This thing is amazing. He can't be serious. He's taking the piss, he just has to be.Mcoffey said:
"People are calling me The Boy Who Died. I don't see it that way. I am The Boy a Who Lived."
I mean come on.
Escape to the Movies: Heaven Is For Real - Doesn't Make Much Sense
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"People are calling me The Boy Who Died. I don't see it that way. I am The Boy a Who Lived."
I mean come on.
I'm a Christian. A Real one. Bible reading, Church going, Jesus praising Christian.
You don't go to Heaven and then come back. That implies that God, at one point, screwed up and was like, "Oh, shit, this dude wasn't supposed to die. I'll send him back, but I'll forget that at GOD I'd also be able to just change the past and make him not die in the first place."
So while the movie, and the premise behind it, SEEM to be like, "Wow, God's real, isn't that great?" it's actually more along the lines of "Oh, God's asleep at the switch. Wah wah waaaaaaah."
If anyone asks about any of the various dead people who come back from the dead in the Bible, I'd say that they were just dead. Like, not afterlifed, just dead. Sort of like when you're waiting on a respawn timer.
And yeah, good ol' Kevin Sorbo. I respect wanting to spread your faith via movies or whatever, but honestly, preaching and one-on-one talks with people you know and care about works a LOT better. Jesus never used gimmicks. Just walked around and talked to people who wanted to talk to him. Think about that.
You don't go to Heaven and then come back. That implies that God, at one point, screwed up and was like, "Oh, shit, this dude wasn't supposed to die. I'll send him back, but I'll forget that at GOD I'd also be able to just change the past and make him not die in the first place."
So while the movie, and the premise behind it, SEEM to be like, "Wow, God's real, isn't that great?" it's actually more along the lines of "Oh, God's asleep at the switch. Wah wah waaaaaaah."
If anyone asks about any of the various dead people who come back from the dead in the Bible, I'd say that they were just dead. Like, not afterlifed, just dead. Sort of like when you're waiting on a respawn timer.
And yeah, good ol' Kevin Sorbo. I respect wanting to spread your faith via movies or whatever, but honestly, preaching and one-on-one talks with people you know and care about works a LOT better. Jesus never used gimmicks. Just walked around and talked to people who wanted to talk to him. Think about that.
I wish they would make more anti-religion films, I mean religion certainly set us back technologically and philosophically by killing and burning enough people, its just a huge ponzi scheme that sells an invisible product.
I'm the random very Christian person.crimson5pheonix said:
...from the start, I knew the movie was going to be either absolutely incendiary or boring and feel-good, and I'm glad it turned out to be the latter.
...Not the forum bomb you were expecting?
Is this the sequel to Heaven is for Real, or something?twosage said:
OT: Yeah cause this is what forum users supposed to be doing!
Good 'ol FoodFight clip at 4:23. That Film is getting a lot attention now.
The film is obviously complete trite, though I thought Noah was too. So I guess Bob has to review all religious themed films. Now he feels Yahtzee's pain towards military shooters.
(Oh and if you take this completely seriously and was thinking of replying, please don't, its a joke)
Run. Now.impocalyptic said:
OT, well, I know for a fact that if you tried to make a movie like that unironically in Europe and expected to make your money back, you'd get laughed out of every studio in existence to the point where you'd probably never work again. But I also know that America is a strange, beautiful land where miracles sometimes do happen. Not the quantum kind, but the actual kind.
When I was ten I had a high fever and went through an out-of-body-experience where I turned into a bird and a snake and talked to Dream from Sandman on whether he was real or not (He was annoyingly vague about it, saying cryptic shit) and then there was a mummy who dropped from the ceiling. It had a huge head that fell off and it was the scariest thing I have ever seen and I keep seeing it in my nightmares.
Give me some of that religion-money, please.
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Oh dear (insert the god/eldrich horror of your choice here), his Twitter is terrifying.
"Only three other people could know how I feel: Adam, Eve, and beautiful, troubled Lucifer. "
"Ever since I came back dad stares right through me."
"There is no way you can understand what it feels like being cast away from Heaven."
Why was this not a horror movie??
Give me some of that religion-money, please.
EDIT;
Oh dear (insert the god/eldrich horror of your choice here), his Twitter is terrifying.
"Only three other people could know how I feel: Adam, Eve, and beautiful, troubled Lucifer. "
"Ever since I came back dad stares right through me."
"There is no way you can understand what it feels like being cast away from Heaven."
Why was this not a horror movie??
I thought the name felt familiar! It's a shame there are less Titans and crocodile men in this film to liven it up a bit. There ought to be at least some flair and wonder when gods are involved, after all.Jasper van Heycop said:
Let me bring my shield. No pitchforks will break our phalanx.
I second this motion. Tell us Moviebob! Reveal unto us undeserving masses the Gospel of Slimer and the Thundercats!el_emmens said:
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On topic:
A movie based on an irrational, nonsensical premise that itself was working on a larger, older irrational, nonsensical premise... not being that good? Will wonders never cease?
Not saying you can't have a good religion-based film (Prince of Egypt proved that), but... it has to make sense as a story in order for it to work. Of course, Prince of Egypt had the advantage of having a series of vaguely-worded myths to work off of.
But for movies like this and "God Is Not Dead" (spoiler: that movie is downright abysmal, and only serves to highlight how stupid this crap can get), well... the basic story needs to be more well-thought out to be at all interesting. Even the most famous autobiographers like Anne Frank edited their own work to make sure it made narrative sense and that characters had coherent arcs.
If you're going to take a "true" story and film it... you shouldn't be afraid to stretch the truth here and there in order to make the story more interesting while still maintaining a certain degree of respect for the people involved. Two common pitfalls I keep seeing with "true story" films is that they either A) have a slavish devotion to the source material, to the point that there's basically nothing interesting going for it (as seen here and arguably in King's Speech and The Blind Side), or B) to stretch the facts so far that you're bordering on outright fabrication and just plain pissing all over the people the film is supposed to be about (see Patch Adams, or rather don't, because its a disgusting movie).
Well I get the feeling I won't be enjoying Movie Bob's review next week. I am not saying he can't like the movie since there are plenty of bright colourful spiderman fight scenes with jokes and even a few scenes of Spiderman dressing up in costumes which are things Bob usually likes in his superhero movies but since it still has some of that Destiny stuff that Bob hates in it he will probably hate it.
I think of it as a fusion of The Dark Knight and Iron Man 2. Considering I actually really like Iron man 2 I am giving the film a very good compliment.
I think of it as a fusion of The Dark Knight and Iron Man 2. Considering I actually really like Iron man 2 I am giving the film a very good compliment.
Oh god, the kid's twitter feed it one of the most hysterical things I've ever seen. It's like an unstable psychopath on day 3 of a coke bend. XDScrumpmonkey said:
Back to serious mode, I'm pretty proud of this forum page (at least page 1, haven't read the rest yet) for staying peaceful and not flamey.
EDIT: "To all who doubt my story: I was on Fox News. Think about that."
Fucking really?! X'D