I feel that. I was gonna comment that sick Greg sounds pretty, well, sick. I think my sick voice sounds awesome too, but I feel like trash and I don't think it's worth the tradeoff
The funny thing is that faith focussed entertainment companies learned that they have to focus on quality and entertainment before the message but money focussed companies like Disney now do it the other way around and focus on the message before entertainment and quality.
Sooo....I saw The Shift in theaters, and I really, really wanted it to succeed, particularly because I loved the short film it was expanding upon. Unfortunately, while it's a morally better movie than nearly anything put out by Hollywood these days, I was cringing through nearly the entire first half of the film. My biggest movie pet peeves (when done poorly) are narration/voiceovers and flashbacks--and this film literally opens with a flashback and a voiceover! 😂 I'm convinced that this film would have been 100% better if it was told more linearly, showing instead of tellling, and with fewer flashbacks. The short film (which can still be found in several places here on TH-cam) shows the greatness this film could have achieved. I don't think it was a bad or even a mediocre movie, but the first half made the whole film fall flat.
It sounds like Angel Studios is making better pureflix films and it's much appreciated. Also, Neal McDonough is definitely an ideal choice to play these types of villains lol. Lastly, they got a very interesting cast here with Sean Austin and even well-known voice actors like Jason Marsden and Nolan North 🤔.
I'm really excited both to see this and that the big studios have some competition. Maybe if this one makes similar money to the sound of freedom it will make the big studios think about the direction that they are going. Keep up the great reviews Greg
I’m very interested to see how this does this weekend. Sound of Freedom definitely put the larger ones on notice, now I hope this little studio can keep up the momentum
Yeah I’m a fan of Angel Studios. They made the Wingfeather saga series that me and my nephew watch along with The Chosen. Always glad to see them try things as a alternative to big studio Hollywood. Really looking forward to their David movie if it happens
I haven’t pulled The Chosen up my queue yet, but I’ve heard nothing but good reviews on it. Seems like Angel is really trying to fix the common complaints about Christian media
@@gregowen2022 : I was there for the God’s not Dead era of Christian filmmaking as a kid. It was truly awful I can’t even lie, don’t know why I pretended to like it lol. The Chosen genuinely surprised me, not to overhype it up because I think having controlled expectations greatly enhanced my enjoyment of it going in. but it’s such a genuine surprise how good it is, and it gets better season to season. The best way I can describe it is as a “slice of life” based in the New Testament. You get or know a character in this show in you’re real life or even relate to them. It’s a very human show as well as having that Christian message and hook.
Job is my favorite book of the Old Testament and I'm glad to hear it's worth the ticket. We've been desperate for even just movie that was on the good side of decent to go to.
Yeah, the second i saw McDonough, who is a criminally underrated actor, playing the devil, i knew it would be hard for them to screw it up. He's really really great at playing just this sort of role.
@@gustavoalmanza2673thought William Dafoe did a impressive job in The Last Temptation Of Christ it came out in 1988 saw it later heard it was controversial and a cult movie as for as movies go it didn't matter when it was made it had some interesting visuals and still holds up th-cam.com/video/PUsolxpiBaY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=FgK0MS5OftDRbhyT
Probably just spends a set amount of time on his hobby each day. I did the same when raising my 4 kids. If you cut out time wasters you can actually get a lot done with a big family if you’re consistent.
This one will be right up your alley then! Job really is a good book. Challenging, as I said. The ending where God basically says I’m God and you’re not is not always an easy thing to hear.
@@gregowen2022 I've been meaning to reread it lately. I got to teach a lesson (as a layperson) on it in a Sunday School class last year. That was a really neat experience. I hadn't really noticed before, but there seems to be a poetry to the book that comes across even in the King James translation. Or maybe that was my imagination. Either way, it was beautiful stuff despite some hard life lessons hitting you in the face.
A good example of that was the series Justified which had great villains (including Neal himself one season). Then contrast that with the recent sequal series Justified: City Primeval, where the villain was just dull and uninteresting. But then so was Raylan Givens in that one, so there you go...
I'm not particularly religious myself, but I respect the incredible morals in biblical stories and definitely wanna support alternative studios so I can't wait to check this out!
