Fun Fact - the director was actually thinking about doing this movie from Amber's mother-in-law perspective but then they would have to change the name to another song and they weren't able to get the licence for Sympathy for the Devil.

@emistyledxd545

4 жыл бұрын

Well that really worked out seeing how this movie doesn’t even follow what the damn song was about!

@whambamshang-a-lang6151

8 ай бұрын

The best part is that they did end up doing the Sympathy for the Devil movie and Nic Cage got the lead role

"They're all Syfy, and Christian, and porn actors." Okay, I was not expecting that last one from Kevin.

All kinds of important plotlines are in this movie, like plots A, B and Ceed

As a surviving spouse of an active duty service member killed in action, she would have received burial benefits, $400,000 in life insurance, and at least a $1200 monthly survivors compensation from the army. This movie really is stupid.

@cthulhupthagn5771

4 жыл бұрын

Additionally (and speaking as an ex-banker) there are laws that prevent banks from DOING this. It locks interest rates, lowers payments, and requires banks to work with the homeowner precisely because even live soldiers had issues when deployed

@agentkruger797

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for your loss , hope you're doing OK.

@xsiga7635

4 жыл бұрын

Lol your spouse died for oil

@agentkruger797

4 жыл бұрын

@@xsiga7635 it's about a brother hood not oil , it's only oil for the politicians.

@nakenmil

4 жыл бұрын

@@xsiga7635 - Not the place.

Also why is this called "God Bless the Broken Road"? The song is about how the path to true love isn't a straight line. It's filled with break ups and broken hearts. This movie is about a wife dealing with the death of her husband. It's not a broken road, its a burnt bridge that you have to figure out how to get across.

@warhawk9566

4 жыл бұрын

But it has god in the title! That makes it a red blooded christian song!

@peterdanior4538

4 жыл бұрын

warhawk9566 I hope they accidentally make the Christian movie version of Lana Del Ray’s “God’s & Monsters”

@warhawk9566

4 жыл бұрын

@@peterdanior4538 I would pay real money to see that

@PaceBreaker

4 жыл бұрын

I liked that song. It wasn't my jam or anything but it's a nice song. It's tainted to me now thanks to be associated with this crap.

The letter said : “Dear Amber, There’s $100,000 buried under the house . Don’t sell it!

@capmar-vell92returns20

4 жыл бұрын

Nice Harley Quinn cosplay.

@WayneMoyer

4 жыл бұрын

"Dear Amber, There's money in the frozen banana stand"

@mattj2081

4 жыл бұрын

And she sold it for 2 bucks.

Leave it to a Christian film to make the smart sane person the villain and not the horrible woman with the victim complex.

@UlshaRS

4 жыл бұрын

Well they do have to portray the person with the dangerously extreme victimhood complex in the best possible light.

@aliciab33

4 жыл бұрын

@@UlshaRS Target audience?

@julieporter7805

4 жыл бұрын

GTS: Great Teacher Scathach She's not even an interesting antagonist. It's clear that she is looking out for her daughter in law and granddaughter.

@gtsgreatteacherscathach5550

4 жыл бұрын

@@julieporter7805 exactly she makes a much better fit to be the main character. If Pureflix did this movie she'd be so much worst for no reason.

@simonkrayt1970

4 жыл бұрын

Social justice movies and Christian religious right movies. Do not seem to know how to write good heroes. They always seem to come off as either toxic or does an action so evil it is later down played to death.

Yeah, that mother in law is the only intelligent person in the movie.

Wow! Poverty really IS a choice

@Youll_Love_It_At_Levitz

4 жыл бұрын

It really is. Its just some have to work much harder than others to escape it. Then there's this woman...

@greenkoopa

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. I'm choosing to not go to bed hungry tonight. Because I have money. If I didnt have money it wouldn't be a choice 🤣

@DemonicRemption

3 жыл бұрын

@@Youll_Love_It_At_Levitz Yep, the thing is many who are poverished don't know how to escape it. We're not handed the answers on a silver platter. And I already know those who say it's a choice aren't generous enough to help...

@pianoish

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, because it’s about the choices that you make that lead to poverty. Didn’t finish high school? Had a kid outside of marriage? Can’t hold down a job? You are more likely to live in poverty, and those choices played a part.

