Got to love how evangelicals fetishize the military, but then they go and blatantly disrespect fallen servicemen and women by reducing them to props for their talking points.
I'm a Christian myself but I hate this shameless conflating of Christianity with American patriotism. Patriotism, though certainly not a bad thing, is not a Christian virtue. So concluding a nativity play with the Stars and Stripes while praising fallen soldiers makes as much sense as going to cooking class where the end focuses on the impact of climate change. It's just so non sequitur.
I do love that the movie is one of those "people need to stop getting so easily offended" movies during what's basically an hour and a half irony free diatribe about the evils of saying "Happy Holidays"
"Love your neighbor as yourself." Nope, doesn't ring a bell with these people. Basically, their motto is "Love your neighbor if they are EXACTLY THE SAME AS YOU IN EVERY WAY. OBVIOUSLY, EVERYONE ELSE IS WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG.
I've figured it out! This movie takes place in a parallel universe where the son died in The 1998 War On Christmas, a worldwide conflict in which the US, Santa, and Baby Jesus fought the ACLU, Radical Islam, the gays, and Communist Canada.
Here's something I don't really understand: Objectively, these Christian movies usually range from mediocre to outright terrible (production values aren't good, the acting's horrible, etc.) Yet, often, these films still are fiercely defended by Christians, who say things like "Oh, the critics must hate God, that's why they gave it a bad review!" instead of actually acknowledging the film has flaws. Why do people defend these horrible films so much, if they're objectively bad? I don't get it.
It really annoys me that whenever a lot of people are painting the picture of our nation's founding, they jump right to the Pilgrims to say that we were founded on religious freedom and escaping from persecutions. Plymouth and the Pilgrims weren't the first successful English colony. Jamestown was, and they were not about religion in the slightest. Jamestown is only important these days to talk about Pocahontas, and it's really sad.
I'd like to thank you for pointing out the blatant use of a soldier's death as a plot point. The men and women who gave "last measure of devotion " would be turning in their graves, if they knew that their sacrifice was used as a miserable ploy for sympathy. I'm truly sickened by this. As a person whose job it was to return the fallen to their family; and for their use in this travesty, I'm appalled. I should have waited till tomorrow, instead of watching on Christmas day. Oh well...merry Christmas and a prosperous new year.
There was also an illegal advertising campaign for this movie that took place. The campaign involved making robocalls disguised as surveys to promote the film.
Oooh, Smeghead is heading down the Pure Flix rabbit hole. Careful man, it nearly broke Brad 'Cinema Snob' Jones on several occasions and that man sat through 4 ET pornos.
