You know she could've avoided all of the embarrassment and still used the Christian site if she had just told him she was a recent convert and still had stuff to learn.
Yeah...that is what I was thinking the entire time watching this. Also I knew lots of Christians that could barely quote a couple of bible verses so that really isn't that surprising. But of course....SHE COULD JUST USE ANOTHER DATING WEBSITE.
I always hated in movies how a character forces some introvert to "Live" more, "Let loose", or "You know, have fun". Because when someone doesn't do what you like to do, clearly they've been wasting their life. "Get your head out of the books and dance like no one's watching." "But I like books." "Too bad!"
This so much. As an introvert with anxiety, I'm not big on being out and about. I like staying home and eating and watching videos and creating art... And I'm forever glad that my significant other, who's mad extroverted, respects that I need down times ❤️
as someone who was forced to go to bible study as a kid,I can actually relate to the not knowing where the fuck anyone else is reading from and flipping to a random ass page and hoping nobody would notice.
Chloe Merriman There's a reason I bought little sticky tabs with the books on them to put in my bible when I was a kid. Like those little indentions in the old dictionaries that took you right to a letter. Someone tells you to go to Corinthian-Columns 8:12 and BAM. There!
Lol Evangelical Christianity has become the worship of capitalism and excess at the expense of the less fortunate, so I disowned it later in life. I'm competitive, but not _that_ much of an ass. A good game of monopoly is enough to sate me nowadays.
How did she grow up in the US and never meet a Christian? I mean literally, you can't be this clueless on this religion. It's like someone growing up in Northern India and being completely clueless about Buddhism. Makes no sense.
+Melissa Kerr No, you're not wrong. Gabriel, I think, was meant to say, that in the Northern states and in some neighboring countries Buddhism is a major or state religion. That being said, since Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism denounces the caste system (which is sacred by law as well) they don't hold much sway on the subcontinent.
That might actually make more sense. Yeah, it's not really all that different than driving a car or truck but it's not like praying is all that hard to do.
What an incredibly low bar. Heck, most serial killers meet those criteria and you definitely shouldn't date one! Who is this desperate and dependent? Also, when did "30 and single" become an existential crisis? I'm nearly 32 and I'm still single. Life has no time-table.
I'm always amazed at dialogue like what's in this movie. The Christian guy is like someone that's been brain washed and doesn't know how to relate to people like a normal human being. Most of the Christian people I know don't act like brain damaged frozen mannequin statue people. They just talk like normal people. I feel like if he went to Mayberry that it would make Barney Fife look like a demon possessed Scarface.
Exactly. This movie makes it look like all christian people talk about is only Jesus and religion. Every date in this movie is somehow religious related. But that in most cases in reality is not true. There are so many other topics that people talk about and so many other places that can be visited than just church and bible reading/discusing club that both religious and not religious people can enjoy.
OH MY GOD! I was hired as an extra for this movie!! Due to surgery on my eye I couldnt really be in it but like this was shot in my town! As I recall its supposed to take place in Detroit? I think? They shot it in Turlock, CA a small college town in the central part of the state. >
Even if she's not a Christian, she's an American. She should easily know what they're like. Oh wait, I forgot; this is one of those religious films, so the characters in this all have to be one-dimensional stereotypes and every Christian has to be Ned Flanders.
There's one for Trekkies, I believe. That could be a very funny movie with her screwing up Klingon and wearing a red shirt to a convention and having no idea why everyone's talking about her dying.
She's a hot aid worker. He's the most wanted man in the world. Together... they find hubun. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg present... Allah in Love, somehow greenlit by Sony Pictures for release this Eid al-Fitr. What could go wrong?
"Black People Meat" would either be a porn spoof of the Tyler Perry film or some "educational" movie that's really just porn with inserts of some "doctor"/"professor" explaining about sex - sorta like Black Love or Black is Beautiful.
That bit with the sushi was so fucking weird. Is the movie implying that Christians don't eat sushi? Are uncooked fish and rice not of god? I think this movie would have been better served with a twist ending where the guy turned out to be an alien wearing human skin trying to covertly research human mating rituals.
Because Jesus never ate fish, neither did the 12 fishermen, who followed him on his journeys. When he fed the multitude by wine, bread and fish, he sticked to the bread and wine...
I avoid looking at the screen and listen to it while focusing on something else, thereby letting it penetrate my subconscious without conscious cringe.
As a Christian who believes praying serves absolutely no purpose beyond personal meditation plus the placebo effect, being forced to participate in a group prayer is one of my least favorite cringe-fests.
Pffft they already think that as they saw Elise and Sonic hook up. ... It's sad how I'm actually probably one of the few people who actually doesn't object to that coupling on principal alone, and that this may be the only Lacey Chabert role with a worse relationship then Sonic 06.
As a Muslim myself and being a fan of yours, I hereby grant you my full endorsement to snob a Muslim movie... The only problem is, they're almost 90% in non-English and they're soooo boring and hard to find nowadays... Good luck! The animated Arabic ones are hilarious though.
There's a really cute animated one called "Muhammad: The Last Prophet" that I find adorable (not in an ironic way either, I think it's really sweet) - it's in English
+Riff Chick Does it actually portray Mohammed? The Quran doesn't explicitly say "it's against the rules to portray people (like me)" but "do not create false idols" (which I think iconography in Eastern Orthodoxy and the Catholic Church would be in violation of) but the trend seems to be that Muslims take it to mean "don't depict the Prophet". Are you saying that they actually depict him?
Are there any where the main character tries to convert an entire class, teacher included, into believing their religion while everyone who doesn't follow it dies? You know, like God's Not Dead?