Kevin and Snob! The best crossover ever!

Proof that bad movies can unite people of different political and religious views.

I've seen a lot of "victim mentality" and fatalistic movies in my day, but this takes the self-damaging cake. The mother character is honestly evil in my opinion, failing to take care of her own child and endangering them both through her own baseless pride. As someone that has lost family members to unexpected tragedy, I cannot understand how selfish and stubborn she acts. She doesn't even appear to be that heartbroken over her husband's death. The mother-in-law is genuinely trying to help, and should get a medal for not lashing out after countless rejections. This is absolutely not how Christians should respond to bereavement.

Oh dude, you reviewed the movie my cousin was in! My cousin is the singer in the cafe, Micah Tyler. At the time they were filming this, he already had a couple of albums out, and now he has toured with MercyMe and received some Dove nominations. I'm so proud of him!

@luthientinuviel3883

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah I recognized him. Cool!

@Ukiby3000

Жыл бұрын

Hey, that's pretty cool! I'm happy for him as well!

The 3 generations of my family that were or are active duty military will tell u if u got a spouse or kids THEY WILL NOT LET U DEPLOY till u sign a will an make sure ur benefits are ironed out lmaooooo where they get this shit from?

@DJMangoh

4 жыл бұрын

As an active duty member myself, the lead character is such a fucking laughable human being. In the case of any sort of death of your military spouse, whether in combat or not, they will take care if you for the rest of your life. You get money for HOUSING, insurance, allotments, anything your spouse was saving, ect.

@mamawray

4 жыл бұрын

@@DJMangoh When you say 'housing' do you mean that you continue to get BAH if your spouse dies at all? Like, not even in combat? Or is it different kind of benefit?

@DJMangoh

4 жыл бұрын

@@mamawray Yes the spouse will keep getting BAH as well.

@PaceBreaker

4 жыл бұрын

This is what happens when you write what you want and don't want to do your homework. It makes the entire plot very flimsy and your lead looks like a moron. I'm sure there was a way to make this plot work but the screenwriter didn't care to do research.

@alisaurus4224

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaceBreaker all they had to do was make the husband non-military. Then it would be very believable for his death to financially wreck the family

Dear Mr Cinema Snob. The latest film by Lawrence Fishburne, imprisoned is right up your alley. Much like travolta in Fanatic it begs for the piss to be taken out of it. Signed first time caller, long time listener.

@aurorauplinks

4 жыл бұрын

hurray, that sounds wonderful... although i personally feel a really great show would be the 3d clone wars.... i just want everyone to watch the 3d clone wars and make comments on it... im actually enjoying it because one channel finally did start watching it :)

Another missed opportunity: “Betty Spaghetti’s husband is dead-y”

@dallasdandigitalproduction393

4 жыл бұрын

Thats the greatest character name ever

@mamawray

4 жыл бұрын

Betty: "George will come back from the Pacific and kill me!' Every single audience member: "He ain't coming back from the Pacific. He day-d."

This movie gave me a similar feeling I had watching "Grave of the fireflies". There was a better option at hand, not a good one, not a permanent one, but a better one than trying to settle everything yourself when it is beyond your capability to do so, but the protagonist kept refusing it. Grave of the Fireflies is still a deep masterpiece and this is none at all but the feeling watching it, oh boy, heavy reminder.

@merrittanimation7721

4 жыл бұрын

The difference being we're not supposed to think that line of thought is the good one in Grave of the Fireflies.

@merchantfan

4 жыл бұрын

@@merrittanimation7721 Not to mention he's just a kid AND the family are way meaner in that. Here the 'villain' just points out the obvious while offering very generous things "I want to help you open a franchise. You'll lose the house if I don't help you with the down payments and you'll be homeless." It's more like if the aunt in GotF was just knocking on the door the whole time trying to get them to come to dinner. AND she followed them to the cave and continued to try to convince them to come home up until the end

@phreakazoith2237

4 жыл бұрын

@Mrs. Arthur Morgan Valid point. Shame and honor and not wanting to be a burden are important issues in the interpretation of "Grave of the fireflies". As far as I know that's one major point were there was an obvious split in the reactions the movie caused in western and japanese audiences, when it came to the protagonist's actions and how much one can attach to him. But even being from another culture one still can understand why Seita does the things the way he does them even if one would try to do otherwise. Because Seita is authentic. His mindset is authentic. Is Amber authentic? I doubt it.

