You know the Simpsons episode about Joan of Arc where she is on trial with God being her witness telling he motivated her to liberate France of the English? And the Englishman says to God "What? You told me to conquer France for England", with God saying it was not planned them being in the same room once
This movie reminds me of the time I walked into my closet and prayed for the Taurus Demon in Dark Souls to just fucking drop dead and then it did.... Oh wait, no it didn't because God doesn't work that way and this movie has no idea what the heck it's talking about! Everyone knows if you want to solve your problems you've got to sell your soul in exchange for some form of enchanted object that will eventually backfire, not pray in a closet! Or, in extreme cases, just bitch about it on an internet forum with a listed address and very specific details. I'm sure that'll go great! .............. People are either going to love this comment or try to argue with me over it for some reason, lol!
Jack Rose Presents I don't know how to say my opinion, since I haven't seen any of those movies, but I don't know how underrated a sequel like that can be if everyone is saying it fails to even be creepy. That's what makes a well-made horror movie really good.
***** Sweet. Now I either got to see it for the fun of it, or I watch the original first and then see this for the fun of it. It does have so bad-it's-good qualities right? The sequel?
"I'm an old woman, I'm miss Clara, and my husband died in nam. I'm miss Clara, and though I've never been to war, or even served in any branch of the military, I connect everything to war, and tell people how to fix their lives, even though I know nothing about them!"
I feel like this movie should have had a plot twist, where Miss Clara was the Devil implanting these very stupid ideas of how to fix a relationship into vulnerable women, and interfering in ways that favor the abusive, scamming, drug dealing men, and wants to incite religious revolutions and assassinate the president. It would have at least made sense why she came off as a psycho.
+Gerald Kirby I am picturing the face on your costumers when you say (i,m guessing. Tell me if i,m close) :It is about a woman who is in a abusive realtionship and fixes it by going into her closet and pray". Am I close?
I believe it was he wouldn't do CPR on his wife because he found doing Cpr icky. And seriously? He thinks his wife hates him so much she'll actually kill him and he has no qualms about preemptively killing her? This marriage needs to end
Yeah basically, also I think the director said to him while filming the scene "now while she's talking about the fudge sunday i want you to stare at her like you think she's gonna leap across the table and jam a fork into your artery at any second" dear gods this marriage needs to end
Three thoughts: 1. Maybe it was his way of trying to shack up with that co-worker without feeling guilty. 2. Maybe the wife poisoned her own food, figuring he would switch plates, thus having him die technically at his own hand. 3. The Princess Bride
It's been a while since I've read either the old or new testaments, but I'm pretty sure even the scriptures denounce these kinds of religious practices. Prayer is supposed to be a conversation where the one praying asks for strength and guidance _to fix their problems with their own capabilities_, and not something where you expect everything to go your way because you asked God like a puerile, sophomoric child impudently begging its parents to make everything go their way. (And also to thank God for what you have; this "film" kind of forgot about that.) If anything, this is setting up anyone foolish enough to believe this propaganda for disappointment and potential loss of faith, because the truth is that while God does hear and answer every prayer, sometimes (a lot of the time) his answer is "no." How in the fuck can a movie like _Bruce Almighty_ more accurately and respectfully portray God than this piece of shit?
Because religious films like this one (not all religious films) aren't trying to accurately portray average Christians. The goal of the film (and, by extension, the filmmakers) is to guilt and/or scare people into a specific way of practicing religion.
they don't... they don't condemn it... why would they... Oh cuz we can't admit they were babbled by ancient idiots wiping their ass with their hand and have no inherit wisdom that can't be found anywhere? Once I stopped looking for value where there is little, I found better values.
+Jason Zakrajsek ... stretching a little with that comparison... Then again, many of these 'Christian' films could be psychological horror thrillers if the tone was changed ever so slightly... you may be on to something...
look lets just say it, they are awful films, The Omen, now thats a good film... wheres the magic? wheres the intense eyes staring at someone... wheres the barking dogs chasing someone... i mean... it comes so close yet it misses so far off... its also missing good music i assume and a proper chorus... which is just criminal for a christian film to not have a good choir... its like a military not having good drums or a navy having good planks
"War Room": for those times when you can't afford a marriage counselor, the cops are too far away to answer your call within two hours' time, and your pastor knows about as much of the Bible as Fred Phelps...