Great review, Greg! This movie looks intriguing. I think you may really enjoy _The Chosen_ . Its creative interpretation of the Gospels has helped me grow in faith. The acting, writing, and production values are excellent.
The Chosen has been such a blessing to me and my teenage son. He was 14 when we started watching during the lockdown and my now 18 year old is still going with me to watch them at the theater.
I plan to check out the film either tomorrow or Saturday. So far everything Angel Studios puts out is already leagues better than what we were given through PureFlix, the Kendrick Bros & even those 90s corny direct-to-video Christian films (ex: Second Glance) combined.
Damn, this looks like a good one. I'm familiar with the background, but it's been a long time since I've practiced, so I have a feeling a lot of this might go over my head. I'll give anything with McDonough a chance, though. Great video, Greg.
I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on it! As with all bubbles, the church can develop our own lingo and general understandings that don’t translate how we think they do.
That one is interesting to me because all the exorcist priests online love it. Which is unusual, because usually when an exorcist movie comes out, they all say it's stupid.
im a bit anti religion but that actor that plays the villain looks like such a good actor and the dystopian totalitarian thing makes me wanna watch it so bad. Legit looks like a cool movie
Broo my parents love vidangel and drybar, but this looked so good from your first 2 minutes of describing it that I think I’m gonna watch it for myself and come to watch this so I don’t spoil it 😆
My teenage son and I had the same critiques, but then things fell into place as you said and we loved it. We want to go see it again now that we get what was going on. Worth seeing for sure! Neal McDonough was amazing!!
I have been with this process of this movie since the beginning. I was actually able to read the old full script of the movie and was looking forward to seeing it on screen. Because of that I loved it and loved seeing what I read on the page come to life. That may make me very biased but I still loved it.
I wanna watch a double feature of this and Silent Night. I’m definitely gonna keep Angel Studios on my radar, the world building in the trailer really peaked my interest
What I found absolutely hilarious about this film is thay everyone always looked so scared of the Benefactor, but he himself never lifts a finger to do any harm.
A Christian movie where it focuses on different books and stories from the Bible instead of the whole "Jesus is good and God is great!" schtick? Awesome!
I just saw the movie and thought your review was spot on. Love Angel studios but I did feel this movie had too many things going on at once. Would have loved to have seen Molly’s character developed more and spent less time in the dark sci-fi world.
I'm not a particularly religious person. I really enjoyed this film. Surprisingly engaging throughout with really solid acting from everyone. I was expecting a cheesy TV movie level cringe fest. I didn't love the ending but overall I think they did a great Job with it
I didn’t have to pay for and I was bought snacks as well so it was a nice movie experience. There were no Comicbook tie ins to my knowledge and no action figures either.
I don’t know about Quantum Leap, other than The Captain Atom Comicbooks of the 1980’s to 1990’s I am just now reading the CA books from the silver age.
Teleprompter for the last 2 months now. Before that I used to print the script and memorize two lines at a time. Prompter is cutting filming fully in half!
I think it may have be better adapted as a miniseries. Other than that it’s a pretty cool think piece. Some of it is rather insightful. I know the Bible very well and feel like I’ve missed a few juicy bits. It is pretty good . The best all around movie I’ve seen in quite a while and far more nourishing intellectually and emotionally than most.
I thought I recognized Kevin P... he does a lot of Hallmark mysteries, I like him. THe problem you had with looking for all the symbolism is the same a lot of others have when reading Moby Dick and other books.
I saw a screener and had the same reaction, I was annoyed with the editing and trying to do too much in the movie. I watched in a second time in the theatre and thoroughly enjoyed it....when I ditched trying to match the movie to what I should it should be based on a movie poster.
Not religious but I would definitely watch it, if only for Neal McDonough. That guy is always interesting. Well, not always...I saw the low-budget movie Boon and that had way too many problems to mention.
I'm glad the writing for satan was done well. Most stories depict him as obviously evil, the whole horned goat dude thing, but that's not how he is written in classical literature. He's an archangel who got tapped to play the bad guy in our world, not some skulking demon.
