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Movie Guide is owned and run by Evangelical media critic Ted Baehr, who also writes for the site, but there may be additional authors responsible for the reviews, which would explain the questionable internal consistency. However, there are no by-lines on individual reviews so it’s not clear who the authors are. In this video essay, for simplicity’s sake, I just attribute all the reviews to “Movie Guide”.
As I mentioned in an on-screen note, when I wrote this video the “Entertainment value” rating was named “Production value”. To be honest this new name feels even more cognitively dissonant! Not sure when exactly this change happened, but in the Wayback Machine for the Hereditary review you can see that in 2021, the second rating was listed as “production”: web.archive.or...
Movie Guide reviews referenced:
Hereditary - www.movieguide...
Scream - www.movieguide...
Midsommar - www.movieguide...
Grindhouse (Death Proof + Planet Terror) www.movieguide...
Air Bud - www.movieguide...
Osmosis Jones - www.movieguide...
Obvious Child - www.movieguide...
The Sixth Sense - www.movieguide...
The Village - www.movieguide...
The Conjuring 2 - www.movieguide...
Movies featured:
Ben Hur (1959; dir. William Wyler)
Scream (1996; dir. Wes Craven)
Air Bud (1997; dir. Charles Martin Smith)
The Prince of Egypt (1998; dir. Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells)
The Sixth Sense (1999; dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
The Village (2004; dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Death Proof (2007; dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Planet Terror (2007; dir. Robert Rodriguez)
Inglourious Basterds (2009; dir. Quentin Tarantino)
The Conjuring 2 (2016; dir. James Wan)
Hereditary (2018; dir. Ari Aster)
Midsommar (2019; dir. Ari Aster)
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019; dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Other resources used:
“The Fake Abortion Clinics Of America: Misconception” published by Vice (2014) • The Fake Abortion Clin...
“The Evangelical Mind” by Adam Kotsko (2019) www.nplusonema...
“Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston” by Jia Tolentino (2019)
www.newyorker....
Lost Faces of the Bible S1E04 “Sacrificial Child” (2012) • Child Sacrifice in the...
The Holy Scriptures in picture and story (1891) by William A. Foster
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I lost it at the car accident being called "light miscellaneous immorality."
and being referred to as a hit-and-run lmao
When I first saw this vid's thumbnail I thought it said "light miscellaneous immortality" and because that's not *that* much more perplexing than what I'd expect from an evangelical movie review site I didn't question whether I might have misread it 😂
NO SWEARING ALLOWED THOUGH 💀💀
@user-ss2ve4ub2i that's a lot! I'm glad you've thought about this plenty and that you seem satisfied with what you have found. I do, however, feel like we're reading different books. When I read the bible, I see stories about a weak, petty, cruel god - not some transcendent ultimate goodness. When I hear about JC, I hear myths about a Jewish dissident who was executed and subsequently mythologized - not true accounts of a real deity with a functional system of morality. And how many of those "prophecies" are actually predictions that are actually about JC? Isaiah 53 is a reference to the exiled Jewish people, and so on.
I guess whenever your soul is judged this is just a misdemeanor. As long as you didnt say the lords name in vein or swear he just might let you in for that one lol.
I like the idea of a church hosting a showing of The Conjuring and handing out essay questions to answer afterward.
Am I such a huge nerd that that actually doesn’t sound half bad? Yep.
me if i was religious
ok but the conjuring etc is full-on evangelical propaganda
People who like The Conjuring can't even be called horror movie fans. It's like a children's flick.@@Lynevil
I wish the church my family dragged me to in my childhood did something like that. Instead they played Hallmark level christian movies.
"Light miscellaneous immorality," is it? Well, movie guide, my thousands of ants and I know when we're not wanted, and shall take our leave of you.
Jane Prentiss wrote this
@user-ss2ve4ub2i bot
@@interestingusername306 i literally was about to say this
@@weevilwizarddotmusic9711 the watcher sees all
It feels like the writer did actually like the movie and wrote about it to then realise who he was writing this review for and having to condemn because of editors or the audiences
The reviewer seems like such an interesting person
@@terrymcdonald7877fr he’s so conflicted
You can see that in their review of Talk to Me as well. "TALK TO ME exemplifies the time-honored horror genre tradition of stretching a budget to impressive lengths to deliver a cinematic experience beyond the resources available to the filmmakers. The movie could easily pass for four or five times its 4.5-million-dollar production cost. Its cinematography, sound design, and visual effects are stunning, but none of these could stand out without the support of a masterful screenplay (a tour-de-force in narrative pacing) and Sophie Wilde’s gut-wrenching performance as the troubled and ultimately doomed Mia.".
