Present-day college freshman and devout Christian, Josh Wheaton (Shane Harper), finds his faith challenged on his first day of Philosophy class by the dogmatic and argumentative Professor Radisson (Kevin Sorbo). Radisson begins class by informing students that they will need to disavow, in writing, the existence of God on that first day, or face a failing grade. As other students in the class begin scribbling the words “God Is Dead” on pieces of paper as instructed, Josh find himself at a crossroads, having to choose between his faith and his future. Josh offers a nervous refusal, provoking an irate reaction from his smug professor. Radisson assigns him a daunting task: if Josh will not admit that “God Is Dead,” he must prove God’s existence by presenting well-researched, intellectual arguments and evidence over the course of the semester, and engage Radisson in a head-to-head debate in front of the class. If Josh fails to convince his classmates of God’s existence, he will fail the course and hinder his lofty academic goals.
Is this the first chain e-mail to be adapted for film?
Is this the first chain e-mail to be adapted for film?
Spoilers: At the end a marine comes in and said, God's busy today so he sent me, and the limp-wristed professor runs away in tears and the religious student reads Scripture to the class for the rest of the period.
That shit is actually releasing over here! meanwhile I'll have to wait for a webrip or something to watch The Raid 2 :snoop
Played by Harper as a nice, clean-cut kid who doesn’t really want to ruffle anybody’s feathers, but who comes to believe that “God wants somebody to defend him,” Josh just might be the Almighty’s worst advocate since William Jennings Bryan. (http://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/film-review-gods-not-dead-1201142881/)
neogaf the movieThat'd be more like if the movie had a valiant atheist standing up for a female in front of the whole class against a sexist professor and her falling in love (in part because of his Triforce shirt) and becoming his sex slave. And then at the end of the movie it zooms out to him sitting creepily in the back row of the class staring at the back of some girls' head and sweating.
This is not a realistic scenario. Given these somewhat basic and flawed arguments, they would not be at all convincing to an informed opponent, and no atheist of Professor Radisson’s supposed caliber would be unfamiliar with them.I kinda like the idea that this feared professor is actually a fraud whose only background is skimming a Richard Dawkins book. Thus why he teaches Philosophy 150 and does such dumb stuff like open class with GOD IS DEAD.
That shit is actually releasing over here! meanwhile I'll have to wait for a webrip or something to watch The Raid 2 :snoopthere is a very good chance that this film will make significantly more money then The Raid 2 will, at least in America.
And yet, you're alive today having never committed suicide.:ohhh
In the book, Christian pastor Todd Burpo writes that during the months after his son's emergency surgery in 2003, his son Colton began describing events and people that seemed impossible for him to have seen or met. Examples include his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born. Colton also claimed that he personally met Jesus riding a rainbow-colored horse and sat in Jesus' lap, while the angels sang songs to him. He also says he saw Mary kneeling before the throne of God and at other times standing beside Jesus.
also, the grammer of this movie's title irritates me. Wouldn't God is Not Dead be better? Does the student/protagonist fail English too?
I’ve been watching movies for over 50 years, going back to the old classics on my parents black and white TV with rabbit ears. It’s rare that a movie pushes my buttons anymore. I frankly expected some cheesy six-day creationist Bible-thumping embarrassment, like I’ve seen so many times before, but this low-budget, faith inspired movie really hit it out of the ball park for me. Why? It’s effectiveness in addressing the almost daily assaults on Christianity. (Think of the grossly historically inaccurate cartoon at the beginning of the new Cosmos series.) It took head-on the attacks from academia, the media, the amoral business world, phony self-professing Christians and even Islam. The acting was first rate. We tried to go to a late showing Friday but it was sold out and had to buy tickets in advance. If you’re not a totally committed secular progressive droog, you ought to catch this one.
*Phew*
So glad I stood my ground when my father was trying to make me go see this film when it was in theaters.
