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Wait, why did it get all Jesusy at the end?

posted 10 years ago by priestly-nichols
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This movie was pretty much what I expected... typical corny, predictable kids movie (believe it or not I don't even mean that in a bad way -- some of my favorite movies are super predictable and cliched). And typically I don't really care about religious undertones throughout a movie. However, the religious undertones in this movie were so random, right at the end, and in those few moments, so heavy handed.

Like we watch this whole movie with this moral lesson about being courageous and loving and believing in yourself. Cool. And then at the end the storyteller guy is just like, "No one is an accident to God and God has a purpose for everyone and as long as you trust in God, God will make sure everything is okay! GOD! Praise Jesus kids! Let's all go to church now!"

What was with the totally random, super heavy-handed religious undertones at the end of this movie? And mainly, why weren't they really present throughout the rest of the movie? I can see why this movie only got $500,000 return on the 2 million it cost.

[–] browntable759 9 years ago

It sounded Christian at the end because (to the best of my knowledge) Christians made it. How is a couple of lines at the end "heavy-handed"? Maybe they didn't have it throughout the film because they were trying not to be heavy-handed, a common complaint that non-Christians have when they watch Christian films. If you don't mind my asking, why do you believe everyone is special (assuming you do since you liked the message of the film apart from the reference to God)?

[–] priestly-nichols 9 years ago

It sounded Christian at the end because (to the best of my knowledge) Christians made it.

Then why weren't there Christian-undertones throughout the whole movie? As I made perfectly clear, my issue isn't the Christian-undertones, it is that they were essentially non-existent for the entirety of the movie until the last few lines, which were all about God and Jesus. It was so random; it seemed almost like an afterthought.

How is a couple of lines at the end "heavy-handed"?

Because when you don't talk about God or Christianity at all throughout the entire movie and then at the end start making God's love and religion out to be one of the primary themes, it seems quite heavy-handed.

Maybe they didn't have it throughout the film because they were trying not to be heavy-handed

So instead of subtly incorporated religious-undertones throughout the entire movie, they make absolute no mention of it and then at the very end hit us over the head with it?

If you don't mind my asking, why do you believe everyone is special (assuming you do since you liked the message of the film apart from the reference to God)?

Again, I have absolutely no problem with the reference to God, I have a problem with the poor execution of it: not only is it heavy handed at the end, but it comes off as a complete afterthought. Almost as if, just before they released the movie, they decided they needed to mention God a bunch, so they scrambled to fit it all in at the end.