You know what's a good Christian film? Blue Like Jazz, because It's not preachy, or up its own ass with messages. The whole movie is about a Christian guy stepping out of his hypocritical Baptist inner circle to experience the world, at a college that isn't too keene on Christians. I like it because the main character isn't spending the movie trying to spread the word of God or converting the Atheists, but realizing that there are a lot of perfectly reasonable reasons why people aren't Christian, and why there are so many hypocrites in his own religion; which makes him want to be a better man. He's basically got a Pope Francis attitude by the end of the movie.
Saved is also a great film. About a girl who goes to a very Christian school, finds out that her boyfriend is gay and decides to have sex with him in order to "cure him". Doesn't work and not only is he sent to a place for kids that parents don't want to deal with, but she's pregnant. All about her becoming disillusioned with her religion, people that she thought were her friends, and her life in general.
Do these people live in an insular bubble? I mean come on no rational human being, religious or otherwise, is looking at this situation and saying "Yeah she did the best thing possible to save her marriage."
+Run Dos Run Touche. Also if you want a hilarious piece of propaganda check out Deception of a Generation. It was linked through one of Snob's old reviews and holy shit did it get funny quick.
I keep forgetting this is supposed to be a modern movie. Everytime they pull out a cellphone it's crazy jarring. What world does this guy live in where every woman is a foot stool to her man?
+Tara An alternate dimension where fundamental Christianity dictates everything, and women happily submit to their husband's every wish. Though it seems to me that those who wish for that sort of reality forget that husbands are supposed to love their wives "even as also Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it" (Ephesians 5:25, KJV)...
Remember, ladies: If your husband is borderline abusive, it's probably because you keep wanting to be treated like a person. If only you didn't have that annoying need for the most rudimentary level of respect, they wouldn't be so stressed all the time.
Christians like to think that non-religious folk hate on these types of movies just because they're religious. In reality, it's because they're poorly written, poorly acted, poorly shot, poorly directed, poorly edited, and the message they're trying to get across is terrible.
Yea...there are a handful of good religious films out there like Ben Hur and Ten Commandments but a lot of the modern ones have the worst script writers
+AW Ratliff I think most of us understand the good message it tries to teach, but its just so poorly portrayed it makes mockery of rather than praise to the faith. What this movie teaches you about religion and god is perhaps the most perverted idea anyone can think of when they think about god.... That if you pray hard enough... long enough... and clap your hands really loudly, probably... god himself will come and solve all of your problems. How is that for a message?
+Dre Chapman I hate religious movies. For various reasons, seeing prayer and church in movies makes me deeply uncomfortable, and without those two things I don't think a movie is really religious.
+A Piece Of Bread Even with such things as wars, famine, exploitation, bigotry and spiders, I was never quite ready to give up hope for the future of this world. But now, after hearing the words "we need a meme", I am ready to go away and never return. I do not want to live in a world where memes are, instead of grudgingly accepted as a part of life's suffering, actually WANTED and NEEDED. Such a world has no future worthy of holding out hope.
During that whole monologue to the devil, I just imagine the Devil down in hell thrashing to Sabbath and Megadeath; briefly taking off his headphones to listen closer, rolls his eyes, and back go on the headphones. The Devil's got more important shit to do than fuck with your crappy mirage.
You know what would be a trip. Is if the old woman was just senile, or suffering from dementia the whole time. It's revealed that she has gone complete Howard Hughes and everything the wife character believes comes crashing down. the Husband had cheated on her way before he was going to with the woman in this movie, so the part with him being stopped by divine intervention was B.S. because the wife imagined it out of denial. The woman he cheated with got pregnant and she shows up with the kid. The wife has a complete breakdown, refuses to wash her feet ever again, and we end with the Old Woman put in a home, going crazy because lack of a closet. Roll Credits
I like to think the devil is sitting in it's own war room praying for actual _good_ religion based movies..... and by that I mean by shouting on the phone to god who's basically doing a Wolf of Wall Street party.
