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Critics Have Problem with God, not Film

posted 17 years ago by writingken
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This film has high quality graphics, big name actors, a distribution of over 850 screens, high quality music, and more. Those that have a problem with this film don't have a problem with the film but with God. Their conviction of their sin, fear of judgment, and fear of hell cause them to attack anything that has to do with God, including this film. Just look at their posts, little about the film and lots of bitterness towards God.

Ken Clifton
-Christian superhero guide author
www.christiansuperhero.com

[–] lousylittlepoets 17 years ago

I have a feeling you are totally right Ken.

[–] anya_angie 17 years ago

"High quality graphics?" What is the best animated film you've ever seen? The highest quality? I just want to know what your basis for comparison is. And a NO-NAME composer? This is a disaster waiting to happen.

"Show what you are capable of!" - Olympic Champion Evgeni Plushenko

No more beans!

[–] maillist-16 17 years ago

I've seen it, and I gotta defend the music - the score was one of the strongest points, very nice!! John Williams was a no-name composer too, once upon a time ;)
The animation wasn't Pixar, but the film was pretty good overall.

[–] anya_angie 17 years ago

Good point... I certainly learned through the Order of the Phoenix not to judge no-name composers so harshly.

"Show what you are capable of!" - Olympic Champion Evgeni Plushenko

No more beans!

[–] jdlund 17 years ago

It fails to improve upon or even add anything to the slew of films that have depicted the same exact thing. It's trite, uninteresting, and it's about as engrossing as a mediocre, monotone sunday morning sermon. To add to the enormous shortcomings in the narrative the animation is...okay, nothing particularly catchy. Maybe ten years ago this would have stood out, now it feels merely adequate.

See, those are problems with the film. I have no problem with God. Probably for the same reason I have no problem with Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, etc. It's a harmless story that gives people who believe in it a sense of comfort, order and purpose. And besides, the true fundamentalists who believe in that whole Left Behind rapture stuff, that the world is around 10,000 years old, and that there literally was an Adam, Eve and an ark loaded with a pair of every animal species on Earth, they are just so adorable. Seriously, I mean they are so just so precious. It's like watching a child tell you about how they have magical powers and friends that no one else can see.

[–] writingken 17 years ago

It's computer graphics, so it's more like Meet the Robinsons than Prince of Egypt, but the effects are pretty cool.

Ken Clifton
-Christian superhero guide author
www.christiansuperhero.com

[–] anya_angie 17 years ago

I'm just judging from your post history, but you don't seem to have much knowledge of animation, be it 2D or 3D... Is Meet The Robinsons yuour answer for what the highest quality animated film is? For CGI Pixar's films are usually first-rate... personal favorite is Finding Nemo but they were all animated very well (though I have not seen Meet The Robinsons or Ratatouille yet).

"Show what you are capable of!" - Olympic Champion Evgeni Plushenko

No more beans!

[–] johnyskeptic 17 years ago

What about the fact that even Christian critics do not rave about the quality of the movie, are they anti-God too?

http://www.decentfilms.com/sections/reviews/tencommandments2007.html

Stealing from DeMille, though, seems less egregious than stealing from The Prince of Egypt, in part because DeMille is less accessible and less familiar to the young target audience than the deservedly well-known DreamWorks film.

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The animation is serviceable at best, which is more a limitation than a fault. Production values don’t necessarily count against a low-budget film. They just don’t count for it either. Somewhere or other you need to achieve something special, in the story if not the visuals. The Ten Commandments doesn’t get there.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/reviews/2007/tencommandments.html

As a straightforward introduction to the biblical story, it is arguably better than some of the splashier or more sensational movies out there. Whether it merits a special trip to the big screen, though, is another matter.

[–] DeeDubz75 17 years ago

This guy has some sort of alterior motive foe defending this film. Look back at his posts, they seem like some form letter. And he seems to have some very interesting knowledge about budget and distribution channels and is clearly interested in pushing his own Christian media (his book).

The complaint here is that Christian entertainment will not be taken seriously unless it can escape this culture of uncreative garbage... big budget or not. $11 million is still alot of money when it comes to indie film making.

[–] johnyskeptic 17 years ago

Are you talking about me or Ken?

[–] koppmeier_kevin 16 years ago

Sorry to disappoint but I am a Christian and have no problem with God. I have a big problem with this piece of garbage.

Any way who gave you the right to make judgements like tha? It certainly wasn't God.

[–] DeeDubz75 16 years ago

Ken, if you weren't somehow trying to promote your own book and posting other long winded glowing comments about this film that obviously make you a plant of some sort (a friend of the production company or something?) - i'd think this ridiculous post was just trolling. I am Christian and i check out tons of faith entertainment, much of which is sadly neither well intentioned nor well produced - like this movie. It has nothing to do with bitterness towards God and to suggest such a thing is inflamatory; if anything poor-effort and money grubbing productions like this shows a certain apathy towards him and contribute to the ghetto-ization of all Christian media. Who are you to judge others and their faith based on whether or not they want to partake in your so called "high quality graphics, big name actors, 850 screens, high quality music and more..." lol. you must be joking.

[–] Spliter 16 years ago

This film has high quality graphics

I think a lot of people on this board tend to disagree with you. A Korea 10 year old with a commadore64 can do a better job with the animation.

big name actors

Ben Kingsley?...who like to play in Uwe Boll movies..THE WOREST DIRECTOR IN THE WORLD!...talk about poor choices..

Chrisitan Slater....who like to beat women now that he's old and can't swoon the ladies in his movies....

Eliot Gould is passable...but not high-quality, not since the 70s.

a distribution of over 850 screens

That's it?

high quality music

I didn't see John Williams or Danny elfman on the credits....yet, it really isnt hard to make an 'epic' soundtrack to these things.

and more

This is Nickelodeon crap....nothing special

Those that have a problem with this film don't have a problem with the film but with God.

So the propoganda of the religous-right ensues. We hate the quality of this movie, therefore we will burn in hell.....no sense you make.

Their conviction of their sin, fear of judgment, and fear of hell cause them to attack anything that has to do with God, including this film.

I don't have any problem with the story, just the quality of the film....I can't why they made this one when the 1957 Heston/Deville movie is still a great movie to watch for the religious and otherwise...

[–] aggiegurl22 16 years ago

I'm a Christian (Lutheran, in fact) and I wouldn't even give this movie a chance. Go ahead, call me a heretic. I dare you. The graphics are terrible and the story's been done before (better) in movie form. Just because it's a movie about a Biblical account doesn't mean you have to defend it. The people here aren't bashing the story but the movie itself. It's probably a watered down version of the Biblical account anyway. I'd rather read the real Exodus.

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[–] DoctorStrangelove 16 years ago

Those that have a problem with this film don't have a problem with the film but with God.

Wow. Thank you for embarassing Christians everywhere with that ludicrous and internally self-contradicting non sequitur - and the tacit assertion that Christians do not (or should not) have any:

a) artistic taste
b) opinions on how their faith is portrayed to the world.

Please resist any future urges to make blanket statements of this kind. Regards.

He who is tired of "Weird Al"... is tired of life.