Hey do you have any intention of watching the new Godzilla film? Yes it isn't in English but I would recommend it. It has a really nice message about people recovering after war and about finding family in those harsh times. While also having Godzilla destroy stuff, you couldn't have asked for more!
I really do thinkg we should have more modern day religious movies not in the offensive and oppressive ways like God is not dead, but like Book of Eli. Movies and television where those stories or expressions of those stories are set in a modern or post modern setting giving ample space to tell them
I’d like to mention the sound quality. I don’t know enough technical terms to give an accurate description but in your last 2 vids it sounded like my phone’s speaker had water damage. In this video your voice sounds muffled. I’ve double checked and it‘a mostly with your more recent videos. From Barbie-Manosphere back it isn’t as noticeable. This is all just an FYI, I’m still a permanent fan of the channel man! Thanks for the great content!
I genuinely appreciate you saying something. I can’t seem to get the hang of the sound, but I’ll have to look at what I was trying these last couple and undo it. Maybe I’ll just quit trying to enhance the speech at all and see what that does. I don’t know the technical bits either, and Premiere has sooooo many audio options
My wife and I saw it yesterday. There were things to like in it and the messages were good, but man the movie drags for the first half after the devil leaves the picture for a while. This movie should have been trimmed down, there are a lot of slow moments in the movie.
You said Memento "somehow" communicated that the audience was meant to be confused at first, but this one failed to achieve that. I'd be interested if you could expand on the "somehow", somewhat.
I wish I knew also. I thought about it while scripting that bit, and I can’t come up with how they did it, but somehow I just knew I wasn’t missing anything, it was supposed to be confusing and disorienting.
Has anyone seen Shane Smith and Greg owens in a room together? 🤔 Anyway, thanks, Greg. I was kind of wanting to see this because I'm a sucker for high concept stories and your honest but fair review gives me some hope it will be worth a watch. (Too many of these I find... decent, but flawed. But that's a rant for another day.)
Hahaha, I can’t imagine the amount of foundation Shayne would need to look like me. I do hope you enjoy the movie. I wish I could have heaped tons of praise on it, but as you say most things are decent but flawed. I like the direction this company is taking, however, and if they can get a few kinks worked out, they have a very bright future
@@gregowen2022I know you're secret. You just grab a marker and let your kids draw on you to make it look like you're "tatted up" Mr. "Shane." 😉 But i feel ya, but it is important to be honest. They can't improve if you pull back or hold your criticism because "it's the right message" ya know? Some of Angel Studios' earlier work could be... very mediocre, but they have been much improving since then.
Just got back from watching this…I wasn’t impressed. I wish I could say otherwise, but to me the pacing was awful and it got downright boring at points. Tabish was pretty good in her role. McDonough stole the show and was excellent as always. He simply is one of the best villains in all of Hollywood, period. I like the concept of this movie a lot. A modern day job tale, but it just felt flat. Although it did spark an excellent conversation with my son about how we have an almost unlimited amount of ways to say yes to the devil, but there is only one way to say no.
Just seeing THE SHIFT trailer ,I like it.The guy that p.ays the drvil,UGH eho wants yo see someone play him,UGH, You know whdn xomeone played the part they have to watch who they play, JACK NICOLESON WARN3D LEDGER THE ACTOR DON,T PLAY THE JOKER THIS ONE IS UGH, HE DID AND HE DIED, LOOK IT UP
This movie is if Christopher Nolan made a Christian movie. Ignore the story of Job and the bible parallels. While it is loosely based on them, the story stands better on it's own imo. Also, Satan is hardcore the best part of this movie.
@@gregowen2022I was just making a joke since theirs this character called Night Shift from my childhood and his catchphrase was role with the punches. (Ding Ding)
To be honest, this kind of Christian movie doesn't appeal to me as a Christian. A very interesting Christian movie premise would be Christianity in the Byzantium, maybe the Byzantine Iconoclasm era from 726 to 842, those were interesting times. Also, we don't see the Byzantine Empire depicted in Western media that often, almost never. Or a movie focusing on one of the Desert Fathers in Egypt. Or a movie about Mount Athos in medieval times. Or a movie about Christian monks and hermits. Or a movie about the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453 and how Christians fought bravely to protect their city. Or even a movie about a modern Saint like Man of God (2021) about Saint Nectarios of Aegina etc etc. I find American Christian movies that have primarily a Protestant/evangelical view to be sterilized and missing a lot of important Christian history, mainly because Protestants are against the notion of saints, monks and nuns.
