I'm Not Ashamed | Say MovieNight Kevin
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มี.ค. 2017
- The Columbine School Shooting was horrific, but was it as bad as this movie about it?! Find out as Kevin reviews I'm Not Ashamed, one of the biggest Pureflix titles of the year! Learn the story of Rachel Joy Scott and her fun, quirky, high school!
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This guy's review is 10x worse than the movie
Hes not ashamed
21:45 alone is better than this movie
lol that’s impossible
ASMR CITY it’s better editing that’s for sure
@Walter white gaming that was actually meant for a different video that I disliked vehemently, not this one
Taking Columbine and making into a teen Christian drama is impressive in a terrible way. It's so uncomfortable.
What's next? Gonna use 9/11 as a backdrop?
+EarthboundX Remember Me beat them to it
Inkswitch speaking of, kevin should review that
well it comes to show that some killings and genocides are because of religious hatred. the Christian faith is at war with the world, and innocent people like Rachel have already paid the price.
Remember Me wasn't about 9/11 though, it was a totally different movie, that just ended with the character looking out of one windows of the Twin Towers on 9/11, but other than that, it has nothing to do with it.
Pureflix: I'm not ashamed!
Kevin: well you SHOULD be!
I have Newsboys stuck in my head because of this movie. Probably dating myself here :-/
Bahaha!
That was exactly my response when I found out they were making this movie.
@@PhoenixHealing I like Newsboys. :)
@Dylan Klebold so very very much
Is it just me, or did Pure Flix make Rachel the moodiest, emotional, brooding character possible?
They turned the Columbine shooting into Twilight: Colorado edition. HOW DO YOU EVEN DO THAT, PURE FLIX?!
She even looks like Bella. I made that connection about halfway through the review. It's spooky how they did that.
Oh. Gosh. Yes. I kept waiting for her to mumble in a monotone about Edward leaving her to sit staring out a window for weeks.
Holy, I knew this looked horribly familiar...now I know why.
Haha, so true! But she's still a better actress than Sadie Robertson (which isn't saying much). There's no way she would've been cast if her dad wasn't Willie from Duck Dynasty :P
@@KisukeOboro she looks more like Victoria Justice
Making a Christian flick out of columbine is kinda like making a musical out of 9/11
Classyyert The worst part of this is that my friends and I would totally watch that. Even the normal one (He really likes musicals).
Christians exploited the hell out of it when it happened. (I would know. I was there.)
Sorry you forgot Fahrenheit 911
Then came the day, Osama blew us away!
I mean it’s called Come From Away but ok
My problem with movies and books like this even existing is that they act all “oh yeah the other 12 people that died that was really sad but look at HER!!! That’s even more sad.” It’s as if all the other lives of the other kids and the teacher didn’t matter as much as her because she died for her faith
Black kid shot in back of library while shooters screamed the n word is sad, but did you know Rachel was Christian?
@@theimplications635 but how was their relationship with Jeezis
This specific movie is based on journals that she wrote, and the accounts of her family and friends. Of course it’s gonna focus solely on her. There are dozens of other books and movies about the shooting that focus more on the whole story. That doesn’t make this bad. And she was the figurehead martyr of the shooting way before this movie was made. Countless antiviolence campaigns and Christian groups have been formed in her name. That’s why. Nobody ever said those other deaths meant less. You’re fighting with yourself
And the award for best/worst timed use of All-Star by Smash Mouth goes to...
I always love how Christians say people should be more personally responsible, then they blame Columbine and videogames. Double standard much, Pureflix?
I agree. As I Christian, I believe that each person is responsible for their own action. Video games are not to blame. It's the motive behind the shooters that was to blame.
Yeah, why don’t people just actually accept responsibility for their own or other people’s actions instead of scapegoating random other things like games, music, tv shows, movies. Just accept responsibility.
Between her journal entries and the movie's depiction of her, I have an inkling that Rachel had an actual depressive disorder that was never diagnosed. Her excessive guilt, statement that she felt empty when she had no reason to, the suicide attempt (which did happen) all seem to indicate something was wrong and never addressed.
Your saying she had a suicide attempt. Where did you hear that from?
Probably came from her journal @@izaiahvorhees1334
"Our bland and cliche teen movie will never get any money! We need to change something.......but what....."
"Columbine"
"You always read my mind, Bobby."
I don't know about you guys, but I never get tired of the "this is a pure flix" joke.
