverend dave for help she'll wish that she was never a believer and her room will be a mess he's got to give her quick advice though there's more hilarity with the car coming up also i'm pretty sure that professor radisson is now stalking josh once again the creepy music comes through on these movies not that it needs music to be creepy letting you speak in front of my classroom and spew your propaganda well today we're going to change things up a bit and again it's your class you can stop this anytime you want it would put a stop to josh's [ __ ] argument this was said that evil is atheism's most potent weapon against the christian faith and it is if god is all good and god is all-powerful why does he allow evil to exist not true bad things would happen regardless of a higher power professor radisson who's clearly an atheist doesn't believe in moral absolutes i'm betting that if i manage to get an a on the exam by cheating he'll suddenly start sounding like a christian insisting it's wrong to cheat that i should have known that yep if you think cheating is wrong then that means god exists the crux of the argument is that it would basically be the purge if god didn't exist so you're saying that we need a god to be moral that a moral atheist is an impossibility no but with no god there's no real reason to be moral no it's because we all need to exist in a functioning society and we're not all psychopaths but again radisson can't simply just be a non-believer he actually is a believer and just hates god why do you hate god because he took everything away from me yes i hate god all i have for him is hate hear that atheists why do you hate god i mean come on guillermo del toto says you're scientifically wrong you've seen the science and the arguments zion supports his existence you know the truth the movie isn't going to get into that science because the class is already converted and is standing up to show that they believe except for this one guy he's still not convinced but this kid definitely is your decision to prove god is not dead has affected me greatly yeah i mean look at his erection back to the real plot of the movie will their [ __ ] car start so they can go to disney world unbelievable no fate no auto mechanics oh good dean kane goes to see his mother for some redemption why do i hate him again we had fun you were my hot young girlfriend with the chic job i was your upwardly mobile charming successful boyfriend all right it's because he's a sniveling [ __ ] and i don't give a [ __ ] if he's sad everything comes together at the biggest hastings store i've ever seen this great advice for every liberal blogger who has cancer go backstage and pray with the news boys at a concert that every character in the movie has tickets for i don't know that she's loved and more importantly that she is loved by you the master of the universe so he-man is gonna cure cancer i believe it well i'm open-minded maybe this band won't be so bad sucks radisson is even having a change of heart as he races to the concert to meet up with mina and apologize looks like this will have a happy ending or he'll get hit by a car and [ __ ] die oh thank god dr reverend is here oh his ribs are crushed his lungs are filling with blood he doesn't have law how do you know this and why isn't he coughing up blood then this all makes sense now the car stalled so reverend dave could save radisson's soul there's a god that you don't believe in has given you another chance another chance to change your final answer and tamaka who wants to be a millionaire reference not the [ __ ] time it seems like radisson was on his way to redeeming himself anyway why did he have to die it would have been more powerful if he seeked redemption when not faced with death what happened here tonight is a cause for celebration dude a guy just died like right in front of you but maybe it is a good day beaten and kicked out by your father did your boyfriend just die oh we got a news boys concert to listen to and this [ __ ] me and the gang wanted to let you know we've heard in the news that there's been a bit of a squabble down there on campus one of your professors insisted that god is dead wow must be a slow news day also let your dad talk the movie ends telling you to text everyone that you know you don't need me to text you that this movie sucks you should know that by now plus it lists off various court cases from students who were supposedly condemned for their faith some of which were thrown out dismissed blown out of proportion or in the end had nothing to do with the person's christianity god's not dead is about as black and white as you could get in a movie like this it is not a movie about promoting compassion love or christianity it's a movie that exists simply to reinforce its audience's hatred in things are you a christian well you're the persecuted hero who can do no wrong liberal blogger you're a [ __ ] and you'll get cancer atheist you just hate god verbally abuse your girlfriend and you will [ __ ] die muslim your father will beat the [ __ ] out of you when he finds out you're reading scripture dean kane bastard but the movie certainly spoke to some people it grossed 63 million dollars against a two million dollar budget which will fund the next 10 000 pure flix movies and there's an upcoming sequel god's not dead too because i guess this movie didn't prove that god's not dead after all making it pointless an argument could be that well incidents like this could occur or that some of these stereotypes do exist in real life and yeah that's true some stereotypes exist for a reason but you know what let's go ahead and make a movie in which all of the [ __ ] in this film are portrayed as the heroes while the lone christian in the movie shoots up a planned parenthood and then let's see how hot the makers of god's not dead take it my guess is not very well nor should they and nor should anybody mr dawkins mr chomsky are still very much alive mr g dog to rock trigger g-dog

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Length: 30min 26sec (1826 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 28 2016