Oh, and yes the angel of death literally kills some of the characters, and then their friends "regret not repenting before it's too late", and start shaking like crack addicts. The acting is "so bad it's funny" quality. You'd think Azrael would be too busy reaping souls all over the planet, but he decided to harass this particular group of guys for some reason lol
Dammit Lacey, you were Eliza Thornberry, Gretchen in Mean Girls, Gwen Stacy in Spectacular Spider-Man, and frickin' Zatanna in Young Justice. Did you just need the paycheck?
If Looper (the RUclips channel) did their research right, then yes. Heck, Cameron went further by the last season of his show demanding and succeeding in a script change, so that he needed not to lie with his costar shirtless... because...clearly...most teenagers are...not horny...ever. Anyhow, that channel does these "the real reason you don't hear about XY anymore" and they've done one Lacey a few months back, so I've already knew, that she's super into religious movies, and much likes Kevin Sorbo, blames Hollywood for "blacklisting" her for disapproving of her faith.
"Time to start at the beginning." *opens up to Genesis* Excellent! Then you can actually read how none of that makes any sense, like how first and second chapters have contradictory creation orders, how somehow plants were created before the sun, etc, etc. Always best to realize there's no way any of that can be taken literally.
Actually, those things can be explained properly with a bit of Biblical know-how & sensible interpretation. Would you care for me to elaborate further? :-)
I hate it when characters suck at lying. If she doesn't know how to pray she could just defer to his mom or dad (which would have been more polite any way). When the bf found her Christianity for Dummies book she could have told him she was learning to be a better Christian. This would have been more interesting if she had spun a web of lies and then fell on her ass.
It's completely unbelievable, right? All she had to say was that she was alone and sad and then converted when she saw how, I don't know, Jesus filled the lives of believers and she realized what she was missing was the love of Christ, or something, and that this was relatively recently and she went on Christian Mingle precisely to find the kind of man who would understand what she was looking for and would help her find it. Boom, solves the movie's central conflict, is more believable, and makes a better ad for the site, where's my check?
Guy: This drift wood has a lot of sentimental value to my dad since he found god with it. Girl: Cool we needed a piece of wood write on and nail to the wall. Side note why do they need to put a sign for the school? The town has like 10 houses I'm pretty sure everyone know where the school is.
Maybe it wasn't the exact same piece of driftwood but it was supposed to be symbolic. Perhaps she suggested they put it up since that would be a reminder that it was Paul who inspired her to find Jesus. (I'm reading way too much into this). Why did they write "school" in Spanish on it? Because they wanted to be traditional for no real reason.
As someone who grew up Mormon you should definitely start looking at the Mormon versions of these movies... Singles Ward, the RM, Sons of Provo, Mobsters and Mormons. They all pretty much have the same plot as this one... And Singles Ward has the sister from Troll 2 in it as the love interest. So there's that?
I just pulled up her Wikipedia. On top of being a year younger than Brad (which shocked me), her "personal" section said she related to or can relate to Gwyneth. How so, I don't know, but maybe it explains her weird Lifetime filmography. Oh, and her IMDB page said she was going to be Chloe in Left Behind 3, but had to back out due to scheduling conflicts. JFC, Lacey. What happened to your filmography choices? I mean, Black Christmas wasn't a perfect remake, but anything is better than that Kirk Cameron nightmare.
But Brad! You can't be divorced, as that only ages you in the eyes of your viewers! Just admit that you traded your marriage to the devil to save the life of your dying cat!
Interestingly enough, there are a few Christian movies that have scenes dedicated to "Common foreign foods sure are weird and gross! Let's have steak instead!" I don't know why Christians think other Christians never eat anything that's not red meat.
You're more likely to find crazy people on tinder. Also, I'm not sure how long tinder has been around so this movie could have been made before it was popular.
This movie could have been really cute if instead of breaking up with her, the guy taught her about what being a Christian was all about and then let her decide if she would like to convert and continue their relationship. They could have cut down half the run time but it would have made more sense.
Holy shit the ending of this review was great :p. I never knew Brad had so much experience studying Christianity. Makes him perfect to review these exploitation films.
I laughed because my church group does meet up at a hollowed out coffee shop. I love this and all your Pure Flix reviews (and really....all of your reviews, period). Thank you for all your creative output.
She faked it and asked her students to speak English in class since it's, you know, an English class. Then she packed an English-Spanish dictionnary "for teaching purpose" and a copy of "Spanish for dummies".
It's actually possible to speak a language but not really understand it. I knew a guy from Brazil who spoke in pretty good English, but had a hard time understanding it, since he was so used to Portuguese.
Damn it. We do date non Christians, we don't pray before EVERY meal, we say "hell" and we don't talk about God all the time. It's like Pure Flix wants everyone to think we are a stereotype.
Paul is the kind of guy that - in any other mainstream romance movie - would be the horrible date that the main character has in between break ups in act three that makes them realize how good they had it with their initial love interest.
Not just that, but it seems like he always speeds up a bit when he does his DVR-Hell reviews. Like this time- Doorways to Danger, 7/20, Christian Mingle, 7/24. And he isn't the only member of the original Channel Awesome that seems to get their next one out early when they do something from a short review series in the interim...
Holy shit this movie is like driving a nail in between my own toes. So far the only movie I've seen that treats Christians as real people is the first Exorcist movie.
I don't get why people ask that of you. I despise Islam myself but I wouldn't ask you to bash a muslim film. You are a movie critic! You make fun of exploitation films! If people want to see good content about critisizing Islam they should watch the Quran Reloaded or something like that.
