@@ddjsoyenby yeah, I saw that later in the video when he was only subtly racist instead of outright racist. I guess they just let him improvise in certain parts of the script.
These movies feel the need to unsubtly remind the audience occasionally of characters' names and relations to one another. Just in case someone fell asleep and forgot what was happening, which to be fair is a real concern given the quality of the average christian movie
It's midnight and I saw this comment and I'm reminded of the Golden Girls where Sophia is also grieving her son. No one asked but, imho this Christian movie scene would have worked if the mom was rambling about memories with her son. I'm more concerned how I'm too invested in this 😭😞
a cranky teenager saying "I'm going to church" while he's storming out of the room is the single funniest thing ever. I'm sure it happens but connecting "going to church" with rebellious teenager unhappy with his parents sounds like it should have nothing to do with each other
average horrible christian person who thinks they're better and nicer than everyone else just bc they believe in god and not bc they're actually a good person
My thoughts exactly. Cutting is a serious problem and a sign of an underlying issue even when done "for attention" since that's such an unhealthy way to get attention. Every person that I knew that cut was really secretive about it anyways and would have been pushed to cut way worse if I exposed them like that
No fr why would he say that to the boy who was already have a hard day, who lost his friend only 3 weeks prior and who he knows is severely su1c1dal....
Definitely. I cut for attention and control, I wanted people to PROBE into my home life and save me and I wanted my abusers to see a physical impact they were having on me since SA didn’t leave any visible marks and reel it back in. They didn’t lol I just got in trouble
so convenient that they just omitted the fact that amy 100% would've been harassed at the women’s health clinic by christians telling her she's going to hell and shoving pictures of "fetuses" in her face i wonder why this christian movie decided not to include that part
Sadly, there actually were a couple of anti-abortion protesters on the sidewalk, the one time I visited a Planned Parenthood. I was there to try to get estrogen to start gender transition, and looked like a "man in drag", so maybe that kept them from trying to talk to me.
Some old ladies are waving around signs with aborted fetuses in my town and they start up harass anyone nearby, and if they respond with anything but full agreement they start screaming baby killer at them. I wish I was making this up, fuck living in the south.
I got hit by a "protestor" with a rock when I was getting boring old birth control pills at Planned Parenthood. I was fresh out of a fundamental Christian "school" at the time so I was too embarrassed to call the cops. It really ducking hurt too.
@@CompComp that’s awful i’m so sorry ): planned parenthood offers so many other services and yet those christians insist on reducing it to only one that they offer. i guess it’s okay for them to shove their ideologies down peoples throats but god forbid they be faced with reality.
I actually know the people that made this movie cause it was filmed in my hometown and I used to go to the Church that made it. And some of the people that I know that were extras in the film said Steven was a dick. Also I’ve always wanted someone to make a video on this movie lol.
it's wild to me that a dude calls your childhood friend a "little freak" for killing himself and you dap him up after. (also) Why the fuck does the main character look like evil Owen Wilson!?
Yeah, but being the jerk jock who doesn't care about dead black kids is right up his alley. Give him some shoulder holsters, and I'd assume he was just playing himself.
My theory is his expressions were a direct response to realizing the movie he was in. If that face wasn't saying "I smell hot garbage" I don't know what does.
Most unrealistic part was the woman telling a teenage boy that he'll always be there for his gf, as if teenage boys are known for sticking around when they get their girlfriends pregnant.
we were forced to watch this movie during an eighth grade assembly but i missed the entire thing because i was making out with my boyfriend. so glad i can look back now and know that i made the right choice
so I'm not the only one who had to watch this in school!! tho i was made to watch it in my highschool health and sex-ed class :))) and unfortunately my teacher made us fill out a worksheet about the movie while watching it. i completely blocked it out of my mind until now.
as an event planner, your rant about the 2 sandwiches for the group and ending it with “this movie is…. not good” had me crying laughing i felt so heard
one thing not mentioned in this video is that they SHOW Jonny cutting himself. it’s a whole scene. and holy shit, that was so triggering for me when I watched this growing up. my church’s high school youth group had a whole event to watch this movie but I was too young so I secretly stole my brother’s copy and watched it. I have long since left the church but didn’t realize just how much this movie upset me until now. Ethan, thank you for making this video. thank you for having horrified/confused reactions to things and for pointing out the goofy stuff. this video genuinely helped me shift this movie from a dark triggering memory to just another goofy shitty Christian movie. thank you. also side note, the soda/sock thing is a very normal youth group “game.” I can’t say we ever did that exact thing but they did make smoothies out of gross non-smoothie-friendly foods and had kids drink them as fast as they could, so. at least the sock soda was still just soda, I guess.
it is absolutely INSANE to just recklessly throw such a painful, graphic moment into the middle of this dog shit movie. that is so irresponsible and cruel and I am truly furious at all the makers of this stupid fkn film for doing that. even just the scene Ethan showed here of Fuckface mocking Jonny for it is so fucking sad and evil, makes me nauseous. Truly an exceptional(ly HORRIBLE!) movie. Thanks for sharing your thoughts/experience with this movie & Ethan's video, and a big ol' FUCK YEAH to you for being able to re-file a truly traumatizing memory into a new brain folder. I'm really happy you're free of that. Baller move on your brain's part, way to go brainnnn !! May any writer, producer, director, etc who even THINKS about carelessly chucking a self harm scene at an unprepared, unconsenting, vulnerable audience be struck down by the *righteous light* of, idk, Roger and Jonny Boy?? much love
As someone who has gone to a youth group, one time, it is actually this weird and that is something they would do. I had to eat pudding through a stocking covered over my face. I made 10 bucks Starbucks gift cards it’s weird.