"This is definitely a post-9/11 haircut." 😂
"COME TO THE FRONT" is one of my favorite things from BlimeyCow ever, second only to "IT'S CHRISTIAAAAAAAAAN"
"people should be led to truth by truth, and if not, they're not going to believe you anymore"
I love this and want to cite this in one of my seminary papers.
Am I the only one that completely loses it whenever Kevin just laughs at the movie without saying a word?
+Awesomer, Inc. :-) thanks.
I feel like if I were Rachel's family I'd be pissed about this movie.
Actually, Rachel's mother is the one who started the whole "Rachel was shot for being Christian" martyrdom. The guy who was closest to Rachel when she got shot said Eric and Dylan shot her from a distance and never asked her if she believed in God. They did ask another girl, but funny enough, she survived.
Taylor Holmstrom She had already been shot, she was prayng, one of the boys, asked her if she believed in god, she said "yes" and he just walked away, not nearly enough drama for the Evangelical crowd, who like to imagine they are persecuted on the scale of Polish Jews, during World war 2
Actually, Rachel’s brother was in the movie. Craig Scott, he was the dude bagging the groceries... and no, I didn’t watch this awful movie. I read it on IMDB
Aubri, they are not pissed. They were actually very involved in production. Her mother formed a close bond with the actress that played Rachel.
False. Her autopsy shows that the fatal shot was at point blank range in her temple. Also, her friend testified that he heard them taunt her about her faith and ask her what she believed. Either way, Christians, disabled persons, and blacks were targeted because the boys were obsessed with Hitler, hence they chose 4/20. They had a list that Rachel was on, and they referred to her as a “Godly whore” in their videos. They targeted her for her beliefs. She was, in fact, martyred. You should really do some research on it!
"I'm workin on a journal right now that'll one day be turned into a movie. I just don't have a good ending yet."
That's edgy, b0ss. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I love that this girl complains about how much her life sucks to her homeless boyfriend.
That PureFlix joke never gets old!
Madeline Hoppenstedt I laugh harder each time he makes it haha
It's the rule of 9,000. A good joke is funny 9,000 times before it gets old.
Then I will make sure to enjoy it while I can, before Kevin reviews God's not Dead 500
ITS OVER 9000
PureShits
This is just a high school drama with a horrible shooting tacked on at the end.
Plus foreshadowing. Lots of foreshadowing.
I believe this movie predated 13 Reasons Why, but my impression of it is it's what would happen if 13 Reasons Why was a Christian movie.
the succession of jokes at 4:40 just slayed me. using chex quest footage instead of Doom, then saying "that one Leonardo DiCaprio movie..oh yea Titanic" and using the image from the animated version...I choked on my food at that point.
+Chol .Yerlow lol, I'm so glad you noticed this. I was thinking, "is it one too many jokes?!" Lol. It's like it gets further and further removed from what Is even happening. But I think it worked. Lol.
Should I feel bad for laughing?
They're all smoking because they're partying like it's 1999
Also FAKE NEWSSSSSSS
HOWCOULDTHISHAPPENTOMEEEE
IVEMADEMYMISTAKES
Collin Hernandez comment of the month right here
they are smoking because they are not ashamed.
I seriously lost it when All Star started playing.
I think I soiled my chair and had my family run to me, I laughed that hard!
I did, too. XD
Kalmahavak That profile pic. And your comment Go's together extremely well.
Kalmahavak ive replayed that part like 20 times now lmfao
I started laughing pretty hard myself 🤣 I bet that would’ve made the movie so much better
Honestly, I feel like they should have made a movie about John Tomlin. From what I read, his Christian faith seemed more accurate than Rachel's or Cassie's. He left his bible on the dashboard of his truck in hope someone would see it be closer to god. Drove to Mexico to help build a house for a poor family, and in his final moments he invited a scared Nicole Nowlen under his table despite not knowing her and comforted her. He seemed like a good Christian.
But I guess there's no persecution complex with his story.
"She could have saved so many lives here with an eraser." 😂 I lost it.
Why do Christian movies always feel the need to try to be overemotional??
This is just my own theory, but I think it's because some Christians--not all, but some--have victim complexes. And it sort of makes sense if you think about it: Jesus was persecuted for being an outcast who stood up to the social and religious authorities of his time when they were no longer serving people's societal and spiritual needs. Therefore, in order to feel like they're being proper followers of Jesus' example of simply being a good person, some Christians feel like they also need to be marginalized, persecuted outcasts, even if it's just in their own heads or in the movies they make. But, like I said, that's just my opinion.