The ending had me cackling. I'm fine with people criticising Islam if they actually KNOW anything about Islam (see Ayaan Hirsi Ali for a great example of someone who does this) but watching someone who doesn't know anything about it trying to critique it would just be wildly unsatisfying for everybody.
I can't believe they had the balls to title it "Elite Singles". At least they're not trying to hide the creepy superiority complex. Would 50 Shades qualify as a movie adaptation?
+Kimberly I can't recall the site's name, but I do remember it being worse for the simple fact they only let very hot people register, making it look like as if the world's nothing more, than a meat packing district. It also reminds me on the lawsuit filed against Abercrombie and Fitch where a guy had to work in the back because he had one slight defect.
Watching this sober makes me glad I was drunk when I watched the movie itself. However, I do recall getting excited when I recognized that Mexico set from Arrested Development. The stair car totally should have driven by in the background.
There are, but they are painfully bad. It would be tough to get good material out of them that isn't just "Look at how shitty everything in this movie is."
+Chris Gostanian I think Brad could pull it off, but as he said, he's had years of Christian education, so he's more fit to talk about bad Christian movies than bad Islam movies.
+Brandon Roberts I'd laugh if it were funny, but that Palestinian kids show using Mickey Mouse to espouse hate was priceless. Especially when they had to withdraw it, and claim he was killed by the IDF on a patriotic mission.
My Christian education is such I was raised in a fundamentalist sect of Catholicism with family intending me to become a clergyman. As such, I agree with Snob that knowledge and experience are important in discussing a film around a faith or belief system. And Paul's character isn't terrible. Honestly, the movie should have revolved around him and how he inspires a non-Christian to join the faith. But that requires decent writing.
Which is why it's extra cringe that White Anglo Saxon Protestants are the ones rebuilding a Catholic church, which is never a good sign for paying attention on the creator's part.
It's just a guess, but I think the meaning behind that final shot is that the school sign is made of driftwood, so her finding her calling as a teacher is the movie's way of saying that Paul "showed her her driftwood".
I hate to say it, but that Walt Right character might be Brad's most compelling performance yet. I thought he was a different person at first and he was genuinely frightening
To be fair, trying to answer the question of why bad things happen to good people/Christians is a really tough one to satifactorily answer, and I grew up going to church three times a week.
I don't remember the exact quote, but as the Snob keeps pointing out actors from other things, I'm reminded of how the God Awful Movies' guys often say that "watching Christian movies leads to being disappointed by previously beloved actors". Also you see who went crazy.
The average age kind of creeps me out, since around 500 minors are wed off every year under the age of 15, so I better hope the 33 doesn't come from 87 year old Floridians deciding to marry.
"That was just about one of the worst moments in my life." "Then you've lived an okay life." Yeah, I had the same feeling when my grandfather had to drive from Fort Pierce, Florida to Orlando to pick me up from the airport. On the drive back, he complained, "This is the worst day of my life!" I thought to myself, "Wow, then you've had a pretty damn good life!" And I hate to say it, but this movie totally made me root for Paul. He comes off as a genuinely nice person instead of a bitter, resentful hate-freak, while Gwyneth is both stupid and dishonest.
As an Eastern Orthodox Christian surrounded by a bunch of Latin Catholics let me say You have more in common with us than the "Christians" in this movie
In the UK this movie was released under the alternate title of Christmas Mingle. They took the original US release cover and put a CGI Christmas tree in the background. The DVD menu screen and the intro credits still say the movies original title, Christian Mingle. The back of the DVD cover makes no mention of Christmas and just says the movie is about a woman who finds her ideal man on the Christian Mingle website. A really odd and completely unnecessary change trying to pass this off as a Christmas movie.
You know she could've avoided all of the embarrassment and still used the Christian site if she had just told him she was a recent convert and still had stuff to learn.
Witty Username Would be too logic for this drivel...
Yeah...that is what I was thinking the entire time watching this.
Also I knew lots of Christians that could barely quote a couple of bible verses so that really isn't that surprising.
But of course....SHE COULD JUST USE ANOTHER DATING WEBSITE.
The holy Spirit would reveal her lie. Real faith in god will do that
She's an actual Christan. She said she doesn't go to church often. That's something this guy missed.
Or using a completely different website
I always hated in movies how a character forces some introvert to "Live" more, "Let loose", or "You know, have fun". Because when someone doesn't do what you like to do, clearly they've been wasting their life.
"Get your head out of the books and dance like no one's watching."
"But I like books."
"Too bad!"
So.....all Manic Pixie Dream Girls, then?
Being introverted is a venal sin.
And no one ever tells the extrovert that maybe they need to take a step back and chill
Do want Clock Kings? Cause that how you get Clock Kings.
This so much. As an introvert with anxiety, I'm not big on being out and about. I like staying home and eating and watching videos and creating art... And I'm forever glad that my significant other, who's mad extroverted, respects that I need down times ❤️
"Who puts up videos at three in the morning?"
Brad: *"Oh boy, 3 AM!"*
Devil's hour...
as someone who was forced to go to bible study as a kid,I can actually relate to the not knowing where the fuck anyone else is reading from and flipping to a random ass page and hoping nobody would notice.
Chloe Merriman Same here.
Chloe Merriman There's a reason I bought little sticky tabs with the books on them to put in my bible when I was a kid. Like those little indentions in the old dictionaries that took you right to a letter. Someone tells you to go to Corinthian-Columns 8:12 and BAM. There!
