• harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    I lived in rural western Missouri and that’s exactly how it was. One Walmart, one traffic light, and more flavors of apostolic Christianity than Baskin-Robbins has of ice cream in a town of less than 5k. Tiny churches everywhere.

    I liked the variety of films they’d show: “Joseph Smith and the Temple of Doom,” “Mohammed: Satan’s Messenger,” and “Buddha and the Path of Damnation.”

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      6 months ago

      there’s one i see traveling around now via semi called The Thorn, the ad makes it look like low-budget passion of the christ

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        6 months ago

        I’d love to remake “Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter” for an Evangelical audience. He’s still defending lesbians but they’re just heavily coded and they live in Florida.

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        5 months ago

        It’s because they’re never made by believers, just people knowing that they can have a tiny budget and a huge price point because parents will pay anything for “Good Wholesome Christian Entertainment” that won’t turn their kids woke.

        Except for the God’s Not Dead movies, sadly those are made by geniune Evangelicals, and you can tell because they’re insanely mean spirited and have budgets.