Cause Christianity in the modern world is 98% emotionalism and sentimentality divorced from all meaning, and 2% actual theology.
You should watch God's Club with Stephen Baldwin he shows no emotions in that movie. 😂
Back in 1999, I was listening to The Smashing Pumpkins. That's how I handled being a sad teenager.
And also listening to Metallica's old stuff
How bout KFMDM and Rammenstein?
so did dylan klebold though
Section GamingPlus I listened to a lot of X, Lou Reed, Television, Patty Smith, Nick Drake. Black Flag, and Sex Pistols.
Excellent review btw! I'm a Christian, but I can't stand most Christian movies for the reasons you stated. This one especially bothers me because it perpetuates so myths about Columbine. Not to mention the movie seems disrespectful to almost everyone involved except Rachel.
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I agree with everything you just said!
I can tell if a gun practice and steering wheel smacking remix is distasteful or funnier than it should be.
Actually...... it's both.
It was hilarious!
"This is definitely a post 9-11 haircut"
My God lmao
Honestly, this movie makes being a Christian sound horrible. She feels guilty about everything, she’s depressed, she feels distant from God, etc. i guarantee she wouldn’t feel that way if she wasn’t a Christian and didn’t believe in any higher being. And don’t even get me started on how disrespectful it is to make a Christian-martyr movie out of a horrific school shooting. There haa to be another way to bring Rachel’s story to life while still being respectful to the victims and their families.
And the first person shooter they're playing is unreal tournament 3... which came out in 2007.
Ice Cream Sundays thank u
"...I just don't have a good ending yet."
Dark, Kevin. Very dark.
Bahahahahahahahahahaha!
IKR?
Wow, it's getting late. I should really go to slee-
**video is uploaded**
NOOOO MY ONLY WEAKNEEESSSSSS
Same. Who else needs to wake up in five hours? I'll pray for you.
U should go look at redemption of Henry Myers
Yes, it is.
Bro I feel the same way, I also have a kinda weird and freakish obsession with things like this that I honestly feel kinda bad about but fuck bitches get money
I love how you used the Simple Plan songs to exemplify the wangst in the movie.
"Explode like a pipe bomb" I laughed way too much
Sam Land
Right? I laughed but at the same time, it almost felt like too much. I feel like some people might really be upset by that.
THAT MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD BECAUSE I MAKE PIPE BOMBS
I didn't even catch that you said VHS, my brain was like, "yes. this is right." 😂
fartknockers...😂 totally 90's.
I saw scrunchies...also 90's. haha!
all the music you added in...💯
SOMEBODY_ONCE_TOLD_ME_
19:37 Funfact: When the audio messed up at one point, Dylan Klebold (one of the shooters) actually rescued Rachels play by providing a back up track!
I wonder why they didnt mention that in the movie :/
Fun fact, Rachel Scott actually went to my middle school before she went to Columbine (not while I was there, she was there back in the 90's, I was there much more recently). And at that school we were told about her and her philosophy on life about being kind to everyone, as in it was posted in every classroom. For three years we got to learn all about Rachel, which included seeing stuff about Columbine. It makes stuff like this really distasteful, seeing someone plaster a message onto someone's real-life tragedy. They could've done this story without the whole Columbine thing, but then people could criticize this without having the shield of "it's about a real tragedy".
When I saw this come up in my feed, I thought "Oh no, Kevin's going to make fun of a girl's murder". But that was fine, props to you for keeping it civil.
Dude, growing up, I was 100% told that this shooting was about Christian persecution
Apparently Rachel Scott’s real life friends didn’t like this film either and didn’t like how they were depicted. Some people on Reddit have shared material on the real Rachel Scott. One Reddit user said the following:
“The real Rachel partied, smoked weed, and struggled over having sex with her boyfriend. She wanted to be an actress because she really struggled growing up, her whole family did and acting gave her an outlet to live someone else's life and or pretend to live in another world. Her dad walked out on her mom and iddn't pay for anything and her mom with 5 young kids was going to be homeless since she had no work history and recieved no money or child support and had no education. Her mom's dad bought the house in Littleton or they would have been on the streets. Growing up the kids didn't just have only thrift shop clothes, they went hungry sometimes until her mom found a job that felt sorry and would train her as she worked. She saw what her mom's evangelical Pentecostal upbringing forced her into for no fault of her own and she saw her dad's hypocrisy despite his Christian beliefs. She loved her parents and they loved her, but it was far from perfect growing up. She didn't want to get married young, she wanted to see the world and opened her eyes to different people, different beliefs, different cultures. She had incredibly strong faith, was a great listener and understanding, and dealt with her self consciousness by being goofy and fun. But she wasn't a Cassie Bernall kind of Christian at all. She was just an incredibly special individual who was so close to moving out and exploring the world which showed a lot of strength considering her upbringing, until she was taken from us for too soon.