ik its like u can feel them pulling themselves back or hitting a mental block writing all that thought provoking analysis and then being like "but.... but its bad bc the devil wins. it has to be bad"
@@rellify3they’re actually kind of a fantastic writer and reviewer ngl 😅
God the algorithm really does a disservice to this video. I tried searching TH-cam for “hereditary evangelical” and couldn’t find this video again. I had to search my view history for it. Gonna manually share it with some buds so it might get the attention it deserves
thank you, that really means a lot! the algorithm is inscrutable to me but hopefully this one finds its place in it eventually
The TH-cam search function is basically broken. Not like how video game people use the word Broken But as in, doesn't work at all for the implied purpose.
@@maxteeth Please add hashtags to the description to make this easier to find
@@2degucitas thanks, i will give that a try!
@@maxteethseems to be working, at least from my end! Great video, super interesting!
I actually found the family trauma more disturbing then the cult and violence element of the film. As someone who was raised in a dysfunctional family, sobering realities around your are somehow more terrible then “demonic possession” and Ari portrays that wonderfully
Yeah the family dynamics were the most compelling part. All the cult stuff was an afterthought for me, though it was fun to go back and piece it all together, ari really blended the two themes together superbly.
Hard agree. When I watched the movie for the first time, I thought to myself: damn, if I'd watched this a few years ago when I was much less adjusted regarding my dysfunctional family, this would be traumatizing. 5/5 stars.
Yeah it was the tragedy and fallout that got to me, after that the cult stuff is “Meh” cause it’s not real. The stuff in the beginning? Terrifying because it can and does happen.
Same here, I haven't actually watched Hereditary yet, and that's all because I feel like I couldn't handle all of the family trauma in this film, especially the death of the younger daughter. I can deal with cults, but i can't deal with such real, genuine loss portrayed so viscerally. Even from the few clips I've seen, it's just overwhelming to me.
Big time. I felt very triggered most of the run time. Brought up too much real stuff for me
This Movie Guide outfit's morality is itself questionable when they assert that the greatest sin perpetrated by the cultists in 'Hereditary' was the renunciation of the Trinity. Never mind the murders and utter destruction of a whole family.
The reviewer made a great point tho. I mean like they imply that those sins (killing etc) are a direct result of the absence of the divine
first commandment is to accept God as your only god, fifth commandment is to not kill. The review alligns perfectly with christian morality
@@maca76 Those priorities are quite revealing about the true morality of Judeo-Christian "morality", so my point still holds.
@@barrymoore4470 yeah i was just adding the context
@@terrymcdonald7877Exactly. Not only that, but they’re saying “we know the nature and quality of the Holy Trinity, and reject it knowing what the alternative is here.” It’s effectively choosing evil for the sake of evil.
Oh man, this reminds me of the times I spent in a christian movie review site, where for example Princess and the Frog got blasted for paganistic beliefs because the firefly character believed in a wishing star or whatever. Better yet were the comments, where an actual pastor came to defend Coraline and to question wtf was up with the reviewer. Most entertaining hours of my life.
"you should not wish upon a star, you should only wish upon a cross!!" 😭
whats up with evangelical protestants saying some out of pocket shit in every media possible lmao. I still remember the Pokemon/Yugiyo Fiasco.
I just keep imagining the movies I want to read reviews for now on this site. American Psycho, fight club, Donnie darko… all the hits.
evangelical infighting over how "christian" things must be to be consumed by the general public will never not be my favorite thing. its just a petty contest of whose insecurity is bigger where every participant thinks almighty god is on their side and their side alone, and anything even slightly different is devilwork, even if the difference is over whether osmosis jones promotes a pagan worldview or not. that kind of shit is setting itself up to be made fun of and it will never not be entertaining to me
Paimon is a Goetic demon, a subordinate of Lucifer. His worship isn't a pagan act. He may have pagan origins, but it's clear-- from his sigil to the cult directly quoting the Ars Goetia-- that it's the Goetic version of Paimon we're dealing with here. In acknowledging the literal existence of Paimon, the movie does in imply the existence of the Judeo-Christian God. So the review's description of God's presence in the negative space (a "God of the gaps", if you will ;-) ) is frankly spot-on.
And honestly, that's what's so disappointing about the Movie Guide review. The author so clearly understands the movie, and a strictly Christian interpretation of a movie playing with Christian mythology is a compelling one, but then they take a hard right turn into "Brrrr Movie Bad!". It almost feels like the author really dug the movie, honestly grocked it, but was hamstrung by the demands of the site.