I was that annoying bitch who raced to be the first person to reach the Bible verse selection. I was more competitive than I was religious tbh
Kimberly what If your religion is competitive
Lol Evangelical Christianity has become the worship of capitalism and excess at the expense of the less fortunate, so I disowned it later in life. I'm competitive, but not _that_ much of an ass. A good game of monopoly is enough to sate me nowadays.
How did she grow up in the US and never meet a Christian? I mean literally, you can't be this clueless on this religion. It's like someone growing up in Northern India and being completely clueless about Buddhism. Makes no sense.
you mean Hinduism.
Gabriel Love These movies are made by the kind of people who seemingly think Christianity is an obscure religion in the US:S
...I thought that India was mostly Hindu, with Buddhists making up less than 1% of the population? Is that wrong?
Melissa Kerr it's not wrong
+Melissa Kerr No, you're not wrong. Gabriel, I think, was meant to say, that in the Northern states and in some neighboring countries Buddhism is a major or state religion.
That being said, since Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism denounces the caste system (which is sacred by law as well) they don't hold much sway on the subcontinent.
I get it. The school sign is made of driftwood.
That's the twist.
The stupid, stupid twist
ewww.
And the piece of driftwood has Jesus's face on it as mentioned in the opening. Double-Twist.
I've seen better twists in a bag of preztels
That's cause you will find better insides into the meaning of life and the mysteries of the universe in a bag of pretzels than in this movie.
I found a piece of driftwood with the face of Chubby Checker on it. What the fuck is God trying to tell me?
Christian Mingle is awful, Pagan Fraternizing is where it's at
Nah man, you got to check out Back Ho' hoochy. That's where it's at.
I prefer to just take sharpened lawn darts and throw them into large crowds. makes for a much more interesting first conversations.
Nah, Hindu Hookups.
Sounds like fun, but I'm not a pagan. Maybe I can start. You know where any virgins are, besides my bedroom?
Baha'i faithbook
I'm still waiting for the Farmers Only: City Folk Just Don't Get It movie
It was called "Deliverance". :)
Why not Farmers Only: The "Step" Makes The Next Word A Suggestion.
Tim Underwood Instead of not knowing how to pray the women cannot drive a tractor?
Tim Underwood Nononono, _Sea Captain Date: the Motion Picture._
That might actually make more sense. Yeah, it's not really all that different than driving a car or truck but it's not like praying is all that hard to do.
"I just want a guy who will look at me for 10 seconds then smile" Yet when the homeless guy across the street does it....
Facts
Yeah i like how we're supposed to believe Lacey Chabert was having trouble getting dates.
What an incredibly low bar. Heck, most serial killers meet those criteria and you definitely shouldn't date one! Who is this desperate and dependent? Also, when did "30 and single" become an existential crisis? I'm nearly 32 and I'm still single. Life has no time-table.
Yeah that description is SUPER FUCKING vague…..it could apply to the man OR WOMAN behind her in line at the laundromat!!!!!
I'm always amazed at dialogue like what's in this movie. The Christian guy is like someone that's been brain washed and doesn't know how to relate to people like a normal human being. Most of the Christian people I know don't act like brain damaged frozen mannequin statue people. They just talk like normal people. I feel like if he went to Mayberry that it would make Barney Fife look like a demon possessed Scarface.
Exactly. This movie makes it look like all christian people talk about is only Jesus and religion. Every date in this movie is somehow religious related. But that in most cases in reality is not true. There are so many other topics that people talk about and so many other places that can be visited than just church and bible reading/discusing club that both religious and not religious people can enjoy.
christians are brainwashed
OH MY GOD! I was hired as an extra for this movie!! Due to surgery on my eye I couldnt really be in it but like this was shot in my town! As I recall its supposed to take place in Detroit? I think? They shot it in Turlock, CA a small college town in the central part of the state. >
Amelia Blank
So God had mercy on your soul then.
I think God gave you that eye problem just to keep you from having THAT as a credit.
Praise.
True. Ii dont even remember if we were getting paid >< So its like whatever.
So this movie is kind of the Christian movie equivalent of Halloween ? Filmed in CA, but taking place in the Midwest.
Wait what? I live in Turlock and I never knew this.
Even if she's not a Christian, she's an American. She should easily know what they're like. Oh wait, I forgot; this is one of those religious films, so the characters in this all have to be one-dimensional stereotypes and every Christian has to be Ned Flanders.
*ned flanders exept even more vanilla
@@dr.anderson1847 and not funny......
@@megatron6713 and lacking everything that makes Ned awesome
Christian Mingle: That Moment You Realize A Few Entertainment Industry Personalities You Used to Enjoy Have Hit Rock Bottom.
that or they reeeeeeeally need to fire their agents
That's nothing... I lied about being a Mormon, and now I've got *three* wives!
Nice
U a harem guy.
That's the wackiest thing I've ever heard
I lied about being Mormon and all I got was a stupid bike and neck tie.
So Tengen Uzui if he was Mormon?
I can't believe her relationship with Sonic the Hedgehog didn't work out
But Sonic is so cute!
You know, there's a dating site for farmers. Now THAT would have been a better movie.
Reading that just made the movie 'For richer or Poorer' flash before my inner eye:D:D
There's one for Trekkies, I believe. That could be a very funny movie with her screwing up Klingon and wearing a red shirt to a convention and having no idea why everyone's talking about her dying.
I'd watch the hell outta THAT movie.
There was a dating site for Bernie Sanders supporters at some point (it's down now, I believe); there truly is one for everything.
therealmanos
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Sure, this gets made but my spec script on Oscar Schindler joining J-date never gets read. Hollywood man.