My favorite personal memory of her was when I was maybe in 1st of 2nd grade. She had babysat me a lot and was so much nicer to me than all my sister's friends. I was super shy and had hearing aids and wanted to be a writer. I was sitting in my room and had written a ‘radio script’ wand wanted to record my own radio show on a tape. But I was sitting there getting upset because I couldn't get myself to talk for the recording. Rachel walked by my room on the way to the bathroom when she was hanging out with my sister and some friends. She saw me all upset and came in and asked me what was up. I told her what I was trying to do and instead of making fun of me like my sister and brother had she said that it was such a cool idea. I told her something along the lines of being too afraid to talk for the recording and she offered to help me out. She sat there with me and read the commercials I wrote in different funny voices and was making me laugh until my sister and her friends swung by and said it was time to leave. I was all smiles. Unfortunately that tape is probably lost, I wish I still had it. But yeah that's just who Rachel was.”
Another memory shared by a Reddit user: “u/ChaseBuff is right though. I knew Rachel and my older sister had been best friends with her since 1st grade at Dutch Creek and what he said is in line with everything my sister has shared with me and I knew.
With her Breakthru friends, who were a youth group, she definitely talked about God. But she was also trying to explore her own faith. Being raised so evangelical, the verbiage and terminology she had at the time to express this was still very Christanese. In real life, she sought out different churches than her family because she didn't agree with a lot of their beliefs, she went to different religious services with different friends (she came to Mass with my family at least once or twice) and one of her favorite churches was Church in the City which is in downtown Denver and ministers to the LGBTQ crowd and the homeless and others who are disenfranchised.. A world away from her mom's church in Littleton. There's a lot of her journals that have not been shared. My sister still has one of their notebooks they wrote back to forth with each other and some notes, and they definitely show a very different side of her than what has been shared. Just like the note that Mark shared about Rachel being suicidal.
The conversation sounds like something Rachel would have said, but it also leaves a lot out.”
More about Rachel from a Reddit user:
“So you guys are both half correct half mistaken.
The movie did have Beth's (Rachel's mom) stamp of approval. It follows the made up faux Rachel that her family, particularly her dad, created after her death that wasn't based in reality. Whether it was out of grief further amplified by not knowing his middle daughter well at all before her untimely murder, which I err towards, or if it was for more selfish reasons to remake her in his own likeness and jumpstart a second chance at a pastor career after he failed the first time, its not known for sure his motivations. I don't think he's evil just q human being who loved his daughter despite not always showing it when she was alive and after her death he regretted it. Anyway the movie follows their agenda to an absolute T, and her family is apparently proud of it.
That said that doesn't make it the truth. Everything her family has clung onto as fact from her being pulled up by her long brown hair and mocked over God before being killed to her never having partied before and pushed into it by a group of fake friends who slept with her boyfriend when she wouldn't, and this one time she went out she got caught and sent to her aunties to ‘straighten her out’ are completely false.
She had dyed her hair red and cut it super short a couple weeks before the shootings for the play she was in, her whole family at home except for Larry made fun of her and mocked her for it. Darrell wasnt around and Bethanee was married but she still joined in on it. It upset her so bad she called my sister sobbing and she talked about the countdown she had until her 18th birthday when she would be moving into an apartment with another friend Alisha that they'd already picked out and spent Spring Break in New Mexico buying furniture.