I was looking for this comment, I’m in agreement with you here. I hope this videos creator sees this comment and responds.
Hey thanks for the extra context here, totally agree that this would just further beef up the author’s apophatic interpretation of the film, although i doubt that an evangelical would be super open to integrating this kind of christian mysticism into their view of monotheism.
Anyway i wasn’t actually familiar with the Ars Goetia so thanks for sending me down a new rabbit hole!
I think irl Satanists would disagree with you on the word "mythology" since thousands of them literally claim to have contacted these myths
@@ethanmulvihill7177 "myth- a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events." (Oxford Languages)
An example of how fundamentalism rejects even the better parts of the faith tradition from which it derives, perhaps.
Evangelical criticism and advice in general has the tone of "I did this and you shouldn't", especially when discussing anything that might threaten faith. I've heard a lot of sermons about former lives of fornicating and drugs, and they always include how much fun it was, before they eventually got saved. The implication id "I made it through, but you wouldn't, so you should skip the life experience and go straight to the salvation. You don't need real reasons to commit to faith, just believe me."
lol 'reformed gangster youtube' is my favourite genre for this. With a twinkle in their eye they're like: "We used to run north Jersey with an iron fist, so much disco and blow....... But don't do it kids, accept Jesus as ya lawd n savior."
@user-ss2ve4ub2i I'm not reading all that
I think they resent the fact that other people are enjoying behavior they had to quit, that is why some of the most virulent homophobes keep gettig caught with male sex workers
@Geospasmic
Oh man, you just made me remember when I worked in a Christian ministry that helped ex-addicts and troubled youth...I had a hard time not busting out laughing when a guy would get up and say "Let me tell you...I drank, used heroin, smoked pot, took speed, snorted cocaine, sniffed glue...had sex with married women, prostitutes, escorts, college girls I picked up in bars...I lived that way for years and can tell you...DON'T DO IT!"
@@pdxtom to be fair the older you get the less that stuff really sounds appealing, besides the having sex with married women, and pot ofc
I would actually love a modern horror depicting the events of the plagues of Exodus from the view of an Egyptian citizen and servant of Pharaoh.
Or you could do it from the perspective of an Egyptian retainer being prepped to be sacrificed.
@chandllerburse737 they weren't, neither in the Bible nor in real life. However sometimes the retainers of important people were killed when their masters were being buried, so they could continue to serve them in the afterlife.
@@MKotnisneat!
@@MKotnisthat practice was likely stopped more than 1000 years before the purported time of Moses
I really want one from the point of view of that one prince who had sex with Dinah, the only daughter of Jacob, and Joseph's sister. So he frolicked with this girl, then her family forced him and every male in the city he ruled to get circumcised, so that he could marry Dinah, right, so he had to comply with her family's religious beliefs. But then while the men were recovering from their pre-antibiotics adult circumcision, her two brothers sneaked into the city and razed everything to the ground, killing everyone. Tell me that isn't a horror story from the prince's pov
I'm glad that folks are realizing that a lot of the horror genre, particularly "slasher" films, seem to reinforce "Traditional Christian Values" (i.e. fornicators and adulterers are nearly instantly killed, etc.) These characters are sacrificed to the plot because their deaths are seen as "acceptable" due to their "transgressions."
i agree that slashers do seem to slot neatly into a christian worldview, but i think often it can be a lot messier than that. horror movies in general often give us depictions of transgressive acts that would be out of place in other genres-experimentations with gender and sexuality, children violently seizing power from adults, nature taking revenge on mankind. right now i lean toward Robin Wood’s theory that whether a horror movie is progressive or conservative depends on whether it asks us to identity with those transgressive elements, or whether it keeps them isolated from us as an inhuman force of evil. i think there are tons of examples of both!
@@maxteethi believe horror takes us to interact deeply with ourselves, so it can and will often side with and against our values by just showing us a mirror and asking us if we agree with whats happening there
You seem to have a problem with Christian values. Sounds like you're God phobic.
@@maxteeth I think once you've gotten to the point of politically assessing slasher movies it's time to take a break from the internet lmao
@@Fruitycheeks The Robin Wood essay i’m referencing is from 1978. Wood wasn’t “terminally online”, he just recognized that interesting ideas can find expression in works of low culture, even if unintentional. this mode of thinking is foundational to film studies
I was ready to settle down and have an easy laugh at cringe evangelicals, but I have to say, the whole review and wider message of the website strikes me as profoundly sad. To acknowledge that a film is great, to analyse it and uncover genuinely interesting thematic meat, only to in the same breath have to disregard it completely because it doesn’t appeal to your sensibilities in one specific way? Like... what do you think art is for? To just endlessly reaffirm the exact same principles with no nuanced over and over, like a snake constantly regurgitating its own tail?
