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Why are Christian movies so, so, so terrible? Even the trailers are terrible.

This trailer is absolutely terrible. Everything about it on every artistic and technical level is terrible. Awful. As if trying to be awful without being noticed for trying.
greyeyed123 7 July 8
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Wow... Did they actually get a distribution agreement? Thsi is more straight to video material.

It is on the streaming "pureflix" service--the Christian answer to "netflix". Strangely, the "pureflix" commercials keep popping up on all my atheist youtube vids. That's the only reason I saw this trailer.

@greyeyed123 Yeah, until i deleted my cookies, I used to get a lot of far right wing commericals, which is weird because I am so far left wing. Maybe in both cases they are hoping to make converts or change minds?

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They are usually low-budget. The movies like Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" are much better but those are rare. Back in the 50's, a large portion of the major epic movies were religious.

BD66 Level 8 July 8, 2019

I understand they are low budget, but the mistakes here are unforgivable. I'm embarrassed as a lover of film. These are worse technically and artistically than porn (the porn producers and audience generally doesn't care as long as there is sex in it; the Christian movie producers and audience generally don't care as long as it talks about how great god is in the most boring ways possible). It doesn't take but a few moments to plan a shot just a little bit.

I just saw this on a commercial for "pureflix" that keep popping up on all my atheist videos, and this one was so terrible that I watched the trailer to the end just to see if it continued.

I love movies/shows that take religious themes seriously to actually grapple with the human condition, what is good, what is moral, how to deal with uncertainty and absurdity, etc. I absolutely loved all three seasons of HBO's "The Leftovers", but it came at religious themes from a less than certain perspective (it wasn't propaganda for Christianity in the least), and that tension was what was so compelling dramatically. But you never see that kind of thing in these insipid "Christian" films.

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But it's 'award winning'. Makes you wonder what the award was. "Most Contrived'? "Most Borderline Stereotypical Racist"? That was painful to watch...I winced. More than once.

Even the little inspirational words are grammatically confusing, and oddly too big, too small, or too many, with not enough time to read them and then try to figure out what they were getting at. And the one where it has "Award Winning Director" seemed to have the last two lines just typed into a program in all caps. They didn't even bother to center the words in all caps because the second line goes flush to the left. When they get to the title of the film, they don't make it any bigger or smaller, or change the style, so you have no idea if that is supposed to be the beginning of another phrase, or the freakin' title of the film, until it is gone and you can't remember it. They don't even leave it on the screen longer so you know that is supposed to be the title.

And what the hell does "M. Legend Brown Film" even mean? Is he the director? Isn't it supposed to be A Legend Brown Film? Or "A Film by Legend Brown"? Or something that makes grammatical sense?

@greyeyed123 Stumbling Amateurs! As in: "a person who is incompetent or inept at a particular activity.
*** "that bunch of stumbling amateurs" (I just found that definition hilarious for this particular situation.)

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