"If you liked the film that is great and I respect your view but it seems to me that anyone that says something negative about this film is an idiot in your book."
That's not entirely true, tcoon. You have not seen the need to resort to immature name calling, bullying and massive overgeneralization compared to those others (yes davidsco27, I am talking about you) with no other reasons for disliking this film other than it being a Christian film. You, of all the other posters tcoon, have at least presented one legitimate reason for your dislike of the movie (that it mirrors FNL although I feel your anger over this legitimate film making device is a touch naive). Those I consider "idiots" (your words, not mine) are those who come into these forums with one purpose- stir up trouble and bad mouth Christians. The film is just a platform to spout their hate. Some examples (and they criticize Christians for being "closed minded"!?)
"As a person with common sense and no dogmatic bullsh*t beliefs, this was CRAP."
"You've GOT to be kidding me with this crap! Please, GET ME OUT OF THIS COUNTRY NOW!!!! HELP HELP HELP!!!!!!!!"
"Did you have to put down your bible to write that? moron"
"Go soak your head in the holy water, brainwashed moron"
"This movie is the biggest bunch of crap Ive ever seen. Talk about being force fed religion."
tcoon, you said "The message was not subtle and in no way allowed the viewer to think for himself." I really take umbrage with this comment. It's a Christian movie! It makes no apologies for that. In fact it's byline is "With God all things are possible" - not "guaranteed", but "possible". Many people in these forums have bemoaned the fact that the people in the film seem to get whatever they ask for. Once again an understanding of the film making process helps here. In a 2 hour feature film the need to compress and simplify the main concepts of a story mean that some things will seem less real than they are in real life. Film making is all about telling the story successfully in a relatively short space of time and exaggeration or over simplifying events helps propel the story along. Some things need to be exaggerated or bent to fit into that time frame. Look at a one hour episode of CSI. Anyone who has any involvement in law enforcement will tell you that solving real crimes is nothing like what happens in CSI and can sometimes take months or even years to solve, but in order to make a one hour episode work as a narrative events and situations are compressed. That is what happened in this film. I have experienced myself many of the things the characters in this film experienced, although they were over many years, with a lot of stuff in between that weren't so good.
You also said "Since the point of this film was to "Save" me and all it did was make me want to run from religion you tell me, how was this film succesfull?" If you go back through these forums you will see many posts from people who have been touched and affected by this film. And these are just the people who took the time to post a comment. I know for a fact that in churches all around America people are accepting Christ after having watched this film- drug addicts, victims of abuse, people who have been contemplating suicide. These are the people who the film makers made the movie for, not those with a predisposition to hate it because it's about God and His goodness. So, yes, this film was, is and will be successful to those who need to hear it's message. And unlike other films, the fruit of it's success are eternal.
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