That scene was just dumb. Really wished we had some random neighbor tell her to shut up or show them calling the cops for disturbing the peace or something. Now that would've been the funniest part of the movie. I remember people in the theater, not reacting the way the canned audience here did, but I could remember people nodding and silently rooting for her and finding it funny when she went out into the street.
In my personal accounts of being a Christian (for lack of a better term,) sitting around, doing nothing, and simply believing God will solve all your problems is pretty much the worst thing you can do. I watched my mother whithered away for three years, believing God would heal her, while doing nothing for herself. She died of a heart attack late 2013. I saw as my sister, who could have any man she wanted, prayed for a boyfriend. She then met the man who would become her husband. Something which wouldn't have happened had she not actively pursued the idea. They're married now, and my nephew/our dad's first grandchild, is expected some time this month. In addition, I met the woman who may very well be my future wife, after praying I would meet someone, then approaching the camerawoman at my sister's wedding. Seems to me, God prefers it when people actively pursue their own prayers. Not every time, mind you, but there seems to be a trend, there. Also, this movie is shit.
+TDUShelby Yeah that's what this movie has backwards. It miss-delivers a bad message. Doing nothing BUT praying/talking to yourself in a small room shut out from the world is the sin of sloth. The lord helps those who help themselves. So not only is this a bad movie, and a bad Christian movie, it teaches you to sin without remorse. You a drug dealer? No need to turn yourself in and serve time as long as you confess and say youre sorry, god's got you covered bro!
+TDUShelby This reminds me of a quote from one of my favorite movies, The Poseidon Adventure: "So what resolution should we make for the new year? It's to let God know that you have the guts and the will to do it alone. Resolve to fight for yourselves, and for others, for those you love. And that part of God within you will be fighting with you all the way." - Rev. Frank Scott (Gene Hackman)
yea but thinking god would take time to help you with getting a gf or bf and yet let millions of kids die of hunger seems ridiculous to me just my opinion.
TDUShelby you know I watched full frontal with Samantha bee and on the show there was a bible verse that said when you prayer you also have to do something to help the prayer to work.
"Mmm-hm. SOMEONE'S gonna show her the shitter." ... Y'know, this movie would at least be funnier if their War Rooms were actually bathrooms. "I've got a lot of good memories here. A lot of laughter, and a few tears too." *Loud Dumb and Dumber shitting sound*
"Help me to love him." Oh. Wait. You need help... to love him? As in, you don't actually love him? So when you said you loved him before, somewhere deep inside, you really didn't mean it? You were just... saying that? Because you've been abused to the point of denial? Because one would think that you don't need help LOVING him, you need help finding the love you have inside for him. Sure, we can blame terrible writing, OR we can address the fact that this woman REALLY NEEDED TO GET A FUCKING DIVORCE. Congrats for getting your marriage back together due to horrible movie contrivances, but real world don't work like that. Ugh.
I had an abusive father when I was a kid and my grandmother always said that my father was a bad person because he played the Ouji table once and a demon has possed him, and if he was mean with us it was because we weren't praying to jesus enough, and I was like... "seriously lady, take responsability of your twisted son!"
@@Jarod-vg9wq lol, boomers (who I assume they were raised by) are known for ignoring abuse and mental illness and will claim they were beat "and turned out fine" yet they complain incessantly and hyperbolically about things that are much better now than when they were kids
+Boobalopbop Girl, I got mah man to buy me a diamond ring! Dat right, it be all shiny but me and mah girls take out all the bling when we bake cakes, which we do 24/7 like the good wives we be. Yeah.
I'm more concerned why they chose a war thematic. It's like they tried to make it look like the abused wife is struggling to solve her problems, when, in reality, she just sits in a closet. And no, you can pray whenever and whereever you want, as long as you,at least, move a finger to change the situation.
