God Is Not Dead

I am a Christian. I believe that Jesus is God and He saved me from my sins by dying in my place on the cross. Still this movie, and many like it, fall short in my opinion.

Yes it's easy to enjoy a movie like this if you are a Christian. They are all sweet and give a solid message. But as a message for those who do not yet believe I think these movies fall short by a lot. Don't get me wrong, it would be great if some who watch would examine Christianity and come to believe in Jesus.

I find these movies dull, mostly unconvincing, and lacking in depth. I wish I could put my finger on why they all seem to come out of the same mold. I'm not suggesting for a moment that I could do it better.

I'm glad that people make these movies. I'm sure if they ask their Christian friends they would receive positive feedback. My hope is that they would ask a broad spectrum of non-believers to find out what might work better and product some movies that have a deeper impact.

A lot of reviewers believe this is just propaganda and says the movie generalizes all (small spoiler alert) Muslims, atheists, and others; however that is not the case. It is simply telling a story,as all movies do, it can not possibly get every story/ scenario that ever existed nor can it include every friend that you know who is a nice atheist or Muslim or whatever. I am sorry to say this, but no movie actually can in 110 minutes. It is simply telling about (small spoiler alert) a few people who are connected in various ways and their journey to the Christian Faith.

And to address the "propaganda" comments, guess what you are right- in some degree. In order for something to be labeled as propaganda it must first be false or exaggerated. There was nothing in this move that is false/ exaggerated because people have been/are killed for the Christian Faith about everyday (yes it's true Google it!) so since that extreme is currently happening anything less can not be an exaggeration nor false.

The second qualification one would need to call something propaganda is to "further a cause". Which, duh, the movie is called God's Not Dead. It is telling you in the title what it's motivations are. It is being more obvious than a commercial you see on TV or an ad in a magazine. If you still think that is horrible have you ever heard of the words "product placement" or "plug". The most talented and skilled actors, producers, directors, of movies and film all do it. Think about your favorite TV show and watch how the main actor just happens to be drinking a Sprite- does this make you angry? Well, if it doesn't then you are getting mad about obvious acts of persuasion (this movie) but not about subliminal. Hmmm.

It has some great stories and it tells them well. Go see the movie!

This movie was unwatchable and downright insulting. Even through the hokey opening credit scenes I found myself rolling my eyes at the cliché's and obvious stereotypes. No professor would ever, ever make a kid sign a paper like that. The object of learning is to challenge students beliefs with ideas and to study and discuss those ideas. The decision to accept or reject an idea is entirely up to the student. I only got roped into this movie because it kept appearing in my "you might like" queue on my Netflix menu. Absolutely horrible film on every level. My fault, I should have realized from the title that it's intent was to manipulate, but my hope that perhaps the makers of this film had happened upon some new insight or refreshing angle, was completely and utterly in vain.

The characters have zero zero zero nuance they're all written oh so conveniently for the author to pass a message and a mindless stupid one that is. The teacher especially, who hired him? Surely such discriminatory behavior should be sanctionned by educative authorities but no, he just gets to roam free, agressively pick on a student due to his beliefs and gets no reprimands. Surely i dont have to spell how unrealistic that kind of attitude is for an educative environement but i guess realism goes out the window when you have to make a story about christian opression. This is the movie you'd get if you asked a bunch of juvenile christians who were taught to harbor a victim complex to create a story.

* Absolutely horrible acting: All acting ability in every God Not Dead movies are absolutely horrible. Cannot digest it even if trying to watch it for finding a possitive review * Absolutely useless idealogy and debates: Every characters idealogy and debates in this movies is mockery and dumb and waste of times. Like some questions have answers in itself already, and still take out for an debates * Absolutely waste of money: Instead of making this wasted of times and money movies you should using money to donate to every poor community, Jesus doesn't want this way * This movies destroy actors reputation.