I’m excited that they are doing an old testament story that isn’t in Exodus. I agree that I would like some historical stuff about Christianity in different ages where the church isn’t the bad guy crusaders.
@@gregowen2022 Yeah, "historical stuff about Christianity" would include saints, nuns and monks, which aren't a thing for protestants. Even if those stories depict very interesting events in Christianity as well as interesting characters in the saints.
@@RhiannonSenpaiAngel is releasing a movie about Mother Cabrini next year, from the same creative team that did _Sound of Freedom_ . I recommend you watch the trailer. It looks amazing!
This movie was so bad I couldn’t believe it. A patch work of so many famous movies under of course the simplistic prism of religion. I lost any interest the first 5 minutes when our hero prayed to God and the devil disappeared, from that point on was just a bad comedy
I don't remember the Biblical book of job much; but I did love Robert Heinlein's "Job: A Comedy of Justice". "The Shift" seems like a bad version of that.
Oh, Sean Astin is in this, huh? Strange he didn't end up like Harvey Weinstien and Bill Cosby. I guess he did a better job paying off and/or intimidating the women he assaulted. Sam Ganges is still a great character though.
I wish I could sound like this without feeling like this.
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I feel that. I was gonna comment that sick Greg sounds pretty, well, sick. I think my sick voice sounds awesome too, but I feel like trash and I don't think it's worth the tradeoff
Ah! You had the Barry White Sicksy voice! It sucks that we have to be sick to have it.
(Except for Barry White. The bastard.)
The funny thing is that faith focussed entertainment companies learned that they have to focus on quality and entertainment before the message but money focussed companies like Disney now do it the other way around and focus on the message before entertainment and quality.
Going forward, I hope we continue to see faith movies rise with the same trajectory that Disney and others are falling
Neal McDonough as Satan is genius casting! Dude's eyes 😳
I definitely agree he always plays a great bad guy
He really puts in a great performance here
Neal McDonough is one of the best actors of this generation. He is great at playing evil characters without being over the top.
Sooo....I saw The Shift in theaters, and I really, really wanted it to succeed, particularly because I loved the short film it was expanding upon. Unfortunately, while it's a morally better movie than nearly anything put out by Hollywood these days, I was cringing through nearly the entire first half of the film. My biggest movie pet peeves (when done poorly) are narration/voiceovers and flashbacks--and this film literally opens with a flashback and a voiceover! 😂 I'm convinced that this film would have been 100% better if it was told more linearly, showing instead of tellling, and with fewer flashbacks. The short film (which can still be found in several places here on TH-cam) shows the greatness this film could have achieved. I don't think it was a bad or even a mediocre movie, but the first half made the whole film fall flat.
It sounds like Angel Studios is making better pureflix films and it's much appreciated. Also, Neal McDonough is definitely an ideal choice to play these types of villains lol.
Lastly, they got a very interesting cast here with Sean Austin and even well-known voice actors like Jason Marsden and Nolan North 🤔.
I'm really excited both to see this and that the big studios have some competition. Maybe if this one makes similar money to the sound of freedom it will make the big studios think about the direction that they are going. Keep up the great reviews Greg
I’m very interested to see how this does this weekend. Sound of Freedom definitely put the larger ones on notice, now I hope this little studio can keep up the momentum
Yeah I’m a fan of Angel Studios. They made the Wingfeather saga series that me and my nephew watch along with The Chosen.
Always glad to see them try things as a alternative to big studio Hollywood. Really looking forward to their David movie if it happens
I definitely agree
I haven’t pulled The Chosen up my queue yet, but I’ve heard nothing but good reviews on it. Seems like Angel is really trying to fix the common complaints about Christian media
@@gregowen2022 : I was there for the God’s not Dead era of Christian filmmaking as a kid. It was truly awful I can’t even lie, don’t know why I pretended to like it lol. The Chosen genuinely surprised me, not to overhype it up because I think having controlled expectations greatly enhanced my enjoyment of it going in. but it’s such a genuine surprise how good it is, and it gets better season to season.