It's kind of ironic that the old lady said that the young woman should just pray and let God deal with the rest but the New Testament clearly states that faith without works is dead.
They're trying to give Black Christians a movie but as I said before, why the fuck would I want to pay for something that I am subjected to every fucking day? I don't give a shit about War Room because I'm around women who act like this 24/7 to the point I want to punch someone. I don't need to see a badly acted version of that.
Robin Miller Control... Just plain ol' control. Pray, wear your pants to the waist, pray, don't leave your miserable relationship or it's sinful, pray, obey your husband, pray more, don't think for yourself, pray even more! Also, don't drink your coffee lukewarm, because for some reason it's weird and unheard of! Damn that analogy was dumb...
Being a Christian myself, I've defended Religious movies in the past and eve love some of them (The Ten Commandments, Prince of Egypt, Son of God) but even someone as devout in their faith as myself, would have a hard time defending this movie.
+KarnRulez Ten Commandments and Prince of Egypt are fantastic movies regardless of denomination. The fact these piece of garbage 'products' exist however makes my blood boil. There may not be any sleaze but these are exploitation films regardless, pure and simple.
+KarnRulez Your faith should not blind you to the flaws of any movie nor hold your tongue still. If it has a good message, defend the message. If it has a good message but the movie doesn't tell a story well, defend the message and be honest about its stumbling over storytelling. If it does neither, don't be surprised if others are blind and hold their tongues, but don't feel like it is incumbent upon you to do the same.
My hypothesis why they made everyone black:If the old lady was white, she would not seem like an old wise black woman with down home wisdom. She'd seem like a crazy old bat who doesn't know the difference between crying while no one's looking and actually doing something. Which she still is. And then they made everyone else black too while they're at it.
And it has nothing to do with blacks being fairly religious, so it captures an extra crowd on top of the reliable Christian crowds that buy Christian Rock music and mock theories they don't understand.
(WARNING: INCOMING RANT) I'm a Christian and even I think this movie is wrong. There are more to things than just praying. It's like this movie is teaching young women(like the daughter) that if you have an abusive, cheating asshole in your life, just sit and pray! That's not the right message at all. He's not going to change! There are times when you can deal with this situation on your own, like don't just pray, divorce his ass!
Here's the thing though; a lot of women ARE taught this. They ARE taught that it's better to pray everything away than to be an independent person and seek out things for yourself. They are taught that doing nothing bur praying can cure everything and God deserves all credit, even for things that you do yourself. Black women are taught this and are taught to accept this as their/our role as a 'strong Christian Black woman' and as someone who's been through this I can tell that it is 100% fucking BULLSHIT. Part of this shit is why the Black community still has so many problems because we are taught not to do anything but to wait for God/Jesus to solve all of our problems when they're happening right in front of us. And if we even think of taking actions against anything, we're shunned at it for not being strong in our faith towards God. And so we let things deteriorate, we let people who need help just waste away and we just let shit happen all the while saying 'I guess God didn't want it for us' when if we had gotten off our asses and did something we COULD have had the glory, we could have had the success but no. We're just going to hold ourselves down and wait for chance to do it for us and then whine and whimper why our status in this country is still shit. And before you say anything, I am not angry at Christianity. You can believe in anything. I'm angry at the people who miss the point and can't see the point and try hard to block HUMAN NATURE and REACTION and have such a massive need to control people they say that the Bible allows them to behave that way, even though that is not a all true. People like the main character in this movie are control freaks; their behavior shows it as plain as day especially with how she tries to tell the other woman that she has God on her side to KEEP her in a shitty relationship. Any rational person would see the DAMAGE that type of relationship is causing and get the fuck out. The man does not care for her and is a creep to their kid but she HAS to stay because God WANTS her too? So if the husband moved up and started SEXUAL ABUSING the kid would she have to stay there too and let God handle it instead of leaving and saving the child from a traumatic experience? No, the