The Bible Reloaded
What would his status look like? "Dead for 70 years"?
The Bible Reloaded how much do you need to get it made?
Oh shit it the bible reloaded. Hey guys!
Hugo and Jake love you papa Hugo, and daddy Jake. 💦💦💦
She's a hot aid worker. He's the most wanted man in the world. Together... they find hubun.
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg present... Allah in Love, somehow greenlit by Sony Pictures for release this Eid al-Fitr.
What could go wrong?
I can't wait to see Tyler Perry's Black People Meet: The Movie
Asha Marie Bednarski you full know if Tyler Perry makes that movie itll be called "Black people meat"
"Black People Meat" would either be a porn spoof of the Tyler Perry film or some "educational" movie that's really just porn with inserts of some "doctor"/"professor" explaining about sex - sorta like Black Love or Black is Beautiful.
Wouldnt that just be Tyler Perry's Madea's Date Night.
Tyler Perry’s madea gets pregnant 😂😂😂😂
Do not give Perry ideas dude 😂😂😂
That bit with the sushi was so fucking weird. Is the movie implying that Christians don't eat sushi? Are uncooked fish and rice not of god? I think this movie would have been better served with a twist ending where the guy turned out to be an alien wearing human skin trying to covertly research human mating rituals.
I fell out of bed laughing so hard. XP
+mip You meant to say, per Leviticus, as in, for Christians too, all seafood is unclean. Literal Christians really would choke.
Looks like she didn't exactly know what the hell to do with the chopsticks, either. I think one's an alien and one's a constantly electrocuted corpse.
Moo moof My parents are Canadian and refuse to eat sushi because its uncooked.
Because Jesus never ate fish, neither did the 12 fishermen, who followed him on his journeys. When he fed the multitude by wine, bread and fish, he sticked to the bread and wine...
So... Much... Cringe. Fake praying . .is so much. . Cringe.
It's like the Season 3 Theon story arc from Game of Thrones. Except all the pain is in two minutes.
I pause and pace around
I avoid looking at the screen and listen to it while focusing on something else, thereby letting it penetrate my subconscious without conscious cringe.
HA! You know what's even *more* cringey?
Real praying. Do something that works...
As a Christian who believes praying serves absolutely no purpose beyond personal meditation plus the placebo effect, being forced to participate in a group prayer is one of my least favorite cringe-fests.
"We're in America, Eduardo, speak English"
"...No, we're in Mexico."
"EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD BELONGS TO AMERICA!!!"
1:28 They got Eliza Thornberry! NOOOO!!! Now the animals are going think all humans are like this.
RaymondtheA.I. that makes me sad
Pffft they already think that as they saw Elise and Sonic hook up.
... It's sad how I'm actually probably one of the few people who actually doesn't object to that coupling on principal alone, and that this may be the only Lacey Chabert role with a worse relationship then Sonic 06.
As a Muslim myself and being a fan of yours, I hereby grant you my full endorsement to snob a Muslim movie...
The only problem is, they're almost 90% in non-English and they're soooo boring and hard to find nowadays...
Good luck!
The animated Arabic ones are hilarious though.
Any particularly WTF ones?
There's a really cute animated one called "Muhammad: The Last Prophet" that I find adorable (not in an ironic way either, I think it's really sweet) - it's in English
+Riff Chick Does it actually portray Mohammed? The Quran doesn't explicitly say "it's against the rules to portray people (like me)" but "do not create false idols" (which I think iconography in Eastern Orthodoxy and the Catholic Church would be in violation of) but the trend seems to be that Muslims take it to mean "don't depict the Prophet". Are you saying that they actually depict him?
Are there any where the main character tries to convert an entire class, teacher included, into believing their religion while everyone who doesn't follow it dies? You know, like God's Not Dead?
Oh, and yes the angel of death literally kills some of the characters, and then their friends "regret not repenting before it's too late", and start shaking like crack addicts. The acting is "so bad it's funny" quality.
You'd think Azrael would be too busy reaping souls all over the planet, but he decided to harass this particular group of guys for some reason lol
What is with these christian dating movies and protagonists ending up with crazy people?
Wolf Works well no one turned out to be a serial rapist...
Maybe the writers and/or director are crazy people and think the people the protagonists end up with are completely sane.
"Maybe"?
That's true. No serial rapist in this one. So...improvement I guess?
Dammit Lacey, you were Eliza Thornberry, Gretchen in Mean Girls, Gwen Stacy in Spectacular Spider-Man, and frickin' Zatanna in Young Justice. Did you just need the paycheck?
It's no secret that she drank the same koolaid Kirk Cameron did. She left Family Guy because it conflicted with her faith.
Akos Barati Wait, really?
If Looper (the RUclips channel) did their research right, then yes. Heck, Cameron went further by the last season of his show demanding and succeeding in a script change, so that he needed not to lie with his costar shirtless... because...clearly...most teenagers are...not horny...ever.
Anyhow, that channel does these "the real reason you don't hear about XY anymore" and they've done one Lacey a few months back, so I've already knew, that she's super into religious movies, and much likes Kevin Sorbo, blames Hollywood for "blacklisting" her for disapproving of her faith.
And Claudia Salinger in Party Of Five.
Darkslayer289 I would take care of Lacey all she wanted.
I still think Lacey Chabert is cute, and a damn good voice actress.
Too bad she's reduced to appearing in movies like this, though.