As for parties she partied regularly with the group of girlfriends she and my sister had formed starting at Ken Caryl. They went out regularly especially freshman and sophomore year. It was these girls portrayed in the movie, if you knew Rachel it was very obvious who the girls were. And to her friends who were slandered it was incredibly hurtful. Rachel smoked cigarettes which my sister didn't do, she tried to quit multiple times. She also smoked weed and drank. No one pushed her into it. She never got in trouble and her mom never knew until after she died. I'm not saying this to say she was a bad kid on the contrary she was just a normal teenager. Her mom had never supervised her closely with 5 kids and being a single mom after Darrell walked out on them and didn't give them any money. None of her friends slept with her boyfriend and its horrible Beth okayed that detail. Most of the girls didn't remain as close when they got older like into junior year and were busy with jobs, homework and different extracirriculars. My sister and Rachel did, even though they weren't as attached at the hip as they had been in the past. The journal entry that that's based off of is taken out of context and again if you were close with Rachel and knew exactly what was going on in her life it makes sense.
She also went to her aunties in Louisiana back in middle school. She didnt get converted there she had been raised evangelical conservative Christianity. Her auntie was more Pentecostal and she picked up on personalizing her faith more but yeah it was nothing like the movie portrayed. The reason, the time, what happened before and after she was there, none of what the movie shows is true.
I can keep going on about all the untruths in the movie, but they're the same ones that about so many things her parents have insisted she was that she wasn't. She wasn't prophetic, she wasn't a martyr, she didn't want to be a missionary, she was absolutely amazing and wonderful and the entire world lost someone special who would have continued to make this world a better place more than she already had if she hadn't been murdered.
But her journals have been cherry picked and put together out of context and things have been inferred from them that if you knew her well you'd know are incorrect. About 1% of her journals and letters and notes and writing has been published my sister guesses. She still has old notes from her and a notebook they passed back and forth.
So please know despite her mom being really involved in creating the movie that doesn't mean it's not full of inaccuracies and untruths”
Kevin I just wanna Kevin say Kevin you Kevin are really doing a really great job at making those awesome christian movie reviews Kevin.
You didn't mention HIS name enough
That PureFlix joke at the beginning always gets me.
That simple plan joke brought me back to my childhood
19:56: "So what did you think?"
"I liked everything about it, EXCEPT YOU"
SAVAGE.
Just in case anyone was confused about the quote at 11:05, it came from a statement from Margaret Sanger where she was planning how to increase access to birth control (not abortions, as they were unavailable in the US while she was alive) to people of color. Her plan was to increase the number of black doctors who knew about birth control, and who could more easily spread it to black communities, which were often poorer and had less access to such services. She had a firm stance that people of all races should have access to birth control. She DID discriminate according to social class, because she believed birth control should be more prevalent among the poor.
She outright opposed the Nazi regime. She had even made donations to the American Council Against Nazi Propoganda, because she was specifically disgusted by their racist eugenics program.
She's not my favorite person in the world, she's quite the bitch on certain topics, but I believe Kevin took her quote completely out of context.
+Kodo Elder-Groebe I don't know that it's COMPLETELY out of context. The point is not that she was "pro Nazi" but that she was pro eugenics. Today, that is carried out by aborting a very high percentage of African American pregnancies (relative to population). Whether you believe this is good or not is your prerogative, but the intent exactly what the teacher said, actively aiding evolution.
Say Goodnight Kevin That's a fair point. Eugenics are pretty fucked up.
At least we have Silence and Hacksaw Ridge where from what I hear are one of the best Christian films of this decade.
Well, Kevin, I just wanted to tell you, Kevin, that this review, Kevin, was very enjoyable, Kevin, and highly entertaining, Kevin, and that I hope that you, Kevin, continue your, KEVIN, amazing work, KEVIN, and, KEVIN, I, KEVIN, look forward to your, KEVIN, next review, KEVIN.
Why does Rachel talk like no one responded to her?
"I don't think we can define our relationship"
"I think I'm ready to take it to the next level"
"Why don't you go get your daddys car"
"I don't have a car"
It's like she has a script for them in her head and is gonna follow it no matter what the other person says
Every song reference Kevin puts in is instant gold.
Enjoy that copyright strike, buddy! 1:36
+Jordan Taylor collect that cash!!!
most underrated comment ever
Greatest crossover in history
And at 10:01
Distortion = Comedy Gold
+Nightfury0000 right?! I can't get enough!!! Lol.
Maybe I need to do more research beyond the Rachel's Challenge seminar and general common knowledge, but holy cow who is this whiny, emo chick pretending to be Rachel Scott? Why is 95% of this movie relationship drama and begging God for death? Why does everyone hate her? Again, I probably should do more research, but wasn't she generally a friendly, likable person who tried to make other people feel welcome?