The best way I can describe it is as a “slice of life” based in the New Testament. You get or know a character in this show in you’re real life or even relate to them. It’s a very human show as well as having that Christian message and hook.
Job is my favorite book of the Old Testament and I'm glad to hear it's worth the ticket. We've been desperate for even just movie that was on the good side of decent to go to.
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Many people don’t get Job . I hope this movie helps them relate.
@@daviddrew3372 Plenty of people "get Job". The whole story is a shitshow by a shit deity.
Yeah, the second i saw McDonough, who is a criminally underrated actor, playing the devil, i knew it would be hard for them to screw it up. He's really really great at playing just this sort of role.
He really is. He is so good at being intense and scary without screaming and overacting. He does a good “crazy eyes”, lol
@@gregowen2022the only other actors that can do that I think are Willem Dafoe and Javier Bardem. The three of them would make a good team
@@gustavoalmanza2673thought William Dafoe did a impressive job in The Last Temptation Of Christ it came out in 1988 saw it later heard it was controversial and a cult movie as for as movies go it didn't matter when it was made it had some interesting visuals and still holds up
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How do you make soo many detailed reviews in a short span of time? while being a father of 6 kids
🤔…ignore the kids? That'd be my guess.
He also has a full-time job iirc
I'm actually very curious myself because i just have one kid and a 9-5.
Probably just spends a set amount of time on his hobby each day. I did the same when raising my 4 kids. If you cut out time wasters you can actually get a lot done with a big family if you’re consistent.
He should do a video series on that.....
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Much appreciate the Skillet shout-out! That band is the GOAT! 🤟🏻
Job is my favorite Old Testament book and I love Neal McDonough, so I'm on board.
This one will be right up your alley then! Job really is a good book. Challenging, as I said. The ending where God basically says I’m God and you’re not is not always an easy thing to hear.
@@gregowen2022 I've been meaning to reread it lately. I got to teach a lesson (as a layperson) on it in a Sunday School class last year. That was a really neat experience. I hadn't really noticed before, but there seems to be a poetry to the book that comes across even in the King James translation.
Or maybe that was my imagination. Either way, it was beautiful stuff despite some hard life lessons hitting you in the face.
I do find villains are naturally more compelling characters just in general. A movie can live and die on a good bad guy
A good example of that was the series Justified which had great villains (including Neal himself one season). Then contrast that with the recent sequal series Justified: City Primeval, where the villain was just dull and uninteresting. But then so was Raylan Givens in that one, so there you go...
I'm not particularly religious myself, but I respect the incredible morals in biblical stories and definitely wanna support alternative studios so I can't wait to check this out!
I hope you enjoy it! I’m interested to hear how you feel about it if you don’t have a religious background or familiarity with the book of Job.
I hope this movie marks a SHIFT in the quality of Christian movies going forward.
Seems like that is Angle’s goal, and so far they are nailing it
Great review, Greg! This movie looks intriguing. I think you may really enjoy _The Chosen_ . Its creative interpretation of the Gospels has helped me grow in faith. The acting, writing, and production values are excellent.
The Chosen has been such a blessing to me and my teenage son. He was 14 when we started watching during the lockdown and my now 18 year old is still going with me to watch them at the theater.
I plan to check out the film either tomorrow or Saturday. So far everything Angel Studios puts out is already leagues better than what we were given through PureFlix, the Kendrick Bros & even those 90s corny direct-to-video Christian films (ex: Second Glance) combined.
As a lapsed atheist I'll give this a look. Would never have heard of it without Greg!
I do hope you enjoy it!
Damn, this looks like a good one. I'm familiar with the background, but it's been a long time since I've practiced, so I have a feeling a lot of this might go over my head. I'll give anything with McDonough a chance, though.
Great video, Greg.
I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on it! As with all bubbles, the church can develop our own lingo and general understandings that don’t translate how we think they do.
Sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out. Have you seen Nefarious by chance? It has another well written, evil character that steals the show
That one is interesting to me because all the exorcist priests online love it. Which is unusual, because usually when an exorcist movie comes out, they all say it's stupid.
