Ray Wise played the literal devil in the CW's 'Reaper' with such verve and panache that you had to love him. This is such a huge leap down from a CW show that it makes me sad.
I went to a screening that Ray Wise introduced and he said “I’m going to be in God’s Not Dead 5, which is going to be playing on 5,000 screens so don’t hold that against me.”
I’m a Christian and always hated these movies. Not surprised this one didn’t have the intended effect 😂
What’s interesting is the filmmakers themselves say they’re not attempting to make cinema. Their literal goal is to make a Sunday sermon disguised as a movie. But they seem entirely misguided on what actually impacts people. Especially if those people are atheists. Making atheists into cartoon villains seems like a bad move lol. Ray Wise performance as Leland Palmer has so much more to say about the nature of evil and morality than this drivel ever could.
To me Shawshank Redemption is the best Christian film ever made. And it wasn’t even trying to be. It makes much more impactful religious statements in my book.
1: An old email forward about an anti-theist professor who asks if there are still any believers in his class and then drops a piece of chalk to "prove" that God doesn't exist. When someone finally does stand up, it doesn't break. This is turned into a full-length movie.
2. Something about high school politics and religion. Probably teaching evolution or school-sanctioned prayer something. Melissia Joan Hart is in it.
3. The producers finally realize how much of the evangelical viewer base homeschools, so they made a movie that's "What if a federal politician tried to ban homeschooling?" Apparently realizing that most people aren't homeschoolers, the movie summary tried to say that it affects us all. Uh, if only the thread of banning homeschooling were remotely real, and not even less real than the possibility of a federal gun ban.
4. This crap, where somehow a diehard anti-theist politician gets elected, but also can get voted out by the same people in favor of an evangelical pastor.
Is Ray Wise reprising his role from the second "God's Not Dead", where he was an evil atheist lawyer? I do love the idea that these politicians are godless, as if Washington WOULDN'T freak out if a politician disowned religion.
Kind of appalled at that explicit defense of christian nationalism in the trailer.
Samaire Armstrong, I feel bad... lookin' rough! These movies tend to do these things to people.
Doesn't David A.R. White have a bunch of martial arts films to his name? I thought he started out as an action guy first.
Ray Wise played the literal devil in the CW's 'Reaper' with such verve and panache that you had to love him. This is such a huge leap down from a CW show that it makes me sad.
Ray Wise? Nooooo. How did he end up in this thing!?
I went to a screening that Ray Wise introduced and he said “I’m going to be in God’s Not Dead 5, which is going to be playing on 5,000 screens so don’t hold that against me.”
I hope he took a nice, fat paycheck from these creeps. He should donate a portion to the FFRF!
He was in Part Two! And he was also NOT mailing it in!
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You know the world is cruel and unfair when a good character actor like Ray Wise needs the money from a piece of shit like a God's Not Dead flick.
If I had another $100 to spare I’d do a Control Nathan Rabin for Beckman, White’s attempt at a John Wick rip-off.
I’m a Christian and always hated these movies. Not surprised this one didn’t have the intended effect 😂
What’s interesting is the filmmakers themselves say they’re not attempting to make cinema. Their literal goal is to make a Sunday sermon disguised as a movie. But they seem entirely misguided on what actually impacts people. Especially if those people are atheists. Making atheists into cartoon villains seems like a bad move lol. Ray Wise performance as Leland Palmer has so much more to say about the nature of evil and morality than this drivel ever could.
To me Shawshank Redemption is the best Christian film ever made. And it wasn’t even trying to be. It makes much more impactful religious statements in my book.
My understanding of the plots of these movies is:
1: An old email forward about an anti-theist professor who asks if there are still any believers in his class and then drops a piece of chalk to "prove" that God doesn't exist. When someone finally does stand up, it doesn't break. This is turned into a full-length movie.
2. Something about high school politics and religion. Probably teaching evolution or school-sanctioned prayer something. Melissia Joan Hart is in it.
3. The producers finally realize how much of the evangelical viewer base homeschools, so they made a movie that's "What if a federal politician tried to ban homeschooling?" Apparently realizing that most people aren't homeschoolers, the movie summary tried to say that it affects us all. Uh, if only the thread of banning homeschooling were remotely real, and not even less real than the possibility of a federal gun ban.
4. This crap, where somehow a diehard anti-theist politician gets elected, but also can get voted out by the same people in favor of an evangelical pastor.
Is Ray Wise reprising his role from the second "God's Not Dead", where he was an evil atheist lawyer? I do love the idea that these politicians are godless, as if Washington WOULDN'T freak out if a politician disowned religion.
Kind of appalled at that explicit defense of christian nationalism in the trailer.
Samaire Armstrong, I feel bad... lookin' rough! These movies tend to do these things to people.
Doesn't David A.R. White have a bunch of martial arts films to his name? I thought he started out as an action guy first.
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