Good video.
I mean I think we all have our own moral boundaries or dealbreakers, and from our point of view their religious ones are silly but it's serious to them, since it's not fiction playing off of fiction, it's fiction playing off of divine fact. But yeah it is judgemental as hell haha. I mean I've had some movies that overall have a lot of merit ruined because of overtly racist or pedophilic messaging or things like that, that did low-key disqualify the rest of the movie unless I was really ok w overlooking them
The thing is I dont even think that website is as simple as that either. A lot of religious reviews do just what you say where they disregard the whole thing. What this website does is it seems to mash an actual review section and a very over-the-top evangelical content rating/parental guide system together, and their ratings system is about their view of spiritual corruption instead of a secular view of moral corruption (like we have content ratings for sex and violence and swearing because those are seen as corrupting for children, this website seems to see anything that could puncture a bubble of unquestioning faith and purity of belief as being corrupting). And then the language of film criticism and theology/philosophy that went into a very thoughtful film review being mashed together with the very flamboyant language of evangelical moral panic is just a very funny/surreal combination
Feels like two different people wrote the review to me honestly. Or two halves of his personality. One who actually believed it was a good movie, the other who has to pander to the known audience.
The aversion to the grotesque/anything troubling amongst Christians is genuinely weird. Theologians like GK Chesterton, C S Lewis, and even substantially older guys like Martin Luther all were in agreement about the importance of art and imagination in this context. For me, it’s sad because people in my faith are afraid to even look at the dark but are called to be the salt and light of the Earth. We miss out on a big part of humanity living like that
Yes, that's exactly what they think art is for. That's what they think everything is for. Anything that doesn't directly glorify God is sus. And Good Art is found on cathedral ceilings. (Well at least metaphorically, American Protestants think Catholic stuff and any type of nudity are also sus). The ideal life is completely one dimensional and intellectually masturbatory.
"they're just demanding that you avoid doubt at all costs" wow the church really isn't beating those "OCD trigger" allegations anytime soon
Now I REALLY want to see their review of Beau is Afraid
omg
spoiler alert, they did NOT like it
I need to know all their opinions on all the horror films.
The Midsommar review is the one that caught my eye lol
Saw that pop up in the results and got real curious.
This half-joking 15 minute video has deeper analysis than some 3 hour video essays I’ve seen
i love it when a youtuber just feels like my friend who’s infodumping for 15 minutes
"listen up buddy I know you start your shift in 5 minutes but trust me you need to hear this"
the BEST thing to find sat in your car trying to enjoy your 15 minutes before work, 10/10
What fascinated me the most about this was how you touched on movie guide’s (and evangelical Christianity as a whole’s) insistence that your faith never wavers. As someone who grew up Christian and is now kind of agnostic about it all, that’s just insane to me? Any healthy faith in any idea, religious, political or otherwise will get challenged at some point- that’s what makes belief so powerful and meaningful to people. Wouldn’t coming out of a trial of faith, believing even stronger in the word of god be a good thing?
There was a quote, heaven knows I cant remember from where, that said: "You may be strong, but its because you have not been tested; be wary for when you are tested and be found wanting"
Anyways, even the Bible has a lot of examples of people's faith being tested--some being unwavering, some doubting, and some turning away. The ideal IS to have that kind of unwavering faith, but many stories in the texts definitely show normal human characters failing to hold steadfast to their faith.
Job, I believe had the most iron will story of them all. Jonah (the dude with the whale) wavered inasmuch as he didnt want to go through with God's plan, King David turned away because all those pagan women were too hard to resist, and Peter--in a way--wavered when he denied Jesus three times.
