I find the recent popular movies and shows to contain an anti-Christian and anti-values messages. Constantly fornication, rude language, mockery of God, falsehood is being promoted. What's your take on this?
Recent movies show this? We can find this going back to the silent era. It's the WORLD, remember.
Since most movies are made by unGodly people, you're pretty much going to find something worldly and unGodly in every one of them. I choose to focus on those aspects that are good, lovely, beautiful, noble, yada, yada, and push aside the nonsense I don't like.
E.g., I love the show Supernatural. There is PLENTY of Godlessness in it, and yet it also has some of best acting, writing (IMO), and the show itself is based on two men who are willing to die in order to protect innocent human life and destroy some of the most vile spiritual evil.
We live in the world and I think we need to make choices about what is tolerable. There are shows on HBO I'll never watch due to their pornographic content. The "Saw" movie series I will never contribute a dime to since they're all about intense, gratuitous human suffering. For me, these shows or movies do not have enough to redeem them, and on that I make my decisions.
We live in a world full of degenerates. to expect popular things to be godly would be foolish. There are plenty of godly shows and moves out there. But I feel they would never be popular in todays day and age.
Ironically some of the best movies and TV shows aare not sinful or degenerate. Ben hur for example is seen as a masterpiece by many.
Mel Gibsons Passion of Christ. Paul the Apostle of Christ, Another Jim Caviezel starred film. The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston. Dreamworks The Prince of Egypt. Martin Scorsese Silence. Jon Voights JPII. Netflix the Two Popes starring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins. Son of God. The Nativity. Sister Act. Sister Act 2. VeggieTales, for the kids.
Theres plenty of content out there, even not religious out there that are wholesome and not grotesque or overly saturated with swear foul language and unnecessary nudity. I also avoid the Saw series as well or similar genres of horror, not because im scared but because its like garbage ideas for want -to- be serial killers. You dont need evil ideas in your brain. If you watch Passion of Christ however, there is plenty of blood, plenty of suffering, plenty of hurt and torture, but the difference being the self sacrifice for the good of the world and saving all sinners. That is a movie i can find heart piercing yet knowing more intimately and simultaneously the greatest pain and greatest love story in the world in the eyes of our Savior. I generally dont enjoy shows involving evil spirits or the occult or cults and witches. Again, same reason why i dont need a real curse or spell being voiced out from my television in the disguise of a scripted show. But someone keeps greenlighting these types of scripts and storylines for shows and films.
Theres also Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty, but that might breach the line of mockery or parody.
I hadn't seen Joaquin Phoenix portrayal of Jesus in the Mary Magdalene film.
I haven't seen the Aronofsky film Noah with Russell Crowe.
I haven't seen the Christian Bale version of Ten Commandments.
I saw another film with Pryce, I forgot the name, but it was about an interview with God. Intriguing premise, but not the portrayal of God i assumed it would be.
