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🗓️ 16 April 2024
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By the third entry of the God's Not Dead franchise, its creative team had clearly started listening to their critics. The result was a kinder, gentler right-wing Evangelical Christian drama that sought to heal divides... and failed at the box office. We welcome back New Republic writer and our resident God's Not Dead correspondent Alex Shephard to discuss GOD'S NOT DEAD: A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS (2018).
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0:00.0 | God's not dead. He's surely alive. He's living on the inside. |
0:05.0 | Roll it like a lie. |
0:08.0 | I'll tell you how God's not dead-filled I am. I actually went and downloaded the app that they advertise at the end of the movie. |
0:15.6 | I don't know if you guys can see that, but I've got it right here. |
0:18.8 | I am a little disappointed by it, frankly. |
0:21.4 | Hell yeah. |
0:22.4 | I was just walking my dog and down. buy it frankly hell yeah |
0:39.7 | I was just walking my dog and downloaded it and then I was like this sucks it's not a good app you know even by the standards of this kind of thing it's basically just, yeah, like the movies and the books, which apparently, I guess, what are their novelizations of these? I'm sure those are great. There's only one book I need and it's The Good Book book so I don't know what they're doing |
0:44.1 | there they're not they should be novelizations but they're all like the |
0:48.0 | evidence behind God's not dead which you're like you don't need that that great. I love that there's a whole series of like secondary reading, you know. |
0:57.0 | It's like this is what evangelical fan culture is. |
1:00.0 | It's just like regular fan culture, it's like like look here's the |
1:03.7 | tabulation of evidence that the Christian God is the one true God and is |
1:08.0 | scientifically provable to be real. Can I show you guys my favorite app on my |
1:12.1 | phone it's the Richard Roper app. It hasn't been updated in a few years, but when it loads there's a picture of the Chicago skyline. It may not actually load anymore. There may not be any reviews on there. Last time I checked the most recent movie was Deadpool. |
1:25.2 | What does it do or what did it do in its it's heyday? It was a one-stop shot for all of Roper's reviews like you'd go to his |
1:32.3 | Chicago Sun Times articles where he was also the critic. He was the film critic of the Chicago Sun Times if you want to know why fucking print media is dying. But then it would also go to his YouTube channel where he'd do like he'd do like skits in his reviews too. Like sometimes he dresses the characters. So I know it was a great, you know, awesome app for a couple of years there a couple weeks probably but yeah so you'd |
1:55.2 | have to be you'd have to be pretty ropert-pilled though to enjoy that it reminds me of I believe at one point |
2:01.6 | there was a Jeremy Renner based app so like an app that was entirely like a |
2:07.8 | Jeremy Renner thing and the selling point of that was that you could I think pay real money for a sort of like in-game |
2:15.7 | currency as it were that would like not necessarily let you interact or talk to |
2:21.7 | Jeremy Renner but like would make your comments go to the top which |
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