Christians who believe that faith should never waver may not have found themselves tested, while the wise know that the lesson to be learned is to lean onto God when your own faith is not enough
faith untested is faith unfounded
Faith is a very frustrating concept to me, even as an ex-catholic raised by an ex-mormon. To your point of faith never wavering sure, but even beyond that as to have faith in the first place. The way I define belief is to be convinced of something (by extension knowledge is being VERY convinced of something) and the way I define faith is a belief without evidence. I find myself incapable of operating ANYTHING in my life on faith, and after realising that, I applied it to my faith in god and after searching as long as I could for that evidence, I realised I wasn't convinced. I provide all this to my point of being frustrated by faith. How can you be challenged on something that you don't have evidential reason to believe? Moreso, how can you then stay steadfast in your faith without blatant cognitive dissonance or dismissal? It all for me boils down to the question: is it important to you that what you believe is true? If you go back to your faith after being confronted with the idea of your faith being wrong, I don't see how the answer could be anything other than no. I'm certainly rambling in this random comment on a random video that has next to nothing to do with what I'm saying, but it's something that bugs me on quite literally a daily basis, that everything I just said applies to the vast majority of the planet's people and countless are harmed daily because of this belief, and yet merely thinking about things like this can be considered immoral, and going any farther, discussing it even, makes you a bad person by default. Like I said: it's frustrating.
@@bobmasters9871Faith is not belief without evidence.
@@ethanmulvihill7177 there are two definitions of faith, the first being complete trust or confidence, and the second, which is the one that applies to spiritual faith is as follows: "strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof."
This *can* be shortened to belief without evidence and still be accurate
Well, browsing this site is my new favorite activity. It's been five minutes, and I've already learned that "Midsommar" is apparently just a worse version of "Wicker Man" (LOOOOL), and a nature documentary can get hit with "light sex" if it shows salmon mating. Thanks, Movie Guide!
Can't let the kiddos know where caviar comes from
I remember stumbling across a similar site in my college days. They had a rating, but also a red yellow or green light to show whether you should show the movie to your kids or not. I looked up every animated film i could think of and prince of Egypt was the only green 😂 they really hated spirited away haha
I had to check the review because I was under the impression that 'being covered by thousands of ants' was being listed as 'immoral' and I was so incredibly confused. It's listed as 'violence', which is still deeply confusing, but makes a bit more sense than a swarm of insects somehow having morality.
Maybe they’re mixing up the morality of characters within the story and the morality of depicting something deemed inappropriate and gross.
If this is the service I'm thinking of, the articles for Twilight movies are hilarious. They are so thorough about every instance of partial nudity that it reads like smut. I remember stuff like "A young adult male vampire emerges from a lake with his wet breasts and nipples exposed while a group watches from the shore." I understand that the point is to help you avoid Christian eyes seeing sinful film, but even just reading the warnings is enough to cause sinful thoughts. I can imagine someone learning a lot of sinful things just from the warnings.
I love the subtle jokes that aren't blown out of proportion with editting, you just let them slide for whoever picks them up like the Moon joke and Quentin Tarantino joke.
i screamed at the moon joke,,, the expectant pause afterwards?? chef's kiss
Your interpretation of this review gives me Big Joel vibes, and i mean that in the best way. Looking forward to seeing where you go from here
I loved the opening following your desktop work. Slick way to transition into the video.
And how chuffed you were about the "eclipsed by the full moon." Hahaha
thanks, wanted to try something new, pretty happy with how it came out!
This turned out way more fascinating than i anticipated. Thanks for giving me something to think about. The algorithm better pick this treasure up!
This video RULES I’m so glad I’ve found your work
Omg you killed me with that visual choice for when you said Quentin Tarantino.
lol, thanks for noticing
Quite the feat
@@malaizzequite the feet
the idea of someone being covered in ants being Immoral is so fucking funny. who's sinning in that situation? the ants? the person covered in ants? generally a person covered in ants did not want to be covered in ants. it's usually an unfortunate side-effect of picnics. is it a sin to intentionally shovel handfuls of innocent, blameless ants onto your person, and if so, why? I mean, the ants probably aren't thrilled about it, but something tells me that "inconveniencing ants" isn't anywhere in the bible (except for the whole biblical flood thing, I guess. I bet that was a real rough day for ants as a whole)
wow! i thought this would be just a silly little video but it was very in depth and interesting. I want to know more about evangelical readings of mainstream horror films - and whether this kind of 'absent god' feeling is infact pro or anti christianity
They get that movies, like books, are great empathy machines and really want Christians to stay away from “being in the characters heads” as you say.
an “idolatrous sports ritual” is the only way I’ll refer to sports from now on
This is the first video of yours that I've seen and you charmed me/made me laugh so many times in the first five minutes that I gave this video a like! 😃
that last line got me. you write really funny scripts!!
Very sharp. I'm Catholic & educated Catholics can be pretty sophisticated in their analysis… still vicious & reactionary but sophisticated.
love the video! and thanks for the subtitles!
Reminds me of this website Family Friendly Gaming I accidentally stumbled upon. Except their articles make Movie Guide look like fucking analytical geniuses.