At a local youth group they did a pudding eating contest out of an actual toilet. Despite the youth pastors assurances it was a new toilet, the first person who tried to eat pudding from it threw up immediately 😂
dude the last church i went to would hold an annual cow tongue tossing tournament between another church. we would literally just play like it’s a ball and try to get it to the other team’s goal i remember a guy from a different church punched the shit out of a girl from mine to stop her from scoring and the former’s youth pastor said he did a “good job”
"there's no point in filming in 4k if all it does is show how blue your main character's eyes are, that's SCARY!" got a chuckle out of me, after a week of gut punches, so that's neat and i appreciate it
My mom is Christian and she has never been strict with it and didn't make me watch these movies. Got to watch Malcolm in the Middle, That 70s Show and also watch a lot of anime. And my mom would buy me my first Gundam figure and watch Dragonball with me. So I can't imagine watching these movies and staying sane for two hours or more.
I love normal Christian people. I had a lot of those in church, who would let us watch normal movies and trust our judgment. I really hate the people who ruined everything after some teen rated youth group things and made everything about god! Church was also about bonding, not just jesus jesus jesus. Let us talk about teen stuff man!!
watching laughably terrible movies and reading bible fanfiction sounds awesome ngl, then again i never had a religion class or anything like that so it probably has a lot more to it than that
Awe. Those pictures of the kid bombing the school reminded me of pictures a girl at my high school would draw and shyly give to me of a stick guy chainsawing a bunch of other stick guys and a rainbow that said "massacre" in big bubble letters. A teacher saw them and got upset that I was drawing such violent things, but really a girl just had a crush on me lol
Dude this girl I was friends with in elementary school drew a bunch of stick figure dudes peeing in different places and I think that meant she liked me? I really don't know lol.
I once drew a whole scene of stick-priests In headdresses performing a sacrifice on top of a Mesoamerican pyramid while a whole crowd of stick people gathered at the base to celebrate, a few of them in the crowd had little flags and pennants. It seems like stickdeath art is a popular genre among school children
@JayKay Hey, just wanted to let you know that what you wrote is definitely a form of coercive conversion. I know you only made that comment because you thought you were being helpful, but it really wasn't helpful. People fall out of faith for more reasons than hard times, and telling someone that an apocalypse is coming won't reverse that decision or make them think twice.
@@JayKay-sx1mv If someone wants to become christian (Why would you want to do that) they will do it when they want to! You spamming people online is not going to help. Don't know why I bother with you people. Stuck in your ways. You can find peace and enlightenment without following a stupid book. Check out Buddhism
@@kappadarwin9476 An old youth group pastor once took us all to see "My Super Ex Girlfriend" in theatres when I was like 12. It was one of the weirdest viewing experiences of my childhood and I still can't figure out why the youth group went to see THAT movie. Maybe that's one of the reasons he got "let go."
@@milessolomon4864 Yeah, he wasn't suppose to do that. I can't believe the theater staff let a bunch of kids into the theater of that movie. I guess it shows how much freedom youth pastors can have with kids. I find that scary.
@@kappadarwin9476 I remember being really worried they would ID me and I was so nervous about the movie, bc at that point, my parents were so restrictive, they wouldn't let me see Spider-Man (Tobey McGuire). But they trusted the church so much, they let me see My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Now that I've seen both movies, I can confidently say Spider-Man was more appropriate.
Had to comment again cause two random facts about this movie the 35 year old guy Jake plays beer pong against is actually who Jake is kinda based on. And at the very end of the movie when Jake and his dad are driving to college when they drive off from the coffee cup place they are heading east And then the final shot from the hill top and then heading under the bridge is them heading in a completely different direction than they were heading. I’ve always found that funny.
I'm sorry to hear that they mistreated you. I'm Christian but I believe that God made us the way we are for a reason, that love is love, and that He comes to people in the way that you best receive Him-- whether that's through religion or music or whatever moves you. I wish you all the best and hope things are better now
@@msjkramey God doesn't believe in "love is love" he believes in righteousness and holiness. Yes, he's merciful but he is still our judge (Matthew 7, Romans 1, Romans 6, Hebrews 10:26-31, Revelation 3 Laodecians)
Sorry if they have hurt you in anyway. Prayers you'll be able to find your way to God and his love. God is who you need not nuns or a priest. Just remember God wants repentance. (Romans 6, Hebrews 10:26-31, Matthew 7)
@@AndromedaD Prayers one day you look into Jesus Christ a go. He loves you too. People need to repent before it's too late. I was lost before I repented and came to Christ. The Holy Spirit leads us to him not a priest.