For a movie about an inspiring Christian character and a horrible tragedy, it doesn't really handle either aspect particularly well. It might not have been as bad as it could have been, but it doesn't come anywhere close to what it could have been. This story has potential for an awe-inspiring film and I'm bummed that this is the only attempt that we've gotten.
I've read her journals, a lot of it is actually about her struggles with addictions, relationships, doubts about her faith God, etc. Even people who can seem externally super friendly and likable can be going through a lot of inner turmoil. I appreciated that Rachel Scott wasn't portrayed as some perfect angel because no one is, and it makes her much more relatable.
That may be true, but at the same time the film went overboard in the direction of melodramatization.
Making a Christian a sinner saved by grace who still struggles is a good thing. It's not often done as well as it should be, as many Christian characters in fiction are too stereotypical (Adventures in Odyssey, anybody?). But by the same token, turning a Christian into an emo-type introvert who seems to have overplayed angst due in part to overplayed foreshadowing on the part of the scriptwriters is a lazy technique.
It would be really nice if Christians in script-writing would say "I'm going to write a really good script" instead of "I'm going to self-consciously write an overly-Christianized script to the point of unbelievability."
AMEN asongscout. I was tired of everyone making her a perfect little marytr. I appreciate how they did it.
Even if she was this troubled person, they did a bad job of portraying that. When writing a tragic character, you want the audience to feel more sympathy for the character than the character outwardly portrays for themself. If the character is constantly *_telling_* the audience how tortured she is, instead of showing why or going about her internal monologue in a more interesting way, then people won't relate to the character.
I think she showed that. Plus the internal monolouge is part of who she was , what she wrote in her diaries was a inner battle with her sin. I'm tired of people hating on this movie.
This was a complete disgrace, as was to be expected, and I'd seen other reviews of it (still loved yours, of course!) but this was the first time I noticed something. When the two boyfriends have their little fight after the play, Christian Hombo is all, "You better take care of her" to which Douchebag replies that Rachel can take care of herself...and somehow this leads Christian Hombo to shove him? Why? Douchebag is actually right, for once! Such horrible writing, urgh.
Oh and whining about how her life is awful to a guy whose mother is hooked on heroine and who was living on the streets. Yeah.
Yeah, that bothered me too. I guess the film wanted to make us sympathize with the Christian, which is manipulative. He started it and the unbeliever is the enemy.
@@jacindaellison3363 One of the things that I find so disturbing in this kind of Christian propaganda is that what the movie presents as 'good' is so warped. And that cuts both ways, what is 'bad' is also skewed beyond belief.
For example, time and time again mothers that want to rejoin the workforce are seen as absolutely evil when in reality, this is not only perfectly acceptable but for many families it is the best option.
When it comes to women in particular, Christian movies are firmly stuck in the 50's. Mothers stay at home, women always have kids and many of these, 'child free' does not exist, all women want to marry (a man, of course)...
And this, in the end, will probably be their downfall. More than actual religious issues or theological concerns, it is this disconnect from the way life is experience by people at large that will make this kind of Christianity more and more niche. Already we can see this and I expect that in, say, five years time the chasm will be even wider.
Holy mackerel, what a downer. Not you, Kevin, the movie. But then, if one goes into a movie about Columbine not expecting it to be a depressing experience, one was probably just ignorant of the entire event's existence in the first place. Looks dull as rocks, regardless, and I'm sincerely grateful that I burned all of my highschool journals before anyone could go and make a book and then movie out of them.
Gotta say, though... daaaaaaang, Homeless Boyfriend is attractive.
elizabethashley42
Homeless boyfriend is also very pervy, I'm sure this guy is WAY too old for her. Geez...
@Liz Harper Fair point.
Movie World Rule No. 12: Homeless guys are required to be hot, mysterious, and the male equivalent of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Unlike the ones on my real-life metro train, who have mental issues, and/or a drug addiction, and haven't shaved or bathed in the last, oh, month or so.
lilyme3
Hahaha, yeah. Homeless boyfriend is very much a predator. The fact that he first refers to her as a "dumb little sister he has to look out for" and then wants to be with her? And is attracted to her is extremely creepy. Why- why did they write that in? Disgusting! Columbine was in Colorado, not Arkansas.
YEEE! Thanks so much for the shoutout! ♥♥♥ EDIT: Awesome review as always!!!
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Teach me how you draw anthros so well. i've been trying but those paws and snouts are soo harrrrrd.