"Tales of Zestiria teaches gamers to worship all kinds of false idols like trees" is a phrase that will live rent free in my head for the rest of my life.
Don't even get me started on the Code Realize review, which listed "Japanese voices" as something that will "shock families" alongside things like violence and swearing. That's right, apparently not having an English dub is just as objectionable to the traditional Christian family as people being melted alive. Why would Ned Flanders even want an otome visual novel in the first place?
Well surely no one could possibly find Animal Crossing offensive rig- It's bad because there's fossils in it.
I like how your ending summary gets what this website is actually doing, because I think so many religious and especially evangelical review websites often reveal just a complete incuriousity and refusal to engage with the art all the way down to "I read too much into the framing of two props and am convinced its a demonic symbol" level
You found such a gem here with how what this website does is it seems to mash an actual review section and a very over-the-top evangelical content rating/parental guide system together, and their ratings system is about their view of spiritual corruption instead of a secular view of moral corruption (like we have content ratings for sex and violence and swearing because those are seen as corrupting for children, this website seems to see anything that could puncture a bubble of unquestioning faith and purity of belief as being corrupting)
And then how the language of film criticism and theology/philosophy that went into a very thoughtful film review being mashed together with the very flamboyant language of evangelical moral panic is just a very funny/surreal combination
Like here, the reviewer clearly liked the movie even from a Christian perspective, but its like the site's ratings are written for how it would be seen from the perspective of "someone whose faith is too weak to withstand even the slightest push" (who might question aspects of their faith after a movie about demonic possession because it requires facing up to the existence of the kinds of evil or horror you can usually forget about) in a similar way to how parental guide ratings are written for how it would be seen from the perspective of a child (who might have nightmares for weeks after watching a violent scene)
I do think how much evangelical media habits focus on this aspect of content moderation is quite interesting though because its kind of a worldview of faith as something very fragile that requires you to be focused and compartmentalized and walk a certain knife-edge liminal area where you believe it but you don't go into the implications because those implications themselves are seen as a path to losing your faith. Like, it's quite nice and easy to just believe in God and in Jesus loving you and light and good nature and all that stuff, but then if you watch a movie with demons and start thinking about how technically your belief system also means you could be surrounded by unseen spiritual entities and that there could easily be a demon in your room and that that's what the original beliefs imply and so on... or if you watched an innocent documentary about dinosaurs and started thinking about the math not adding up and you start wondering if the issue is the dinosaurs or the chronology or what, etc
Some religious traditions want you to engage with your doubts and come out of it with more conviction. Some religious traditions like Catholicism I think kind of makes the whole pomp and tapestry of it part of the whole religious experience you grow up with, like when you grow up with saints and sacraments and all that stuff then you're kind of used to your religious experience being just this huge all-encompassing thing
But evangelicals (and I think also a lot of countries' Sunni Muslims, probably also some other cultures) often have a culture where as much as people with strong conviction of faith are praised, in practice people are thought of as being just barely on the right path where the slightest push could lead them into doubt and secularism, and being a good Christian to others isnt about helping make their faith so strong it becomes immune to doubt, its about keeping them as sheltered from possible inducers of doubt as you can
So I think the website's worldview ends up being weirdly consistent in a weird way. Their schtick is basically like, the rating system tells you just how much there may be of *anything* that might shake a person's unquestioning faith (the audience for this primarily being parents who want to ensure their kids have zero exposure to anything that might set them on the wrong path, with the secondary audience being for people who want to keep their own spiritual peace of mind by not consuming content thatd cause too much doubt or questions tossing around in bed at night) and the review is like "if you're sure you have the strength of faith and conviction and spiritual fortitude for this content -- the rating will tell you just how much of that you might need -- here's a proper analytical film review"
idk who you are but im glad this vid got recommended to me, keep up the good work !!
thanks for taking a shot on it! glad you enjoyed
This is the first video of yours I have seen and just want to say, I was already loving the video but at the grin when you said "that metaphor is that metaphor is totally eclipsed under these full moons" I was clicking subscribe before I could process the decision, truly excellent work
It’s both encouraging and frightening to know the youthsss of today are this smart. You got yourself a new subscriber. LMAO with the Dollar-Store slender man line 😂
I had the same reaction to finding their review of Elemental, whiplash. Basically all praise then, EXTREME CAUTION ADVISED DUE TO OCCULT REFERENCES!!!
It's particularly disturbing when someone of such a different (I won't say limited) world view can have such a critical reflection on something and it just.. fails to permeate them. Bizarre.