My health teacher made us watch this movie in his class. It was presented as factual and we had to take a test on the "information" in the movie. btw we were freshman at the time.
was this a catholic school or literally just a regular high school?? either way presenting this as factual is hilariously stupid hope you're doing well today and not entirely traumatized by this movie lolol
huh? was there even any "information" in this movie besides "girl is pregnant and she wanted to get an abortion, but that's bad because Jesus said so"?
@@krissprout it was a public school and I’m doing alright. This movie is one of my favorites out of the sheer stupidity of it. One of the characters he didn’t mention has his entire character based around loving peoples moms. Plus the classroom setting added to the whole absurdity of it all
@@joshc5613 yeah this movie was presented to us as a guide to our moral compass. I’m not denying that it’s hogwash at all it was just talked about like a documentary to us while in class
My church showed us this movie a day after a kid in our youth group committed suicide and thought they were doing something lmao. I remember crying and being so confused bc we were all impressionable tweens
Fun fact: I was in attendance of the very first showing of this movie. My church at the time rented out a whole theatre for our youth group to watch it. It wasn't good even to me as a Christian at the time. It was hell to watch a review now, 14 years later as an atheist. But I've been so excited for someone to review this one. Thank you, Ethan.
This movie was a thing a decade ago when we had some suicides in my school and I never actually watched it, but wow it really has very little to say about... about saving a life lmao
OKAY, HEAR ME OUT The moment with two sandwiches is JESUS WITH TWO LOAFS OF BREAD 15:34 And THAT is a reference to Job's wife! Because she too isn't named! Damn I like this movie already.
I actually did sneeze and there was no one around to say bless you. Thank god you did or the demons may have taken my souls. Truly doing the lords work, keep at it brother Ethan
i just realized this movie is the movie that i was forced to watch during a youth group meeting when i was in like middle school… i didn’t rmbr until the scene abt rodger bc i have a distinct memory of watching that scene in full with no warning or anything and being traumatized for awhile after seeing that as a kid 😭😭 oh my god i can’t believe u found it i’ve been wondering what it was for years omg
I 100% was shown this movie in my youth group as I child, it was sold to us as an important thoughtful movie we all needed to see. Occasionally I would remember scenes or weird parts from this movie and I would wonder what it was from. This video brought everything back to me, thank you for that.
Lookin' good with the new 'do, Ethan! New video & new hair = W (I'm trying to be hip, as a 25-year-old, I don't know if it's working.) Thanks Ethan! I always enjoy your content!
Wait, they suspected Johnny Boy cos he drew people riding rockets into "High School"? Lol. A kid in my grade 9 science class drew a gun made out of tiny guns and it shot bullets that were also guns, accented with "drips" of red Sharpie. He never rode a rocket into the school, though. I guess he was just an edgy teen boy. SHOCK, I know. Hah.
Oh, and he drew another one that shot knives. That would be kinda cool like in a video game. P.S. The kid was harmless, & the drawings were just silly scribbles. He was just an edgy adolescent, but he had _some_ self-awareness and was leaning into it a bit. This is a lighthearted thing. Cos I don't want to get into how few degrees of separation from this stuff I really am. (One. Several friends I've had, actually, in different situations.)
I want to be a director and whenever I feel self-conscious that none of my shit will be good, I remember stuff like this exists and I feel better about whatever I make
My Christian high school made us watch this in like 2014 and I forgot 99% of it until now.😪 I only remembered 1) the death scene and 2) experiencing second hand embarrassment during all the other scenes
The most accurate thing about this movie is that (if I remember correctly) the stoner kid who framed Johnny Boy was the pastor's son (not the youth pastor who was in the movie, but like the senior pastor, I think it was a throw away line).
I watched this movie in my HS youth group class when it came out. None of us girls thought Steven was attractive and we didn't understand why they framed him as the "hot bad boy." 🤣
Director: "So, you are an obnoxious, self centered bully, that is an asshole to everyone else, with light homoerotic overtones." Steven Crowder: "Okay, but what is my character in the film?"
I actually had to watch this movie in high school during my freshman year health class as part of the mental health unit and yes my high school was public.
Hooooly shit, I totally remember seeing this movie at my youth group as a teenager when it came out. This brought back some Justice For Johnny Boy memories
oh my god…. okay i’m a pastors kid so i’ve seen all these movies so many times and i hate to admit it but when i was like 11/12 i was super into the whole christianity thing and this was one of my favorite christian movies 😅 looking back at it as an atheist adult is….wow…. lmao EDIT: i just wanted to say thank you to ethan for reminding me this existed lmao
I went to see that movie in theaterswith my church youth group. When you said the name of it I felt like I had flashbacks to 2009. I remember the pastor warning us that the movie had "serious themes" like sex and suicide. But apparently they're important for us to see, according to pastor Paul.
There was a movie named "The Christian Movie" in my local Dollar General, and honestly I wanted to get it out of curiosity. I resisted cause it would only encourage them, however it left an impression.
Once for work I had to film BTS video for a red carpet premiere. It was a small local movie that was going straight to PureFlix. They had super gross speeches beforehand about what our children should and shouldn't see in media. I was told I could stay for the screening but my queer ass got the hell out of there.