I haven't heard of this movie, but the premise sounds really interesting.
im a bit anti religion but that actor that plays the villain looks like such a good actor and the dystopian totalitarian thing makes me wanna watch it so bad. Legit looks like a cool movie
Broo my parents love vidangel and drybar, but this looked so good from your first 2 minutes of describing it that I think I’m gonna watch it for myself and come to watch this so I don’t spoil it 😆
I hope you enjoy it!
My teenage son and I had the same critiques, but then things fell into place as you said and we loved it. We want to go see it again now that we get what was going on. Worth seeing for sure! Neal McDonough was amazing!!
Yeah, it’s unfortunate that the first half feels a bit muddied, but they puller it together. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I have been with this process of this movie since the beginning. I was actually able to read the old full script of the movie and was looking forward to seeing it on screen. Because of that I loved it and loved seeing what I read on the page come to life. That may make me very biased but I still loved it.
I recently had a really bad cold (possibly C*vid) and my voice got really deep. My wife loved it. I wish I could have kept it after I got better.
Right? Why do we have to feel like crap in order to sound smokey and soulful?!
Wow.
Neil McDonough's performance is superb in this movie.
Very nice! I wouldn’t have heard about it if not for this. I think I’ll check it out
I hope you enjoy it!
Sean Astin Rudy is the bravest man I know
I read the script when it was available during their crowd source campaign. I am looking forward to seeing this.
I wanna watch a double feature of this and Silent Night. I’m definitely gonna keep Angel Studios on my radar, the world building in the trailer really peaked my interest
I agree with your review ❤ great movie. A lovely theme of hope is magnified at the end. Its fantatastic🎉 🎉
I saw this today, it was so good. Very inspiring!
What I found absolutely hilarious about this film is thay everyone always looked so scared of the Benefactor, but he himself never lifts a finger to do any harm.
Yeah lol, but that’s the point. Satan can’t kill you, or hurt you. He tricks everyone into fearing him
Satan can't hurt or kill you without God's permission, but God does sometimes give him permission.@@Rez_97
Thank you for sharing this! I had no idea it existed.
I hope you enjoy it!
A Christian movie where it focuses on different books and stories from the Bible instead of the whole "Jesus is good and God is great!" schtick? Awesome!
Right? It’s an excellent idea and I can’t wait to see more!
This sounds interesting enough and I sertainly wanna support other studios... Job defiantly would make interesting movie.
Saw it last night… I gave it a 3/10. Acting wasn’t terrible, but my goodness the dialogue is extremely heavy in this movie.
I just saw the movie and thought your review was spot on. Love Angel studios but I did feel this movie had too many things going on at once. Would have loved to have seen Molly’s character developed more and spent less time in the dark sci-fi world.
Sounds a bit like Heinlein's "JOB: A Comedy of Justice."
Agreed. It was a multiverse quantum leap story by which the main character can never catch a break... decades old.
I'm not a particularly religious person. I really enjoyed this film. Surprisingly engaging throughout with really solid acting from everyone. I was expecting a cheesy TV movie level cringe fest. I didn't love the ending but overall I think they did a great Job with it
I didn’t have to pay for and I was bought snacks as well so it was a nice movie experience. There were no Comicbook tie ins to my knowledge and no action figures either.
I don’t know about Quantum Leap, other than The Captain Atom Comicbooks of the 1980’s to 1990’s I am just now reading the CA books from the silver age.
God bless Jesus is with you
Do you memorize a script or read a teleprompter equivalent?
Teleprompter for the last 2 months now. Before that I used to print the script and memorize two lines at a time. Prompter is cutting filming fully in half!
I think it may have be better adapted as a miniseries. Other than that it’s a pretty cool think piece. Some of it is rather insightful. I know the Bible very well and feel like I’ve missed a few juicy bits. It is pretty good . The best all around movie I’ve seen in quite a while and far more nourishing intellectually and emotionally than most.
Awesome review! I, too, am among their target audience! :)
I thought I recognized Kevin P... he does a lot of Hallmark mysteries, I like him. THe problem you had with looking for all the symbolism is the same a lot of others have when reading Moby Dick and other books.
