This is our first live show, recorded via Twitter Spaces. We discuss this year’s movie Nefarious and other R-rated movies worth seeing: Unplanned, The Passion of the Christ, Saving Private Ryan; also The Stepford Wives, which is tamer than R.
Here are some out-takes from the show.
We’re gonna try not to do any spoilers. If you don’t like spoilers, you may have to turn away. Yeah, you may want to turn us off. Because we don’t have very good self-control.
Nefarious is a movie that’s a cross between The Screwtape Letters (CS Lewis’ thin book in which Lewis he uses his imagination to describe how the demonic world interacts with humans, what their motives are, and how they operate), and My Dinner With Andre (a unique movie because it focuses on only two characters who are talking about philosophical issues).
This movie deals with spiritual issues directly. It confronts them.
Steve Deace, who basically created the concept with two of the books so far, and now this movie [Nefarious], he basically wants to get this message out about dealing with spiritual warfare, and he may not see all the money coming back to his pockets.
Stay to the very end because the movie has a TO BE CONTINUED scene in it. Which is awesome, and chilling, and not at all a horror movie.
The R-rating was for the explicit nature of a single, realistic scene. It is not a horror file like The Exorcist.
Unplanned deals with abortion. Abby Johnson is a remarkable person. She is a hero for our times.
Saving Private Ryan for its realistic portrayal of D-Day. [We recorded the show on the anniversary of D-Day.]
It is a story about Jesus teaching no greater love is this than that a man would lay down his life for his friends.
Don and Tim butt heads all the time. Butthead.
To the unbelievers in the audience. And I know believers who reject the demonic world. They say that it’s all superstitious. Fine. Watch Nefarious as a psychological thriller because the movie leaves it open to your interpretation, whether or not the serial killer was truly demonic or just a very evil human being, whether or not there is a spiritual component. Don and Tim believe there is. But you don’t have to accept the spiritual world to accept what this movie is trying to tell you. Forces nefarious are allied against humanity. And there is evil in the world. And if you don’t watch out, it will get you. It will get all of us. That’s a universal message.
It is an engaging story that engages the viewer.
