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The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019)
If this was a joke, we missed it
My not-yet-30 son wanted to watch this. He was a fan of The Amazing Jonathan. This turned out not to be much about Jonathan - it's either a joke or it's about the Director. If it's a joke, we both missed it. Jonathan's just a meth addict. Berman, the Director, appears to be pretty dumb. This was a waste of time.
The Son (2017)
Skip this show, read the book
The book is very, very good. Especially the descriptions of Eli's daily life as a captive of the Comanches. The TV show doesn't follow the book, and the storyline of the TV is dumb. Not to mention that Pierce Brosnan can't act, and he certainly can't carry a role that needed a Robert Duvall of a Tommy Lee Jones (men who lived their lives in a Texas don't have British accents). The first few episodes of the show are ok, but after that it's just an awful story. So disappointing because, again, the book was excellent.
Saved! (2004)
WARNING: This movie is anti-Christian, and not really funny.
This will be a mixed review. (I checked the spoiler box, to be safe, but I don't think there's any spoilers in my comments).
First, it needs to be clearly stated: this movie is not simply a satire about Christians behaving poorly, it is an anti-Christian movie.
OK, I give the movie a 6 out of 10, but that is simply because it has a good cast and is pretty well acted.
Having said the above, I advise Christians to ignore this movie.
I'm a Christian, but not a Holy Roller -- I often laugh at, and criticize, the holier-than-thou crowd. I previewed this movie and then debated watching it with my almost 15-year-old son. In the end, I decided against showing him this movie. Here's why: as another reviewer on here wrote, at the end of the movie the "Christians" are the bad guys and the people who are living lives which are the farthest from Christ's teachings are the heroes. The movie's closing states that simply treating people nice is enough, and God will love you.
Well, this isn't enough, as has been noted by the Apostle Paul, by James (the brother of Christ) and more recently by C.S. Lewis. Sexual promiscuity and homosexuality are contrary to God's law. The movie never criticizes the young people who are smoking, driking, or having sex. Only the Christian kids are to be looked down upon.
If the makers of this movie understand Christian doctrine (which I doubt), then they intentionally misrepresented it. One scene in particular is illustrative of the shallowness of this movie's examination of Christianity. Roland (MacCulay Culkin) comments that it doesn't make sense that a mass murderer can accept Jesus before he is executed and be saved, but that infants born in the Amazon can't go to heaven because they don't know Jesus. This comment is contrary to Christian teaching (Romans 4:15), but is never rebutted.
This movie, in its entirety, is about tearing down Christianity and Christians. At no point in this movie is any single Christian depicted as anything other than a hypocrite and utter fool.
Jesus' Son (1999)
Waste of Time
My 9th grade son heard at school, from a classmate and from a teacher, that this was a good movie. So we rented it, and watched it. It is a complete waste of time. The only positive thing I can say about this movie is that it impressed upon my son how drugs waste your life. But he already knew that. I think he thought this movie would be comedic, similarly with Napolean Dynamite, but there is nothing comedic about this movie. And the characters are so completely worthless that you never develop an affinity for any of them -- you really don't care what happens to them. They are trashy people, living trashy lives, and this movie about them is nothing but trash.