I would've cringed myself into a coma. :dead
Wait. What.spoiler (click to show/hide)Now go watch the LDS adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and report back.[close]
The film received largely negative reviews outside Mormon enclaves such as Utah; some of the humor and plot devices derive from and require an understanding of Mormon social and religious mores.Mormon inside jokes
Be honest, Stoney, how many of those liberal crocodile tears did you shed while visibly shaking from anger and fear as you watched your worldview being systematically torn apart piece by piece?
Judy Blume oeuvre.
Girl in that trailer screencap is cute. Not gonna watch the trailer though.
Bible multiverse :lawdIt's good they incorporated some pre-Crisis on the Mount God into the character without getting too much into the weirder parts of the earlier books.
personally I'm hoping for a post-Damascus Paul The Apostle film. Hopefully the screenwriter does his fucking research and realizes his name should be Saul in film #1, not Paul. Can't wait to correct bible posers who don't understand this simple shit. I read the book :doge
QuoteThe film received largely negative reviews outside Mormon enclaves such as Utah; some of the humor and plot devices derive from and require an understanding of Mormon social and religious mores.Mormon inside jokes
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Obligatory :
http://www.chick.com/m/reading/tracts/readtract.asp?stk=0055
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11hSq-WgSys
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If God was in a coma would you pull the plug :doge
Obligatory: 2 Godly 2 DeadlyThe jury would also have accepted "Bride of God's Not Dead."
or: Son of God's Not Dead, followed closely by God's Not Dead ~ [Trinity]
Also see: "Of course. Killing God has been a goal of mine ever since reading PREACHER."If God was in a coma would you pull the plug :doge
Of course. Killing god has been a goal of mine ever since I played Xenogears.
Isn't a staple of jrpgs basically killing a god or two.
Like the very premise of the movie. A high school teacher who connects Gandhi and MLK's teachings with the Bible. Okay. Great. It is historical fact the gospel inspired both. But to the point where she's teaching Christianity in class?! And the movie wants you to think she's in the right? :confusedmaybe you'll prefer Lionel Mandrake's summary of the first film: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=106044974&postcount=184
Honestly, all you have to do is read the God’s Not Dead blog to understand that our religious liberties are at stake. But don’t take our word for it. Instead, take five minutes and watch this video featuring Lee Strobel, Rice Broocks, Melissa Joan Hart, and Newsboys.
Nationally acclaimed evangelist John Luther is the last obstacle in the way of sweeping religious reform in the States. When a U.S. Senator and Luther's own supporters abduct and frame him in the murder of an innocent teenage girl, an unprecedented era of persecution is unleashed. Out on personal recognizance, Luther escapes police surveillance in search of the truth. And suddenly, a once-normal life is targeted by a team of ex-military operatives who wage a relentless campaign to eliminate the incriminating evidence. As evangelist turned fugitive, Luther vows to expose anyone involved with or profiting from the girl's murder; a mission that brings him face-to-face with the coming storm of persecution that will threaten the entire Christian community in America.
But it’s the message of the movie, and it’s a story about very contemporary, where you have a guy that wrote a book, Aborting God.
And the movie starts out, there is a debate scene going on like you’d see on a college campus today. And the guy that is the atheist is beating the living daylights out of the guy that humbly is a Christian. And the crowd is going crazy, and everything that this guy says, he’s a glitterati, paparazzi, New York Times-loved best author. And so we go through the transformation of his life, and certain things happen to him, without giving the whole story away. We see that he left his wife, that he’s divorced, that he’s taking pills, that he’s drinking, his life’s a total mess. And one of the reasons is he had lost a nine year old little boy. He has an experience where he crashes his car, near death, sees his son, and it’s a journey back.
