"I'm an old woman, I'm miss Clara, and my husband died in nam. I'm miss Clara, and though I've never been to war, or even served in any branch of the military, I connect everything to war, and tell people how to fix their lives, even though I know nothing about them!"
You know the Simpsons episode about Joan of Arc where she is on trial with God being her witness telling he motivated her to liberate France of the English? And the Englishman says to God "What? You told me to conquer France for England", with God saying it was not planned them being in the same room once
Jack Rose Presents I don't know how to say my opinion, since I haven't seen any of those movies, but I don't know how underrated a sequel like that can be if everyone is saying it fails to even be creepy. That's what makes a well-made horror movie really good.
***** Sweet. Now I either got to see it for the fun of it, or I watch the original first and then see this for the fun of it. It does have so bad-it's-good qualities right? The sequel?
This movie reminds me of the time I walked into my closet and prayed for the Taurus Demon in Dark Souls to just fucking drop dead and then it did.... Oh wait, no it didn't because God doesn't work that way and this movie has no idea what the heck it's talking about! Everyone knows if you want to solve your problems you've got to sell your soul in exchange for some form of enchanted object that will eventually backfire, not pray in a closet! Or, in extreme cases, just bitch about it on an internet forum with a listed address and very specific details. I'm sure that'll go great! .............. People are either going to love this comment or try to argue with me over it for some reason, lol!
+Gerald Kirby I am picturing the face on your costumers when you say (i,m guessing. Tell me if i,m close) :It is about a woman who is in a abusive realtionship and fixes it by going into her closet and pray". Am I close?
I feel like this movie should have had a plot twist, where Miss Clara was the Devil implanting these very stupid ideas of how to fix a relationship into vulnerable women, and interfering in ways that favor the abusive, scamming, drug dealing men, and wants to incite religious revolutions and assassinate the president. It would have at least made sense why she came off as a psycho.
"War Room": for those times when you can't afford a marriage counselor, the cops are too far away to answer your call within two hours' time, and your pastor knows about as much of the Bible as Fred Phelps...
When I first saw this movie with a church group, I joked with some other members my age that all the crazy events following that scene where just a part of a fantasy she was having in the hospital (while her knife wound was being tended to). The film is hilariously unrealistic.
Trust me. Growing up in a Christian household, I understand what she meant by that. But once you put it into a real-life context such as that, it's low-key funny because Jesus already got billions of other people to look after. Maybe you should call the police.
Remember, ladies: If your husband is borderline abusive, it's probably because you keep wanting to be treated like a person. If only you didn't have that annoying need for the most rudimentary level of respect, they wouldn't be so stressed all the time.
I believe it was he wouldn't do CPR on his wife because he found doing Cpr icky. And seriously? He thinks his wife hates him so much she'll actually kill him and he has no qualms about preemptively killing her? This marriage needs to end
Yeah basically, also I think the director said to him while filming the scene "now while she's talking about the fudge sunday i want you to stare at her like you think she's gonna leap across the table and jam a fork into your artery at any second" dear gods this marriage needs to end
Three thoughts: 1. Maybe it was his way of trying to shack up with that co-worker without feeling guilty. 2. Maybe the wife poisoned her own food, figuring he would switch plates, thus having him die technically at his own hand. 3. The Princess Bride
+A Piece Of Bread Even with such things as wars, famine, exploitation, bigotry and spiders, I was never quite ready to give up hope for the future of this world. But now, after hearing the words "we need a meme", I am ready to go away and never return. I do not want to live in a world where memes are, instead of grudgingly accepted as a part of life's suffering, actually WANTED and NEEDED. Such a world has no future worthy of holding out hope.
+Jason Zakrajsek ... stretching a little with that comparison... Then again, many of these 'Christian' films could be psychological horror thrillers if the tone was changed ever so slightly... you may be on to something...
look lets just say it, they are awful films, The Omen, now thats a good film... wheres the magic? wheres the intense eyes staring at someone... wheres the barking dogs chasing someone... i mean... it comes so close yet it misses so far off... its also missing good music i assume and a proper chorus... which is just criminal for a christian film to not have a good choir... its like a military not having good drums or a navy having good planks
In my personal accounts of being a Christian (for lack of a better term,) sitting around, doing nothing, and simply believing God will solve all your problems is pretty much the worst thing you can do. I watched my mother whithered away for three years, believing God would heal her, while doing nothing for herself. She died of a heart attack late 2013. I saw as my sister, who could have any man she wanted, prayed for a boyfriend. She then met the man who would become her husband. Something which wouldn't have happened had she not actively pursued the idea. They're married now, and my nephew/our dad's first grandchild, is expected some time this month. In addition, I met the woman who may very well be my future wife, after praying I would meet someone, then approaching the camerawoman at my sister's wedding. Seems to me, God prefers it when people actively pursue their own prayers. Not every time, mind you, but there seems to be a trend, there. Also, this movie is shit.
+TDUShelby Yeah that's what this movie has backwards. It miss-delivers a bad message. Doing nothing BUT praying/talking to yourself in a small room shut out from the world is the sin of sloth. The lord helps those who help themselves. So not only is this a bad movie, and a bad Christian movie, it teaches you to sin without remorse. You a drug dealer? No need to turn yourself in and serve time as long as you confess and say youre sorry, god's got you covered bro!
+TDUShelby This reminds me of a quote from one of my favorite movies, The Poseidon Adventure: "So what resolution should we make for the new year? It's to let God know that you have the guts and the will to do it alone. Resolve to fight for yourselves, and for others, for those you love. And that part of God within you will be fighting with you all the way." - Rev. Frank Scott (Gene Hackman)
yea but thinking god would take time to help you with getting a gf or bf and yet let millions of kids die of hunger seems ridiculous to me just my opinion.
TDUShelby you know I watched full frontal with Samantha bee and on the show there was a bible verse that said when you prayer you also have to do something to help the prayer to work.
Do these people live in an insular bubble? I mean come on no rational human being, religious or otherwise, is looking at this situation and saying "Yeah she did the best thing possible to save her marriage."
+Run Dos Run Touche. Also if you want a hilarious piece of propaganda check out Deception of a Generation. It was linked through one of Snob's old reviews and holy shit did it get funny quick.
I had an abusive father when I was a kid and my grandmother always said that my father was a bad person because he played the Ouji table once and a demon has possed him, and if he was mean with us it was because we weren't praying to jesus enough, and I was like... "seriously lady, take responsability of your twisted son!"
@@Jarod-vg9wq lol, boomers (who I assume they were raised by) are known for ignoring abuse and mental illness and will claim they were beat "and turned out fine" yet they complain incessantly and hyperbolically about things that are much better now than when they were kids
During that whole monologue to the devil, I just imagine the Devil down in hell thrashing to Sabbath and Megadeath; briefly taking off his headphones to listen closer, rolls his eyes, and back go on the headphones. The Devil's got more important shit to do than fuck with your crappy mirage.
You know what would be a trip. Is if the old woman was just senile, or suffering from dementia the whole time. It's revealed that she has gone complete Howard Hughes and everything the wife character believes comes crashing down. the Husband had cheated on her way before he was going to with the woman in this movie, so the part with him being stopped by divine intervention was B.S. because the wife imagined it out of denial. The woman he cheated with got pregnant and she shows up with the kid. The wife has a complete breakdown, refuses to wash her feet ever again, and we end with the Old Woman put in a home, going crazy because lack of a closet. Roll Credits
I like to think the devil is sitting in it's own war room praying for actual _good_ religion based movies..... and by that I mean by shouting on the phone to god who's basically doing a Wolf of Wall Street party.
That scene was just dumb. Really wished we had some random neighbor tell her to shut up or show them calling the cops for disturbing the peace or something. Now that would've been the funniest part of the movie. I remember people in the theater, not reacting the way the canned audience here did, but I could remember people nodding and silently rooting for her and finding it funny when she went out into the street.
Christians like to think that non-religious folk hate on these types of movies just because they're religious. In reality, it's because they're poorly written, poorly acted, poorly shot, poorly directed, poorly edited, and the message they're trying to get across is terrible.