I absolutely had to watch this as a part of bible youth group and to this day I remember how obvious and gauche everything was - Jonny Boy’s clothes matched whether he was depressed (black) or happy (yellow). Thanks for unlocking this memory.
I wonder if this is where Crowder had his bisexual experience he talked about having 🤔 I mean, my first same sex experience happened within the church too sooo...
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Nice that Crowder got to play himself in the movie. Referring to a suicide victim as a freak is remarkably on brand for him.
hey.........that character is way less evil than crowder irl.
@@ddjsoyenby yeah, I saw that later in the video when he was only subtly racist instead of outright racist. I guess they just let him improvise in certain parts of the script.
Jesus!
When the mom said "I was his mother. He was my son." I really felt that.
These movies feel the need to unsubtly remind the audience occasionally of characters' names and relations to one another. Just in case someone fell asleep and forgot what was happening, which to be fair is a real concern given the quality of the average christian movie
I am the person that replied. You were the OP.
*hug*
@@Ade-ing "Your name is Jake, by the way. In case the audi-- I mean, you forgot."
“The floor is made out of floor.”
It's midnight and I saw this comment and I'm reminded of the Golden Girls where Sophia is also grieving her son.
No one asked but, imho this Christian movie scene would have worked if the mom was rambling about memories with her son.
I'm more concerned how I'm too invested in this 😭😞
i’m putting “abortion store” on my list of potential band names
Hell yeah tbh
@@badger6882😊
a cranky teenager saying "I'm going to church" while he's storming out of the room is the single funniest thing ever. I'm sure it happens but connecting "going to church" with rebellious teenager unhappy with his parents sounds like it should have nothing to do with each other
i love how in these movies they act like christianity is the alternative choice and you're making a statement by participating in it 💀
@@applespotty2232 A lot of these movies can basically be summed up as "What if Christians were treated the way they treat everyone else?"
The way my jaw DROPPED when jake said ‘your little problem’ and motioned to his wrist. That’s evil. And this is the hero of the story??
average horrible christian person who thinks they're better and nicer than everyone else just bc they believe in god and not bc they're actually a good person
My thoughts exactly. Cutting is a serious problem and a sign of an underlying issue even when done "for attention" since that's such an unhealthy way to get attention. Every person that I knew that cut was really secretive about it anyways and would have been pushed to cut way worse if I exposed them like that
Yeah it was so bad that it made me nauseous. Really reinforcing how garbage some Christians can be
No fr why would he say that to the boy who was already have a hard day, who lost his friend only 3 weeks prior and who he knows is severely su1c1dal....
Definitely. I cut for attention and control, I wanted people to PROBE into my home life and save me and I wanted my abusers to see a physical impact they were having on me since SA didn’t leave any visible marks and reel it back in. They didn’t lol I just got in trouble
I like how Jake is actually just like a bad person but we're supposed to see him as a religious role model
all evangelical heroes are at least kinda sh1tty.
so convenient that they just omitted the fact that amy 100% would've been harassed at the women’s health clinic by christians telling her she's going to hell and shoving pictures of "fetuses" in her face i wonder why this christian movie decided not to include that part
Sadly, there actually were a couple of anti-abortion protesters on the sidewalk, the one time I visited a Planned Parenthood. I was there to try to get estrogen to start gender transition, and looked like a "man in drag", so maybe that kept them from trying to talk to me.
Some old ladies are waving around signs with aborted fetuses in my town and they start up harass anyone nearby, and if they respond with anything but full agreement they start screaming baby killer at them. I wish I was making this up, fuck living in the south.
I got hit by a "protestor" with a rock when I was getting boring old birth control pills at Planned Parenthood. I was fresh out of a fundamental Christian "school" at the time so I was too embarrassed to call the cops. It really ducking hurt too.
@@CompComp that’s awful i’m so sorry ): planned parenthood offers so many other services and yet those christians insist on reducing it to only one that they offer. i guess it’s okay for them to shove their ideologies down peoples throats but god forbid they be faced with reality.
@@CompComp oh no 😅
I actually know the people that made this movie cause it was filmed in my hometown and I used to go to the Church that made it. And some of the people that I know that were extras in the film said Steven was a dick. Also I’ve always wanted someone to make a video on this movie lol.
Is it a town in Canadia?
Do you have old dutch chips?
Your prayers have been answered 🙏
there's another review done by Homeless Movies that's pretty good if you want even more critique lmao
The people who made this movie are making a movie about my hometown and those of us who were adopted. It’s gonna be as bad as this one
it's wild to me that a dude calls your childhood friend a "little freak" for killing himself and you dap him up after.
(also)
Why the fuck does the main character look like evil Owen Wilson!?
I was gonna make both of those points lmao
Noice. (69th like)🎉
And he sounds like Todd Howard lmao
"You going to the abortion store?" Made me cackle like a creature
ya know i am it is my favorite hobby.
Steven crowder should’ve been the youth counselor, he has like a plausibly deniable creepiness that all youth pastors have
Some people are afraid of clowns. I’m afraid of YouthPastors 😮
Yeah, but being the jerk jock who doesn't care about dead black kids is right up his alley. Give him some shoulder holsters, and I'd assume he was just playing himself.