"Time to start at the beginning." *opens up to Genesis*
Excellent! Then you can actually read how none of that makes any sense, like how first and second chapters have contradictory creation orders, how somehow plants were created before the sun, etc, etc. Always best to realize there's no way any of that can be taken literally.
Actually, those things can be explained properly with a bit of Biblical know-how & sensible interpretation. Would you care for me to elaborate further? :-)
I agree with the Lacey part. She was the original Meg and a Thornberry. Just wish she was in better films.
If she’s in it it’s worth it
@@TheMouseAvengerI would actually. Not being condescending, I'm genuinely curious
I hate it when characters suck at lying. If she doesn't know how to pray she could just defer to his mom or dad (which would have been more polite any way). When the bf found her Christianity for Dummies book she could have told him she was learning to be a better Christian. This would have been more interesting if she had spun a web of lies and then fell on her ass.
It's completely unbelievable, right? All she had to say was that she was alone and sad and then converted when she saw how, I don't know, Jesus filled the lives of believers and she realized what she was missing was the love of Christ, or something, and that this was relatively recently and she went on Christian Mingle precisely to find the kind of man who would understand what she was looking for and would help her find it. Boom, solves the movie's central conflict, is more believable, and makes a better ad for the site, where's my check?
Or even said she just became one or like Brad said use a match site that didn't require her to be a Christian
Was that school sign supposed to be the drift wood his dad found god in? Holy shit thats stupid to end on.
Guy: This drift wood has a lot of sentimental value to my dad since he found god with it.
Girl: Cool we needed a piece of wood write on and nail to the wall.
Side note why do they need to put a sign for the school? The town has like 10 houses I'm pretty sure everyone know where the school is.
Maybe it wasn't the exact same piece of driftwood but it was supposed to be symbolic. Perhaps she suggested they put it up since that would be a reminder that it was Paul who inspired her to find Jesus. (I'm reading way too much into this).
Why did they write "school" in Spanish on it? Because they wanted to be traditional for no real reason.
Wait...that's what that was about? What that fuck, movie?
As someone who grew up Mormon you should definitely start looking at the Mormon versions of these movies... Singles Ward, the RM, Sons of Provo, Mobsters and Mormons. They all pretty much have the same plot as this one... And Singles Ward has the sister from Troll 2 in it as the love interest. So there's that?
Singles Ward. aka, the local meat commerce.
Okay, Mobsters and Mormons sounds pretty great.
Good news, he just put out a review of Mobsters And Mormons.
So if you date a Christian you can look forward to awkward, boring dates, no action, and frequent Bible study. Got it. Thanks, Christian Mingle!
And none for Gretchen Wieners
Grasyn - holy hell. I was trying to figure out how I recognized her. Fucking Gretchen man lol
🤣
Why Lacey, why? You're better then this, you're freaking Eliza Thornberry.
I just pulled up her Wikipedia. On top of being a year younger than Brad (which shocked me), her "personal" section said she related to or can relate to Gwyneth. How so, I don't know, but maybe it explains her weird Lifetime filmography.
Oh, and her IMDB page said she was going to be Chloe in Left Behind 3, but had to back out due to scheduling conflicts. JFC, Lacey. What happened to your filmography choices? I mean, Black Christmas wasn't a perfect remake, but anything is better than that Kirk Cameron nightmare.
Right????
And Princess Elise from Sonic 06 🤣
Lost in Space. 🤨
Lacey Chabert was born one day after Stephen “Twitch” Boss. Weird to say the reality star was more talented
But Brad! You can't be divorced, as that only ages you in the eyes of your viewers! Just admit that you traded your marriage to the devil to save the life of your dying cat!
Still better than One More Day
@@guilhermehank4938 at least the cat wouldn't have told brad to not save him
So did Lacey Charbet skip the Hallmark TV movie phase and go straight to the Pure flicks?
Oh no, she's done a whopping 17 Hallmark movies.
Interestingly enough, there are a few Christian movies that have scenes dedicated to "Common foreign foods sure are weird and gross! Let's have steak instead!" I don't know why Christians think other Christians never eat anything that's not red meat.
Chris Gostanian they're clearly middle American protestants then
Red meats a sin!!!!!!!!!!!!! it’s gotta be fully cooked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My media ecology professor showed us the trailer for this movie in class and my literal first thought was, "so when is Brad going to review this?"
Lacey Chalbert as a desperate single woman? In what universe? Oh where the universe where 10s are 5s
Well, she is, you know, crazy and a compulsive liar. That doesn't help.
Gretchen, stop trying to make dating site-based movies happen! They're not going to happen!
Scott Sandler Hi! Small world huh.
William Mann INDEED
Scott Sandler But they're so fetch!
Up ya go!
This is why people prefer Glen Coco.
Gretchen! Stop trying to make 'driftwood' happen! It's not going to happen!
RaymondtheA.I. that's so fetch.
Christian Mingle - Fake it 'til you make it.
Interestingly part of AA. Just sayin'
Girl...Tinder is Free...
*Enter Name Here* but superficial as fuck how bout instead just going out and talking to people its what humans did for like 8 thousand years at least
You're more likely to find crazy people on tinder. Also, I'm not sure how long tinder has been around so this movie could have been made before it was popular.
because superficial and crazy people don't exist outside of tinder, right?
Unless you want Tinder Gold, than they extort you for cash
Christ... This is the earliest I've ever got to a Cinema Snob joint!
*_SWEET!!_*
sure ill watch the cinema snob at 12:17 in the morning
channelsurfer 122 go on be a bad ass
Let's be honest...who WOULDN'T watch the cinema snob at 12:17 in the morning?
god bless us, everyone
You too huh
channelsurfer 122 sure I'll just stay awake all night to watch every other video too.
