Review of God's Not Dead (2014) by Erik G — 22 Aug 2014

So I tortured myself tonight. I sat down broke out the smokes, and a cold one. And watched (god is not dead). It's the rave of all the believers. And I certainly understand why. Not to say it made any coherent points.

Getting past all the forgotten B-list actors, and cameo appearances of Willie Robertson of duck dynasty and a unknown Christian ban. It didn't start off that bad. Even with the bad acting. There wasn't a heavy Christian move presence. That I've grown familiar with in the past with moves like this. Which was great. Even when I was a believer it would give me douche chills. I wouldn't have even been able to sit though the movie if they did that.

As the plot unfolded, you begin to realize what they're going for. The main character is confronted with a challenge. Going through with the challenge, could be academic suicide. All of his loved ones know this, and refuse to support him going through with it. And tell him not to. His girlfriend pleading with him not to. So it's either his future, and the one he'll spend that life with, or god. You know who he picks, and who leaves him for that choice. The movie jumped around on other characters. A Muslim daughter who wanted to convert. And a Muslim father, who after finding out she's trying to convert, slaps her around a bit, and throws her out the house. A Chinese kid, who grows interested in what his class mate is doing. Decides to talk to his father about it. And his father tells him to stop worrying about pointless beliefs, and get back to his studies. The atheist professor, that is verbally abusive and condescending to his ex-student Christian girlfriend that he makes a fool of, in front of his atheist colleagues. The professor is angry with god by the way. You know, you can't be a atheist, unless something bad happens to you, or you're angry with god either way. The atheist couple one a successful business man, who cares only what he can get out of you, and doesn't care, that his atheist girlfriend is dying of cancer when she tells him. He yells at her, for telling him, when it's not sanctioned, and on his terms. He also doesn't care his mother is in a nursing home with dementia. Tells his mother she's sitting there wasting away, and believed all her life, while his life is perfect, with out the belief in god. So they're really trying to paint a Christian victim and a mean, uncaring, abusive, angry atheist portrayal here.

In the middle of all this. You got the preacher. Who seems a bit exhausted in his job and faith. But got his foreign buddy that seems to keep lifting him up, to keep his faith strong. This preacher seems to be the voice of reason for most of the characters. Knowing the right thing to tell them when they are seeking guidance. His plot of the movie, other than the voice of reason. Is to take his foreign buddy to Disneyland. But every time they try to get going. They have car troubles. They call for a rental car, and they're still having trouble. Couple failed attempts, with every car failing to start. They decide to pray before trying to start the last car. And it works. As they get going, they so happen to be in the right spot, at the right time. As the atheist professor gets hit by a car. So to make it seem, as they were held up for that moment, as the professor laid dying to get him to expect Jesus and be saved.

I say as a atheist, watch the movie, so you can point out all of its misconceptions and over all bad plots to any Christian that wants to bring this movie up to you, as if it makes any kind of point.