Yea...there are a handful of good religious films out there like Ben Hur and Ten Commandments but a lot of the modern ones have the worst script writers
+AW Ratliff I think most of us understand the good message it tries to teach, but its just so poorly portrayed it makes mockery of rather than praise to the faith. What this movie teaches you about religion and god is perhaps the most perverted idea anyone can think of when they think about god.... That if you pray hard enough... long enough... and clap your hands really loudly, probably... god himself will come and solve all of your problems. How is that for a message?
+Dre Chapman I hate religious movies. For various reasons, seeing prayer and church in movies makes me deeply uncomfortable, and without those two things I don't think a movie is really religious.
You know what's a good Christian film? Blue Like Jazz, because It's not preachy, or up its own ass with messages. The whole movie is about a Christian guy stepping out of his hypocritical Baptist inner circle to experience the world, at a college that isn't too keene on Christians. I like it because the main character isn't spending the movie trying to spread the word of God or converting the Atheists, but realizing that there are a lot of perfectly reasonable reasons why people aren't Christian, and why there are so many hypocrites in his own religion; which makes him want to be a better man. He's basically got a Pope Francis attitude by the end of the movie.
Saved is also a great film. About a girl who goes to a very Christian school, finds out that her boyfriend is gay and decides to have sex with him in order to "cure him". Doesn't work and not only is he sent to a place for kids that parents don't want to deal with, but she's pregnant. All about her becoming disillusioned with her religion, people that she thought were her friends, and her life in general.
I'm more concerned why they chose a war thematic. It's like they tried to make it look like the abused wife is struggling to solve her problems, when, in reality, she just sits in a closet. And no, you can pray whenever and whereever you want, as long as you,at least, move a finger to change the situation.
I keep forgetting this is supposed to be a modern movie. Everytime they pull out a cellphone it's crazy jarring. What world does this guy live in where every woman is a foot stool to her man?
+Tara An alternate dimension where fundamental Christianity dictates everything, and women happily submit to their husband's every wish. Though it seems to me that those who wish for that sort of reality forget that husbands are supposed to love their wives "even as also Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it" (Ephesians 5:25, KJV)...
"Mmm-hm. SOMEONE'S gonna show her the shitter." ... Y'know, this movie would at least be funnier if their War Rooms were actually bathrooms. "I've got a lot of good memories here. A lot of laughter, and a few tears too." *Loud Dumb and Dumber shitting sound*
Brad, I am a Christian, but not a defensive one, and you do a fantastic job reviewing these movies (movies I've never been interested in and am so glad I've not seen) without coloring your reviews with your beliefs at all because you clearly understand and respect what the religion of Christianity / the person of Jesus Christ are supposed to stand for. Thank you for your reviews! I appreciate getting a chance to see what they're all about with it coming from someone who is not wrapped up in liking and defending them like so many of my Christian friends.
I’m not a Christian anymore. Couldn’t do it. I’ll still always have a spiritual sense of what I call “the universe” that moves in an active way sometimes, but I couldn’t with the concepts of sin and lack of paying attention to emotional reality in favor of only the spiritual, which has been used to justify so much. 🩷
+Boobalopbop Girl, I got mah man to buy me a diamond ring! Dat right, it be all shiny but me and mah girls take out all the bling when we bake cakes, which we do 24/7 like the good wives we be. Yeah.
They're trying to give Black Christians a movie but as I said before, why the fuck would I want to pay for something that I am subjected to every fucking day? I don't give a shit about War Room because I'm around women who act like this 24/7 to the point I want to punch someone. I don't need to see a badly acted version of that.
Robin Miller Control... Just plain ol' control. Pray, wear your pants to the waist, pray, don't leave your miserable relationship or it's sinful, pray, obey your husband, pray more, don't think for yourself, pray even more! Also, don't drink your coffee lukewarm, because for some reason it's weird and unheard of! Damn that analogy was dumb...
It's kind of ironic that the old lady said that the young woman should just pray and let God deal with the rest but the New Testament clearly states that faith without works is dead.
Like the film makers she’s just so up her own @ss thinking she has a better understanding of this woman’s problems and just the world in general but is giving out such awful advice that it’s seriously nerve racking.
+Harold P. Penisman It would have to be Jem and the Holograms due to Norm of the North getting more money at the box office while Jem and the Holograms failed to even make back it's five million dollar budget.
I suffer from severe depression and anxiety and it's fucking horrible, but according to this movie, I shouldn't seek help through therapy, Meds, and the support of my loved ones. No. I should pray the depression away and God will miraculously cure me.
+Mrs Mojo Risin Blues I will recommend that you write three notes in your closed every 2 and a half days, and one note to hand in to your local priest every Sunday. We can trial that for 4 weeks, and see how you get on! xD
To be fair, I've had food poisoning and it was one of the most painful experiences of my life. If God wants to punish Tony, that's a good way to do it.
So just to be clear…and you know…fair… Your point is that you had food poisoning once so you can buy that God cursed him with food poisoning to punish him because it would be a good way to do it… Yeah thanks for clearing up the point and making it “fair”
Being a Christian myself, I've defended Religious movies in the past and eve love some of them (The Ten Commandments, Prince of Egypt, Son of God) but even someone as devout in their faith as myself, would have a hard time defending this movie.
+KarnRulez Ten Commandments and Prince of Egypt are fantastic movies regardless of denomination. The fact these piece of garbage 'products' exist however makes my blood boil. There may not be any sleaze but these are exploitation films regardless, pure and simple.
+KarnRulez Your faith should not blind you to the flaws of any movie nor hold your tongue still. If it has a good message, defend the message. If it has a good message but the movie doesn't tell a story well, defend the message and be honest about its stumbling over storytelling. If it does neither, don't be surprised if others are blind and hold their tongues, but don't feel like it is incumbent upon you to do the same.
What really gets me is that before this woman meets Miss Clara, she tries to communicate and reconcile with her husband in every reasonable and cordial way possible, yet he relentlessly treats her like the underside of a urinal cake. A message to all people, if you ever find yourself in a relationship with somebody who acts like Tony, GET THE FUCK OUT!
My hypothesis why they made everyone black:If the old lady was white, she would not seem like an old wise black woman with down home wisdom. She'd seem like a crazy old bat who doesn't know the difference between crying while no one's looking and actually doing something. Which she still is. And then they made everyone else black too while they're at it.
And it has nothing to do with blacks being fairly religious, so it captures an extra crowd on top of the reliable Christian crowds that buy Christian Rock music and mock theories they don't understand.
Have you see the new Spider-Man animated series? Peter and Mary Jane are married. That sounds awful, it'll age Peter. We need to get Mephisto on this stat.
+Hannahdouken! Now I'm picturing that episode of South Park where Tom Cruise locked himself in the closet and R. Kelly kept singing about it. My coffee's lukewarm So I'm goin' in the closet Prayin' in the closet Tom Cruise be in the closet, too Why the hell he in the closet? SO I PULLED OUT MY GUN
I love how they had the husband doing some pretty impressive jump rope moves, but they somehow still lost because the filmmakers know that’s supposed to happen. The winners must have been incredible
That already exists, in many factions. The KKK, Nazis and Neo-Nazis, the Army of God, The Covenant the sword the arm of the lord, Charlie Manson's household....
Yep, I had two female colleagues whom had fled Somalia and Afghanistan respectively, and what they'd told me of the extremist's views on marriage and women standing up for themselves there sounded frighteningly similar to the views of this movie.
I'm an actress in LA (struggling, of course), and I just saw a breakdown come through for a Kendrick Brothers faith-based film. After laughing for ten minutes, I'm still unsure whether to submit or not. On the one hand, the pay is OK and I like to eat. On the other hand...after watching the trainwreck that is "War Room", I can't even imagine what a nightmare of a set it will be. Also, I'm pretty sure as a liberal feminist agnostic, I'd have to hide that ideology wayyy deep to even get in the room. Actually, I take that back. As a woman, I'm pretty sure any kind of opinion coming from me would be unwelcome.
Don't compromise your integrity, no matter what. Think of it this way, would you want your film credits in your career to include anything involving this insidious, manipulative, psychotic trash? It is how you spend the time in your life and what you do with it that is the most important, not the money you get.
+Chris McWilliams I feel like a lot of this movie is pretty Springer-ish....... "So let me get this straight, you made TWO cups of coffee JUST to try and pressure this woman into praying her husband's affair away?"