"Babe wake up, new Maxo dropped"
Great Video, loved the ending especially thinking about what you were saying in reference to Scorsese's Silence, a film about showing overcoming that doubt.
This video gets a +4 for it's intentional ghoulishness (To be sought out)
never seen any of your videos before and im just kinda blown away by the simple creativity of the editing style. its such a no-brainer but its so unique and effective
the way this video came to be because of a tangent instantly make me love it
Omg, brb I GOTTA see what their review of The Love Witch says!
Edit: Very sad to report that they have not reviewed The Love Witch. Seeing the mental gymnastics of the reviewer for that one would have made my day. 😢
Death proof is very satirical so I think it gets the pass on watching a guy suffer so much. I get that is lost on people, but I think it's more viable than...just gore and pain. Am I the only one who thinks Paimon is suffering and confused themselves in hereditary? Therefore a virginal basically innocent victim? If it can't fight its nature does that make it ok? I find it uniquely challenging. Since paimon is an ambiguous entity I wonder what it says about grief? Is that indiscriminate. Idk just throwing it out. Painon is just such a weird element. I mean the cult is using the demon, not the other way around. The same way they used the family.
I like that interpretation. Remember, Charlie was possessed from infancy, so the "Charlie" we see at the beginning arguably IS Paimon. (Maybe all that's contradicted in the movie, been a while since I saw it.)
It stuns me to see how, for that brief instance, his review was actually fantastic, but then he snapped back to (his) reality, giving us all whiplash in the process
dang i’ve never decided to subscribe to a channel so quick. pointing out how “crisis pregnancy centers” are predatory and tricks, in the first minute?! you’ve got my support
Wanted an ultrasound for my 2nd pregnancy. Was not expecting the preaching I got…and this was a planned pregnancy and these women still had plenty of “suggestions” for me and my babys soul. We are Universalists. I put that on the form and told them when they asked (and EVERY person I met asked) I might as well have said I was a satanist. I did get an early TV ultrasound before I could get into my Dr though 💁🏽♀️
@@chelseataylor5244 being a Satanist does discourage quite a lot of crazies
i almost started laughing hysterically at your air bud description in my very quiet math class, but thankfully i held it in. good job, instant sub lmao
"Unless you're a fornicator!" 😭
Excellent video. Very glad it showed up randomly in my reccs, because this is what I like to see.
This is a fantastic video! Good work.
I absolutely love your channel.
Just found this in my feed and it is excellent work. Bravo!!
To be fair, it was only half a hit-and-run.
Enjoyed this!
i need the osmosis jones video essay
I imagine that when asked, the reviewer in question might've said "Well you see, there is nothing in the bible that says that a dog can't play basketball."
This is incredible. Perfect content.
decided to read that that website had to say about 'promising young woman', which is controversial and one of my favorite films, but i never saw any religious interpretations of it. WHY DO THEY SAY IT CONTAINS "brief discussions of s*xual assault"????? that's literally the whole point. there's absolutely nothing "brief" about it!!!
Terrific analysis. It was precise and winding with proper nods to the bits that seemed to genuinely explore the film and bafflement at the parts the seemed to regress into fundamentalist Christian talking points. Especially appreciated the point at the end about willfully narrowing one’s awareness of other perspectives for fear of damaging one’s own faith. Thanks for making this video
Looks like this caught more attention because I just found it recommended to me on my page! The review is written quite beautifully, and I'm glad you included so much of it. I'm only about halfway into the video; it's a great find!
Reminds me of the Christian website that reviewed faith the unholy trinity and only gave it points off for swear words because it taught that cults are bad
This video was awesome and you are a delight, I can't wait to watch everything you ever make ever
I love that so many people can get so many different takes from Hereditary thank you for sharing
I want a world where osmosis jones is considered almost as heretical and bad for children as hereditary
Calling basketball an "idolatrous sports ritual" sent me to the moon and I'm not even halfway through the video ahaha
"Imaginary rimshot" caption with your self-satisfied grin won you a follow, great video.
I love the flow of your writing! Very nice video :3
Man really good point about Christianity. Them peeps really over look the amount of horror in their jam.
Expected this to be just funny but it was also very deep and thoughtful. Thank you for the video!
Idk how you showed up on my feed, but I’m so glad you did. From the beginning of this video I was enraptured. This is just the best.
If Movie Guide reviewed Hereditary, I wonder what's their thoughts on The Human Centipede.
