Now I want to see Kirk Cameron do "Saving Easter" just to see how he tries to incorporate Bunnies, Easter Eggs, and Jelly Beans as something out of the bible.
"Well you see, the Easter Bunny was a bishop, who gave eggs to children to simbolize the fact that children can't put eggs in real life, but one children didn't believe enough and the Eastern bunny had to kill the kid, and we eat jellybeans because God put the jellybeans recipe in our subconscious minds, so we would eat them in his honor": Kirk Cameron's logic.
Better yet, let's see him take on traditional Mexican holidays. I want to see his take on how Dia de los Muertos links up with Genesis. Hearing him try and justify/vilify Santa Muerte would be comedic gold, too.
A Christian movie without racism or bigotry? For one thing, it’s hard to imagine, and if it does exist, I don’t think I want to see it. Christian movies at their best are like Blazing Saddles where the villains are the heroes and they’re unintentionally funny.
The line about Hannibal Lecter made me realize that Anthony Hopkins as Santa Claus sounds kind of awesome. "Well, Blitzen, have the reindeer stopped screaming?"
When one of these movies actually becomes a blockbuster. Kirk: "This is great! Was it all church groups and ministries?" Theater owners: "Actually, it was mostly drunks and stoners."
+Headbanger142 The part that I keep on getting a kick out of is that it beat out the remake of Left Behind....sink that in for a moment, this movie beat out for worst movie the remake of the movie that Kirk Cameron STARRED IN!
Actually, hot chocolate was invented by ancient Mesoamerican civilizations including the Aztecs and Maya. This was a more bitter or savory drink with chili powder sometimes added. When it was brought back to Spain and soon after traded with other countries in Europe, it became the wintertime treat we all love today.
really, bananas that grow in the wild look nothing like that i mean fuck, a good 90% of cultivated fruits and vegetables look (and taste) vastly different from their wild counterpart. it's like wolves and dogs
@@crimsondynamo615someone already did and Ray apologised for his mistake - he probably had to go read up about it first in Baby's First Picture Book of Fruits.
It makes me laugh how others have commented that Kirk must've re-read his bible, and was horrified at how much it differs from his bat shit ideas, so he made this movie to rationalize his way of thinking.
The Christmas season is hardly about a religious holiday anymore but, in modern parts of America at least, it is a time of acceptance and good will towards your fellow person. It's a time of charity, a time of love and a time to exchange materials as physical evidence of that charity and love. In America especially it is the exchange of physical materials that transcend our own cynicism about life and people. So with all that, in the end, it actually defines teachings of many religious figures, like Jesus. And i say this as a person who isnt really religious myself but i bet Jesus would love the Christmas season as long as it helps people experience the positives out of humanity and helps us bury the negative.... Kirk Cameron is still a nutbar tho
An entire playlist laughing at all the derpy religious movies that suddenly have been released over the last few years? Why not! I didn't need that sleep!
Just watched this today. Hoooooly shit. Everything they say here is true. That Santa WAS onscreen for like a solid minute, just staring at the camera, unblinking. It is bizarre.
I like growing pains & Like father/Like Son. I have both on dvd. I was 8 when that was in theaters and was just getting into movies so i just saw it on cable. 🤷🏻♂️
I spaced out at some point shortly after the bad ADR and started paying attention AS they were saying " He just shows a rock. A ROCK, in the cave. ' Right after you hear babies dying!' " ... I could skip back a few minutes to see what I missed, but I'd like to imagine that the rock/cave/dead babies scene actually IS right after or even a part of the bad ADR scene.
I always find it weird when people refer to Islam as a nation. I haven't looked it up yet but which Muslim nation invented coffee? Ottoman's? Personally I'm not even happy with a country being defined by its religion. I'm from the UK where something like 30% of the population identify as atheist or don't identify as any particular religion (I would call that agnostic but apparently that's not the correct term to use as I found out recently).
+Sam Hall A lot of people just say they are Christians due to past cultural ideals. Forgetting the Religion was actually a foreign import by the Romans.
Sam Hall It doesn't matter what the people identify as when you live in a theocracy. The UK has a state-established religion. The Queen is head of that church. It's great that you guys no longer force people to be part of it (for the most part) but it still exists.