Do you think Satan handles the big evil-doing in the world and just has a legion of imps to take care of the littler things in the world? Like they're on commission to wreck a marriage and they get a quarter of the spoils if they succeed? That way the Devil would be causing havoc a bit more efficiently.
Sydney Slaughter what do imps/demons get paid with? If I wreck a marriage myself do I steal their commission or does that count for them? Does working for Satan offer any benefits?
So does Brad just not have a cutoff date anymore for Snob? He's doing all sorts of new stuff. Then again, I shouldn't really look a gift horse in the mouth, these recent episodes have been some of his most hilarious work.
It's been a while since I've read either the old or new testaments, but I'm pretty sure even the scriptures denounce these kinds of religious practices. Prayer is supposed to be a conversation where the one praying asks for strength and guidance _to fix their problems with their own capabilities_, and not something where you expect everything to go your way because you asked God like a puerile, sophomoric child impudently begging its parents to make everything go their way. (And also to thank God for what you have; this "film" kind of forgot about that.) If anything, this is setting up anyone foolish enough to believe this propaganda for disappointment and potential loss of faith, because the truth is that while God does hear and answer every prayer, sometimes (a lot of the time) his answer is "no." How in the fuck can a movie like _Bruce Almighty_ more accurately and respectfully portray God than this piece of shit?
Because religious films like this one (not all religious films) aren't trying to accurately portray average Christians. The goal of the film (and, by extension, the filmmakers) is to guilt and/or scare people into a specific way of practicing religion.
they don't... they don't condemn it... why would they... Oh cuz we can't admit they were babbled by ancient idiots wiping their ass with their hand and have no inherit wisdom that can't be found anywhere? Once I stopped looking for value where there is little, I found better values.
"Help me to love him." Oh. Wait. You need help... to love him? As in, you don't actually love him? So when you said you loved him before, somewhere deep inside, you really didn't mean it? You were just... saying that? Because you've been abused to the point of denial? Because one would think that you don't need help LOVING him, you need help finding the love you have inside for him. Sure, we can blame terrible writing, OR we can address the fact that this woman REALLY NEEDED TO GET A FUCKING DIVORCE. Congrats for getting your marriage back together due to horrible movie contrivances, but real world don't work like that. Ugh.
5 years later and when that guy looking to buy Miss Clara's house says "Someone's been praying in this closet." Still fucking cracks me up. One of my favorite reviews.
The sad thing is I know people like this in real life. It's fucking beyond sad. So happy I didn't let this kind of "religion" brain wash me. I just try to treat people how I'd want to be treated. Been doing fine in life thus far.
Religion doesn't brain wash people...it gives them a perspective on life...even tho I'm atheist I do recognize and acknowledge the wisdom and poetry with its philosophies...Brads point of these religious exploitation films is that regardless of their message they're still exploitation and bad
+Deebo Molina I know, hence why I said "religion". I.E. fake people using something that can be positive to harm others. I'm a black, bi sexual woman who grew up with super religious family and I have been through it all with their bullshit. Questioning the person I was, afraid I was going to Hell because of something I had no control over. Once I got into my teen years I realized the difference between "religious" people and people who are good human beings who just happen to be religious. I don't consider myself atheist (I don't care enough about the subject) and I don't have problems with religion in general, I just can't stand shit like this movie because it takes me back to a bad time in my life. Plus it can send a horrible message to women and men alike. That's all.
So this film teaches that humans have no personal responsibility. The Devil has his fingers in every bad persons head and we're all completely at the whims of supernatural forces.
1Dudelove Exactly. But the best part is that you don't have to use that amazing organ to think about things and their consequences, since the answers are premade and thought up for you...
The actor playing the husband in this movie looks like he could easily play Satan in another movie. I was literally having that thought when the Snob said the same thing haha.
I'm on the part where she is in the closet while her husband is on a date. "God" makes the mistress choke to death, because the husband and his friend talked about CPR. I'm calling it.
That child’s reaction to the stinky feet is accurate. Its amazing how many times my stepson points out the embarrassing thing and I’m like, “I got it! I got it! YES! I GOT IT! MY FEET SMELL!” “Well, I was just sayin’.” 🙄
"Why's Brad now reviewing current movies or midnight screenings??" Well folks, it's because we're in a new era of exploitation movies. Buckle up, no helmets allowed.
+Leafhopper when they got to that part, I was thinking of her having farted in the closet and it was just locked in there all that time until they checked it out, "Yup, someone's been praying alright."
I just watched a review of the Kirk Cameron movie “Fireproof” yesterday, & I gotta say the parallel themes with this movie are pretty disturbing. Both are Christian films that have good-hearted wives with verbally abusive husbands who cheat or are addicted to porn. Both are demeaning and controlling with money. Both are objectively the kind of husbands that would make anyone who cares about the wife say “Leave him now!” But the message of both of these movies is “Just stay with your awful abusive husband- God will help you sort it out!” It’s really misogynistic and dangerous. Also soothing to some men, I’m sure. “Don’t worry, your wife will never leave you if you’re both Christians! You are supposed to be the one in charge, after all!”
Well, at the very least, “Fireproof” is about the man in the situation learning to improve himself, but that comes with other issues, like, for instance, the movie portraying his initial treatment of his wife as normal for a rough spot in a marriage.
Both my BFF and I are staunch Christians. When I told her about this movie and this review, she said, "If my husband were cheating on me, HE'S the one who'd better pray!"
Never understood the lukewarm coffee analogy. Hot coffee scorches my mouth, cold coffee give me brainfreeze. I like my coffee room temperature. So every time some idiots says "no one like their coffee lukewarm..." I'm just like... I'm right here! I exist! Also, the message of 'submit harder' to abuse victims has gotten people killed. Abusive behavior WILL escalate when they felt they got away with it.
@@dawnbeavers3520 Explain far-right militant "Christians" and all the religious cults, inquistions, burnings, and persecutions of non-Christians throughout history. Bullshit your ideology doesn't attack people unprovoked. You absolutely have your own jihad, only your extremism is focused on psychological warfare.
You know what I am realizing from this. That I can make a lot of money making movies for the religious community. Clearly I don't need to spend a lot of money or worry a lot about quality in order to make a lot of money. I mean it seems like a pretty shockingly surefire way to make money quickly
+Michael Logan Yeah, it's just like the collection plate, only with no good cause. As long a we throw some half ass message out there that may or may not be as virtuous as we intended. We're good! Because the idiot masses will always follow, no matter how black heartened the shepherd is.
+Michael Logan Just as long as you can get some mega-church or religious commentator to Oprah the movie to followers, pretty much. The logic worked for Cartman.
So, this is basically a movie about a woman slowly losing her mind before she finally breaks, reality shatters, and she's put in an institution. All the while her mind creates a happy ending as she lies on the floor of a padded room talking to herself.
I refuse to believe this was created by the same people behind "Fireproof". Yes, I know that film, too, has some problems, but it handled its themes better. This made me go "Wha--huh? Okay, I see where you're coming from, but, uh... wrong execution." Just what is going on in that Christian movies are being poorly-handled with their messages? The only recent one I've seen that actually wasn't ham-fisted in its religious themes or delved into propaganda was "Once I Was a Beehive". Also, the Kendrick brothers commenting on having a dream to change the skin color of the characters kind of rubs me the wrong way. I feel like they should've kept that to themselves.
+Kristen D. she won't cause she's black. pretty much the only thing is bad religious movies or being way, way way in the back to meet a diversity quota.
Having a War Room isn't a bad idea. The secret is you reinforce it, add a keycode to get it, and have it auto-dial to the cops, who arrest the domestic abuser. I may be confusing a War Room with a Panic Room.
"People drink their coffee hot or cold, but nobody likes it lukewarm"
Only a Sith believes in absolutes.
it's a reference to Revelation 3:16
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
Now get out of here.
@@elder-woodsilverstein7716 I think you got the ending of the quote wrong
@@holdingpattern245 No, he said, "Now get out of here."
So I can say you're a moron and call it fact since you don't believe in absolutes, correct?
"I'm an old woman, I'm miss Clara, and my husband died in nam.
