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Saw it. Got the feels. Made me want to deus vult and set pedos and shithole countries on fire. Moviefilm success.
Sound of Freedom (2023) - Lets talk about the child trafficking Movie Disney owned but did not want to release for 5 years
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This is the thing I hate about most religious films. There's a reason why people like religious films like Silence or First Reformed. They don't preach the Gospel to you; they expound on it or make you see it in a new light.
You have to do something other than the movie version of "Jesus, man" because it's just not interesting. God's Not Dead is a good example of this, along with the poor quality of the writing.
This is the thing I hate about most religious films. There's a reason why people like religious films like Silence or First Reformed. They don't preach the Gospel to you; they expound on it or make you see it in a new light.
You have to do something other than the movie version of "Jesus, man" because it's just not interesting. God's Not Dead is a good example of this, along with the poor quality of the writing.
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Mainstream media calling the film a “QAnon conspiracy” is certainly a take, I’ll give them that.
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I'm still about to puke my pants about them calling that demon movie "a modern Screwtape Letters!" like seriously you fucking mongs Screwtape was a very dark joke, but it was a joke
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It was also an exquisite evisceration of a certain form of atheist amorality. And hilarious. Something I have always admired about Lewis is his willingness to address directly the arguments against his own position without fear or strawmanning. Screwtape presents the arguments against theism and Christianity in particular in their strong form and still prevails.
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yeah Narnia can go eat my entire ass, but dude seriously had some balls when he wanted, mad props
but yeah selling a demon movie as A MODERN DAY SCREWTAPE is like selling a conspiracy movie as A MODERN DAY ILLUMINATUS! TRILOGY
if you take this 800% serial you really fucking missed the point
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No, those movies sucked. I especially hated the Dan Brown shit. Just pushing Screwtape as well worth looking into to anyone who hasn't.
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well, not _you_ specifically
I was just bitching about the ads for whatever that demon movie that Charlie Kirk and the rest of the Salem Media gang are shilling for
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Just got out of a viewing. I'm not really gonna spoiler mark any of this too much because you can just skip my comment.
I think it has some good moments like the opening raid on a pedo uploading cp in a chat room and the Homeland Security agent basically being told by a coworker that they really aren't saving kids because most of the ones are either Columbian or foreign. There's the whole him fighting with his superior (who is presented as wanting to help, but bound by international law and does what he can). The opening credits where the girl and her brother are abducted by a former Miss Columbia beauty queen running a con on parents to get them into acting and modeling while really selling them for a pittance. There's also a scene where the main character basically says "I have to catalogue and watch this shit when we get it" and details how CP (or CSAM) is growing at an exponential rate and basically highlights his feelings of impotence.
The Jesus stuff is a bit tacked on, but I can understand it. I feel like they could have implemented it a bit better.
From what I understand the Glowie who this is based on did actually quit to try to stop the problem at it's source. Vice and Slate basically muddy the water on if he's blowing up what he's done, but he has rescued kids in South and Central America. He actually wanted Jim Caviezal because of he really liked how driven he portrayed Edmund Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo. So Caviezal is effectively just playing disillusioned Glowie Edmund Dantes.
To sum up my thoughts on the movie, it's restrained and serious about the subject matter. It's not bad, but it's not great. It's kinda like how if you're on Kiwi Farms, heard Null bitch about pedophiles on 8chan and Neinchan, and spent any amount of time on the old Internet it's kinda like watching What Is A Woman? You most likely aren't going to be shocked by the revelations.
I think it has some good moments like the opening raid on a pedo uploading cp in a chat room and the Homeland Security agent basically being told by a coworker that they really aren't saving kids because most of the ones are either Columbian or foreign. There's the whole him fighting with his superior (who is presented as wanting to help, but bound by international law and does what he can). The opening credits where the girl and her brother are abducted by a former Miss Columbia beauty queen running a con on parents to get them into acting and modeling while really selling them for a pittance. There's also a scene where the main character basically says "I have to catalogue and watch this shit when we get it" and details how CP (or CSAM) is growing at an exponential rate and basically highlights his feelings of impotence.
The Jesus stuff is a bit tacked on, but I can understand it. I feel like they could have implemented it a bit better.
From what I understand the Glowie who this is based on did actually quit to try to stop the problem at it's source. Vice and Slate basically muddy the water on if he's blowing up what he's done, but he has rescued kids in South and Central America. He actually wanted Jim Caviezal because of he really liked how driven he portrayed Edmund Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo. So Caviezal is effectively just playing disillusioned Glowie Edmund Dantes.
To sum up my thoughts on the movie, it's restrained and serious about the subject matter. It's not bad, but it's not great. It's kinda like how if you're on Kiwi Farms, heard Null bitch about pedophiles on 8chan and Neinchan, and spent any amount of time on the old Internet it's kinda like watching What Is A Woman? You most likely aren't going to be shocked by the revelations.
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Unironically, that is one of my favorite movies and probably the best Hollywood book to film adaption outside of the 70s Three Musketeers. Also starred a very young Henry Cavill.
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I agree with the rest that as a movie, it's middling. It's out to spread a message, and it relied a bit too much on melodramatic music and attempts at awe-inspiring dialogue (like the aforementioned "God's children are not for sale"). I admit that I largely saw it out of spite for the journos that went to bat for Cuties.
I actually liked the scene in the climax when we see the pedo die from the little girl's perspective. I got both the catharsis of seeing the pedo get shanked while also keeping in mind how horrifying this would all be for a victim. Though I figure the black-outs helped the film budget.
I actually liked the scene in the climax when we see the pedo die from the little girl's perspective. I got both the catharsis of seeing the pedo get shanked while also keeping in mind how horrifying this would all be for a victim. Though I figure the black-outs helped the film budget.
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Most of the population aren't musing over the works of Paradise Lost or the writings of the various Saints and religious philosophers. Hell, even the self-professed Marxists/Anarchists don't know what the fuck they are talking about. Most people are morons.
Some of these might already have been posted but fuck it.
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The first movie was based on Clemens Brentano's invented stories of Anne Catherine Emmerich's visions, so it's not exactly canonical itself.
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Those films aren't made for the general public, they're made for a specific type of Christian that wants to be told everyone who disagress with them is either influenced by demons or ontologically evil.
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Really re-making the case for a Star of David reaction sticker.
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I don't really have any interest in seeing this movie, but it's hilarious how it's caused so many journoscum/twittards/reddit neckbeards to just go completely mask off.
So for that alone it gets my support.
So for that alone it gets my support.
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I also read those Left Behind books but like all this schlock, it descends into self-fellating nonsense soon enough. It could have been a contendah! The premise anyway is not bad, but idk why Christians get that unique zealotry to evangelize that doesn’t seem to be as prevalent in the other Abrahamic religions. Aren’t they called to spread the word of God also, or nah?
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They are, but they have the courtesy of doing so with movies, TV shows, books, and churches rather than with suicide vests and beheadings.
Whether that's ultimately better or not is yet to be seen given how insane things are these days.
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Oh God Jordan Hoffman looks like Danny DeVito if he actually was a kid-diddler.