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Controversial Christian/'right wing' film.


Basically got brigaded on Letterboxd (which is very left leaning). Has a 4.6/10 on there, most common rating being a 1/10.

On IMDB it's a 6.5.

Rotten Tomatoes;
- Users: 97%, avg rating 9.6/10
- Critics: 33%, avg rating 4.0/10


I saw a youtuber give this a poor review and the comments were clearly brigaded by some group of people who are really pushing this film. The same seems to be happening on IMDB, many of the reviews are exceedingly positive.

This film is being used as a proxy battle for politics here. It's clear many people are giving it a lot of support because they agree with it's political message.

I do have to admit I find it funny that many people hate the fact 'right wing' people brigade and hate on films for having leftist political content but the left are doing the same here. That's life really, if you have strong political beliefs then any media piece that goes strongly against them will anger you.

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What's the buzzword for something that is the opposite of 'woke'? Is there one?

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Based on what I heard in the making of this thing, evidently someone down below didn't want this film made, because they had a lot of trouble filming it. You should have heard all the disasters they had on set, the storms, the bad luck, etc.

If any of what I read of the book's synopsis is true, it seems Satan couldn't even be bothered to destroy America, he sent in a lackey to do it instead.

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Gonna paraphrase the Beasties here; non-woke is not the opposite of woke, it is the absence of woke.

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I liked the movie. Poliical brigaders just have too much time on their hands and not enough brains to fill it.

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I consider myself liberal and I liked the film a lot. I took it as a very good horror film. I don't see how The Exorcist and this one are that much different in approach. I didn't see it pushing an agenda and if it did I don't care. Its just an opinion. I'd probably trim the final TV interview scene but 7/10 rating for me.

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I knew it. I'd never heard of this movie before a few minutes ago, a scene showed up in my youtube feed, "Demon Has Conversation With Atheist Doctor" or something like that. After watching that 5-min scene, I knew it had to be written by someone who was into the Left Behind movies etc. lol

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