"At least she didn't commit suicide so she could live another day to....oh."
STOP I CAN'T BREATHE.
The "Angry in the Car" scene. I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING!!!
I haven't seen this movie, but from your review it sounds like Pure Flix was possibly trying to talk a bit about teen depression, as opposed to 'teen angst'. Which really confuses me, because from the Wikipedia page and a few other things I just read about her (yeah, I've really done my research :P), it doesn't sound like something Rachel Scott struggled with. I'm all for bringing awareness to this issue, but it seems odd to me that they would try to do that based on a girl who didn't struggle with it. Not to mention that they didn't do it very well if that's what they were trying to do.
Again going off of the very basic amount of info I've just accumulated, it sounds like they really distorted her personality a lot too, which is also extremely disappointing. Like you said, they really didn't convey how compassionate she was, how she genuinely wanted to help people. Kinda want to read the journal and see who she really was and how she was really feeling, because I'd much rather support that than this movie. Great review as always. :)
I haven't seen this movie, but read a lot about Rachel Scott in the years after Columbine, I read the first two books her family wrote, multiple times, and I agree. She sounded like a typical teenage girl who was a lot more cheerful and upbeat than this movie seems to show. I think she was a deep thinker, internalized a lot, and had a lot of empathy and those things can take an emotional toll, but I never got such a depressive picture of Rachel in the books.
this is so disrespectful what the heck. what an awful movie. thanks for reviewing it Kev!
One constant in Christian movies: "I'm not afraid to say the name Jesus"
I really want, "SHUT UP Dana!" to be a meme.
Also, this is major nitpicking, but why were they playing a video game that looks like it was made a couple years ago rather than something like Doom or Half-Life? Although apparently this move threw historical accuracy out with that one chick's haircut.
Kami Lee I believe it was unreal tournament 3, which came out in 2007.
that would make too much sense
They could have shown them playing the Doom mods that were actually made by the two shooters
*Movie made in 1999*
*Born in 1999*
Kevin "Lies being spread about this 20 year old event"
I... I'm not ready to be 20 yet
Shiloh Reisz the movie was made in 2016 the event happened in 1999
Born in 1989
I don't want to talk about it
Adam Loomos same
Don't forget about bowling. Bowling also caused it
Bowling for Columbine?
videogamebomer
Bowling GREEN?! 😂😂 lmao, sorry.
I really hope a collaboration with the nostalgia critic or Cinema Snob happens. I dunno if they know about you yet but it would be great! Anyway, love your stuff Kevin!!
Somehow you managed to make this the funniest review of all time.
Always worth staying up until 12 to watch a review...
Mason McGuire I just watched in the morning.
"I just don't have a good ending yet."
my god, I can't stop laughing
Yeah really what did Rachael do that made her get sent to her aunts?
Honestly... Who writes these scripts?? Ignoring the well-placed criticism Kevin has for the movie on other levels for the moment, WHO. WRITES. THESE. SCRIPTS???
And they wonder why Christian movies aren't taken seriously!?!?!
This is why I as a Christian do not call myself a "Christian" author. I write fiction, period. It is not meant to be "Christian" fiction. It's meant to be enjoyable fiction that is written in a quality way.
Why cannot these script writers do the same??
Wow. This movie was so angsty and annoying, it's disgusting. It was completely unneeded to involve the weird voice-overs about how "hard" her not hard life was. It didn't even really add to the story.
What are Say Goodnight Kevin fans called?
+Faith Neufville some people call them "sleepyheads"
Say Goodnight Kevin I love that name!!!
Say Goodnight Kevin please do ' I'm in love with church girl'
The Blimey Cow references and jokes are killing me! XD
Finally someone who gets the whole “let’s see how many times we can say Jesus/Lord” thing. 🙄🙄🙄
Great review Kevin! Your writing this episode was top notch. Looking forward to your next one
Also, Kevin, you should direct a Christian movie.
also didn't Rachel have a brother named Craig that was nearly killed in Columbine as well?
I had just graduated high school and found out that I was pregnant with in days of Columbine . My baby is now 20 and I never imagined that we’d still be dealing with this mess .
"The next day Rachel has this conversation with a personification of my TH-cam comment section."
Yes!
Dude you’re honestly so underrated. You’re fucking hilarious and your editing is flawless with great timing.
This movie has more smoking than all 7 seasons of mad men.