I'm miss Clara, and though I've never been to war, or even served in any branch of the military, I connect everything to war, and tell people how to fix their lives, even though I know nothing about them!"
"God is a good defense attorney"
Uh... Joan of Arc would beg to differ.
Yeah. Guy went behind her back to some other guy to lead the English to victory.
You know the Simpsons episode about Joan of Arc where she is on trial with God being her witness telling he motivated her to liberate France of the English? And the Englishman says to God "What? You told me to conquer France for England", with God saying it was not planned them being in the same room once
+GreatAwesomeReviewers | StarDust Studios
No wonder she went and kicked the shit out of “him” in Bayonetta. XD
But fire sure makes for a good prosecution!
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And to think I get what you mean because of a bizarre anime called "Drifters..."
I remember one movie where getting into a closet and praying solved the character's problems.
It was called "Carrie". That ended really well.
+Reggie Park OH BURN!!
I did wonder why Snob didn't make one "Carrie" joke, but that would've been too obvious.
Jack Rose Presents I don't know how to say my opinion, since I haven't seen any of those movies, but I don't know how underrated a sequel like that can be if everyone is saying it fails to even be creepy. That's what makes a well-made horror movie really good.
***** Sweet. Now I either got to see it for the fun of it, or I watch the original first and then see this for the fun of it. It does have so bad-it's-good qualities right? The sequel?
I regret that I have but only one like to give your comment, Reggie.
This movie goes from "haha..what?" to "oh my god is this still going??" to "wait, what should i do to the government?!?"
+ColeVecsion That's where I talk to the magic Leprechaun. He tells me to burn things.
+FNGLHR You know what you have to do now, don't'cha? Burn the house down. BURN EM ALL!
+ColeVecsion I think you just gave away the "War Room in 60 seconds" extra. ;)
+Wriest Heart I understand that reference.
This movie reminds me of the time I walked into my closet and prayed for the Taurus Demon in Dark Souls to just fucking drop dead and then it did.... Oh wait, no it didn't because God doesn't work that way and this movie has no idea what the heck it's talking about! Everyone knows if you want to solve your problems you've got to sell your soul in exchange for some form of enchanted object that will eventually backfire, not pray in a closet! Or, in extreme cases, just bitch about it on an internet forum with a listed address and very specific details. I'm sure that'll go great!
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People are either going to love this comment or try to argue with me over it for some reason, lol!
The store I work in is selling War Room. Not a single copy has been sold. People ask me what it's about, and when I tell them, they put it back.
+Gerald Kirby
Sounds about right.
I work at a Christian bookstore and we pre-sold 400 copies
+Gerald Kirby I am picturing the face on your costumers when you say (i,m guessing. Tell me if i,m close) :It is about a woman who is in a abusive realtionship and fixes it by going into her closet and pray". Am I close?
and then 379 copies were burned, or given away at a garage sale. the end...
You tell them they need Xenu!!😮😅😊
I like my coffee lukewarm, but I don't call it lukewarm...
It's called "chugging temperature"
F*ck yeah!
Luke Skywalker likes his coffee...
in a TaunTaun...
and he likes his milk in a horror movie
I chug my coffee while it's still hot lol
I like a lukewarm cappuccino myself.
"What's in the box?"
"My wife's feet. I couldn't take the smell no more."
Gold.
"my wife's head..."
I know. The shit he comes up with is insanely original and hilarious.
"So you murdered her? Okay."
I feel most insulted that that lady gave that woman lukewarm coffee all because of her level of faith. That's some rude shit.
I feel like this movie should have had a plot twist, where Miss Clara was the Devil implanting these very stupid ideas of how to fix a relationship into vulnerable women, and interfering in ways that favor the abusive, scamming, drug dealing men, and wants to incite religious revolutions and assassinate the president. It would have at least made sense why she came off as a psycho.
Hilarious.
"tony hasn't be this depressed since the day he wasn't there at their wedding"
fuckin lol.
I'm convinced that the Picture on the front cover is just the director helping Tony's actor go over the script.
"Wait so the couple isn't getting a divorce?"
"No they get back together because of Jesus!"
"But tony contemplated letting her di-"
"JESUS!"
My grandparents gave my family a theater gift card to go see this movie. We used it to go see Spy instead.
+Spaghetti-Spider So basically you broke even.
+Spaghetti-Spider Probably the better choice.
+Spaghetti-Spider Who the hell gives someone a gift card and then tells them what they can and can't use it for anyway?
My grandparents are a bit strict if you couldn't tell by their movie choices.
+Spaghetti-Spider Well, at least you didn't have to go see propaganda. That's a plus.
"War Room": for those times when you can't afford a marriage counselor, the cops are too far away to answer your call within two hours' time, and your pastor knows about as much of the Bible as Fred Phelps...
This movie is too black for someone like Phelps.
I'm just gonna say it:
Gentlemen, you can't pray in here, this is the War Room!
Someone was bound to say it.
Thank you for this comment, someone in my family could die and this would still be a good day for me lol.
I think its time you answer to the Coca-Cola company
HoopsAndDinoMan But my wife wont let me use the closet, I need to do this somewhere.
I understood that reference.
Lady: ``i call it my warroom.''
Me: ``I didn't know you're an Warhammer player! Neat!''
Damn, i wanna play only war with my friends now
Blood for the Blood God!
@@thequietdreamer2186 SKULLS FOR SKULL THRONE
She probably thought Sigmar was Jesus with how meta the artwork about him got in AoS
That would be a more interesting movie
"No, now you put that knife down right now in the name of JESUS"
I freaking lost it at that point hahahahaha
Yea... That part was really... *_REALLY_* fucked up!! Let alone all the other *genuinely psychotic* messages in this movie.
When I first saw this movie with a church group, I joked with some other members my age that all the crazy events following that scene where just a part of a fantasy she was having in the hospital (while her knife wound was being tended to). The film is hilariously unrealistic.
Yeah 😅 she should have been stabbed 50 times 😰 because that would not stop a criminal at all
_"Put down your gun, officer. I got this."_
And that's the story behind how my finger got reattached.
Trust me. Growing up in a Christian household, I understand what she meant by that. But once you put it into a real-life context such as that, it's low-key funny because Jesus already got billions of other people to look after. Maybe you should call the police.
Snob, the devil does care about interfering in marriages... so long as they include Peter Parker.
Somewhere, Linkara is crying in rage.
dmore454 you my friend are amazing
We all would have made a Santa Christ joke but you made a funny and clever joke
To be fair - he only said the Devil didn't care for THIS marriage, I'm pretty sure everyone else's are fair game to The Devil
gRinchY 230490 he cares about pure marriages
Tony is just an asshole.
disneydork100 like I said, he doesn't care about THIS marriage - the reasons are there for anyone to see lol
"This closet has has been prayed in."
Of course, Carrie used to live here.
Remember, ladies: If your husband is borderline abusive, it's probably because you keep wanting to be treated like a person. If only you didn't have that annoying need for the most rudimentary level of respect, they wouldn't be so stressed all the time.
no, it's because your feet stink
What are you on about?! It's not the women fault !
@Jason The Tank Engine I know
@Jason The Tank Engine no worries mate
Luke Crawford facepalm
If he legit thought that the food was poisoned when he swapped plates during the dinner scene, then did he effectively try to poison his wife?
+Jonah Drake Well, this is the same guy who would not let a trained professional do CPR on his wife...
I believe it was he wouldn't do CPR on his wife because he found doing Cpr icky.
And seriously?
He thinks his wife hates him so much she'll actually kill him and he has no qualms about preemptively killing her?
This marriage needs to end
Yeah basically, also I think the director said to him while filming the scene "now while she's talking about the fudge sunday i want you to stare at her like you think she's gonna leap across the table and jam a fork into your artery at any second" dear gods this marriage needs to end
It was a battle of wits, and he made sure she'd fall victim to one of the classic blunders.
Three thoughts: 1. Maybe it was his way of trying to shack up with that co-worker without feeling guilty. 2. Maybe the wife poisoned her own food, figuring he would switch plates, thus having him die technically at his own hand. 3. The Princess Bride
I want a meme of Brad with "Fuckin' Nam" to use in any and all situations
Yes, we need this now.
+Jon Winkler imgur.com/T4Gxqhk
TheRealConcertKing GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!!