@julieporter7805

4 жыл бұрын

Phreak Azoith He's also a kid and most adults that surrounded him and his siater were either weak or cruel. Amber's just an idiot surrounded by genuinely nice people.

@MinscFromBaldursGate92

4 жыл бұрын

Grave of the Fireflies was written as a reaction to the rise of juvenile delinquents in Japan. (At least according to Bennet the Sage)

It has been awhile since there was a crossover episode of the Cinema Snob.

@dallasdandigitalproduction393

4 жыл бұрын

I wish hed do more of them.

@SALshaNoma

4 жыл бұрын

Shame it was with someone terrible. Let's hope for a better guest in the next one.

@foreveranimated92

4 жыл бұрын

@@SALshaNoma What are you talking about? Kevin's awesome. He's a smaller KZreadr and his channel may not be your cup of tea, but he's done some good work.

Snob and Kevin have more chemistry than the love interests in the movie. XD

22:12 She's officially the best character.

If “I Still Believe” is the song the oily saxophone man plays in The Lost Boys, then I’m all in.

@tiryaclearsong421

4 жыл бұрын

Omg I love that song. The soundtrack for that movie is one of my favorites.

*SEED PLOT* I don't know why but I laughed hard every time it cut to this.

The mother-in-law is indeed the only good character here

@Ratciclefan

4 жыл бұрын

I lol'd at the "hi god" line in the end though lol

The funny thing is this is the type of person right wing types imagine ends up going into debt, though there's a slight difference in who they feel bad for (hint it might be something about her being a pretty white lady)

@thequietdreamer2186

4 жыл бұрын

Fan theory: one of this woman’s ex-boyfriends is the Arsonist from those PhilosophyTube videos.

@graemesmith6721

2 жыл бұрын

Well, of course. Right-wingers believe only white people can legitimately be victims. Everyone else is just being lazy.

I’m 100% ok with any Kevin crossovers. MORE CHRISTPOILTATION! SOOTH MY EX-EVANGELICAL HEART WITH BITTERNESS

I work at a Dollar General and I always see the cover of this movie and it's hilariously bizarre. It's a kid holding his mom's hand while a translucent ghost dad puts his hand on his son's back.

The IMDB comments for this movie are hilarious. They all say it's a great movie, the message is uplifting and they think the mother in law is a terrible person. It's like opposite day over there. Which just goes to show what I've always said. Namely the audience for this type of movie doesn't care about the quality or the story so long as the "message" is one they like. And because of that message any flaws the movie might have are immediately forgotten.

@ryantyler9677

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Breath of the Wild's die-hard fanboys. I went there.

Sounds Jesus-y, I'm in!

Great to see Estus Perkle return, even if it's just for a 2 second joke, lol

From the title I thought this was going to be a post apocalyptic movie. Like an evangelist version of The Road.

@MinscFromBaldursGate92

4 жыл бұрын

As if The Road wasn't depressing enough.

@LammasuRex

4 жыл бұрын

I could never watch that movie because I would hum the Tenacious D song the entire time. .

No denying it. Though quite possibly the most unexpected pair ever, I love the big brother/little brother energy between Snob and Kevin 😊

"Too bad she's a terrible mother getting everything she deserves!"😆

#TeamSailorJerry

@SpeedyEric1

4 жыл бұрын

*VIET-GODDAMN-NAM!!!!!*

Everyone knows Food Stamps and Social Security were made to make us feel incompetent compared to everyone else. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go back to my cardboard box and feed my pet rat with the last of my scraps for the week. DON'T JUDGE ME!

@MinscFromBaldursGate92

4 жыл бұрын

And the funny thing is Ayn Rand didn't like religion.

@chonkyloreraccoon3686

4 жыл бұрын

Little did you know the rat you are caring for today will be exposed a an alien mutagen and transform into a wild untamed Tommy Wiseau.