annoying old BIDDY wants her to because she's projecting herself onto this woman and trying to create the relationship she WANTED but could not have with her own late husband.That's what most of these hardcore 'Christian' woman are doing when they treat people like this when they 'teach' them; it is all projection to what they want, not what people actually NEED. The idea of someone having their own life independent to what they see as perfect for them SCARES the ever living shit out of them because it's something they can not control and questions their own faith which, at least to me, is the last thing they should care about. If they were loving Christians they would simply care if the person is living a good life and not harming other people, not living live in a step-by-step Praise Jebus way they do. It's the reason they rage out when someone questions their 'faith' (ie, control) and goes against it because without anyone to boss around they feel like they have nothing which shows how little they have going for their lives anyway. If their only means of feeling like a good Christian is to project their own shitty lives onto others then they are not being Christians, they are just being assholes but like I said I've been around people like this for most of my life and it is ENCOURAGED that Black women behave like this. Acting like this is seen as a virtue but when you're a Black woman who is suffering from mental illness, addiction, and abuse and you see through the bullshit you start to realize just how much it is holding us back and how damaging it can be when it's spread around as the right thing to do. I can imagine how much better a lot of us would be if we held more Bible lessons along side with informing people, women and men, where they could go FOR ACTUAL HUMAN HELP. But we'd rather scare people into thinking the world is going to kill them if we don't believe in God the 'RIGHT' way.
I suffer from severe depression and anxiety and it's fucking horrible, but according to this movie, I shouldn't seek help through therapy, Meds, and the support of my loved ones. No. I should pray the depression away and God will miraculously cure me.
+Mrs Mojo Risin Blues I will recommend that you write three notes in your closed every 2 and a half days, and one note to hand in to your local priest every Sunday. We can trial that for 4 weeks, and see how you get on! xD
To be fair, I've had food poisoning and it was one of the most painful experiences of my life. If God wants to punish Tony, that's a good way to do it.
So just to be clear…and you know…fair… Your point is that you had food poisoning once so you can buy that God cursed him with food poisoning to punish him because it would be a good way to do it… Yeah thanks for clearing up the point and making it “fair”
When I first saw this movie with a church group, I joked with some other members my age that all the crazy events following that scene where just a part of a fantasy she was having in the hospital (while her knife wound was being tended to). The film is hilariously unrealistic.
Trust me. Growing up in a Christian household, I understand what she meant by that. But once you put it into a real-life context such as that, it's low-key funny because Jesus already got billions of other people to look after. Maybe you should call the police.
That already exists, in many factions. The KKK, Nazis and Neo-Nazis, the Army of God, The Covenant the sword the arm of the lord, Charlie Manson's household....
Yep, I had two female colleagues whom had fled Somalia and Afghanistan respectively, and what they'd told me of the extremist's views on marriage and women standing up for themselves there sounded frighteningly similar to the views of this movie.
Like the film makers she’s just so up her own @ss thinking she has a better understanding of this woman’s problems and just the world in general but is giving out such awful advice that it’s seriously nerve racking.
Do you think Satan handles the big evil-doing in the world and just has a legion of imps to take care of the littler things in the world? Like they're on commission to wreck a marriage and they get a quarter of the spoils if they succeed? That way the Devil would be causing havoc a bit more efficiently.
Sydney Slaughter what do imps/demons get paid with? If I wreck a marriage myself do I steal their commission or does that count for them? Does working for Satan offer any benefits?
Brad, I am a Christian, but not a defensive one, and you do a fantastic job reviewing these movies (movies I've never been interested in and am so glad I've not seen) without coloring your reviews with your beliefs at all because you clearly understand and respect what the religion of Christianity / the person of Jesus Christ are supposed to stand for. Thank you for your reviews! I appreciate getting a chance to see what they're all about with it coming from someone who is not wrapped up in liking and defending them like so many of my Christian friends.