+A Piece Of Bread Even with such things as wars, famine, exploitation, bigotry and spiders, I was never quite ready to give up hope for the future of this world. But now, after hearing the words "we need a meme", I am ready to go away and never return. I do not want to live in a world where memes are, instead of grudgingly accepted as a part of life's suffering, actually WANTED and NEEDED. Such a world has no future worthy of holding out hope.
+Quadronnn shut up and accept the memes
A female tells another female to go in a closet and yell at the devil and pray to God. I've seen this movie. It's called Carrie.
+Jason Zakrajsek ... stretching a little with that comparison...
Then again, many of these 'Christian' films could be psychological horror thrillers if the tone was changed ever so slightly... you may be on to something...
@@insulttothehumanrace3807 I'm pretty sure they already are horror thrillers.
Yeah... Expect Carrie is a masterpiece.
look lets just say it, they are awful films, The Omen, now thats a good film... wheres the magic? wheres the intense eyes staring at someone... wheres the barking dogs chasing someone... i mean... it comes so close yet it misses so far off... its also missing good music i assume and a proper chorus... which is just criminal for a christian film to not have a good choir... its like a military not having good drums or a navy having good planks
@@ulasaksu3331 how
The women's group at my church watched this movie together...they regretted it.
That just shows that these "Christian" movies are too crazy for any sane Christian.
@@Thraim. aman
Brony
@@Thraim. Yeah.
WakingAthos i dont blame them. Its sorta sexist
No fighting in the War Room comments section.
it's the magic of the cinema snob
ok
+Kenetic Kups It's a Dr Strangelove reference.
Paul Dennett any reason you felt the need to explicitly state that?
+Kenetic Kups Your face looked terribly surprised.
'He got this role because he can do a backflip" to be fair thats more talent than most of the actors for pure flix have
I swear Miss Clara was played by Eddie Murphy.
Really ? I saw the spirit of Tyler Perry in her a few times ! (and by that, I mean I thought he was playing the role.)
"When you pray to win the lottery, you still have to buy a lottery ticket." So that's why I've never won any money.
Note to self: Need to pray after buying the ticket ... and if it works, THEN believe in the existence of God.
By that same logic she still should’ve gone to counseling or a therapist after praying for her marriage to be fixed.
In my personal accounts of being a Christian (for lack of a better term,) sitting around, doing nothing, and simply believing God will solve all your problems is pretty much the worst thing you can do.
I watched my mother whithered away for three years, believing God would heal her, while doing nothing for herself. She died of a heart attack late 2013.
I saw as my sister, who could have any man she wanted, prayed for a boyfriend. She then met the man who would become her husband. Something which wouldn't have happened had she not actively pursued the idea. They're married now, and my nephew/our dad's first grandchild, is expected some time this month.
In addition, I met the woman who may very well be my future wife, after praying I would meet someone, then approaching the camerawoman at my sister's wedding.
Seems to me, God prefers it when people actively pursue their own prayers. Not every time, mind you, but there seems to be a trend, there.
Also, this movie is shit.
+TDUShelby Yeah that's what this movie has backwards. It miss-delivers a bad message. Doing nothing BUT praying/talking to yourself in a small room shut out from the world is the sin of sloth. The lord helps those who help themselves. So not only is this a bad movie, and a bad Christian movie, it teaches you to sin without remorse. You a drug dealer? No need to turn yourself in and serve time as long as you confess and say youre sorry, god's got you covered bro!
+TDUShelby This reminds me of a quote from one of my favorite movies, The Poseidon Adventure:
"So what resolution should we make for the new year? It's to let God know that you have the guts and the will to do it alone. Resolve to fight for yourselves, and for others, for those you love. And that part of God within you will be fighting with you all the way." - Rev. Frank Scott (Gene Hackman)
yea but thinking god would take time to help you with getting a gf or bf and yet let millions of kids die of hunger seems ridiculous to me just my opinion.
TDUShelby you know I watched full frontal with Samantha bee and on the show there was a bible verse that said when you prayer you also have to do something to help the prayer to work.
TDUShelby Is Your Profile Pic related to Persona 3
Do these people live in an insular bubble? I mean come on no rational human being, religious or otherwise, is looking at this situation and saying "Yeah she did the best thing possible to save her marriage."
exactly
+Chris Newman 'Do these people live in an insular bubble?'
Well, they're suburban, christian Americans, so...yes.
+Run Dos Run Touche. Also if you want a hilarious piece of propaganda check out Deception of a Generation. It was linked through one of Snob's old reviews and holy shit did it get funny quick.
Chris Newman
Will do, thanks!
+Chris Newman I would like to say, as a catholic, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!
I had an abusive father when I was a kid and my grandmother always said that my father was a bad person because he played the Ouji table once and a demon has possed him, and if he was mean with us it was because we weren't praying to jesus enough, and I was like... "seriously lady, take responsability of your twisted son!"
Janine Adriana Reguenga gomez I hope he got arrested
Did he get charged? You ok now?
@@Jarod-vg9wq lol, boomers (who I assume they were raised by) are known for ignoring abuse and mental illness and will claim they were beat "and turned out fine" yet they complain incessantly and hyperbolically about things that are much better now than when they were kids
During that whole monologue to the devil, I just imagine the Devil down in hell thrashing to Sabbath and Megadeath; briefly taking off his headphones to listen closer, rolls his eyes, and back go on the headphones. The Devil's got more important shit to do than fuck with your crappy mirage.
Nice Freudian-slip there lol
You know what would be a trip.
Is if the old woman was just senile, or suffering from dementia the whole time.
It's revealed that she has gone complete Howard Hughes and everything the wife character believes comes crashing down.
the Husband had cheated on her way before he was going to with the woman in this movie, so the part with him being stopped by divine intervention was B.S. because the wife imagined it out of denial.
The woman he cheated with got pregnant and she shows up with the kid.
The wife has a complete breakdown, refuses to wash her feet ever again,
and we end with the Old Woman put in a home, going crazy because lack of a closet.
Roll Credits
I like to think the devil is sitting in it's own war room praying for actual _good_ religion based movies..... and by that I mean by shouting on the phone to god who's basically doing a Wolf of Wall Street party.
That scene was just dumb. Really wished we had some random neighbor tell her to shut up or show them calling the cops for disturbing the peace or something. Now that would've been the funniest part of the movie. I remember people in the theater, not reacting the way the canned audience here did, but I could remember people nodding and silently rooting for her and finding it funny when she went out into the street.
And that's how we got Silence.
Christians like to think that non-religious folk hate on these types of movies just because they're religious. In reality, it's because they're poorly written, poorly acted, poorly shot, poorly directed, poorly edited, and the message they're trying to get across is terrible.
Yea...there are a handful of good religious films out there like Ben Hur and Ten Commandments but a lot of the modern ones have the worst script writers
+Dre Chapman I agree. The last good religious movie I saw was actually a mini-series when I was 12. That was 30 years ago.
+AW Ratliff I think most of us understand the good message it tries to teach, but its just so poorly portrayed it makes mockery of rather than praise to the faith. What this movie teaches you about religion and god is perhaps the most perverted idea anyone can think of when they think about god....
That if you pray hard enough... long enough... and clap your hands really loudly, probably... god himself will come and solve all of your problems.
How is that for a message?
+Dre Chapman I hate religious movies. For various reasons, seeing prayer and church in movies makes me deeply uncomfortable, and without those two things I don't think a movie is really religious.
+Dre Chapman Exactly, even as much as i harp on religion i can still enjoy Hunchback of Notre dame and quietly hum along with God bless the outcasts
You know what's a good Christian film? Blue Like Jazz, because It's not preachy, or up its own ass with messages.
The whole movie is about a Christian guy stepping out of his hypocritical Baptist inner circle to experience the world, at a college that isn't too keene on Christians.
I like it because the main character isn't spending the movie trying to spread the word of God or converting the Atheists, but realizing that there are a lot of perfectly reasonable reasons why people aren't Christian, and why there are so many hypocrites in his own religion; which makes him want to be a better man. He's basically got a Pope Francis attitude by the end of the movie.
I fully agree with you.
As followers of Christ and as God's children, we are called to spread the Word of God. It's our purpose in this life.
