I regret spending an hour and a half of my life watching a film so bad it makes unedited holiday home videos seem entertaining by comparison.
First of all, this was not a movie made for entertainment. It was nothing less than a feature length infomercial promoting extreme fundamentalist Christianity.
If the film's aim is to provoke soul searching among its viewers, the producers sure picked an odd way of doing it. The character of Russell Carlisle is portrayed (in 1990) almost as a caricature, an out of touch buffoon. Would you want your most important message to be delivered by a buffoon? When Carlisle is invited to speak to public school students and asserts to them that "where science and the Bible disagree, it is science that is wrong", this is spoken in harmony with the message of the movie, not as tongue in cheek.
And this is the same message that is being delivered in fundamentalist churches every week and being reinforced in delusional attendees. No wonder they believe "creation science" is actual science and not an oxymoron.
The dialog with Michelle, the librarian, reminds me of the worst banal skits from church camp and vacation bible school. It was the whole, "without Jesus my life was empty and meaningless" platitude.
I truly feel sorry for people who have been ensnared by the deceptive modern fundamentalist movement. It is a far cry from traditional Christianity.
By the way, this film's executive producer is none other than Paul Crouch, head of Trinity Broadcasting Network, in case you had any doubt about the film's agenda.
First of all, this was not a movie made for entertainment. It was nothing less than a feature length infomercial promoting extreme fundamentalist Christianity.
If the film's aim is to provoke soul searching among its viewers, the producers sure picked an odd way of doing it. The character of Russell Carlisle is portrayed (in 1990) almost as a caricature, an out of touch buffoon. Would you want your most important message to be delivered by a buffoon? When Carlisle is invited to speak to public school students and asserts to them that "where science and the Bible disagree, it is science that is wrong", this is spoken in harmony with the message of the movie, not as tongue in cheek.
And this is the same message that is being delivered in fundamentalist churches every week and being reinforced in delusional attendees. No wonder they believe "creation science" is actual science and not an oxymoron.
The dialog with Michelle, the librarian, reminds me of the worst banal skits from church camp and vacation bible school. It was the whole, "without Jesus my life was empty and meaningless" platitude.
I truly feel sorry for people who have been ensnared by the deceptive modern fundamentalist movement. It is a far cry from traditional Christianity.
By the way, this film's executive producer is none other than Paul Crouch, head of Trinity Broadcasting Network, in case you had any doubt about the film's agenda.