This is a rant on the movie Knowing. I want to say a (very important) message before I begin this rant: I have Christian friends. In fact I grew up in a church, so I very well understand a Christian mindset. Thus, I would heavily prefer this to not turn into a religious debate (AKA flamewar) topic.
That said, here we go.
I have no real problem with religion. That is, I do not desire to end it or anything along those lines. But what I hate is when religious people piss in my face (obviously, all my Christian friends are the kind/understanding type. Not the sign waving/televangelist rude-ones)
There's a movie called the Genius Club where at the VERY LAST 5 minutes of the movie, you find out it was a Christian movie in disguise. Christian movies in disguise have one message, whether people want to admit it or not: YOU'RE WRONG. REPENT SINNER OR YOU WILL BURN IN HELL.
Never have I seen a more overt example than the movie, Knowing, which is essentially like the Genius Club except more 'lolrapture'. At the very end of the movie
Now what this says to me essentially since I am agnostic is: 'repent or ya gonna pay in hell. Lulz'
Anything else is really just a euphemism. No one likes having this stuff shoved down their throats. I do my job as a respectful citizen with regards to other people's beliefs, and then certain Christians (I'm saying CERTAIN because my friends are all the kind type) ruin it for everyone. 'Knowing' is essentially a giant picket-waving radical-Christian in disguise. I know some passive-aggressive users are going to say: it's your job to look up reviews for these films. Well, I'm going to correct that now: your claim only holds weight to overtly-religious films. Knowing does a good job trying to disguise itself. And I got baited.
Even worse, I glanced on some respectful critic review sites (New York Post, Chicago Tribune, etc.) to find comments dissing their negative-reviews. (By the way, this movie for the most part received a C average in reviews, which is pretty bad). Some conservatives (below) are dissing milk because it is a homosexual-movie... no matter what people say, Milk is at -worst- a B movie (it has an A- average btw). And no, I am neither a liberal nor a homosexual...
The following are user comments that I found most annoying. They're in spoiler tags so you don't have to read them if you don't want to.
tl;dr : there are two types of Christians. The kind/caring type (a few of my friends). And the annoying/in-yur-FACE ultra-conservative 'get mai shawtgun' types that really need to STOP their VERY annoying agenda. zomg, sometimes I feel so very alone. The Atheist-percentage in America is supposedly less than 10% T___T
That said, here we go.
I have no real problem with religion. That is, I do not desire to end it or anything along those lines. But what I hate is when religious people piss in my face (obviously, all my Christian friends are the kind/understanding type. Not the sign waving/televangelist rude-ones)
There's a movie called the Genius Club where at the VERY LAST 5 minutes of the movie, you find out it was a Christian movie in disguise. Christian movies in disguise have one message, whether people want to admit it or not: YOU'RE WRONG. REPENT SINNER OR YOU WILL BURN IN HELL.
Never have I seen a more overt example than the movie, Knowing, which is essentially like the Genius Club except more 'lolrapture'. At the very end of the movie
the world is engulfed in apocalyptic flames. The children are then taken to form a new human society (new adam and eve)
Anything else is really just a euphemism. No one likes having this stuff shoved down their throats. I do my job as a respectful citizen with regards to other people's beliefs, and then certain Christians (I'm saying CERTAIN because my friends are all the kind type) ruin it for everyone. 'Knowing' is essentially a giant picket-waving radical-Christian in disguise. I know some passive-aggressive users are going to say: it's your job to look up reviews for these films. Well, I'm going to correct that now: your claim only holds weight to overtly-religious films. Knowing does a good job trying to disguise itself. And I got baited.
Even worse, I glanced on some respectful critic review sites (New York Post, Chicago Tribune, etc.) to find comments dissing their negative-reviews. (By the way, this movie for the most part received a C average in reviews, which is pretty bad). Some conservatives (below) are dissing milk because it is a homosexual-movie... no matter what people say, Milk is at -worst- a B movie (it has an A- average btw). And no, I am neither a liberal nor a homosexual...
The following are user comments that I found most annoying. They're in spoiler tags so you don't have to read them if you don't want to.
'Actually this was a good movie, quite entertaining, and the special-X great. Of course the gay infected San Fran Cron would not like this because of the lack of homosexual meaning like Milk. If your a normal hetrosexual person you will probably like this movie, Most folks from san fran sicko won't-that in itself is entertaining'
'What a big shocker somebody from California actually liking a religious Movie..it was not even religious! it was well done, it kept us on our toes the entire time and we had no clue what would happened next..the ending was just HUGE! it was magnificent..granted Nicholas cage has lost his appeal but the movie was AWESOME! Once the movie ended I knew it would get bad publicity from people like you in a state like yours I bet you gave MILK all thumps up in your hands and the toes in your feet..but this one is just down right laughable right? This movie had an awesome deep meaning and you missed it. Pretty sad really.'
tl;dr : there are two types of Christians. The kind/caring type (a few of my friends). And the annoying/in-yur-FACE ultra-conservative 'get mai shawtgun' types that really need to STOP their VERY annoying agenda. zomg, sometimes I feel so very alone. The Atheist-percentage in America is supposedly less than 10% T___T