Kevin, your taste in angsty teenager music is empeccable.
I love these, Kevin. Reminds me of the "Search For the Worst" series from IHE, but without the views it deserves. Keep up the work!!
I remember the Titanic related shootings.
"Never let go" they said. "Never let go of the trigger"
FINALLY!! It's been a while Kevin. We missed you
Bro you can't just drop a "hey Terri" and expect us to not have questions.
Also 1000 points for the Tweezy joke.
My favorite part of the day is checking youTube and seeing that a new Say Movienight is up
Man, we have a potential Newsboys Song Title Cinematic Universe here.
And it scares me.
"The popularity of this flim seems to blown up like a Pipe Bomb" Shameless 😂😂😂
But when the part where she wanted to take it to the "next level" and she gets nervous and chickens out like what you said "what did you expect what was going to happen ? A hug ?"
Omg, I could not stop cracking up all this episode XD
SAAAAME
"It's a good thing people don't think like that now." (shows a woman who died over 50 years ago)
I like you, Kevin, but come on. Are you really taking pot shots like that?
+TheAtticus Productions I was just making fun of the modern day eugenics movement in general. Obviously the only socially expectable form is abortion, today. I'm not if it in anyway. I guess I coulda thrown up the racial stats of abortions. But I assumed that would get people misunderstanding me and calling me racists.
But you're right, it's a bit of a side step. :-P
+TheAtticus Productions ALSO, I almost cut the joke out, but I made a bet with someone that I could get more controversy over this episode than my GND review. Lol. So I left it in, so I don't lose that $10! :-P
More controversy =/= a funny joke, tho. I don't understand why you were betting on your audience to focus on a really shitty joke instead of the whole review. Don't spend that $10 all in one place, I guess.
+thegiddyowl I was betting on the one joke, I was betting on the whole review. I put that joke in there (that the teacher is describing eugenics and actively aiding evolution. and we're supposed to see that as bad. Yet we still conduct it today, in the only socially acceptable way). I put the joke in there, because it's true, and a point a lot of people miss, because we're busy arguing religion and politics (same thing that frustrates me about the story of columbine). I just hesitated in keeping in a joke I actually believed in, because I assumed a lot of my audience would be uncomfortable with it. But the joke bet made me feel a little more confident in some of the jokes I made in this review. NOT just that one.
Say Goodnight Kevin The same people who argue that the founder of Planned Parenthood was a eugenicist are the same as people who argue that the KKK was founded by the Democratic Party. Yeah, back then, you may have had an argument, but things are much different now.
21:45 "anger flow" scene was the best 😂😂😂 I died I actually did
The KJ-52 reference was spot on Kevin.
Kevin, could you review some old christian movies like "unashamed" and
"second glance" or review "road to redemption"
RokyBalboa99
TEN COMMANDMENTS?! PLEASE?!?!
Kevin, I just wanna tell you, Kevin, that I just really enjoyed this review, Mr. Kevin, and just please, just never stop making these, dear friend of mine, Kevin. Amen.
I believe that the part when Rachel was killed, the boy who was beside her lived and heard it all. Unfortunately he was paralyzed after that.
Abbi Over there was a point when he said it wasn’t true and went back on the story, I think now he doesn’t know if it happened or not. Plus the autopsy reports seem to show that Rachel was only ever shot from a distance, (from what I’ve read) so Eric and Dylan never went up to them.
13:54 Ahem. (In giant reverberating voice) *VIDEO GAMES ARE CLEARLY EVIL.*
Man, that argument... I'm starting to disbelieve that and I'm a Christian. When I wanted to vent out, I went to my books which had violence in it, not a video game.
I saw this movie at a church youth conference down in Orange County, and I think I was the only one who spent the entire time complaining about the movie while we watched it. It straight up had stock footage in it (certain clips said "shutterstock" on it), I got annoyed when she immediately converted to Christianity 10 minutes into the film (instead of slowly building up to her conversion), and the fact that they have the two Duck Dynasty people as top billed actors on the poster WHEN THEY'RE BARELY IN THE FILM really irritated me. And then using a terrible tragedy to share a Christian message? Wow! I agree with your point about the whole "foreshadowing" thing. It makes watching the movie uncomfortable because instead of the message all you can think about is the incoming deaths.
21:44 is my favorite part of anything you've ever reviewed ever dear god your channel is great. Seriously, how do you only have 18k subscribers? I never understood that.