Ya Like Jazz?
Saved is also a great film. About a girl who goes to a very Christian school, finds out that her boyfriend is gay and decides to have sex with him in order to "cure him". Doesn't work and not only is he sent to a place for kids that parents don't want to deal with, but she's pregnant. All about her becoming disillusioned with her religion, people that she thought were her friends, and her life in general.
Anyway how's your prayer life
Andrew Kind How about "Anyway, how is your (war) room life?"?
Oh hi Andrew
HE DID NOT HER IT'S NOT TRUE IT'S BULLSH** I DID NOT HIT HER, I DID NOT!
Oh hi, Clara!
YOU'RE NAILING ME TO A CROSS,LISA !!!!!!!!!!!
I'm more concerned why they chose a war thematic. It's like they tried to make it look like the abused wife is struggling to solve her problems, when, in reality, she just sits in a closet. And no, you can pray whenever and whereever you want, as long as you,at least, move a finger to change the situation.
I keep forgetting this is supposed to be a modern movie. Everytime they pull out a cellphone it's crazy jarring.
What world does this guy live in where every woman is a foot stool to her man?
+Tara An alternate dimension where fundamental Christianity dictates everything, and women happily submit to their husband's every wish. Though it seems to me that those who wish for that sort of reality forget that husbands are supposed to love their wives "even as also Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it" (Ephesians 5:25, KJV)...
This is a prequel to the Stepford Wives
@@terryp2517 Or The Handmaid's Tale
Or Isis territory?
"I attend the Church of None of your Fucking Business of Latter Day Not your Fucking Problem!"
All time great line! I want this on a t-shirt!
I want that to be an actual church which I would love to attend.
"Mmm-hm. SOMEONE'S gonna show her the shitter."
... Y'know, this movie would at least be funnier if their War Rooms were actually bathrooms.
"I've got a lot of good memories here. A lot of laughter, and a few tears too." *Loud Dumb and Dumber shitting sound*
The War on Constipation
Brad, I am a Christian, but not a defensive one, and you do a fantastic job reviewing these movies (movies I've never been interested in and am so glad I've not seen) without coloring your reviews with your beliefs at all because you clearly understand and respect what the religion of Christianity / the person of Jesus Christ are supposed to stand for. Thank you for your reviews! I appreciate getting a chance to see what they're all about with it coming from someone who is not wrapped up in liking and defending them like so many of my Christian friends.
Huh... A real nonjudgemental Christian who sees that these films premote an extremist view of their faith that isn't really rooted in their faith.
You're a real one ❤️
I’m not a Christian anymore. Couldn’t do it. I’ll still always have a spiritual sense of what I call “the universe” that moves in an active way sometimes, but I couldn’t with the concepts of sin and lack of paying attention to emotional reality in favor of only the spiritual, which has been used to justify so much. 🩷
Women be shoppin! You can't stop a woman from shoppin!
(Sarcastically) ha ha.
+thehoosierfortheUK Thats a quote from Dave Chappelle in the movie Nutty Professor.
+Boobalopbop oh yeah. I thought at first he said he said " we gonna be shopping" in other words, find people to mock.
+Boobalopbop Girl, I got mah man to buy me a diamond ring! Dat right, it be all shiny but me and mah girls take out all the bling when we bake cakes, which we do 24/7 like the good wives we be. Yeah.
+Boobalopbop Shoppin be praised!
As someone who was raised a Christian... I have no idea what the hell movies like this are trying to preach.
They're trying to give Black Christians a movie but as I said before, why the fuck would I want to pay for something that I am subjected to every fucking day? I don't give a shit about War Room because I'm around women who act like this 24/7 to the point I want to punch someone. I don't need to see a badly acted version of that.
Robin Miller Control... Just plain ol' control. Pray, wear your pants to the waist, pray, don't leave your miserable relationship or it's sinful, pray, obey your husband, pray more, don't think for yourself, pray even more!
Also, don't drink your coffee lukewarm, because for some reason it's weird and unheard of! Damn that analogy was dumb...
Well this ones saying NEVER EVER GET DIVORCED even if your husbands a psychopath
It's kind of ironic that the old lady said that the young woman should just pray and let God deal with the rest but the New Testament clearly states that faith without works is dead.
A Christian media piece that ironically doesn’t know words from the Bible. Shocker.
"So how does it begin? With fuckin' Nam!"
Burst out laughing every time.
Oh Brad please, when it arrives on DVD, we NEED a snob review of Dancin: It's On.
Gonna need lube for that...geeez, it sounds like it's gonna be greeeat.
+Vonchiefer During the Worst of 2015 wrap-up, he said he is definitely going to do a Snob episode on that.
I cannot wait.
"You can play football, you can play baseball, but you can't play DANCE!"
+TheBrianJ that's gonna be fuckin awesome!!
+Julio C. Cruz And I say, If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.
Miss Clara is one of the most frustrating characters I've seen in a while
Like the film makers she’s just so up her own @ss thinking she has a better understanding of this woman’s problems and just the world in general but is giving out such awful advice that it’s seriously nerve racking.
@@nexus5253Perfectly said. Her head is so far up there, she can see how bad her own advice is
Ripping on these psychotic religious movies have provided some of Brad's best episodes. I really can't decide if I have a favorite.
Tate Gibbs for me...its a tie between this and Gods Club
Tate Gibbs he should do Fireproof next. For some weird reason, it gave me a low self esteem.
They aged like fine wine🍷
Calling God psychotic is blasphemy! Please don't make fun of him and his people 🙏
This being a secret tyler perry movie would explain alot
Oogieloves and War Room? Now we just need Jem & The Holograms to complete the trifecta.
you mean norm of the north
+Harold P. Penisman It would have to be Jem and the Holograms due to Norm of the North getting more money at the box office while Jem and the Holograms failed to even make back it's five million dollar budget.
+Harold P. Penisman You mean Dancin
+Tobias Christopher you know too much..
I suffer from severe depression and anxiety and it's fucking horrible, but according to this movie, I shouldn't seek help through therapy, Meds, and the support of my loved ones.
No.
I should pray the depression away and God will miraculously cure me.
Did you write a note in your closet
+Stephen Marco No I haven't. I guess that's the problem then 😛
+Mrs Mojo Risin Blues
Of course.
+Mrs Mojo Risin Blues I will recommend that you write three notes in your closed every 2 and a half days, and one note to hand in to your local priest every Sunday. We can trial that for 4 weeks, and see how you get on! xD
The official film of Christian Science
It's sad, but I totally believe that a CEO never saw someone take responsibility. It's honestly the most realistic thing in the movie.
To be fair, I've had food poisoning and it was one of the most painful experiences of my life. If God wants to punish Tony, that's a good way to do it.
So just to be clear…and you know…fair… Your point is that you had food poisoning once so you can buy that God cursed him with food poisoning to punish him because it would be a good way to do it… Yeah thanks for clearing up the point and making it “fair”
I had a Stomach Bug once. It was like a living nightmare.
Being a Christian myself, I've defended Religious movies in the past and eve love some of them (The Ten Commandments, Prince of Egypt, Son of God) but even someone as devout in their faith as myself, would have a hard time defending this movie.
+KarnRulez Ten Commandments and Prince of Egypt are fantastic movies regardless of denomination. The fact these piece of garbage 'products' exist however makes my blood boil. There may not be any sleaze but these are exploitation films regardless, pure and simple.
+KarnRulez Dude, those movies are just good movies in general. This is a terrible movie in general. xD
+KarnRulez Your faith should not blind you to the flaws of any movie nor hold your tongue still. If it has a good message, defend the message. If it has a good message but the movie doesn't tell a story well, defend the message and be honest about its stumbling over storytelling. If it does neither, don't be surprised if others are blind and hold their tongues, but don't feel like it is incumbent upon you to do the same.
+KarnRulez But why would you? Religion is not a team sport. You don't have to be on the side everyone who says he's on your side, no matter what.
+KarnRulez
Because there's a difference between a movie using something as a background/theme and a movie shoving its concepts down your throat.
What really gets me is that before this woman meets Miss Clara, she tries to communicate and reconcile with her husband in every reasonable and cordial way possible, yet he relentlessly treats her like the underside of a urinal cake. A message to all people, if you ever find yourself in a relationship with somebody who acts like Tony, GET THE FUCK OUT!