I’m not a Christian anymore. Couldn’t do it. I’ll still always have a spiritual sense of what I call “the universe” that moves in an active way sometimes, but I couldn’t with the concepts of sin and lack of paying attention to emotional reality in favor of only the spiritual, which has been used to justify so much. 🩷
I'm on the part where she is in the closet while her husband is on a date. "God" makes the mistress choke to death, because the husband and his friend talked about CPR. I'm calling it.
+Robert Luke Seriously, just going by the scenes that Brad changed the music on, it seems like a near-perfect horror movie about a killer taking advantage of a slightly mentally disabled girl. Just add a scene where he kills her and dumps the body or makes it into furniture or whatever.
5 years later and when that guy looking to buy Miss Clara's house says "Someone's been praying in this closet." Still fucking cracks me up. One of my favorite reviews.
+Hannahdouken! Now I'm picturing that episode of South Park where Tom Cruise locked himself in the closet and R. Kelly kept singing about it. My coffee's lukewarm So I'm goin' in the closet Prayin' in the closet Tom Cruise be in the closet, too Why the hell he in the closet? SO I PULLED OUT MY GUN
Uggh. This movie is flat-out bad for people. The devout will go and support it purely on the basis of it being a pro-Christian film with absolutely no regard for quality, and it will continue to be shown to kids on the basis of it being "good for them", regardless of the messages actually being put forth. This movie is sheltered, sexist, and really fond of instructing audiences on subject matters it knows nothing about. It's so pandering that I'm tempted to call it exploitative; it knew it was gonna sell simply by marketing itself as though Christian films are being edged out of theaters and thus come off like it was being persecuted--oh, hai, God's Not Dead 2. Religious nuts love to jump at any opportunity to twist a situation to look like they're being persecuted, like they're the underdog being oppressed, and that's how this movie got a following. When Christianity pushes the idea that God is always with you, that Jesus is always in your corner and ready to forgive or help you if you're humble enough, that's meant in a very passive sense. If invoking the name of Jesus stopped every mugging, *any* mugging, then *everyone would do it*. There is a real difference between asking Jesus for help with your life's problems, and *expecting Him to actively solve them for you*. It's treating Jesus' mere invocation as some kind of cure-all. This is like a friggin' televangelist telling you to touch your hand to the screen, say Jesus' name 3 times in a row, and your lymphoma will be cured. It *doesn't work that way*.
Have you see the new Spider-Man animated series? Peter and Mary Jane are married. That sounds awful, it'll age Peter. We need to get Mephisto on this stat.
+Chris McWilliams I feel like a lot of this movie is pretty Springer-ish....... "So let me get this straight, you made TWO cups of coffee JUST to try and pressure this woman into praying her husband's affair away?"
So does Brad just not have a cutoff date anymore for Snob? He's doing all sorts of new stuff. Then again, I shouldn't really look a gift horse in the mouth, these recent episodes have been some of his most hilarious work.
ugh.... christploitation is the worst.... poorly written, directed, edited, acted and etc... why must every Christian film always rely on reading a Bible and not like using tools like communication and etc
I'm an actress in LA (struggling, of course), and I just saw a breakdown come through for a Kendrick Brothers faith-based film. After laughing for ten minutes, I'm still unsure whether to submit or not. On the one hand, the pay is OK and I like to eat. On the other hand...after watching the trainwreck that is "War Room", I can't even imagine what a nightmare of a set it will be. Also, I'm pretty sure as a liberal feminist agnostic, I'd have to hide that ideology wayyy deep to even get in the room. Actually, I take that back. As a woman, I'm pretty sure any kind of opinion coming from me would be unwelcome.
Don't compromise your integrity, no matter what. Think of it this way, would you want your film credits in your career to include anything involving this insidious, manipulative, psychotic trash? It is how you spend the time in your life and what you do with it that is the most important, not the money you get.
So this film teaches that humans have no personal responsibility. The Devil has his fingers in every bad persons head and we're all completely at the whims of supernatural forces.
1Dudelove Exactly. But the best part is that you don't have to use that amazing organ to think about things and their consequences, since the answers are premade and thought up for you...
