The Great and Terrible Day of the Lord

If you are hesitant to watch this movie, because you fear it will be a poor attempt to preach at you and convince you to become a Bible fan, then you are absolutely right.

It's an assault on common sense. Avoid at all cost!

Pure Low Budget Gabbage all the good reviews seems like are from production team dont belive the reviews must have made it for $5.

Horror what horror low budget CGI.

Blatant proselytizing. But i guess that's the point.

Entire movie is 2 actors talking to each other for the duration.

B-movie production and vibe.

I do not recommend this movie for entertainment purposes.

I am a fan of films that are largly two people talking. The End Of The Tour, Southside With You, The Two Popes and Linklater's Before trilogy are all films I have really appreciated. I was hoping for something similar here, but didn't get it.

Broadly speaking given the premise I think there are three legitimate answers as to what's going on:

Scenario 1: He is a dangerously manipulative man (or possibly cult leader) who has lured his latest conquest to the middle of nowhere.

Scenario 2: He is a nice guy who is suffering from a severe psychotic break.

Scenario 3: He is God, or at least channelling God

What I was hoping for was a film where all three of those scenarios were equally valid and given equal weight in the discussions between these two individuals. It very quickly becomes apparent that instead what we are going to get is a LONG theology/philosophy seminar debating the existence of God. It also becomes apparent early that the film-makers have a goal they want to get to. Both the directors went to a college in Pennsylvania founded by an Evangelist and the male lead is the son of a famous Texan country singer. You can guess what side of the theology debate they come down on.

It's also amateurishly made. The score is an obtrusive mix of Carpenter-esque electronica and church organs, the sound mix in general is severely sub-par and edits within the same scene are often stilted and awkward. There are even some scenes where the framing is off. This didn't strike me as 'I'm going to break the rules for an artistic reason' it struck me as 'I don't know what the rules are'.

Essentially this is 2 hours of proselytising. It has some OK ideas and OK acting, but it doesn't need to be this long and it doesn't need to come so firmly down on a specific side.

Maybe that of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, or

maybe that of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, or

maybe that of Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa, or

maybe that of Joan and Christina Crawford, or

maybe that of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, or

maybe that of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine, or

maybe that of Tutahnkamun and Ahnkesunamun, or

maybe that of Pygmalion and Galatea, (before Aphrodite interceded), or

maybe that of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agripinilla the Younger?

No, Jim and Pam, I think. See, there was this rock n' roll god-poet-lizard-demon-genius, who went to college, and his romantic muse...and these three other guys who could actually write and play music quite well.

But in truth, 'tis a mystery best left to the Sphinx, Oliver Stone, and others whose heads are made out of rock.

XYZ

PS: Chuck Berry wrote many of Shakespeare's plays.