My hypothesis why they made everyone black:If the old lady was white, she would not seem like an old wise black woman with down home wisdom. She'd seem like a crazy old bat who doesn't know the difference between crying while no one's looking and actually doing something. Which she still is. And then they made everyone else black too while they're at it.
A lot of christian movies are casting black people. I think it's to make them seem modern, because this 1950s nonsense is so out of date.
Your hypothesis has a lot of merit too. Probably.
And it has nothing to do with blacks being fairly religious, so it captures an extra crowd on top of the reliable Christian crowds that buy Christian Rock music and mock theories they don't understand.
Ryan Tyler I read something like this somewhere, too.
De Ha If she was white, it'd turn into "The Mist".
The only marriage the Devil cares about wrecking is Peter and Mary Jane's.
Ouch.
Where is God when He's needed?
@@tultsi93 hiding away from awful storylines in DC as the presence.
Have you see the new Spider-Man animated series? Peter and Mary Jane are married. That sounds awful, it'll age Peter. We need to get Mephisto on this stat.
...I like my coffee lukewarm. Does that mean I'm going to Hell?
Yes,and the Lord hates you,Satan probaply already possessed you and youre going to burn forever.
Quick! To the closet before its too late!
+Hannahdouken! Now I'm picturing that episode of South Park where Tom Cruise locked himself in the closet and R. Kelly kept singing about it.
My coffee's lukewarm
So I'm goin' in the closet
Prayin' in the closet
Tom Cruise be in the closet, too
Why the hell he in the closet?
SO I PULLED OUT MY GUN
PatchouliMoonsong Oh my god that sounds amazing and like something I should watch this instance.
"You trying to do CPR on my marriage?"
Someone needs to do CPR on that joke.
I love how they had the husband doing some pretty impressive jump rope moves, but they somehow still lost because the filmmakers know that’s supposed to happen. The winners must have been incredible
This whole message at the end about an army sounds like the Christian version of ISIS.
Relax, that's just because it IS the Christian version of ISIS.
That’s sounds freaking terrifying
@@Jarod-vg9wq So Modern Day Crusaders with the mentality of Enrico Maxwell from Hellsing?
That already exists, in many factions. The KKK, Nazis and Neo-Nazis, the Army of God, The Covenant the sword the arm of the lord, Charlie Manson's household....
Yep, I had two female colleagues whom had fled Somalia and Afghanistan respectively, and what they'd told me of the extremist's views on marriage and women standing up for themselves there sounded frighteningly similar to the views of this movie.
Watched this movie with my girlfriend last week.
She has not called or texted me back once.
Darrius Cooper watch lady and the tramp together, that might work. Just my opinion.
Have you tried praying in a closet to get her back?
I'm an actress in LA (struggling, of course), and I just saw a breakdown come through for a Kendrick Brothers faith-based film. After laughing for ten minutes, I'm still unsure whether to submit or not. On the one hand, the pay is OK and I like to eat. On the other hand...after watching the trainwreck that is "War Room", I can't even imagine what a nightmare of a set it will be. Also, I'm pretty sure as a liberal feminist agnostic, I'd have to hide that ideology wayyy deep to even get in the room.
Actually, I take that back. As a woman, I'm pretty sure any kind of opinion coming from me would be unwelcome.
Ok, I gotta know, what was the movie they were shopping?!
Don't compromise your integrity, no matter what. Think of it this way, would you want your film credits in your career to include anything involving this insidious, manipulative, psychotic trash? It is how you spend the time in your life and what you do with it that is the most important, not the money you get.
Did you do it?
That bit where she's yelling at the devil about that he can't have her man sounded a lot like something someone on "Jerry Springer" would say. :)
***** Yeah it was really Springer-like. :)
+Chris McWilliams
I feel like a lot of this movie is pretty Springer-ish.......
"So let me get this straight, you made TWO cups of coffee JUST to try and pressure this woman into praying her husband's affair away?"
dracocrusher Funny but probably very true. :)
Do you think Satan handles the big evil-doing in the world and just has a legion of imps to take care of the littler things in the world? Like they're on commission to wreck a marriage and they get a quarter of the spoils if they succeed? That way the Devil would be causing havoc a bit more efficiently.
micromanagement, son XD
Sydney Slaughter Read the Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis
Imps like in Doom?
Sydney Slaughter what do imps/demons get paid with? If I wreck a marriage myself do I steal their commission or does that count for them? Does working for Satan offer any benefits?
That's how it works in my mind
So does Brad just not have a cutoff date anymore for Snob? He's doing all sorts of new stuff.
Then again, I shouldn't really look a gift horse in the mouth, these recent episodes have been some of his most hilarious work.
+TheBrianJ I agree, there have been many Midnight Screenings that are begging to be made into Snob episodes.
I think he just saw too many shitty recent movies in 2015 that he didn't wanna wait.
+TheBrianJ I think maybe Brad has done away with his cut-off date. Like Nostalgia Critic, he doesn't want to limit himself to just one era.
I think he's described today as a golden age of religious exploitation movies
+TheBrianJ Because Brad unlike Nostalgia Critic seems to preserve his style of reviewing regardless of other changes.
It's been a while since I've read either the old or new testaments, but I'm pretty sure even the scriptures denounce these kinds of religious practices. Prayer is supposed to be a conversation where the one praying asks for strength and guidance _to fix their problems with their own capabilities_, and not something where you expect everything to go your way because you asked God like a puerile, sophomoric child impudently begging its parents to make everything go their way. (And also to thank God for what you have; this "film" kind of forgot about that.) If anything, this is setting up anyone foolish enough to believe this propaganda for disappointment and potential loss of faith, because the truth is that while God does hear and answer every prayer, sometimes (a lot of the time) his answer is "no."
How in the fuck can a movie like _Bruce Almighty_ more accurately and respectfully portray God than this piece of shit?
Because religious films like this one (not all religious films) aren't trying to accurately portray average Christians. The goal of the film (and, by extension, the filmmakers) is to guilt and/or scare people into a specific way of practicing religion.
they don't... they don't condemn it... why would they... Oh cuz we can't admit they were babbled by ancient idiots wiping their ass with their hand and have no inherit wisdom that can't be found anywhere? Once I stopped looking for value where there is little, I found better values.
"Help me to love him." Oh. Wait. You need help... to love him? As in, you don't actually love him? So when you said you loved him before, somewhere deep inside, you really didn't mean it? You were just... saying that? Because you've been abused to the point of denial? Because one would think that you don't need help LOVING him, you need help finding the love you have inside for him. Sure, we can blame terrible writing, OR we can address the fact that this woman REALLY NEEDED TO GET A FUCKING DIVORCE. Congrats for getting your marriage back together due to horrible movie contrivances, but real world don't work like that. Ugh.
+Morgan Lea Or at the very least, marriage counseling. And I mean professional marriage counseling, not the things that senile Miss Clara told her.
5 years later and when that guy looking to buy Miss Clara's house says "Someone's been praying in this closet." Still fucking cracks me up. One of my favorite reviews.
The sad thing is I know people like this in real life. It's fucking beyond sad. So happy I didn't let this kind of "religion" brain wash me. I just try to treat people how I'd want to be treated. Been doing fine in life thus far.
Religion doesn't brain wash people...it gives them a perspective on life...even tho I'm atheist I do recognize and acknowledge the wisdom and poetry with its philosophies...Brads point of these religious exploitation films is that regardless of their message they're still exploitation and bad
+Deebo Molina I know, hence why I said "religion". I.E. fake people using something that can be positive to harm others. I'm a black, bi sexual woman who grew up with super religious family and I have been through it all with their bullshit. Questioning the person I was, afraid I was going to Hell because of something I had no control over. Once I got into my teen years I realized the difference between "religious" people and people who are good human beings who just happen to be religious. I don't consider myself atheist (I don't care enough about the subject) and I don't have problems with religion in general, I just can't stand shit like this movie because it takes me back to a bad time in my life. Plus it can send a horrible message to women and men alike. That's all.
+Deebo Molina if thats the perspective in life that religion gives to people we should put all our efforts to ban religion in any shape or form
+Murcia doxial
It really depends on the religion.