@@3dartxsi he wishes he was “the jock”
@@zedmann1680 What's the difference?
Not all pastors are creepy a lot of them are good some of them are bad
they really should have told the main guy to stop looking disgusted at literally everything
He mostly did dollar store horror flicks and was probably disgusted that those movies had more substance than To Save a Life
My theory is his expressions were a direct response to realizing the movie he was in. If that face wasn't saying "I smell hot garbage" I don't know what does.
the cameras must have smelled weird
@@efnfen No, it was Steven who smelled weird
It was the smell of god
Most unrealistic part was the woman telling a teenage boy that he'll always be there for his gf, as if teenage boys are known for sticking around when they get their girlfriends pregnant.
not joking when I say they made us watch this movie in the psych ward
Sounds like that would make everything worse
how can u focus on ur mental illness when ur too busy laughing at this 😭😭😭
That doesn't even shock me ,we had a weird Jesus guitar guy that would come in on Sundays. Attendance was mandatory
sometimes the "craziest" thing on the psych ward is the staff
@@KaelWrit Psych wards really are wild.
we were forced to watch this movie during an eighth grade assembly but i missed the entire thing because i was making out with my boyfriend. so glad i can look back now and know that i made the right choice
You dodged a bullet. I would have went to the rest room and killed time for a few minutes.
HA! Fight the power
You made out with your boyfriend for like 2 hours in eighth grade?! Dayum. You wild.
best way to avoid shit like this “movie” lol
so I'm not the only one who had to watch this in school!! tho i was made to watch it in my highschool health and sex-ed class :)))
and unfortunately my teacher made us fill out a worksheet about the movie while watching it. i completely blocked it out of my mind until now.
OMFG WHEN STEVEN CROWDER WAS BEING A BULLY AND THE CLIP OF HIM SAYING "rearing his ugly bisexual head" CAME ON I SPAT OUT MY WATER LMAOOO
it’s honestly impressive how steven makes every scene he’s in incredibly fruity
He’s like a homo febreeze
I thought he was going to kiss the main character when he started the fight
@@TheN00bmonster Right? Like he seemed jealous.
My favorite part is where the light in your eyes starts to dim as we get further into the lack of story
Somehow better thematic storytelling than a movie with millions of dollars behind it
Ethan has the most purely joyous giggle on all of TH-cam - fight me.
he does!
(edit is just a "!")
A giggle fit for a Gestapo Officer…
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as an event planner, your rant about the 2 sandwiches for the group and ending it with “this movie is…. not good” had me crying laughing i felt so heard
one thing not mentioned in this video is that they SHOW Jonny cutting himself. it’s a whole scene. and holy shit, that was so triggering for me when I watched this growing up. my church’s high school youth group had a whole event to watch this movie but I was too young so I secretly stole my brother’s copy and watched it. I have long since left the church but didn’t realize just how much this movie upset me until now. Ethan, thank you for making this video. thank you for having horrified/confused reactions to things and for pointing out the goofy stuff. this video genuinely helped me shift this movie from a dark triggering memory to just another goofy shitty Christian movie. thank you.
also side note, the soda/sock thing is a very normal youth group “game.” I can’t say we ever did that exact thing but they did make smoothies out of gross non-smoothie-friendly foods and had kids drink them as fast as they could, so. at least the sock soda was still just soda, I guess.
it is absolutely INSANE to just recklessly throw such a painful, graphic moment into the middle of this dog shit movie. that is so irresponsible and cruel and I am truly furious at all the makers of this stupid fkn film for doing that. even just the scene Ethan showed here of Fuckface mocking Jonny for it is so fucking sad and evil, makes me nauseous. Truly an exceptional(ly HORRIBLE!) movie.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts/experience with this movie & Ethan's video, and a big ol' FUCK YEAH to you for being able to re-file a truly traumatizing memory into a new brain folder. I'm really happy you're free of that. Baller move on your brain's part, way to go brainnnn !!
May any writer, producer, director, etc who even THINKS about carelessly chucking a self harm scene at an unprepared, unconsenting, vulnerable audience be struck down by the *righteous light* of, idk, Roger and Jonny Boy??
much love
@@blood-soupI love the way this comment is worded so much /gen
As someone who has gone to a youth group, one time, it is actually this weird and that is something they would do. I had to eat pudding through a stocking covered over my face. I made 10 bucks Starbucks gift cards it’s weird.
At a local youth group they did a pudding eating contest out of an actual toilet. Despite the youth pastors assurances it was a new toilet, the first person who tried to eat pudding from it threw up immediately 😂
so many random food challenges!! dude one time they blended up a mcdonald's meal and made the kids eat it for their merch
@@nina.robbs565no bc THEY DID THAT AT MINE WHAT
A youth group activity has made my brother retch at the thought of eating canned tuna lol
dude the last church i went to would hold an annual cow tongue tossing tournament between another church. we would literally just play like it’s a ball and try to get it to the other team’s goal
i remember a guy from a different church punched the shit out of a girl from mine to stop her from scoring and the former’s youth pastor said he did a “good job”
Once again dropping in to compliment Ethan’s hair- hey Ethan ur hair looks so good, it makes up for having to see Steven crowder
Literally it's glorious today
I like it a lot better than the white curtains they use to have lol
I think they look like a teenage ogre now but not in the worst way that one can look like a teenage ogre
my favorite thing about steven crowder is that is that one time i misread his name and now he reminds me of chowder, the food.
