555: The Carpenter

God Awful Movies

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Leisure, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

This week, we team up for an atheist review of The Carpenter, the story of Jesus as told through an MMA fight club in Nazareth, complete with anachronisms that would seem like a bit much to Fred Flintstone.
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0:00.0	Their one Christian friends sat them down.
0:07.1	They were like, I'm so much for Bionis Pizza Hut, man.
0:09.7	And he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:11.7	So, um, I know that the image of Christ on the cross looks a lot like an arm bar.
0:19.6	Oh, yes! Exactly.
0:22.1	You can't have so many of those.
0:23.6	You can't have him teach them an arm bar and then look at the camera and say,
0:29.3	call forward.
0:31.2	I'm going to take my cameras back if you do.
0:37.5	God awful movie. Movies. if you do. God Awful
0:38.9	Movies.
0:40.3	Movies.
0:45.4	Welcome back to the Gamcast,
0:51.4	where each week we sample another selection from Christian cinema,
0:53.9	so we'll be more resistant to torture if we ever become spies. I'm your host, Noah Lusions, and sitting 700 miles from my immediate left as my good friend Heath. Heath, welcome back. Thanks, Noah. We're going to be talking about some karate or karate, very exciting. Yeah. Spies could be useful. That's the most hurtful thing we're going to say to the makers of this movie all week.
1:14.9	Everything.
1:15.6	They're going to be like, really karate?
1:17.9	Begin email.
1:19.3	You think it's karate.
1:20.2	You idiots think this was about karate.
1:22.8	Oldie karate.
1:23.8	Yeah.
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