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intense religious themes at end ruin this decent comedy

posted 11 years ago by cerealcinema
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i was misled thinking this was going to be a campy "make fun of armageddon movie" but instead it actually IS an armageddon movie after mostly as a comedian buddy movie. the last 1/3 of the movie turns into a fanatical christian tale of who gets to heaven. there is no joke about it, it's treated real and it doesn't fit the movie at all. the sacrifice instant access to heaven *beep* it just makes a turn into blatant propaganda for the church after a halfway decent flick that i got some chuckles from. its good to see other threads also mentioning how this is despicable. hollywood is special needs shortbus challenged.

[–] gacsogergely 8 years ago

Totally agreed. This was just another Left Behind crap.

[–] archyros-30909 8 years ago

This was obviously a spoof on Left Behind. It is in no way a Christian version of the end, heaven or anything else. People losing their minds because of the themes and craziness of the film are hilariously ignorant of the Bible, Christianity, Jesus, salvation, etc.

This whole movie was a bunch of actors having fun imagining themselves in the end of the world. They did not use the Bible as a guide. Seems more like they used their imaginations. Not scripture.

When Jay reads from his Bible, he is not reading from a real Bible. What he describes is a pop culture Armageddon. It is no more really Christian than the Apocalypse from episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel.

The end of the film should make that clear. Whose idea of eternity includes performances of the Backstreet Boys? I mean, really, I can think of other groups I would rather see perform. And smoking weed? I don't like to smoke anything. It takes my breath away. And scantily-clad dancers? This is more like a secular worldly heaven, not a spiritual heaven at all.

Okay, now I'm done railing against the angry silly people who think a movie made by a bunch of non-Christians is accurate in any way.

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[–] armalite1016 8 years ago

How can this film be Christian propaganda when there is not a single mention of or reference to Christ?

[–] FModerators 8 years ago

The ending was perfect for this film!

[–] green_donkey 8 years ago

the religious part ruined the movie? not the forced sexual innuendos? not the terrible pacing? not the poorly executed (and braindead) comedy? no, it was because in this movie, a movie which never took itself seriously in the first place, god and heaven are real. get the *beep* out of here.

[–] Royalcourtier 8 years ago

The movie is anti-Christian. It was made by Christian-hating Jews. There is nothing here that is either orthodox Christianity or respectful of Christianity.

Most of the films out of Jewish-controlled Hollywood are anti-Christian or militantly atheist. This is no exception.

[–] psydecar 8 years ago

I'm an atheist and I don't even really like this movie, but the breed of atheists who treat atheism like a religion and get offended at things in the same way fundamentalist Christians get offended at Harry Potter is embarrassing. The biblical stuff is treated as any other fantasy element.

I'm guessing these same people would get offended at stuff like Preacher (whose comic series was written by an atheist) and Hellblazer (which had several atheist authors over its run) and cry about there being angels and demons in Dungeons and Dragons.

[–] tmf_scipio 7 years ago

So, movies about the rapture shouldn't have intense religious themes?

Hitler! C'mon, I'll buy you a glass of lemonade.

[–] jamotide 7 years ago

lool of course the was a joke about it! Their "heaven" was dancing to the backstreet boys! Does that sound like heaven to you?