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A horrible and religious movie


A friend of mine rented this video and we began watching it not knowing that it was a christian movie. Once there began signs of religiosity, we stopped watching but, we did skip through several sections afterward to see how bad it was going to be. It is not only a horrificly made movie, but adding religion to it made it nightmarish. Religious films are THE WORST. Not only because the acting is SO BAD and the budget SO LOW, but the dialog and religiousness makes it unbearable. The ONLY people who would or COULD like this movie, who could ever think that it wasn't a complete waste of time and life, are mindless evangelical sheeple.

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Watch 'end of the spear', it's a religious film but it's absolutely amazing, not one of those "god exists and now we will proceed to shove him down your throat" movies. I'm an atheist and I wouldnt want this hunk of donkey ejaculation to lower your expectations.

Oh and Frailty is another good religious movie. Please do not let this demon of a movie to lower your expectations.

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Haha I had the excact same experience. Except I, through the entire movie, thought I was watching 2012! Intensely searching on google afterwards for other people who found it extremely religous, I was afraid my sensitivity to these issues were going overboard. Jez, what a relief to find it with an 1,8 rating here on imdb and realizing it actually was a religous movie.

Thank god. ;)

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Actually I am a Christian and I thought this movie was a waste of my money and it was painful to watch. Which was kind of sad because I liked the one actor who was on the show Time Trax.
Curious do you bash other religions or just save your hatred for Christianity?

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Why, did I hurt your feelings...? :(

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The poster asked a good question. Often times people jump on the "hate Christianity" bandwagon because it's the cool thing to do and that was your chance to clarify.

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awwww, the christian got his feelings hurt.

I don't need to bash Christianity. That fairy tale book and it's followers do it to themselves.

However, any movie with a religious agenda is going to suck, period. Same way that all (yes, all) christian rock bands suck.



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No feeling were hurt, I just stated a fact. I happen to not disparage any religion, Christianity included.

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If the christians didn't try to ram their religion down our throats all the time there probably wouldn't be any bandwagon to jump on. (If I lived in a country other than the US, I might be saying that about a religion other than christianity. It's just that here that is the most prominent fairy tale book.)

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Yep, that's what does it.

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Why, did I hurt your feelings...? :( >>>

Not really. Just wanted to know if you felt the same way with other religions or just Christianity.

I don't disagree that it was a bad movie. Just wanted to know if you felt it was a bad movie because it was horrible or because it had a Christian theme to it.

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We managed to watch through this thing last night; the more popular 2012 being laughably silly, I went into this with a certain mindset, expecting something of a suckfest—and that worked out beneath and beyond my expectations.

The film itself, inasmuch as that's what it was, had the problems I'd expected: subpar acting, effects, editing, concept, and so on; the lack of basic research [to the degree that the Maya predicted anything, it was based on an astronomical event which took place—by our calendar—in 1998] was sorta required, or they'd never have bothered making this thing; not that I'd necessarily hate seeing a film based on 21st December 2012 coming and going eventlessly, possibly with characters noting that the calendars disagree by fourteen years and that the Maya actually continued on with their mapping through 13th October 4772—I suppose that could be a decent comedy of sorts.

As to the theological insanity: that was simply annoying and eventually predictable; we'd worked out that the film was going to abandon its little ID4 spoof in favour of a LeftBehind spoof long before any TrueBelievers[tm] started poofing off to points unevidenced; the film's parody of atheism [anyone else getting tired of the accusation that atheists believe in a deity, but hate the thing?] was among the worst I've seen. Which leads to the question itself....

Personally, I have no more or less contempt for christworshippers than I have for any theists. That said, to the extent that I bash them over Odinworshippers, it's because I tend to wait for theists to come to me before I get into any bashing; if anyone still believes that Odin killed Ymir and built the universe into his head, they're not pretending that in public where I get to hear about it. Just in case, to any Odinworshippers out there: heh; grow up.

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Do hate Jews and Muslims too?

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You are stupid atheist! Am I right?

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