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?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
hahah this movie is based on a chain email
― max, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
Tuomas it's "Josh Wheaton" according to Wikipedia.
also lol that this is based on a song by that shitty band the Newsboys
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:22 (ten years ago) link
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?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
idk, were Christians that up in arms about Firefly?
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
Maybe they were angry that last year's biggest movie had Norse gods and space gods but no Christian gods?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
And Cabin in the Woods was even more blasphemous.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
when can i see this movie
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
don't give them your money! you'll have to find one of those evangelical torrent sites. "god's love we download"
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
god sees you when you pirate.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
no, that's the NSA
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
god hates pirates.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
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
― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
Tract kinda has the opposite effect of what it intends. Typical Chick.
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
"What If?" might be crazier. What about his poor fiancee?
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 23:55 (ten years ago) link
i love how jack chick sets up these ridiculous straw men, and then uses footnotes to correct them.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 28 November 2013 03:44 (ten years ago) link
his stuff appeals to people who participate in that Meet Me at the Flagpole shit at schools
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 November 2013 03:50 (ten years ago) link
does jack chick's work appeal to all that many people un-ironically?
don't answer that
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 28 November 2013 08:51 (ten years ago) link
Chick is a joke for kids. There's much more interesting stuff out there like here:
http://www.apologetics.org/
― Noodle of the Vague family (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 November 2013 08:57 (ten years ago) link
the Apologetics movement seems to me a bit like 'missing the point', but I still find it adorable that they try so hard
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 November 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
i couldn't make heads or tails of that website
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 30 November 2013 06:16 (ten years ago) link
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
― Noodle of the Vague family (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 November 2013 10:21 (ten years ago) link
built on sand i meant but i guess that was a serendipitous typo
ty nv, seems quite interesting at first glance
― veneer timber (imago), Saturday, 30 November 2013 12:58 (ten years ago) link
"all metaphysics is built on sad" is beautiful
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 2 December 2013 03:28 (ten years ago) link
"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.
― polyphonic, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
director Harold Cronk
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
new display name there for the taking
I can't wait to see this.
― Eric H., Monday, 7 April 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
Heaven Is For Real will cut this movie's B.O. success story down in a week and a half.
OK, then.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Monday, 7 April 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
prefer Solaris
― MV, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
when the philosophy prof quotes shakespeare like an angry credo
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 7 April 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
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.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 02:23 (ten years ago) link
colton burpo #3 movie this weekend
― balls, Sunday, 20 April 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
how did this presumably ridiculous movie that i assumed would be nothing but a source of in-jokes become an actual success?
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 20 April 2014 02:43 (ten years ago) link
They should hand out Burpo kooshes at HIFR
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 02:52 (ten years ago) link
What's the proportion of people who've paid to see this movie ironically?
― art, Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
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
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:43 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
christians--they are everywhere
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:07 (ten years ago) link
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
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:08 (ten years ago) link
We need a series of GG Allin biopics to bring some equilibrium
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:10 (ten years ago) link
aleister crowley biopic IIRC
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:14 (ten years ago) link
This shit used to be straight to vhs/dvd fodder :(
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:15 (ten years ago) link
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
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:20 (ten years ago) link
1/2 of that film is really gory violence like communist thuggos decapitating people or sending a spike through a kid's ear etc.
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:21 (ten years ago) link
― 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.
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
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.
― balls, Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:27 (ten years ago) link
Ave Sathanas
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, 20 April 2014 03:28 (ten years ago) link
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.
― espring (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2014 05:15 (ten years ago) link
that mustache is unfortunately evidence for the defense
― Neanderthal, Monday, 3 April 2017 16:38 (seven years ago) link
gettin some Zodiac vibes from the costuming/art direction
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 April 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
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
― Neanderthal, Monday, 3 April 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
oh this is about Lee Strobel?
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
― Neanderthal, Monday, 3 April 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
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
― Neanderthal, Monday, 3 April 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
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
“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.
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
― What's the range of an Iranian frogman dipshit? (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 November 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mvl0xuT00LE/WckdKzqVJTI/AAAAAAAAHzc/KUklOEXatdsLY7nQw1lBkOawSt7P1LEmQCLcBGAs/s1600/abortinggod.png
― jmm, Monday, 6 November 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
I love how they decided on "Harkens" as an atheist kind of name.
― jmm, Monday, 6 November 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
fuckin' lol at that fake book cover
― mh, Monday, 6 November 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Monday, 6 November 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link
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?
― j., Monday, 6 November 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
That's why they got Hercules to do it.
― jmm, Monday, 6 November 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
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
― What's the range of an Iranian frogman dipshit? (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
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
― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 November 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
saw the trailer for the newest entry in theatres.
there's actually explosions and violence in it or something
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 March 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
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.
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 May 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
Harold Cronk
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
Cronk returns!
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
Is Kevin Sorbo dead?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
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
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
The Land Before God
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:55 (one year ago) link
Love offerings from billionaires
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
Going to replace this film canister with Wicker Man brb
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
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
― jmm, Monday, 1 May 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
my Classics course made us crucify a classmate
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 May 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
weirdly he was ok with it
God's Not Dead: Rise Up (2023)
#onethread
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 00:06 (one year ago) link
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal)
i use she/her pronouns now, but yeah, it was fun.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 00:11 (one year ago) link
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), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 00:16 (one year ago) link
― papal hotwife (milo z)
i love that the word "tortured" is twice-redundant in this sentence (with "Catholic" and with "naked on a cross").
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
other director in this series is named Vance Null.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 05:22 (one year ago) link
why do all Christian directors have names that sound like producers of second rate Abbott and Costello knockoffs
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 05:24 (one year ago) link
Vance Null sounds like an Alan Smithee alternate
― jmm, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 12:11 (one year ago) link
Vance Null should be the singer in a bluegrass motley crue cover band
― joygoat, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:46 (one year ago) link
vance nullo
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
xxp Definitely sounds like someone who doesn't want her/his real name associated with the project.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:52 (one year ago) link
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"
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
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".
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:59 (one year ago) link