My wife is
exceedingly patient (well maybe not exceedingly) with my love of cinematic
mayhem; be it sword play, gunfire, things blowing up, sex, and just general
mayhem. Every now and then I pay it back
by going to see a movie that I wouldn’t go anywhere near without her
influence. Since she willingly went to
see Captain America
save the country on Sunday my payback was seeing God’s Not Dead for our weekly
date night.
I’ve noticed
that cinemas now gauge their previews prior to movie to the type of crowd
likely to be watching the upcoming movie.
My wife really perked up when she saw the preview of this when we were
seeing an earlier religious themed movie.
The movie
itself is an obvious attempt at proselytization and has gaping holes in the
plot, sequencing, and most of all acting.
The main story of many competing plot lines has a college freshman forced
to defend his faith by an overbearing and morally corrupt philosophy
professor. They really stacked the odds
against the good guys here with Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) as the professor and
Superman himself (Dean Cane) as another bad guy. Despite all of the predictable
melodrama I kind of sneaky enjoyed the movie.
It involved a discussion (albeit incredibly biased) of the ultimate Question. If you can sit through this flick (and all
won’t choose to) you end up asking yourself some pretty important questions.
A person’s
personal beliefs should be arrived at on their own. It’s an intensely personal journey that I
started way too late (that’s not possible by the way) in my own life. I’ve always had little patience with people
who try to indoctrinate others or force them to think in a certain way. That is probably why I came a bit tardy to my
own personal beliefs. You strip away all
the pomp and circumstance of organized religions and you arrive at the base
line – faith. It will always be a
question of faith and that’s not a bad thing.
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