+Leafhopper when they got to that part, I was thinking of her having farted in the closet and it was just locked in there all that time until they checked it out, "Yup, someone's been praying alright."
I refuse to believe this was created by the same people behind "Fireproof". Yes, I know that film, too, has some problems, but it handled its themes better. This made me go "Wha--huh? Okay, I see where you're coming from, but, uh... wrong execution." Just what is going on in that Christian movies are being poorly-handled with their messages? The only recent one I've seen that actually wasn't ham-fisted in its religious themes or delved into propaganda was "Once I Was a Beehive". Also, the Kendrick brothers commenting on having a dream to change the skin color of the characters kind of rubs me the wrong way. I feel like they should've kept that to themselves.
The sad thing is I know people like this in real life. It's fucking beyond sad. So happy I didn't let this kind of "religion" brain wash me. I just try to treat people how I'd want to be treated. Been doing fine in life thus far.
Religion doesn't brain wash people...it gives them a perspective on life...even tho I'm atheist I do recognize and acknowledge the wisdom and poetry with its philosophies...Brads point of these religious exploitation films is that regardless of their message they're still exploitation and bad
+Deebo Molina I know, hence why I said "religion". I.E. fake people using something that can be positive to harm others. I'm a black, bi sexual woman who grew up with super religious family and I have been through it all with their bullshit. Questioning the person I was, afraid I was going to Hell because of something I had no control over. Once I got into my teen years I realized the difference between "religious" people and people who are good human beings who just happen to be religious. I don't consider myself atheist (I don't care enough about the subject) and I don't have problems with religion in general, I just can't stand shit like this movie because it takes me back to a bad time in my life. Plus it can send a horrible message to women and men alike. That's all.
What really gets me is that before this woman meets Miss Clara, she tries to communicate and reconcile with her husband in every reasonable and cordial way possible, yet he relentlessly treats her like the underside of a urinal cake. A message to all people, if you ever find yourself in a relationship with somebody who acts like Tony, GET THE FUCK OUT!
@@dawnbeavers3520 Explain far-right militant "Christians" and all the religious cults, inquistions, burnings, and persecutions of non-Christians throughout history. Bullshit your ideology doesn't attack people unprovoked. You absolutely have your own jihad, only your extremism is focused on psychological warfare.
+Harold P. Penisman It would have to be Jem and the Holograms due to Norm of the North getting more money at the box office while Jem and the Holograms failed to even make back it's five million dollar budget.
"Stab, stab, stab. Dead. Jail. End Credits." Might be my second favorite Snob line (Next to "We got a squirrel in a little pinwheel hat. Will that help?")
I just watched a review of the Kirk Cameron movie “Fireproof” yesterday, & I gotta say the parallel themes with this movie are pretty disturbing. Both are Christian films that have good-hearted wives with verbally abusive husbands who cheat or are addicted to porn. Both are demeaning and controlling with money. Both are objectively the kind of husbands that would make anyone who cares about the wife say “Leave him now!” But the message of both of these movies is “Just stay with your awful abusive husband- God will help you sort it out!” It’s really misogynistic and dangerous. Also soothing to some men, I’m sure. “Don’t worry, your wife will never leave you if you’re both Christians! You are supposed to be the one in charge, after all!”
Well, at the very least, “Fireproof” is about the man in the situation learning to improve himself, but that comes with other issues, like, for instance, the movie portraying his initial treatment of his wife as normal for a rough spot in a marriage.
"Why's Brad now reviewing current movies or midnight screenings??" Well folks, it's because we're in a new era of exploitation movies. Buckle up, no helmets allowed.
I'm so glad my family is Christian and Mexican so they can't understand what they're saying, but it's more ridiculous on Spanish tv. There's a show where every episode has a real world problem with no mention of God or faith until the end. The main character of the episode would pray to the Virgin Mary and magic would happen and solve everything and later would thank her. Again, my family doesn't watch that because they know it's bullshit.
You know I really did like it better when the Cinema Snob was reviewing exploitation and porn, but I watched this any way... and realized he's still reviewing exploitation and porn.