@MinscFromBaldursGate92

4 жыл бұрын

You are TEARING ME APART @Fanatic Potato!

Oh boy Kevin is here nice I disagree with his politics but it’s so good to have him help with debunking these crap religious films

@Ratciclefan

4 жыл бұрын

what politics? I don't know him.

@pjmathison9787

4 жыл бұрын

Juan D'Marco he’s a Scientologist fundamentalist

@saygoodnightkevin

4 жыл бұрын

Juan D'Marco I believe the government is overrun with lizard people, and that Teddy Roosevelt did 9-11 AND 9-12.

@angelmarie2281

4 жыл бұрын

@@saygoodnightkevin Teddy Roosevelt?! I thought you meant Teddy Ruxpin?!

@Ratciclefan

4 жыл бұрын

@@angelmarie2281 *Chadtronic flashbacks*

Oh hey a crossover episode nice!

Someone responding to offers of help with contempt ending in a home foreclosure? It looks like the Spoony Movie got made after all.

This made me feel, bitter, tiny writhing hate, the thought of this movie resonating with people, makes me feel.... just, just why?

"the Bible's bringing her mail"! Dammit, why did that one get me... God bless you Snob.

O.M.G.!!! Mike Nelson... where are the bots? Oh... it's not Michael J. Nelson... umm... okay, well... you almost had me there pure flicks, almost.

I like how Cinema Snob seemed to bond with Kevin

How is it that in Christian films like this the "antagonistic" character somehow always seems the more reasonable one?

@sparthyslaysstuff2405

4 жыл бұрын

Because being reasonable is the devil's work!

@umachan9286

4 жыл бұрын

It's because if they were reasonable themselves they wouldn't be the fundamentalist types that watch these movies.

@VitalityRichPlus

4 жыл бұрын

Prosperity gospel schlock combined with the ass end of the worst that America and small towns should disassociate with. This film is realistic in that it accurately displays "Fundamentalist Christian American small town pride" more so than South Park (no offense just citing an example), and their collective fantasies.

@warhawk9566

4 жыл бұрын

It's to prepare them for real life

@GamesFromSpace

4 жыл бұрын

Because religion is fundamentally unreasonable, literally not based on reason. Which isn't the worst thing in the world, until somebody start treating lack of reason as the goal.

these two work really well together

How wonderfully ironic! I had to pause the video to take a bathroom break right when Cinema Snob needed one, and I was in a wheelchair at the same time!

I just noticed the Snob didn’t swear once in this review. Way to show respect to your co-host. 👌🏾

@andreawynn354

4 жыл бұрын

He said bitch twice.

We absolutely need more Kevin + Snob collabs, their commentary works so well together! I keep coming back to this and the Only Imagine review because they're just too funny XD "These explosions you keep adding won't stop killing people!" Priceless!

That MST3K reference was well done!

Yes! Yes! I love these crossovers! Please do as many as you want!!!

Is there a term yet for when movies and commercials use the military for cheap sympathy points?

@cocolime6496

4 жыл бұрын

Exploitation? Lazy writing? Propaganda? Wank?

@MinscFromBaldursGate92

4 жыл бұрын

Because 'MURICA!

@GamesFromSpace

4 жыл бұрын

Normal.

Now eagerly awaiting The Sailor Jerry Story, based on a song by Carman.

I don't know about anyone else but I be up for more Kevin and sailor Jerry:).

Asks for more responsibility at the diner. Gets told no. Is offered the chance to start her own franchise. Turns it down.

If Christian movies based on Christian songs is going to become a trend then I want to see movies based on Stryper or Antestor songs dammit!

@AnInsideJoke

4 жыл бұрын

Don't listen to country music, but I have heard tales of a song made in the past 5 years or so about a donkey? Where they perform it with someone wearing a donkey mask? That sounds like it has potential.

@merrittanimation7721

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine if they had to use Catholic liturgical chants. That'd be hilarious.

@tintinismybelgian

4 жыл бұрын

@brandon roberts How about "Carry Me Down" by Demon Hunter?