"there's no point in filming in 4k if all it does is show how blue your main character's eyes are, that's SCARY!" got a chuckle out of me, after a week of gut punches, so that's neat and i appreciate it
You’re really coherent for someone who drank a lot of “spaghetti sauce “
It's a sign of an experienced spaghetti sauce drinker
My mom is Christian and she has never been strict with it and didn't make me watch these movies. Got to watch Malcolm in the Middle, That 70s Show and also watch a lot of anime. And my mom would buy me my first Gundam figure and watch Dragonball with me.
So I can't imagine watching these movies and staying sane for two hours or more.
I love normal Christian people. I had a lot of those in church, who would let us watch normal movies and trust our judgment. I really hate the people who ruined everything after some teen rated youth group things and made everything about god! Church was also about bonding, not just jesus jesus jesus. Let us talk about teen stuff man!!
I went to catholic school and was forced to watch all these films in religion class.
I went to a secular school & in my health class we were also forced to watch this film. It was so awful.
I went to an atheist school. We watched leonard dicaprio and Animal Planet.
watching laughably terrible movies and reading bible fanfiction sounds awesome ngl, then again i never had a religion class or anything like that so it probably has a lot more to it than that
i had to watch unplanned, did you too? im sorry btw. it’s messed up:(
I am so sorry.
Awe. Those pictures of the kid bombing the school reminded me of pictures a girl at my high school would draw and shyly give to me of a stick guy chainsawing a bunch of other stick guys and a rainbow that said "massacre" in big bubble letters. A teacher saw them and got upset that I was drawing such violent things, but really a girl just had a crush on me lol
this is insane, thank you for sharing
aww this reminds me of how my bf and I first started dating
Dude this girl I was friends with in elementary school drew a bunch of stick figure dudes peeing in different places and I think that meant she liked me? I really don't know lol.
I used to draw so much crazy stickmen shit luckily no one ever saw it haha
I once drew a whole scene of stick-priests In headdresses performing a sacrifice on top of a Mesoamerican pyramid while a whole crowd of stick people gathered at the base to celebrate, a few of them in the crowd had little flags and pennants. It seems like stickdeath art is a popular genre among school children
As an ex christian child, thank you for reminding me of this disaster.
This was buried deep down in the old brain. Got halfway through the movie review before I realized I had definitely seen it as a kid
I literally watched this with my youth group like 6 fkn years ago 😭
@JayKay Hey, just wanted to let you know that what you wrote is definitely a form of coercive conversion. I know you only made that comment because you thought you were being helpful, but it really wasn't helpful. People fall out of faith for more reasons than hard times, and telling someone that an apocalypse is coming won't reverse that decision or make them think twice.
@JayKay man I really hope you grow out of this shit
@@JayKay-sx1mv If someone wants to become christian (Why would you want to do that) they will do it when they want to! You spamming people online is not going to help. Don't know why I bother with you people. Stuck in your ways. You can find peace and enlightenment without following a stupid book. Check out Buddhism
Oh my god. My (former) church youth group made it an event to watch this damn movie. They played it on the side of the church building.
BRO SAME HOLY FUCK this video unlocked a repressed memory
I'm glad my Church was actually fun, they didn't have much so we didn't watch movies.
@@kappadarwin9476 An old youth group pastor once took us all to see "My Super Ex Girlfriend" in theatres when I was like 12. It was one of the weirdest viewing experiences of my childhood and I still can't figure out why the youth group went to see THAT movie. Maybe that's one of the reasons he got "let go."
@@milessolomon4864 Yeah, he wasn't suppose to do that. I can't believe the theater staff let a bunch of kids into the theater of that movie. I guess it shows how much freedom youth pastors can have with kids. I find that scary.
@@kappadarwin9476 I remember being really worried they would ID me and I was so nervous about the movie, bc at that point, my parents were so restrictive, they wouldn't let me see Spider-Man (Tobey McGuire). But they trusted the church so much, they let me see My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Now that I've seen both movies, I can confidently say Spider-Man was more appropriate.
Nothing was more surreal to me than seeing my siblings old childhood friend have a Christian movie be made about her family 😫
SPILL, I gotta know which one
@@djponez same please tag me when the Lore drops
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Had to comment again cause two random facts about this movie the 35 year old guy Jake plays beer pong against is actually who Jake is kinda based on. And at the very end of the movie when Jake and his dad are driving to college when they drive off from the coffee cup place they are heading east And then the final shot from the hill top and then heading under the bridge is them heading in a completely different direction than they were heading. I’ve always found that funny.
"if you sneezed during this video bless you" activated an ancient part of my brain like i was a sleeper agent
So nice of Ethan to spotlight his late son John Boy’s (Johnny Boy back then) acting career.