Like the very premise of the movie. A high school teacher who connects Gandhi and MLK's teachings with the Bible. Okay. Great. It is historical fact the gospel inspired both. But to the point where she's teaching Christianity in class?! And the movie wants you to think she's in the right? :confused
Like the very premise of the movie. A high school teacher who connects Gandhi and MLK's teachings with the Bible. Okay. Great. It is historical fact the gospel inspired both. But to the point where she's teaching Christianity in class?! And the movie wants you to think she's in the right? :confused
If the movie was really just about that specific moment when she goes into the issue then you could have a slightly interesting debate about that. She is clearly a christian and probably goes slightly overboard with her Jesus stuff about MLK. Not enough where she should be fired right off the bat probably or that what she is saying is untrue. But there is still a line between talking about how religion inspired a historical figure versus sort of celebrating such a thing.
These movies aren't really interested in that though. That are about taking a specific flash point and then using that to jump to the position that christians in America are basically on the verge of becoming jews in Nazi Germany. Basically you would think these movies were taking place in Sweden versus the Deep South in both cases where religion actually holds the social advantages instead of the other way around.
And suddenly, a once-normal life is targeted by a team of ex-military operatives who wage a relentless campaign to eliminate the incriminating evidence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlkVWnao3B8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlkVWnao3B8
JEFF FRANKENSTEIN
Hoping to reach the heart of fellow Inner City Boreans :
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0069/0069_01.asp
- You religious ?
- No I'm a christian.
On a scale of 1 to 10. I would give it Pat Robertson :mafwow, he used to leg press 1000lbs 30 times a day and said he could do a ton, so this must be a fantastic score
First bomb dropped. A.D./B.C. on calender Boom!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSolF3QBVBY
* And by an amazing miracle the jury finds in favor of Melissa Joan Hart!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b858rOO21Fw
Jim Caviezel said he chooses to star in films he believes will "bring the most souls to Christ" after God delivered a heartbreaking message to him when he played the role of Jesus in the 2004 film "The Passion of the Christ."
"When [God] came close to me in 'The Passion' when I was on that cross, [He said], 'They don't love me. There are very few,'" Caviezel told The Christian Post. "I was like, 'Well, I'm going to love You, and I'm going to tell You that I love You.' Tell it publicly, I don't care. I'm less afraid of ISIS than I am the media."
"That's why our Lord is so alone — His creatures do not love Him," he continued. "And, He could force Himself on us, but would that be love? I don't think so. I'm so blessed because I get to convey those stories, but do it in a way ... that I know can bring the most souls back to Him, even those that don't believe."
In the recently-released film "Paul, Apostle of Christ," Caviezel stars as Luke, a colleague of the Apostle Paul's (James Faulkner).
Caviezel told CP that prior to receiving the script for "Paul, Apostle of Christ," he experienced a series of life-changing events, including the death of his friend and lawyer, Frank Stewart, and sobering visit to Auschwitz concentration camp. But what affected him most, he said, were images shown to him by some Navy Seal friends: Christians crucified by the Islamic State terrorist group on Good Friday of last year.
"I got this script, and I read it, and I immediately thought, 'Wow, saints, murdered, killed,' and I thought about Frank being a mentor, and I thought that maybe Paul was a mentor to Luke, like Frank was to me, and it that's how it organically happened," he shared.
"So much of the time when I see these movies, they don't hit me because they're too fundamental or the performance is strong, but they change the words or they lose that human aspect to it," Caviezel told CP. "What I found with Faulkner was the humor, the relationship, that these guys would've had with each other."
Through the film, Caviezel said he hopes to draw attention to the persecuted Church — a problem still pervasive around the world today. The actor said he's inspired by Christians, who, like Paul, sacrifice everything for their faith, as they will be remembered for loving God in a special way.
Before taking on the role of Luke, Caviezel said he prayed one simple prayer: "Lord, I don't want the world to see me, I want them to see You. You gotta get closer to me."
"It's really like a conversation just like that, and I pray from the heart," he said. "Christ is the most authentic thing that ever was and the people that really affected my life were those that I played on screen, and Jesus."