@Oceanblue_Art_

4 жыл бұрын

Well you see There's a certain show With characters named after classic rock songs

@CineMasterDamian

4 жыл бұрын

Christian films based on Skillet, The Letter Black, Flyleaf/Lacey Strum, Fireflight, Demon Hunter songs would be AMAZING!

So Pureflix wouldn't even touch this? I guess even they have standards once in a blue moon.

You need to collab with Kevin even more! I love y'all as a team!! :D

No it's more like someone is drowning and you throw them a life vest but they keep throwing it back because they don't like the color

Rascal Flats does an excellent job of covering that song...🤘🏼🎶💯✔️

After hearing the guys name is Mike Nelson I'm just imagining the sillouhetes of Kevin and Snob along with the bots under the screen

Thank you for reminding me that Rosie's Diner existed! I used to eat at the one in Cedar Rapids pretty often back before it closed. I kinda forgot that it existed. I checked, and the one in the movie is indeed the one used to go to. Kind of a shame honestly, it was an awesome place, then it closed, then it reopened, and then it was in this movie.

@nathanschmitz2302

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, another Iowan!

"Sometimes bad stuff happens...and then things get better." What an amazing message.

OMG so happy to see you two together again! I respect both of you so much for reviewing these movies.

I don't believe the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band deserves to have any responsibility for this movie laid at their feet.

23:51 MINE FURHER!! I CAN VALK

@BrendonSmall456

4 жыл бұрын

Had to check that this was properly commented. Thank you.

Wait...I see now, the part about him being a NASCAR driver is symbolic! Just like in NASCAR races, the car crashes are the only interesting parts!

@thequietdreamer2186

4 жыл бұрын

InsideJoke And like NASCAR, it feels like it takes too long to reach the end and is popular with the abyss of modern culture.

They should have pulled a "Misommar" scene in the church and had all the women emote with her...

@unicornalq11

4 жыл бұрын

That would have SLAPPED

@MarioBario

4 жыл бұрын

Yea sure, both movies are terrible

@AngelofMusic04

3 жыл бұрын

@@MarioBario There will be no "Midsommar" bashing here, little missy! You take your blasphemy down to the "Unholy" tent where it belongs.

I get the aversion of going into a church after something traumatic that happened to you inside the building. I had several of those moments that now I have a bit of an aversion to church in general.

In a lot of these Christian movies, you can sometimes spot someone signaling they are doing this for the money and HATE it. I have to wonder if the writer included the "mustard seed" as one of those signals because it's a pretty big gaffe in the Bible where Jesus says the mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds- something that wasn't true even where and when he lived and known to be false by his contemporaries. It's always a good one (along with the Bible saying bats are birds or grasshoppers have four legs) to point to when some blowhard claims the Bible is infallible or science has confirmed the Bible's teachings.

@novicenerd6199

4 жыл бұрын

The Bible isn't supposed to be a place to go to for scientific fact. That's not how your supposed to read it. That's why Fundamentalist kind of annoy me.

@Oceanblue_Art_

4 жыл бұрын

Either Jesus made a pretty hilarious mistake or someone along the way mistranscribed something. Either possibility is pretty interesting.

@JanetStarChild

4 жыл бұрын

@@novicenerd6199 You're not supposed to go to the Bible for anything other than psychological research into the mind of humans (just men, really) and what made them so fucked up.

And on Christmas.. .!?!? Look at the post-production snow.!!! Heh heh heh.. 😎 You get a like for that one.

Please God (hehe) do more religious movies!

I think I know who stars in this film. It’s Detective Amanda’s Rollins’s sister on SVU.

@chayden153

4 жыл бұрын

You're right

@Ecstaticmuseumguy

4 жыл бұрын

It's kind of funny how both of those characters are polar opposites apart from being super unlikeable.

@maggiekoch9348

4 жыл бұрын

And I thought it was Kathryn Morris, best for known for playing Lily Rush in "Cold Case."

Dude takes waitress out to get a coffee? Talk about a busman's holiday.

One of the best reviews ive seen in a long time. Nice editing with the co-host too. I couldnt believe the amount of teal lut used in every scene of this Movie. In the pawn shop she should've traded her wedding ring for a scuba tank, bc it looked like she was underwater , lol

Ooh a crossover! I'm hyped

that picture of harold cronk killed me, why does his head look like it's way too small for his body

@murrfeeling

4 жыл бұрын

He's secretly a homo habilis. Me Cronk! Cronk Strong! Cronk Write Movie!