Rest in piece John Boy (1983/1993-2023)
rip to the goat, you'll be missed John Boy 😭😭😭
when i was in a christian school, i went from the nuns fav student to being atheist and gay-
I'm sorry to hear that they mistreated you. I'm Christian but I believe that God made us the way we are for a reason, that love is love, and that He comes to people in the way that you best receive Him-- whether that's through religion or music or whatever moves you. I wish you all the best and hope things are better now
Same. Really gave Catholicism a good go before finally finding happiness in being a queer witch.
@@msjkramey God doesn't believe in "love is love" he believes in righteousness and holiness.
Yes, he's merciful but he is still our judge (Matthew 7, Romans 1, Romans 6, Hebrews 10:26-31, Revelation 3 Laodecians)
Sorry if they have hurt you in anyway. Prayers you'll be able to find your way to God and his love.
God is who you need not nuns or a priest. Just remember God wants repentance. (Romans 6, Hebrews 10:26-31, Matthew 7)
@@AndromedaD Prayers one day you look into Jesus Christ a go. He loves you too. People need to repent before it's too late.
I was lost before I repented and came to Christ. The Holy Spirit leads us to him not a priest.
"I was his mother...
He was my son."
Bruh 😂 I bet I've talked in my sleep and been more convincing and natural than that.
My health teacher made us watch this movie in his class. It was presented as factual and we had to take a test on the "information" in the movie. btw we were freshman at the time.
was this a catholic school or literally just a regular high school?? either way presenting this as factual is hilariously stupid
hope you're doing well today and not entirely traumatized by this movie lolol
Mmmm brainwashing
huh? was there even any "information" in this movie besides "girl is pregnant and she wanted to get an abortion, but that's bad because Jesus said so"?
@@krissprout it was a public school and I’m doing alright. This movie is one of my favorites out of the sheer stupidity of it. One of the characters he didn’t mention has his entire character based around loving peoples moms. Plus the classroom setting added to the whole absurdity of it all
@@joshc5613 yeah this movie was presented to us as a guide to our moral compass. I’m not denying that it’s hogwash at all it was just talked about like a documentary to us while in class
3:35 You know this was made by 70 year old ⚪️ men because their genuine attempt at portraying high school is literally the Steve Buscemi meme
It’s so not cool it almost becomes cool
"how do ya do fellow su1c1d@l youths life is pain amarite?"
ethan this hair looks so good on you!! not necessarily bc it’s short but bc the volume on top rly shapes ur face well
someone should show up to one of his "change my mind" sessions and just play this movie on a projector or something
if you do that you'll be my hero.
My church showed us this movie a day after a kid in our youth group committed suicide and thought they were doing something lmao. I remember crying and being so confused bc we were all impressionable tweens
You can lead a tax-dodging evangelist to a movie-grade camera and budget, but you can't force them to be good
Also, new hair looks great!
with the pureflix movie by nick and now ethan I’m awaiting the fateful day a commentary person covers the movie my dad was in for pureflix……….
Fun fact: I was in attendance of the very first showing of this movie. My church at the time rented out a whole theatre for our youth group to watch it.
It wasn't good even to me as a Christian at the time.
It was hell to watch a review now, 14 years later as an atheist.
But I've been so excited for someone to review this one. Thank you, Ethan.
i wish ethan hadn’t edited out the part where steven’s character tells jake to scream at his pregnant girlfriend to put her in her place
This movie was a thing a decade ago when we had some suicides in my school and I never actually watched it, but wow it really has very little to say about... about saving a life lmao
OKAY, HEAR ME OUT
The moment with two sandwiches is JESUS WITH TWO LOAFS OF BREAD
15:34 And THAT is a reference to Job's wife! Because she too isn't named!
Damn I like this movie already.
IM SO GLAD I WASNT THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT OF THE LOAVES AND FISHES STORY
I actually did sneeze and there was no one around to say bless you. Thank god you did or the demons may have taken my souls. Truly doing the lords work, keep at it brother Ethan
i just realized this movie is the movie that i was forced to watch during a youth group meeting when i was in like middle school… i didn’t rmbr until the scene abt rodger bc i have a distinct memory of watching that scene in full with no warning or anything and being traumatized for awhile after seeing that as a kid 😭😭 oh my god i can’t believe u found it i’ve been wondering what it was for years omg
I 100% was shown this movie in my youth group as I child, it was sold to us as an important thoughtful movie we all needed to see. Occasionally I would remember scenes or weird parts from this movie and I would wonder what it was from.
This video brought everything back to me, thank you for that.
I hope Ethan keeps making yt videos for us when we're all in hell
Great video Ethan, even though it gave me flashbacks to my Christian upbringing 😅 love the new haircut btw!
Omfg I was forced to watch this at a church sleepover thing when I was kid!! You have unearthed a memory I do not want, Ethan…
Lookin' good with the new 'do, Ethan! New video & new hair = W
(I'm trying to be hip, as a 25-year-old, I don't know if it's working.)
Thanks Ethan! I always enjoy your content!
Bit of advice, don't make an equation, just say w with no further context
@@josephspurgis7782 Thank you for the advice! I will implement it next time I feel the need to express that something is a "W". 👍🏼
W 25 year old!! 😄 Absolute chad 💯
AT THE END OF THE MOVIE I JUST SCREAMED "WHAT WAS THE POINT???"
the tobuscus outro was like a punch directly in the face, love u ethan!