+modelmajorpita I would like to know what you mean by being forced to be part of any religion. If that ever happened it would be down to pushy parenting or small communities taking the law into their own hands. Also with regards to the Queen being the head of the Church, that is purely symbolic, she effectively has no power, all her power comes from her wealth. Nobody told me which country started drinking coffee, I'll just look it up.
What's funny is this has to be the only Christian propaganda movie that fails because it's not Christian enough. I seriously doubt the kind of people behind War Room, Old Fashioned and Gods Not Dead etc. were all that happy with Kirk Camerons attempt to justify his materialism by making bullshit links to the bible.
Yes! And while Christians invented Coffee (Ethiopians, so not "real Christians" if you asked Kirk), that's not really a Christmas thing, which is why the Muslims adopted it almost immediately.
I just finished watching it, and you were right, the guy playing Santa during that sequence actually did look a _lot_ like Brad up close. Other than that I have no idea what the hell I just saw, and I _do_ consider myself a religious person.
Monkismo I'm sure Christians said something similar about Saturnalia centuries ago. Honestly, so many non-religious people celebrate Christmas people barely blink. And why should they? It's winter, it's fucking cold. Let's celebrate something.
The irony of this movie is that if anyone's going to agree with Kirk Cameron's views, it's atheists! Plenty of us celebrate Christmas just to have a good time and don't really care if what we're doing is against the views of a religion.
11:00 What Cameron is talking about when he promotes materialism as a good thing is something fundamentalists call "Prosperity Doctrine" and it's a complete perversion of Jesus' teachings. The basic idea of prosperity doctrine is that your spiritual and moral self-worth is directly tied to your financial self-worth, i.e. the richer you are, the more you deserve it. If you're rich, it's simply because you're a better person or because God has selected you to BE rich as part of his Divine Plan. This nonsense was started by televangelists as an excuse to explain why it was ok for them to own diamond mines, mansions and piles of cash and it's not hard to figure out why. Anyone who has actually read the Bible knows how Jesus felt about materialism in general and money-changers in particular: "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God" Matthew 19:24.
Exactly, plus Jesus was basically homeless the last three years of his life: "Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."
@@tintinismybelgian modern day evangelicals would crucify Jesus all over again, if he ever came back like they think he is...for being too homeless and hippie looking, and having ideas that resemble "socialism".
@@stephaniebaker1542 Everyone would crucify Jesus, because we all did the first time--conservatives (Pharisees), liberals (Sadducees), leaders (Pilate and Herod), followers (the crowds), friends (Judas) and enemies (the Romans). Everyone had a hand in it, one way or another.
This is still one of the great videos that I can watch over and over. And if anything the movie was WEIRDER than they said! So terrible, easily the worst film made since Birdemic.
Why does this not have a sequel? It is a beautiful glorious ball of hellfire and there are few things as wonderful to experience for such a peice of shit.
+thatonedrewguy I actually rented it on in demand out of curiosity and it was like $3. It is as batshit crazy as Brad had told us. I'm a Christian and when Kirk says the whole "materialism" spiel, I was like "horse shit!"
+orangeapples Because nobody is going to watch a bad movie like this unless the things that make it bad actually make it so good. This would be the kind of movie I would watch on Netflix if I had nothing to else to watch, then more than likely I'd be telling people how much they need to see it just on how terrible it is....that's what makes it entertaining.
One thing I never understood was Kirk Cameron's obsession with hot chocolate because of how it 'symbolises christmas'... Dude, that's EGGNOG. You're thinking of eggnog - people drink hot chocolate all the f*****g time, no one saves it just for christmas! Is he so teetotal that he ignored this just because he didn't want anyone to asociate an alcoholic drink with christmas ( even though they clearly allready do )? Sorry but that has bugged me ever since.
I can't wait to watch this little gem in the next month or two, made it my purpose last year after seeing this vid to watch it. I literally have no clue when I am about to get into and that is very intoxicating. Hope it's every bit of a mess it is made to be and more. BTW, I agree with Dave about "When the Game Stands Tall." I watched it in the theaters for free last year and while I oddly enjoyed it I didn't find it to be a Christian flick, it's more of a cliched sports film with Christian elements thrown in. Or as I called it Varsity Blues, and FN Lights without the risque elements.