This movie could have been really cute if instead of breaking up with her, the guy taught her about what being a Christian was all about and then let her decide if she would like to convert and continue their relationship. They could have cut down half the run time but it would have made more sense.
HALLELUJAH, THE CINEMA SNOB UPLOADING ON SUNDAY PROVES THERE IS A GOD!!!!
Yes, it proves the existence of Santa Christ! Praise Santa Christ for he is the light!!!
You know I think I finally know what the DOVE foundation has in common with these movies: lots and lots of bird poop
Holy shit the ending of this review was great :p. I never knew Brad had so much experience studying Christianity. Makes him perfect to review these exploitation films.
I laughed because my church group does meet up at a hollowed out coffee shop.
I love this and all your Pure Flix reviews (and really....all of your reviews, period). Thank you for all your creative output.
How could she be a teacher in Mexico without knowing how to speak Spanish?
If Peggy Hill can do it, so can you!
She faked it and asked her students to speak English in class since it's, you know, an English class. Then she packed an English-Spanish dictionnary "for teaching purpose" and a copy of "Spanish for dummies".
It's actually possible to speak a language but not really understand it. I knew a guy from Brazil who spoke in pretty good English, but had a hard time understanding it, since he was so used to Portuguese.
Lacey Chabert's in this?! Eh, still not as humiliating as being Princess Elise in Sonic '06.
Oh, God....she was in THAT?
Least she's not kissing dead woodland creatures at the end...
Honestly, I'd rather be Elise. At least that wasn't a boatload of fundie bullshit.
Haseo sonic 06 has a better soundtrack
Dear Cinema Snob, my sorry for my English not so good. I want to say hi and thank you very much for coming to San Luis, my village.
New Cinema Snob...on a Sunday? THIS IS MADNESS!!
Cringestian Mingle
Ghost81 Ha!
Underappreciated Pun Alert
Ba dum tsss
Punderappreciated
BUSHWHACKED
What's with the 5 second ad at the beginning, Brad? Awesome review, btw.
The One Man Box Office wondering the same thing
One of the creators helped massively with Jesus, Bro I believe, so advertising is Brad paying them back a bit
Spook Bus ahh. that's cool
Ah, explains a lot.
I'll take 5 secs over 30 any day
Damn it. We do date non Christians, we don't pray before EVERY meal, we say "hell" and we don't talk about God all the time. It's like Pure Flix wants everyone to think we are a stereotype.
N... Ned Flanders?
Gregory House Gregory House???
Paul is the kind of guy that - in any other mainstream romance movie - would be the horrible date that the main character has in between break ups in act three that makes them realize how good they had it with their initial love interest.
What? Brad uploaded a video early?
No, seriously, this has to be the earliest you've ever uploaded.
Compared to wut
Something tell me he really didn't wanna miss Game of Thrones.
Maybe it's the latest he's uploaded.
He always uploads at his convince. He uploads on every Friday the 13th
Not just that, but it seems like he always speeds up a bit when he does his DVR-Hell reviews. Like this time- Doorways to Danger, 7/20, Christian Mingle, 7/24. And he isn't the only member of the original Channel Awesome that seems to get their next one out early when they do something from a short review series in the interim...
7:45 "You know Paul is a Christian because he wears flannel all the time."
My sides! Damn if Snob doesn't know the genre.
I've seen this episode like 10 times and I JUST figured out the final shot of the movie. The sign above the school door is a piece of driftwood!
Is John O'Hurley morphing into Guy Fieri?
a mememorphis
When I started watching the review, I thought that was Guy Fieri.
Ready to go to Jesustown?
Or was he watching the travel channel?
omg, that beginning sequence about the personals sites was spot on. Genius.
"Rest assured, there will be more Sex and the City references next week!"
Does that mean he's gonna review......oh, dear.
omg wtf is this bizzaro world? its still sunday!
Edit: This is one of Snobs best riffs. 10/10
trush0t1 Monday Eastern time. But since he's in Chicago, it applies!
the night is still young here. im on lousy PDT
damn this video is almost a year old? is this bizzaro world?!
I am a Christian too. I love Jesus and God and Mohamed and...wait I think I mean I'm Jewish.
Holy shit this movie is like driving a nail in between my own toes. So far the only movie I've seen that treats Christians as real people is the first Exorcist movie.
A movie based on a dating site...
Oh my God... -_-
TrueBlueProductions Didn't somebody make a Battleship movie?
TrueBlueProductions two words ... emoji movie ....
Wasn't prepared for the crazy eyes at the end...
No one ever is...
I don't get why people ask that of you. I despise Islam myself but I wouldn't ask you to bash a muslim film. You are a movie critic! You make fun of exploitation films! If people want to see good content about critisizing Islam they should watch the Quran Reloaded or something like that.
Royal 97 Why do you despise Islam?
Ever read the Quran? Not a very pleasent reading experience.
The ending had me cackling. I'm fine with people criticising Islam if they actually KNOW anything about Islam (see Ayaan Hirsi Ali for a great example of someone who does this) but watching someone who doesn't know anything about it trying to critique it would just be wildly unsatisfying for everybody.
My favorite is Elite Singles. Now I have to feel bad that the rich and successful can't find love.
I can't believe they had the balls to title it "Elite Singles". At least they're not trying to hide the creepy superiority complex.
Would 50 Shades qualify as a movie adaptation?