Shane Austin Gamgy! Never forget it!
Yes thank you I felt lost
Neal McD explains evil really well in this movie. Additionally the very nature of free will becomes apparent.
I saw a screener and had the same reaction, I was annoyed with the editing and trying to do too much in the movie. I watched in a second time in the theatre and thoroughly enjoyed it....when I ditched trying to match the movie to what I should it should be based on a movie poster.
Not religious but I would definitely watch it, if only for Neal McDonough. That guy is always interesting. Well, not always...I saw the low-budget movie Boon and that had way too many problems to mention.
Strong 300th like.
1:30 was comparing him to The Beyonder in Marvel comics
Agreed, it is confusing.
I'm glad the writing for satan was done well. Most stories depict him as obviously evil, the whole horned goat dude thing, but that's not how he is written in classical literature. He's an archangel who got tapped to play the bad guy in our world, not some skulking demon.
Films featuring a good villain usually end up being good.
Hey do you have any intention of watching the new Godzilla film? Yes it isn't in English but I would recommend it. It has a really nice message about people recovering after war and about finding family in those harsh times. While also having Godzilla destroy stuff, you couldn't have asked for more!
I really do thinkg we should have more modern day religious movies not in the offensive and oppressive ways like God is not dead, but like Book of Eli. Movies and television where those stories or expressions of those stories are set in a modern or post modern setting giving ample space to tell them
It was like a dumbed down Sliders as a 🎥.
I’d like to mention the sound quality. I don’t know enough technical terms to give an accurate description but in your last 2 vids it sounded like my phone’s speaker had water damage. In this video your voice sounds muffled. I’ve double checked and it‘a mostly with your more recent videos. From Barbie-Manosphere back it isn’t as noticeable. This is all just an FYI, I’m still a permanent fan of the channel man! Thanks for the great content!
I genuinely appreciate you saying something. I can’t seem to get the hang of the sound, but I’ll have to look at what I was trying these last couple and undo it. Maybe I’ll just quit trying to enhance the speech at all and see what that does. I don’t know the technical bits either, and Premiere has sooooo many audio options
Great review!
It’s a cross between Left Behind and Season 1 of Loki.
I didn't realize it was out already...
Same here. I do remember seeing the trailer in the summer, but then forgot it. I hope it does well this weekend
I'd like your thoughts on the Dr who episode 🤔🤔
My wife and I saw it yesterday. There were things to like in it and the messages were good, but man the movie drags for the first half after the devil leaves the picture for a while. This movie should have been trimmed down, there are a lot of slow moments in the movie.
One small critique: It would be nice that clip inserts are quieter than voice to not rip my ears every time I hear revolution!
Never heard of this
I really enjoyed the movie
You said Memento "somehow" communicated that the audience was meant to be confused at first, but this one failed to achieve that. I'd be interested if you could expand on the "somehow", somewhat.
I wish I knew also. I thought about it while scripting that bit, and I can’t come up with how they did it, but somehow I just knew I wasn’t missing anything, it was supposed to be confusing and disorienting.
Has anyone seen Shane Smith and Greg owens in a room together? 🤔
Anyway, thanks, Greg. I was kind of wanting to see this because I'm a sucker for high concept stories and your honest but fair review gives me some hope it will be worth a watch. (Too many of these I find... decent, but flawed. But that's a rant for another day.)
Hahaha, I can’t imagine the amount of foundation Shayne would need to look like me.
I do hope you enjoy the movie. I wish I could have heaped tons of praise on it, but as you say most things are decent but flawed. I like the direction this company is taking, however, and if they can get a few kinks worked out, they have a very bright future
@@gregowen2022I know you're secret. You just grab a marker and let your kids draw on you to make it look like you're "tatted up" Mr. "Shane." 😉
But i feel ya, but it is important to be honest. They can't improve if you pull back or hold your criticism because "it's the right message" ya know? Some of Angel Studios' earlier work could be... very mediocre, but they have been much improving since then.
You should review The Tuttle Twins.
Honestly, I really should. I like the books
I would pay good money to see you doing a Shane Smith cosplay.