From Sony's Affirm Films — the company behind "Miracles from Heaven" and "Heaven is for Real" — "Paul, Apostle of Christ" was released ahead of Easter weekend, perfectly timed in its themes of sacrifice, suffering, and faithfulness. Quietly woven throughout the film are lines taken directly from scripture — phrases Caviezel hopes will "go past the brain and into the heart."While I knew Caviezel was quite religious, I didn't think he was this religious. Rather more, like Hollywood religious like Patrica Heaton or whatever.
"They slipped it in there; it's a book over here, a line over here," he said. "I took a friend of mine to see [the movie], who doesn't even believe in [God], and he said that the director was genius. He called him a philosopher. And I said, 'Why do you say that?' and he said, 'Well, that line, I love it: 'To live is Christ, to die is gain.' I said, 'Well, that was actually Paul, you know.'"
"But he didn't know that," he said with a chuckle. "We didn't want to hammer you over the head with it."
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"The power of it is that, when these guys walk out [of the theater], they go, 'Wow, even in the face of evil, God still rests with me and I'm not afraid anymore,'" he said
Make sure there’s a METRIC TON of persecution complex sprinkled in. Watch the asses fill the seats.
lol nah, I couldn't stand actually putting money in their pockets so I'll wait for streaming.
But I'm sure these guys will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7KEOUi2Ko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QjT-AaFyTM&
Nick Loeb, famous for battling ex Sofia Vergara over frozen embryos, is co-directing a pro-life story of the landmark Supreme Court case, with a cast including conservative stars Jon Voight, Robert Davi and Stacey Dash.
As Nick Loeb walked to his car with a production assistant during a day of shooting his upcoming feature film, Roe v. Wade, outside Tulane University last week, a woman wearing a headset approached and asked: “Are you the director?”
“When I told her I was, she told me to go fuck myself," Loeb recalls. "Then she threw her headset on the ground and walked off. I found out later she was our electrician."
Anecdotes such as this have become fairly common since Loeb and his production partner, Cathy Allyn, began shooting their pro-life feature film June 15 in and around New Orleans.
The film has been under such tight wraps that even the major cast members had not been revealed; Two Supreme Court justices are played by a couple of Hollywood’s more outspoken conservatives, Jon Voight and Robert Davi, and other justices are played by Corbin Bernsen, John Schneider, Steve Guttenberg, William Forsythe, Wade Williams and Richard Portnow.
Stacey Dash, the Clueless star and former Fox News commentator who withdrew from a congressional race as a Republican three months ago, claiming the campaign had become “detrimental to the health and well-being of my family,” plays Mildred Jefferson, the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School and the former president of National Right to Life.
Even with the secrecy, it’s been a challenging shoot. At Louisiana State University, Loeb says, “we were told we were rejected due to our content, even though it will be a PG-rated film. They refused to put it in writing, but they told us on the phone it was due to content.” At Tulane, where Loeb is an alum, the filim shot one day, but after the school newspaper reported on the nature of the project, producers were denied a second day of shooting, according to Loeb.
Casting has been a problem throughout, as actors have walked away once they realized there was a pro-life tilt to the film. “We had to replace three local actors, including one who was to play Norma McCorvey, even after she begged for the role,” says Loeb. McCorvey was known as Jane Roe in the landmark legal case.
Also touched on in the film is that Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade also prosecuted Jack Ruby for killing Lee Harvey Oswald. McCorvey’s attorneys, Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington are played, respectively, by Justine Wachsberger and Greer Grammer, Kelsey Grammer’s daughter, while Lucy Davenport plays famed Feminine Mystique author Betty Friedan.
Among the crew members who quit in protest was a costumer who left after two weeks “because of the subject matter and pressure from her peers,” says Allyn. Even the director, also a woman, quit on the first day of shooting, so Loeb and Allyn are co-directing. They are also producers, and they co-wrote the script.
