You may be asking yourself, “Why in the world would the
Calvinist Nerd be reviewing God’s Not
Dead when that was so last year. He should be live tweeting Do You Believe like the cool people!”
And if you are thinking that, you have forgotten one of the
rules of this blog – I ain’t spending money to do this stuff. I don’t have a ton of readers, and so to
leave my family for an evening, spend $12 on a movie ticket, to watch a bad
movie, just so I can mock it here – that’s a really bad idea.
So God’s Not Dead hit
Netflix, which meant that I don’t have to pay for it, and I didn’t have to
leave the kids to see it.
When this movie first came out, I was intrigued. It was a film that took apologetics
seriously. You know, most Christian
movies just have someone who comes to a crisis in their lives so they turn to
God to make it better. But this is one
that actually put a character in a situation where he needed to defend the
Christian faith.
And then I saw the reviews, so I decided to wait for it to
hit Netflix. But now that I’ve seen it,
let’s take a look.
As a note, I'm going to do this in two parts. In the first one (this one), I will review the movie itself. In the second, I'm going to write out the speech that I would give if I were in this kid's situation and was asked to prove God in a class. Hoping to finish that next week.
As a note, I'm going to do this in two parts. In the first one (this one), I will review the movie itself. In the second, I'm going to write out the speech that I would give if I were in this kid's situation and was asked to prove God in a class. Hoping to finish that next week.