Hahaha, just some sharpie on my face and carrying around a stuffed alligator
Just got back from watching this…I wasn’t impressed. I wish I could say otherwise, but to me the pacing was awful and it got downright boring at points. Tabish was pretty good in her role. McDonough stole the show and was excellent as always. He simply is one of the best villains in all of Hollywood, period.
I like the concept of this movie a lot. A modern day job tale, but it just felt flat. Although it did spark an excellent conversation with my son about how we have an almost unlimited amount of ways to say yes to the devil, but there is only one way to say no.
When I saw that blonde dude I knew he was a baddie, he rarely if ever plays a hero, or even a supporting character role.
"sean astin gamgee" hahaha
I made it about 15 minutes into the movie
Just seeing THE SHIFT trailer ,I like it.The guy that p.ays the drvil,UGH eho wants yo see someone play him,UGH, You know whdn xomeone played the part they have to watch who they play, JACK NICOLESON WARN3D LEDGER THE ACTOR DON,T PLAY THE JOKER THIS ONE IS UGH, HE DID AND HE DIED, LOOK IT UP
Multiverse stuff is really hard for alot of BOOMERS to understand/follow 😢
I’m here
Happy to have you, as always!
Rotten Tomatoes Audience is giving it 86% so far.
And already over $4MM at the box office! Excellent news!
This movie is if Christopher Nolan made a Christian movie. Ignore the story of Job and the bible parallels. While it is loosely based on them, the story stands better on it's own imo.
Also, Satan is hardcore the best part of this movie.
This movie sucked…
Me in immediately and I couldn’t turn away. Great film.
OMG is this a true story? Yes, the future is now. Look
The shift? I know what a Night Shift is but not this, I guess I have to role with the punches.
Night shift is rough is what it is
@@gregowen2022I was just making a joke since theirs this character called Night Shift from my childhood and his catchphrase was role with the punches.
(Ding Ding)
To be honest, this kind of Christian movie doesn't appeal to me as a Christian. A very interesting Christian movie premise would be Christianity in the Byzantium, maybe the Byzantine Iconoclasm era from 726 to 842, those were interesting times. Also, we don't see the Byzantine Empire depicted in Western media that often, almost never. Or a movie focusing on one of the Desert Fathers in Egypt. Or a movie about Mount Athos in medieval times. Or a movie about Christian monks and hermits. Or a movie about the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453 and how Christians fought bravely to protect their city. Or even a movie about a modern Saint like Man of God (2021) about Saint Nectarios of Aegina etc etc.
I find American Christian movies that have primarily a Protestant/evangelical view to be sterilized and missing a lot of important Christian history, mainly because Protestants are against the notion of saints, monks and nuns.
I’m excited that they are doing an old testament story that isn’t in Exodus. I agree that I would like some historical stuff about Christianity in different ages where the church isn’t the bad guy crusaders.
@@gregowen2022 Yeah, "historical stuff about Christianity" would include saints, nuns and monks, which aren't a thing for protestants. Even if those stories depict very interesting events in Christianity as well as interesting characters in the saints.
@@RhiannonSenpaiAngel is releasing a movie about Mother Cabrini next year, from the same creative team that did _Sound of Freedom_ . I recommend you watch the trailer. It looks amazing!
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@@gregowen2022 No I just leave a comment to boost the video & so that if I ever come back hear Ill know how long ago I watched the video.
This movie was so bad I couldn’t believe it. A patch work of so many famous movies under of course the simplistic prism of religion. I lost any interest the first 5 minutes when our hero prayed to God and the devil disappeared, from that point on was just a bad comedy
I don't remember the Biblical book of job much; but I did love Robert Heinlein's "Job: A Comedy of Justice". "The Shift" seems like a bad version of that.
It's low budget because it's a Christian freak show and only invisible skydaddy followers will show up to another bad movie
Oh, Sean Astin is in this, huh? Strange he didn't end up like Harvey Weinstien and Bill Cosby. I guess he did a better job paying off and/or intimidating the women he assaulted. Sam Ganges is still a great character though.
Wait, you're right-wing and Christian?.....
Technically, Libertarian, but if we’re talking a left-right scale, then I’m more to the right.
I walked out. Sucked
This movie sucked so bad omg