When they shot in Washington, D.C., their location manager there sent an email that read: "I have been doing research on the movie trying to figure out who is producing and what the gist of the story is, and I finally found it, and so I am withdrawing from this project. I am a staunch pro-abortion feminist activist, and I will not be party to such horrible propaganda.”
The movie is executive produced by Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and she also has a cameo in the picture.https://www.gofundme.com/roevwademovie
“There are lots of surprising cameos from controversial people in the news that I can’t tell you about — or more people might walk off the set,” quips Loeb.
The Salt Is Real • 7 hours ago
Think they're angry enough now? Wait until they see how successful this film is when it comes out. Get your popcorn ready. :)
TruthHurts • 5 hours ago
From their past actions, I suspect the pro-abortion crowd would make it very difficult to find a theater willing to show the movie. I also suspect that when it comes out on DVD, Amazon will do its best to bury it deep so no one can find it and buy a copy. And don't hold your breath for an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary. These people can't handle the truth.
“They’re not keeping people in the loop with the script,” one crew member said. “When people finally receive the script, they’ve dropped out really fast. After people started dropping out, they said, ‘OK, don’t send people the scripts anymore.’ Instead, they’ve been changing lines and scenes before they shoot.”
Conservative actors Stephen Baldwin and Kevin Sorbo were initially cast as Supreme Court justices but left upon receiving the script. “That’s where it started as far as not sending out full scripts to actors, because they backed out and then it was a mad rush to find people to be the Supreme Court justices, and when they got on set they had no idea what they were doing. They didn’t get their lines until they got on set. They were kept in the dark,” according to a crew member.
“It’s a low-budget film. People are taking rates that are less than they’re used to; they’re being cheap with everything,” the crew member added. “There’s Jon Voight and very strong ties to the Fox News crowd. We’ve got Joey Lawrence, Jamie Kennedy. Just looking at our cast of people, this isn’t playing out like a low-budget film. There are a lot of big names flying in and doing favors to Nick [Loeb].”
Kennedy plays abortion-rights leader Larry Lader, while Lawrence is Robert Byrn, a Fordham University law professor who fought against abortion. Other cast members include Greer Grammer (daughter of Kelsey) and Justine Wachsberger as Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, the attorneys representing Norma McCorvey, aka Jane Roe; Lucy Davenport as Betty Friedan; Ellery Sprayberry as Norma McCorvey; and Loeb himself as Dr. Bernard Nathanson, an abortion doctor and co-founder of National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL) who later became an ardent anti-abortion activist. Loeb also narrates the film as Nathanson in a nod to the controversial 1984 anti-abortion film The Silent Scream.
But two members of the Roe v. Wade cast have been kept secret from much of the cast and crew: Tomi Lahren and Milo Yiannopoulos. The right-wing trolls have been cast in one-scene cameos, with Lahren portraying Supreme Court Justice Blackmun’s daughter, Sally, a Planned Parenthood volunteer who challenges her father (Blackmun penned the court’s opinion on Roe v. Wade); and Yiannopoulos as Dr. David Sopher, a British abortion doctor who invented the Sopher ovum forceps and “who’s performing abortions and feels they don’t matter,” according to a crew member.woah
n Yiannopoulos’ yet-to-be-filmed scene, Dr. Nathanson (Loeb) witnesses Dr. Sopher (Milo)—who is described in the script as “an Anglo-Jew from India, with an unusual habit of an awkward giggle at the end of every sentence”—perform 32 abortions between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., an alleged event Dr. Nathanson recounted in his book The Hand of God. “You blokes are missing out on a fortune over there in the colonies,” Dr. Sopher tells Dr. Nathanson after performing the procedures.
Most other cast members are not aware that Lahren and Yiannopoulos are making cameos in the film. “There aren’t even pictures up of them in the production office,” a crew member told The Daily Beast. “Somebody requested that no pictures of them be up.”
There is also the matter of Loeb and Allyn’s directorial abilities. Crew members claim that, given that it’s their first stab at directing and they have little filmmaking background, some actors have become frustrated by their incompetence.