+Greendalewitch It's on the official Saving Christmas FB page as a comment to one of the photos. This was the reply that the page administrators gave out to people asking when the movie is coming out: Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas "Stay tuned to this page for more information! It will release this holiday season!" I liked the FB page in order to find out but for now they're keeping it vague.
Okay 2 years after the fact but I finally saw it :D *ROFL* This movie was so amazing! Sinterklaas/Saint Nicholas is a real thing though. They commercialized him into Santa though. Which is watering down the actual meaning of it like the brother in law is trying to explain. And I don't know if I should feel bad about this since it's a christian movie but I thought the girl in the gray sparkling shirt during hip hop dancing scene was hot.
I usually don't watch Oscar Bait. I usually watch movies with lots of ass-kicking in them (that's mostly what my DVD collection consists of, TBH.). Too bad I would never go track this down. The racism makes it unbearable for me, as a black man.
+Ian Vickery Some guy with Kirk Cameron explained that bananas are proof of intelligent design because bananas fit perfectly in the human hand and has a bit at the top that is easy to peel SO IT MUST HAVE BEEN MADE THAT WAY FOR HUMANS! Also, they don't seem to understand that modern bananas are the way they are due to artificial selection and the like.
Ian Vickery Completely serious. Just look up "Kirk Cameron Bananas" and you'll find the video. Kirk doesn't really say anything in it, but it's hilarious regardless.
+Master Markus OK. I've always been curious about what the deal was with bananas (and I didn't dare looking it up on RU-vid since I feared for my brain cells). Now that I know, I only have one thing to say... Kirk, what kind of moonshine were they distilling in your church's basement?
How would Kirk Cameron react to the uncensored version of the 1st episode of Yugioh with “Hellfire’s rage! Exodo Flame!” And “You’re saying you performed a miracle?” in it. He is the type of christian that would be offended by that.
Actually, several movies have gotten a 0%, to the point that there's a Wikipedia page for it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_0%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes
Yes. Ethiopian Coffee was drunk black. Muslims in Mocha (Yemen) would add chocolate (which they bought from Spain) to their coffee. So Mocha is a Muslim combination of American pagan and African Christian drinks.
Dude, if I actually see this train wreck all the way through even though I've seen the Snob video and this review first, I'm gonna need a bottle of liquor to help me get through this. If I actually see this around the next holiday season, I'm gonna need that bottle of liquor. Cause I really need to be lit for this movie. 🎶Show me that smiile aaaagaiiiin...🎶
It's just a general stereotype that was common in early 20th century entertainment, the black person who was inordinately superstitious and scared of ghosts.
I thought it was some kind of Scooby doo reference. Like i could see either shaggy or Scooby saying that when they see a ghost and then you hear that hilarious sound effect they make when they run.
@@crimsondynamo615 Same; I'd literally never heard it mentioned as even remotely racist until I started watching Cinema Snob/Midnight Screenings. But supposedly the reason the KKK wore pointy-hatted white robes was to look like ghosts, so apparently "Black people are afraid of ghosts" was a trope at some point.
This movie is weird. What's wrong with someone feeling that they should donate to charity instead of being overly materialistic during a religious holiday? Or celebrating a religious holiday more religiously? I'm not Christian but I understand that stance (not the extreme side obviously). It feels like Kirk Cameron is trying to justify being a shit Christian. I'm not saying people who celebrate Christmas with presents are bad Christians, just potentially Kirk Cameron. Mostly through his reaching for religious justification on materialism in his extreme way
The Paddington movies are great. This review was done before those movies came out, so all we had to talk about was the trailer, and as much as I love the movies, the first film wasn't advertised very well here.
Boy, it's a jump to go straight from the Left Behind review, where Brad and Jake are offended to the point of outrage by the trailer to this and what they assume the movie will be, to this, where Brad and Dave are baffled and bemused, but not angry.
Sorry, but the Santa shot reminded me of the Zilly Zanta sequence from Homestuck, like look at this: www.mspaintadventures.com/trickster.php?s=6&p=007677