This video was great! So wordy, but still concise. There was one or two points where I was like "Wait, say that again" and rewound it and listened to it a few more times to slowly process the sentence. And then I'm like "Ah! Okay yeah. Good point"
I was very impressed with your video. Also how you clearly are not evangelical, but didn't just demonize them overall. Merely mocked some things that they do in fact do wrong. It was not preachy to me at all. But instead was insightful, humorous and fun. And for a lover of horror cinema, and dare I say theology and church history, it was a real treat! I wanna share it with some of my church friends 😄
I second this! Most of the comments are disrespectful and ignorant but the video itself is an awesome critique.
Yeah, leave it to evangelical media reviewers to totally miss the point of art.
I remember getting Plugged In magazine in the late 90s/early 00s, and I’ll never forget their ridiculous review of Radiohead’s Kid A (an album I loved from its release). They said something like “the sonic barrage is an assault, that surely is going to cause detrimental side affects to a teenagers nervous system. And lyrics like ‘cut the kids in half’ (an obvious lyric about divorce) is morbid, if taken literally”
Good grief, just say you don’t like it as a piece of art, but to put some moral stamp of approval on it, is laughable.
But, this is nothing new.
Evangelicals do not want art that challenges their view, they want it to confirm it.
I love how these "evangelical film critics" get to watch all the great movies, but then they get to tell others that Jesus says "don't watch these evil films."
Is there anything they are not massive hypocrites about?
the algorithm did me a favor today, damn!
sick video!
The algorithm blessed me with this one! Subscribed!
Thanks for this video, it was a fun discussion. At first I thought perhaps the reviewer was being hypocritical or like someone else guessed that it was a conflict between the writer and an editor, but your interpretation makes sense. "I'm smart enough to recognize what the films framing is, but I fear that my audience is not smart enough to see what I do, so just to be safe, please don't watch. It's too dangerous."
Absolutely fantastic essay!!
Often I’d be asked as a small town librarian if a certain movie was appropriate for their kid. I often said that different families have different definitions of what’s appropriate for their kids, but if they wanted a more thorough breakdown (violence, language, sexuality etc) I’d pull up the movie’s write-up on Common Sense Media. It’s a similar site but less religious-centred (though that is a factor for many of their users). They also break out reviews/ratings fro parents and from kids. Interesting to see the different perspectives, and what elements stood out as potentially concerning.
Your description of Death Proof needing to earn its revenge arc motivation by fully immersing you in the grief and pain caused by the perpetrator reminded me a lot of the move Mandy. You could have said those exact words talking about Mandy
This is an incredibly well written and edited video. You’re my new favorite review reviewer.
-4 on acceptability
Great video essay, enjoyed the hell out of it and very engaging presentation
I'm still trying to figure out why being covered in ants is immoral?
This website is wild, I had to go check out their reviews for the Saw franchise afterwards
You got me with "Sister Jeff the Killer and Dollar Tree Slender Man"... Oh my god.
The smile at your own full moon home killed me
I had a suspicion they'd like it a little based on demons being real implying that the opposite would also be real.
"Dollar Tree Slender Man" caught me so off guard I laughed embarrassingly loud.
Hey, the TH-cam algorithm sent me here.
I really liked your video - good content and a great production value. Best regards!
It's like you can see the person shake their and and sigh as they realize how their entire life and worldview is nonsense, but replacing it would take too much work and thus they continued to post the review.
To people like him Christianity is a box. Anything outside of that box, is bad. The problem is, people make up their own rules for that box, and a lot of times they have nothing to do with Christianity.
This review is absolutely mind bending. Putting myself in the shoes of an Evangelical Christian for a horror movie review is something I didn't know I wanted till now.
What an absolutely bizarre experience.
As a former evangelical, I appreciated this on many levels.
exquisite analysis and humor, i'm subscribing
This is extremely good content, great job!
I enjoyed your video. I am an academic who spent his youth in evangelicalism and served a short stint at an evangelical college. I think when most people from the outside think of evangelicals they think of the Righteous Gemstones. But as you have discovered, there is also a strain of intellectualism that can be interesting. However, as you also demonstrate, it is always restricted by dogmatic and paternalistic frames. This balancing act is so interesting. I went to Movie Guide and checked out their review of The Passion of the Christ (-2 (upper male nudity) and 4 stars). The written review is much shorter and less interesting than the review of Hereditary. That's all I have to say. Thanks for the video!
That little face they(?) made after their mooning joke was quietly hilarious.
PluggedIn is this exact thing for Focus on the Family, fundamentalist evangelical extremists. The reviews can be so funny 😂