+Kimberly I can't recall the site's name, but I do remember it being worse for the simple fact they only let very hot people register, making it look like as if the world's nothing more, than a meat packing district. It also reminds me on the lawsuit filed against Abercrombie and Fitch where a guy had to work in the back because he had one slight defect.
LOL
More like the rich want to order a date like they order on Amazon.
Damn, very early upload. Was about to head to bed but not now.
It so early, people could've been in the middle of a Game of Thrones episode.
Brad, you may be divorced, but you'll always be the wheel deal to us
Watching this sober makes me glad I was drunk when I watched the movie itself.
However, I do recall getting excited when I recognized that Mexico set from Arrested Development. The stair car totally should have driven by in the background.
I have never laughed so much with one of your videos before. The ending was perfectly sudden and absurd. Great job and thanks!
Is the lady playing the main character the daughter from Lost in Space?
I suppose it says a lot about how little I read the comments section for these videos that I'm surprised people want Brad to bash Muslims?
Becky Hopkins I'm certain there are plenty of bad movies based on Islam just look at Palestinian television
It doesn't have to be the comments section, more like the usual hate mail.
There are, but they are painfully bad. It would be tough to get good material out of them that isn't just "Look at how shitty everything in this movie is."
+Chris Gostanian I think Brad could pull it off, but as he said, he's had years of Christian education, so he's more fit to talk about bad Christian movies than bad Islam movies.
+Brandon Roberts I'd laugh if it were funny, but that Palestinian kids show using Mickey Mouse to espouse hate was priceless. Especially when they had to withdraw it, and claim he was killed by the IDF on a patriotic mission.
I'm convinced - this is totally a parody. Christians (and non-Christians for that matter) are not this dumb.
Brad's response to his anti-Muslim character is awesome for being only a minute.
My Christian education is such I was raised in a fundamentalist sect of Catholicism with family intending me to become a clergyman. As such, I agree with Snob that knowledge and experience are important in discussing a film around a faith or belief system.
And Paul's character isn't terrible. Honestly, the movie should have revolved around him and how he inspires a non-Christian to join the faith. But that requires decent writing.
Which is why it's extra cringe that White Anglo Saxon Protestants are the ones rebuilding a Catholic church, which is never a good sign for paying attention on the creator's part.
I liked how this movie handled both Christians and non-Christians, well balanced, relative to other Christian movies.
So when does Farmers Only get a movie?
Saying "I'm 35 and divorced, you'll be fine." Was oddly comforting' as my life is (happily) heading in that direction.
It's just a guess, but I think the meaning behind that final shot is that the school sign is made of driftwood, so her finding her calling as a teacher is the movie's way of saying that Paul "showed her her driftwood".
I am 36 and still a virgin, you'll be fine
It could be worse. I'm 30 and still a small collection of glossy, tiny lobsters. True story.
Deimos kai Aischylos That...that sounds weirdly cute
Is the team work the cutest part? I think that it is. Tiny lobsters working together paints a lovely picture.
That and the fact that they are tiny :3
I really want to feed them with cookie crumbles now^^
I got you beat. I'm 40 and still one!
I hate to say it, but that Walt Right character might be Brad's most compelling performance yet. I thought he was a different person at first and he was genuinely frightening
Yes Brad can pull some crazy eyes
This is the best birthday present ever, man. Thank you big time.
To be fair, trying to answer the question of why bad things happen to good people/Christians is a really tough one to satifactorily answer, and I grew up going to church three times a week.
"How is an ad executive bad at bullshit!?"
Truer words have never been said
I don't remember the exact quote, but as the Snob keeps pointing out actors from other things, I'm reminded of how the God Awful Movies' guys often say that "watching Christian movies leads to being disappointed by previously beloved actors". Also you see who went crazy.
the average age for first marriage is pushing 33 in the usa anyway. I'm 35 never been married.. nothng worse than a depearate person
The average age kind of creeps me out, since around 500 minors are wed off every year under the age of 15, so I better hope the 33 doesn't come from 87 year old Floridians deciding to marry.
it wont get that far bet I don't think 15 years socially emotionally maturity wise are ready to marry
"That was just about one of the worst moments in my life."
"Then you've lived an okay life."
Yeah, I had the same feeling when my grandfather had to drive from Fort Pierce, Florida to Orlando to pick me up from the airport. On the drive back, he complained, "This is the worst day of my life!" I thought to myself, "Wow, then you've had a pretty damn good life!" And I hate to say it, but this movie totally made me root for Paul. He comes off as a genuinely nice person instead of a bitter, resentful hate-freak, while Gwyneth is both stupid and dishonest.
You make me chuckle after a long day. Thank you
I'm surprised Morgan Fairchild is still around. She looks good for her age although it could be editing and makeup but still she looks good.
Not going to lie, the "Bash Muslims" moment really caught me off guard!
As an Eastern Orthodox Christian surrounded by a bunch of Latin Catholics let me say
You have more in common with us than the "Christians" in this movie
Loved this one. Expertly done.
don't know whether to make a Mean Girls reference or a Wild Thornberries one... all i know is i feel really bad for Lacey Chabert
In the UK this movie was released under the alternate title of Christmas Mingle. They took the original US release cover and put a CGI Christmas tree in the background. The DVD menu screen and the intro credits still say the movies original title, Christian Mingle. The back of the DVD cover makes no mention of Christmas and just says the movie is about a woman who finds her ideal man on the Christian Mingle website. A really odd and completely unnecessary change trying to pass this off as a Christmas movie.
Most People: Who uploads at 12 in the morning?
Snob: Oh Boy! Midnight!
I was waiting for that Different Strokes reference and as always, The Snob delivers!