Master Markus monotheist religions are usually the bad, rotten, disgusting apples
So this film teaches that humans have no personal responsibility. The Devil has his fingers in every bad persons head and we're all completely at the whims of supernatural forces.
+1Dudelove Good points =)
No, it teaches women to be a doormat if your husbands cheating on you, but it's fine because God will fix it. That and divorce is bad.
1Dudelove Exactly.
But the best part is that you don't have to use that amazing organ to think about things and their consequences, since the answers are premade and thought up for you...
I'm surprised the old lady didn't go all Crocodile Dundee on that mugger and pull out a cross in response to his knife.
The actor playing the husband in this movie looks like he could easily play Satan in another movie. I was literally having that thought when the Snob said the same thing haha.
#ChurchAndChill
+Kimani Wilson-Hunte #BibleAndBang
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+Kimani Wilson-Hunte #santaChristAndChill :P
#SwaddlingClothesAndChill
+Sho'Nuff Da Masta #SermonandSuck
The sequel is about tony going back to his cheating ways but with one difference. Now he beats his wife with fists instead of words.
improvement?
And to fix their troubled marriage they get a bigger closet to pray in.
So the God's Not Dead 2 of this shit. Just less Leland Palmer as evil Devil lawyer.
@@servoaugusta513 No the old woman is revealed to be a demon who trapped her in her marriage useing the guise of a religious woman
@@elizabethsmith7224 That’d unironically make this trite great.
I'm on the part where she is in the closet while her husband is on a date.
"God" makes the mistress choke to death, because the husband and his friend talked about CPR. I'm calling it.
I wish
Close. He got food poisoning and their date was ruined.
this movie is pretty much just a sad crazy old woman making a younger woman just as sad and crazy as she is
OMG, i just realized...take this movie, replace the black lady with a white lady, remove the Christian stuff and BAM, Lifetime movie!
Replace the old lady with Madea, and change the ending, and you have Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
"And The Lord said, Thou Shalt MONTAGE!!!"
-Cinema Snob, 2016
"Victories don't come by accident."
If I can recall, America didn't really "win" the Vietnam War lmfao
That child’s reaction to the stinky feet is accurate. Its amazing how many times my stepson points out the embarrassing thing and I’m like, “I got it! I got it! YES! I GOT IT! MY FEET SMELL!” “Well, I was just sayin’.” 🙄
"Why's Brad now reviewing current movies or midnight screenings??"
Well folks, it's because we're in a new era of exploitation movies. Buckle up, no helmets allowed.
"Someone's been praying in this closet."
I threw my hands up in laughter and I had to question "This was a line in a movie?"
+Leafhopper when they got to that part, I was thinking of her having farted in the closet and it was just locked in there all that time until they checked it out, "Yup, someone's been praying alright."
I literally saw the DVD of this at a Target today.
They also had The Cat in the Hat.
So you can tell what kind of taste in movies they had.
I just watched a review of the Kirk Cameron movie “Fireproof” yesterday, & I gotta say the parallel themes with this movie are pretty disturbing. Both are Christian films that have good-hearted wives with verbally abusive husbands who cheat or are addicted to porn. Both are demeaning and controlling with money. Both are objectively the kind of husbands that would make anyone who cares about the wife say “Leave him now!” But the message of both of these movies is “Just stay with your awful abusive husband- God will help you sort it out!” It’s really misogynistic and dangerous. Also soothing to some men, I’m sure. “Don’t worry, your wife will never leave you if you’re both Christians! You are supposed to be the one in charge, after all!”
They are made by the same team of brothers, so it makes sense that the themes carry over.
You're not supposed to divorce without the spouse committing adultery. It does help if they both have faith
Well, at the very least, “Fireproof” is about the man in the situation learning to improve himself, but that comes with other issues, like, for instance, the movie portraying his initial treatment of his wife as normal for a rough spot in a marriage.
I am glad my mom eventually left my former stepfather. He his behind the Bible to justify his abusive behavior.
"Hey, Scotty! Jesus, man!"
I don't know about you guys,but i now want to hear Brad's McRib story
Both my BFF and I are staunch Christians. When I told her about this movie and this review, she said, "If my husband were cheating on me, HE'S the one who'd better pray!"
Never understood the lukewarm coffee analogy. Hot coffee scorches my mouth, cold coffee give me brainfreeze. I like my coffee room temperature. So every time some idiots says "no one like their coffee lukewarm..." I'm just like... I'm right here! I exist!
Also, the message of 'submit harder' to abuse victims has gotten people killed. Abusive behavior WILL escalate when they felt they got away with it.
I like a warm Cappuccino myself.
Dope, I love abuse
I don't like coffee at all. Where do I fit into that hot-cold analogy?
I like to drink a warm but not too hot cup of hot chocolate.
I'm loving these reviews of Christian movies Brad.There's just so much fun to be had picking them apart and seeing how bat shit some of them can be.
Don't bash us Christians because we don't bash you
He wasn't bashing Christians, he was just bashing shitty movies.
All, not some. #ReligionIsAMentalDisorder
@@dawnbeavers3520 Explain far-right militant "Christians" and all the religious cults, inquistions, burnings, and persecutions of non-Christians throughout history.
Bullshit your ideology doesn't attack people unprovoked. You absolutely have your own jihad, only your extremism is focused on psychological warfare.
Yeah. These movies are really kind to non-christians...
You know what I am realizing from this. That I can make a lot of money making movies for the religious community. Clearly I don't need to spend a lot of money or worry a lot about quality in order to make a lot of money. I mean it seems like a pretty shockingly surefire way to make money quickly
+Michael Logan Yeah, it's just like the collection plate, only with no good cause. As long a we throw some half ass message out there that may or may not be as virtuous as we intended. We're good! Because the idiot masses will always follow, no matter how black heartened the shepherd is.
+Michael Logan Just as long as you can get some mega-church or religious commentator to Oprah the movie to followers, pretty much. The logic worked for Cartman.
FINALLY a movie that accurately displays schizophrenia.
Ah! You are brilliant. Now that makes this movie a psychological horror drama
yep, I was going to say Take Shelter, but this one takes the cake
Blasphemy!
No one says "...fuckin' 'NAM!!" like Brad Jones. No one.
So, this is basically a movie about a woman slowly losing her mind before she finally breaks, reality shatters, and she's put in an institution. All the while her mind creates a happy ending as she lies on the floor of a padded room talking to herself.
I refuse to believe this was created by the same people behind "Fireproof". Yes, I know that film, too, has some problems, but it handled its themes better. This made me go "Wha--huh? Okay, I see where you're coming from, but, uh... wrong execution." Just what is going on in that Christian movies are being poorly-handled with their messages? The only recent one I've seen that actually wasn't ham-fisted in its religious themes or delved into propaganda was "Once I Was a Beehive".
Also, the Kendrick brothers commenting on having a dream to change the skin color of the characters kind of rubs me the wrong way. I feel like they should've kept that to themselves.
"So how's your prayer life?"
"I'm an atheist, actually. Oh, iced coffee? Thanks!"
"I know where you are, Devil!"
*Satan steps out from behind curtain*
The main actress hair looks gorgeous. That's the only thing good I can tell about this movie.
+Ana Luiza Rabelo Yeah and all things considered she wasn't a bad actress either. Hopefully she gets better material in the future.
+Highs and Lows He was supplying that heart medication and something to perk her up more than coffee!
+Ana Luiza Rabelo The main actress is gorgeous, full stop. ;D
+Kristen D. she won't cause she's black. pretty much the only thing is bad religious movies or being way, way way in the back to meet a diversity quota.
B-but *I* like my coffee lukewarm. :(
I don’t drink coffee at all. So does that mean god just ignores me?
I found Satan! Everyone, beat him with sticks!
Indeed my son. As Matthew 4:13 says, "And the Lord shall turn his eye from he who drinketh not of the bean."
I prefer a cappuccino myself.
Same here.
Having a War Room isn't a bad idea. The secret is you reinforce it, add a keycode to get it, and have it auto-dial to the cops, who arrest the domestic abuser.
I may be confusing a War Room with a Panic Room.
Panic Room is a movie that is better written movie.
21:05 The moment where the daughter considers early emancipation from her parents... :D