“The first day of shooting, the actual director and the first AD quit. So then they decided that Cathy was going to be the main director, and she has very little experience, so she and Nick have no idea what they’re doing. Shots aren’t being set up right, and there have been communication problems with the cast,” the crew member recalled. “There was a moment where Joey Lawrence was trying to do a scene and Cathy said to him, ‘Now make a face like this,’ and he called her out and said, ‘That’s not what a director does. You tell me what I’m feeling and where I’m coming from, you don’t just say to make a face.’ A lot of actors are fed up with it because it’s amateur hour.”
We’ve got Joey Lawrence, Jamie Kennedy. Just looking at our cast of people, this isn’t playing out like a low-budget film.
Conservative actors Stephen Baldwin and Kevin Sorbo were initially cast as Supreme Court justices but left upon receiving the script.
Joey Lawrence playing a law professor in an anti-abortion film is the most 2018 thing eva.
I bet it’s easy to get one of these right-wing Jesus-type movies made. I should try to write a script.
I can only really tolerate the God is Dead films. Those work for me as unintentional comedies despite the hateful messages buried within. The rest of the whole christian shit flick genre tends to be less unintentionally funny for me.
There are whole channels dedicated to movies you can't understand why anyone would intentionally watch or fund, like 99% of Hallmark/Hallmark Movie Channel, ABC Family or whatever its called now, any Christian network.
I can only really tolerate the God is Dead films. Those work for me as unintentional comedies despite the hateful messages buried within. The rest of the whole christian shit flick genre tends to be less unintentionally funny for me.
There are whole channels dedicated to movies you can't understand why anyone would intentionally watch or fund, like 99% of Hallmark/Hallmark Movie Channel, ABC Family or whatever its called now, any Christian network.
Direct TV carries the Scientology channel, I believe it comes with the default package.
Apparently God's Not Dead 3 is available via the usual sources so I think I know what I'm doing this evening.
:P
I can only really tolerate the God is Dead films. Those work for me as unintentional comedies despite the hateful messages buried within. The rest of the whole christian shit flick genre tends to be less unintentionally funny for me.
There are whole channels dedicated to movies you can't understand why anyone would intentionally watch or fund, like 99% of Hallmark/Hallmark Movie Channel, ABC Family or whatever its called now, any Christian network.
Direct TV carries the Scientology channel, I believe it comes with the default package.
Is it just Battlefield Earth on constant loop?
Scientology Network is an American television network and over-the-top streaming service launched by the Church of Scientology on March 12, 2018. The channel is available on DirecTV, the website Scientology.tv, Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and through iOS and Android apps.[1][2][3][4] Scientology leader David Miscavige introduced the first evening of broadcast, saying, “We’re not here to preach to you, to convince you or to convert you. No, we simply want to show you, because after all, the first principle of Scientology is that it’s only true if it is true to you. So, take a look and then decide for yourself.”[5][6]The network launched with six original shows, including: Meet A Scientologist, Voices for Humanity, and L. Ron Hubbard: In His Own Voice. [7]
I spoke too soon. Another contender enters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13RhGBC5ANI
:bow2QuoteIn the book, Christian pastor Todd Burpo writes that during the months after his son's emergency surgery in 2003, his son Colton began describing events and people that seemed impossible for him to have seen or met. Examples include his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born. Colton also claimed that he personally met Jesus riding a rainbow-colored horse and sat in Jesus' lap, while the angels sang songs to him. He also says he saw Mary kneeling before the throne of God and at other times standing beside Jesus.
Taylor says he went into his office, got out a pen and paper, and started to write what he says the Holy Spirit told him.
"He was saying basically that America was going to prosper like never before; Israel and America, the ties between the two countries would be stronger than ever before; the dollar would be the strongest it's ever been; it was very detailed as far as what God was showing me," Taylor said.