Not the worse that christian propaganda has to offer. Still, I found it quite offensive towards pretty much every non-christian group depicted. So if you're Atheist, Agnostic, Muslim, Chinese, a woman, a lawyer, a blogger/journalist or, most of all, a philosophy professor, please consider yourself warned.
PS: to be fair, the doctors are actually portrayed as human beings, but their faith is left unsaid.
This is pure propaganda. I hoped for an objective movie that would have a meaningful debate.
All non-believers are portrayed as evil. Truly monsters. (not exaggerating).
I expected to puke due to the subject matter but I didn't. The movie was well made but the story didn't prove anything. It just reinforced the premise that religion is for losers and people who are going through rough patches. The movie tip toed around the subject, introducing more stories than necessary. Good acting though. Yeah. God's not dead as (s)he never existed in the first place.
Madre mía!!! pedazo de truño de dimensiones bíblicas!!!! (nunca mejor dicho)
I have seen a lot of people saying that's a horrible movie, but I enjoyed, there is no fanaticism which I saw in others christian movies, that is why is different.
For everyone who thinks of him or herself as a philosopher, this movie has a great subject. For scientists this subject has a career ending risk. Even trying to deviate from the norm on other subjects on the origin of life is risky.
I myself wouldn't be that surprised if we ironically discover that we came from another world, which we left because it had lost it's magnetic field and bombarded with cosmic rays, making it un-suitable for the continuation of life.
Whatever a person chooses, to belief is up to him or her. Must I must agree that this film has some elements in it that should have been left out, although they have done they're research right. As Al-Ikhlas is the surah where Muslims differ from the Christians. Maybe the best is to belief in love for others.
And while your reading this and start to think about the words, you might accidentally wind up philosophising about the meaning of life.
As a lifelong Christian, this ain't it chief. Everything about this movie is just wrong, from its shallow theology, outlandish depictions of any non Christian groups, its ugly cinematography and horrific music choices, the whole thing is just an insult to the religion it claims to fight for. Christians, I beg of you, please stop supporting this utter garbage and give your time and money to something more deserving of it. Heck, even Veggietales would be a more informative and compelling experience than this.
Stupid, shallow and unrealistic, but at least funny to watch with a friend because the acting and scriptwriting is so bad that despite some heavy themes it’s impossible to take even a second of this movie seriously.
It’s a little corny, but God’s Not Dead has a positive message about standing up for one’s beliefs. Based on a series of court cases where colleges have infringed upon students’ religious liberties, freshman Josh Wheaton takes up his philosophy instructor’s challenge to prove that there’s a God; and in doing so he starts a ripple effect that spreads throughout his community. The acting’s pretty poor all around, and the writing’s not that good either. Yet it’s rather interesting how the story plays out and interconnects the different characters. And, there’s an inspirational quality that comes through as well. Though it has some problems, God’s Not Dead ends up being more than the sum of its parts.
God's not dead, but the script should have killed.
This is movie especially made for Evangelical Christians. The premise is interesting enough: a Philosophy professor forces his first-year students to sign a statement that God is death as part of his course. When a committed Christian refuses to sign it, the professor makes him try to prove that God exists in class lectures as part of his grade. This student --- along with other Christians in the film --- suffer for their faith, but persevere in the end. This is the Evangelical ideal: stand in for your faith even in the face of adversity from your friends, colleagues, or even your family. For, as Jesus Christ is quoted in the Scriptures: "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law --- a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household".
The film is a little triumphalist, in my opinion. The movie ends with Evangelical music performers, who are supposed to be famous --- and I am sure are famous in some quarters, but are certainly not mainstream famous. More than that, though, the professor who instigated the student to prove that God was dead, had lost the debate in his own classroom --- as judged by his own students ---, had lost her Christian live-in girlfriend, and was lying near death after being run over by a fellow atheist. And in his death throes, instigated by the pastor who counseled the student who debated him, he repents of abandoning his earlier Christian faith, and receives Christ into his heart --- which guarantees him Salvation, according to Evangelical Christian theology. Talk about a win: defeat them all, and take no prisoners.
I did like how the movie treated the religion of Islam. Yes, the film definitely portrayed it one-dimensionally via a Muslim father of a young secret Christian convert. The father is unyielding conservative in his Muslim faith, and he expects his daughter's Muslim faith to be as committed and conservative. In other words, the film portrays him as actually caring about his faith --- unlike the secularist atheists also portrayed in the film. And when this father finds out that his daughter has apostatized from Islam, and he is forced to throw her out --- which I guess is preferable to killing her --- the wrenching pain is clearly visible in his face, and he is shown near tears. In other words, the film is sophisticated enough to show the Muslim father as a real human being who is forced to choose between the family that he loves dearly and his God. And the Muslim father chooses God. But of course, it would be hypocritical if the film portrayed this father otherwise, as this is exactly the same choice that the Christian student is praised for making --- albeit with less dangerous consequences.
I gave it 5 for the debate, the rest was crap.
I really enjoyed this movie! And so did the group I was watching it with
Better than usual for Christian movies. For more, read the review:
http://rwlreviews.blogspot.com/2014/03/movie-review-gods-not-dead.html
Shout by Alex Julian ToddVIP 11BlockedParent2015-04-11T15:06:42Z
God's Not Dead- The worst and most inaccurate piece of godly propaganda I have ever seen. Aside from being riddled with fallacies and being completely unrealistic (similar to what it stands for), the film and its creators look at nothing objectively and insist that atheists and other religions are all terrible, abusive and corrupt people.
If atheists were to make a film that flipped roles and portrayed christians the way they portrayed us, there would be utter outrage. But, if you haven't noticed, no one opposing this film really took it seriously enough to even be offended.
The film tells viewers that you can't be a good moral person without Jesus, and that it is perfectly fine to abandon your religion and beliefs as long as you are abandoning them to join the christian church. They also claim that if there's no god, then we as humans have no morals. That's extremely reassuring. I should hope filmmakers never lose their faith, otherwise they could go on a killing spree.
So yeah, go watch it. It's good for a laugh or two but the sex scene is rubbish.