Heaven Is for Real (2014)

[jarrycanada 2483]

For one reason this movie really reminded me of The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012).

 

 

 

kids got that I pooped in my pants look on his face during the full length of the movie.

 

We get to goto heaven and guess what, it rocked!. No really it rocked. Angels sing we will rock you by the rock band Queen. as requested by the little boy of the story. yep, I sure know the first thing i would do If I got hit by a car and almost died, Request music. ohh BTW don't ask to meet Freddie Mercury . NOPE... I wish I was fucking kidding here, but this really happens in this movie. and what the hell is little kid doing singing a song by queen. The one song that has that one line about mud on your face. but we all know it's not mud little boy!

 

Really am shocked and surprised that Jesus wasn't played by Brad Pitt. that would of been the point of the movie that I would of literally lost it and switched it off.

 

For me the title of this movie should of been "heaven, really!"

you can tell that this film really wanted to be like "Field of dreams" meets "The Odd Life of Timothy Green" but was nothing like them in the sense that those movie are watchable.

 

I could go all day about this movie and how bad it was.but have to stop and take a deep breath now.

 

Part two The reckoning - god has a plan for you and he wants you to pay your bills on time!

 

 

So after the little boy of the story gets sick and has goto the hospital for a life saving operation. That is successful btw no thanks to all of the townsfolk who are on there hands and knees praying for this poor child's life. They never get thanked. after little billy wakes up from his big trip to heaven. he tells his father that he got to meet buddy Christ and had gone to heaven. This upsets the father because he is not only a man of fath but is also a small town preacher/fireman. So what kind of wisdom and enlightenment does this little boy fresh from heaven have for his dad. he tells his dad that he should really pay the doctors bills right away. WHAT!!! No great message from the great beyond. God wants you to pay your dam doctors bills.

 

So later, of course this great news that heaven is real gets around town fast, because after all it is a small town and people talk and so the townsfolk are all now pleased to hear the great news that there is a heaven and that it's now real, like it wasn't before. You would think especially the church group would be relieaved by all of this. Well not really, they are the least excited about this news. I guess the church followers some how feel threatened by this new change of events. Maybe they all know in there hearts that they are all going to hell, I don't know. This is really never fully explained in the story because you would think the one people who would be ticked pink by the idea of a real heaven being proven to exist would be the first to welcome the great news. Nope. Especially the fact that the attendance at the church is less then stellar and is mostly made up of the town's church committee group.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-ewaCVARtM

 

The only thing I don't really understand is the kid talks with mommy about him having two sisters. so am I to believe that mommy at one point had a abortion, is this the dark secret she's been hiding and the reason she doesn't want the kids story of heaven to be true. She's a sinner!!!

[PlanBFromOuterSpace 3138]

We had this movie for quite some time, and while I didn't see it in it's entirety, I caught bits and pieces of it here and there. Any of the stuff that I saw with Kinnear and most of the adults in general seemed pretty well-acted, but holy shit, that KID. He looked uninterested and restless the whole time, and every word out of his mouth seemed so awkward and stilted. It seemed like in every shot I saw him in that he was just repeating words, like they were being fed to him through an earpiece, or maybe his mom was mouthing the words to him from just out of frame. Fucking brutal.

 

As far as the story is concerned, is there any controversy at all regarding the fact that it happens to be a pastor's kid that claims that Heaven is for real? Does it not seem pretty convenient? Hell, kids will tell and make up anything if you get them going. "Did you see a monster, buddy? Oh, you DID? Did he have big teeth and claws? Oh, he DID!". Ask the right questions and you get the answers that you want. This is also how people get wrongly accused of crimes!

[jarrycanada 2483]

Yeah I don't like it when they direct kids as if they are adults, he was too self confident. much like Timothy Green child actor was, same face expressions with the knowing raised eyebrows. The Jim Carrey look as I call it. he does it a lot but it's funny. over compassionate look.

[jarrycanada 2483]

I love this, the greatest story ever told..

 

[jarrycanada 2483]

It just hit me who Buddy Christ from dogma looks like.

 

could it be.

[sillstaw 414]

One of the best comics-mocking bloggers out there responded to a review that offhandedly mentioned that "Never have you seen so many people using Vaio laptops in one movie" by joking about a scene in the screenplay where "We see numerous CHERUBIM furiously typing on elegant Sony Vaio branded laptops, their wings rustling majestically."

 

is there any controversy at all regarding the fact that it happens to be a pastor's kid that claims that Heaven is for real? Does it not seem pretty convenient? Hell, kids will tell and make up anything if you get them going. "Did you see a monster, buddy? Oh, you DID? Did he have big teeth and claws? Oh, he DID!". Ask the right questions and you get the answers that you want. This is also how people get wrongly accused of crimes!

 

I recall some people saying what a stupid way to prove that he really saw Heaven it was to ask the kid, "Did you see grandpa up there?" while HOLDING A PICTURE OF THE GUY. Yeah, that's not going to bias him. And you're right, it'd be much more shocking (and hilarious) if the kid was the son of Richard Dawkins rather than a pastor.

 

Lastly, I'd just like to complain about how people act shocked by how well these Christian-themed movies do at the box office. Is it really all that hard to make money when A: You pander shamelessly to people who feel underserved by "mainstream" Hollywood, and B: You prominently advertise the ability to book theaters for church groups in the commercials?