These movies really are just religious porn. Shallow characters, even shallower dialog, and exploitative messaging. And they're made so cheaply it's impossible not to make a profit.
This movie: *Tells women to go in the closet and pray for their husbands who openly cheat on them* Actual Biblical Jesus (Matthew 5:27-30) : Bro if you're looking at a woman lustfully I'm going to need you to *pluck your own eyes out*
She gave her cold coffee because she didn't like her faith? Seriously lady? Okay it was just to make a point, but problem is her metaphors don't really follow through to good conduct. You're supposed to make it work. Like, I hope she doesn't literally mean that she wants those cops to incorporate Jesus somewhere in their official police report. There are more common parallels to these statements she's trying to make. Like if you're negative to everyone and the world, the world will look bleak and negative to you, or that it was the lack of good will towards our fellow man that that mugger tried to mug them. But she's trying to be whimsical about it. And that's what's really hurting the message. And of course also, literally isolating yourself in a closet and praying isn't going to solve your problems. The lord helps those who help themselves. So help yourself.
+jekblom123 I did not understand what she even meant by telling the police officers that they needed to put Jesus there. I get that she was making a comment about thinking "there's not enough Jesus in general nowadays!" but, like you said, where does she want the cops to put Jesus in the police report? "Two women were mugged, one insists they weren't shot because of Jesus"?
+Master Markus The quote in her statement. Guess in the vain hope that some might read through the report and think "Wow! This Jesus fella kept that lady from getting mugged and stabbed! I've gotta look him up!"
+The FirstBourne Well, now I did...it sucks. I still think the second one deserves a lower RT score than the first, because even though the cinematography is...kinda...better...it just looks average while the first one had awful cinematography and direction, the story itself is far more insane! I don't care that it had slightly less subplots than the first! As less sense as it made to make it a philosophy discussion, it's even more stranger to set this in a courtroom, to the point where it's even more arthouse-level strange than every other arthouse movie that you can at least tell tried! But, that won't excuse the fact that the first one still had more things that MADE me want to hate it more than the second.
You know what I am realizing from this. That I can make a lot of money making movies for the religious community. Clearly I don't need to spend a lot of money or worry a lot about quality in order to make a lot of money. I mean it seems like a pretty shockingly surefire way to make money quickly
+Michael Logan Yeah, it's just like the collection plate, only with no good cause. As long a we throw some half ass message out there that may or may not be as virtuous as we intended. We're good! Because the idiot masses will always follow, no matter how black heartened the shepherd is.
+Michael Logan Just as long as you can get some mega-church or religious commentator to Oprah the movie to followers, pretty much. The logic worked for Cartman.
My very religious girlfriend showed me this horrible movie. I hate this movie so much. The couple matches the unhappy marriage of my girlfriends parents. The abuse in this movie is horrible and is unacceptable, no family should live in a house of fear, no man should ever treat their wife with such disrespect. It made me so disgusted with what advice that old woman said to that wife. They seriously needed a real therapist, and divorced.
So, this is basically a movie about a woman slowly losing her mind before she finally breaks, reality shatters, and she's put in an institution. All the while her mind creates a happy ending as she lies on the floor of a padded room talking to herself.
Wait, so the movie starred black people because, as the director (maybe) put it, "I had a dream". ALso: this is the second Snob film to be inspired by Madea.
Both my BFF and I are staunch Christians. When I told her about this movie and this review, she said, "If my husband were cheating on me, HE'S the one who'd better pray!"
Having a War Room isn't a bad idea. The secret is you reinforce it, add a keycode to get it, and have it auto-dial to the cops, who arrest the domestic abuser. I may be confusing a War Room with a Panic Room.
I love how they had the husband doing some pretty impressive jump rope moves, but they somehow still lost because the filmmakers know that’s supposed to happen. The winners must have been incredible
The actor playing the husband in this movie looks like he could easily play Satan in another movie. I was literally having that thought when the Snob said the same thing haha.