I think out of all the religious movies that the Cinema Snob has reviewed on his channel; Mobsters and Mormons is still one of my favourite religious movies he’s reviewed.

She's just proving her Christian purity through financial flagellation.

Awesome! Cinema Snob and Spongebob are reviewing Days of Thunder!

Amber's character makes way more sense when you remember that this movie's target audience thinks people who accept government assistance are freeloaders.

@freakyzed8467

2 жыл бұрын

Funny as the target audience is on more government assistance than the rest of us. The numbers don't lie.

I don't know if you're foreshadowing but Carmen did make a feature film in which he played a boxer.

Love a good Estes Pirkell reference

Oh hey, I recognize that guitarist at the place where whatsername and whosisface were eating dinner! He sang that "gotta love millennials" song!

I love how he says Matthew 3:12 when the screen says 3:13 at 23:42

18:43 Its funny that they made a Pixar's Cars Reference when Rascall Flatt is in that movie as well

Well; at least the mother-in-law wasn’t a terrible person in this movie. I almost expected her to be, but; then I remembered that Pure Flix had dropped this movie.

As a motorsport fanatic, the racing scenes in this make me want to blow my brains out.

That's Days of Our Lives and Bold and Beautiful actress Patrika Darbo as nasty diner owner Rosie. That's NFL player LaDainian Tomlinson as the pastor. Kim Delaney played beloved Jenny Gardner on All My Children Wait, what? She's in debt because her soldier husband died? What about all of the death benefits, not to mention the hefty insurance a soldier can take out? She could have hundreds of thousands of dollars coming in.

Yay say movienight Kevin crossover!

Matthew 3:12 "His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”"

8:23 IT'S AN MLM, RUN!!!

Does this remind anyone else of that old joke about the guy in the flood? And for those of you who have.no idea what I'm talking about There is a guy in his house when a flood is about to hit. His neighbor come by and asks him if he wants a ride in his car. He says no and that God will save him. The neighbor leaves. The flood hits and he is on the second floor of the house. A guy in a boat comes by and asks if he wants a ride. He says no and that God will save him. The guy with the boat leaves. The flood get worse and the guy ends up on his roof. A guy in a rescue helicopter comes and asks him if he needs help. He says no and that God will save him the helicopter leaves. The flood gets worse and the guy dies. He gets into heaven, goes up to God and asks him why he didn't save him and God says "I sent you a car, a boat, and a helicopter. THE HELLL DO YOU WANT A FLAMING CHARIOT FROM THE SKY!?!

i saw this on netflix. i wondered why she was so poor. she could have asked the military for help. stupid movie

@chayden153

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, doesn't the US help the families of fallen service members with any expenses?

@luthientinuviel3883

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah my dad died in the military and we get financial help. My mom doesnt have to work. I dont have to pay for college. This lady should be just fine.

@AnInsideJoke

4 жыл бұрын

But then they couldn't have her be a stand-in for the martyr complex all of these Christian movies love to wallow in. Also, I think that that is what that phone call she hung up on was about. If she was too damded proud to ask her mother-in-law for help, she could have just accepted the benefits deserved to her and her family after loosing her husband. That's why they're there!

@MinscFromBaldursGate92

4 жыл бұрын

Because Cronk doesn't like the government helping people.

Gotta ask: What's that disco-esque track that Brian uses for the Snob episodes? I'm pretty sure it comes from those catalog YT content creators use, but I still gotta know the name

Never mind Jerry Kung Tai Ted is still paralyzed!

Awesome crossover!

Yes Estu I will! Now stop asking you’re making me self conscious!

Is it wrong that I'm watching this only two hours after seeing 1917? Maybe I'm feeling both extremes today

Always appreciate a snob crossover.

The most sympathetic character in this movie is Sailor Jerry.

7:35 "All these actors are all in the same movies. They're all scifi and xian and porn actors." Based upon that, these actors are biblically correct!

26:09 LMAO!!! 😆😆😆