Love how you haven't changed your hair at all, and that your hair has and will always be the same
I love that bible story when the security guard feeds the five thousand with only two tuna subs.
Wait, they suspected Johnny Boy cos he drew people riding rockets into "High School"? Lol. A kid in my grade 9 science class drew a gun made out of tiny guns and it shot bullets that were also guns, accented with "drips" of red Sharpie. He never rode a rocket into the school, though. I guess he was just an edgy teen boy. SHOCK, I know. Hah.
Oh, and he drew another one that shot knives. That would be kinda cool like in a video game.
P.S. The kid was harmless, & the drawings were just silly scribbles. He was just an edgy adolescent, but he had _some_ self-awareness and was leaning into it a bit. This is a lighthearted thing. Cos I don't want to get into how few degrees of separation from this stuff I really am. (One. Several friends I've had, actually, in different situations.)
I want to be a director and whenever I feel self-conscious that none of my shit will be good, I remember stuff like this exists and I feel better about whatever I make
I like how ethans nose ring matches his glasses
My Christian high school made us watch this in like 2014 and I forgot 99% of it until now.😪 I only remembered 1) the death scene and 2) experiencing second hand embarrassment during all the other scenes
Great video, Ethan. I found it to be a supremely enjoyable experience, so thank you very much!
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The most accurate thing about this movie is that (if I remember correctly) the stoner kid who framed Johnny Boy was the pastor's son (not the youth pastor who was in the movie, but like the senior pastor, I think it was a throw away line).
Obsessed with the new hair eef
I watched this movie in my HS youth group class when it came out. None of us girls thought Steven was attractive and we didn't understand why they framed him as the "hot bad boy." 🤣
Director: "So, you are an obnoxious, self centered bully, that is an asshole to everyone else, with light homoerotic overtones."
Steven Crowder: "Okay, but what is my character in the film?"
I actually had to watch this movie in high school during my freshman year health class as part of the mental health unit and yes my high school was public.
Oh my God, my 8th grade health teacher showed this movie in class when we did a unit on bullying!!
SAME except mine was 10th grade I think
Your spagetti'd little laughs are my favorite in this.
Ethan’s new hair looks so dapper
Hooooly shit, I totally remember seeing this movie at my youth group as a teenager when it came out. This brought back some Justice For Johnny Boy memories
hey your haircut looks super nice! also love the new backdrop
Unrelated, love the new hair, man. The colors great, you pull off the short look, A+
wow ethan this new haircut looks really great on you!
Looks fresh tbh
You can tell by the title that they really wanted The Fray to do the theme.
the fray: we can't make you change the name sadly, but we will not let you sully our song with it!
oh my god…. okay i’m a pastors kid so i’ve seen all these movies so many times and i hate to admit it but when i was like 11/12 i was super into the whole christianity thing and this was one of my favorite christian movies 😅 looking back at it as an atheist adult is….wow…. lmao
EDIT: i just wanted to say thank you to ethan for reminding me this existed lmao
I remember seeing this with my high school church group. I also remember being weirded out by all the feet stuff
My youth group showed this movie multiple times growing up and I’ve been WAITING for a commentary TH-camr to talk about it, thank u Ethan
I haven’t heard “if you sneezed during this video bless you” in years
Back when I was apart of my Church's youth group this was one of the movies we watched one day, and we had to take notes on it
I went to see that movie in theaterswith my church youth group. When you said the name of it I felt like I had flashbacks to 2009. I remember the pastor warning us that the movie had "serious themes" like sex and suicide. But apparently they're important for us to see, according to pastor Paul.
this video went so unbelievably hard
sploontoon is a funni name i like it
There was a movie named "The Christian Movie" in my local Dollar General, and honestly I wanted to get it out of curiosity. I resisted cause it would only encourage them, however it left an impression.
omg new trim
I like how "anonymous" your name is lol
Ethan how I’ve missed you always the best giggles
experiencing ethan's haircut induced gender envy :-( he looks so nice
I would genuinely love it if Ethan just did a high review of a pureflix movie every video, this was so good
God the way this movie had a vicegrip on my youth group back in the day
I have a cold right now and i really appreciate how you blessed the sneezes i snoze during this video
i love this new haircut so much on u ethan. slay
Once for work I had to film BTS video for a red carpet premiere. It was a small local movie that was going straight to PureFlix. They had super gross speeches beforehand about what our children should and shouldn't see in media. I was told I could stay for the screening but my queer ass got the hell out of there.
I like how you were most upset by no drink, no chip.
omg I love the haircut!! I swear Ethan is the cutest person on the internet
I absolutely had to watch this as a part of bible youth group and to this day I remember how obvious and gauche everything was - Jonny Boy’s clothes matched whether he was depressed (black) or happy (yellow).
Thanks for unlocking this memory.
I wonder if this is where Crowder had his bisexual experience he talked about having 🤔 I mean, my first same sex experience happened within the church too sooo...
that hair? thank you sir
ALMOST COULDNT TELL IF THE SHIRT SAID "GOOD BOY" OR "GOD BOY" WITH THIS ONE
Steven Crowder's character is just Jake's possessive boyfriend who is jealous that he's hanging with other people.