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God Complex, The (2009) New
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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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07.21.10
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 This is an extremely
entertaining version of the stories from the bible from director Mark
Pirro (A POLISH VAMPIRE IN BURBANK, NUDIST COLONY OF THE DEAD).
Although it makes these tales sillier, it makes you realize how
fanciful and illogical they are to begin with. We begin at the
beginning. God is portrayed as this lazy, overweight bald guy who
decides to create a world, though he's frustrated that things don't
always work out as he intended. For example, when he makes Adam a
companion he creates another male, named Eve, but doesn't like the
activity that they are doing with each other, so he banishes Eve from
the Garden and then creates a woman from Adam's rib, which he bloodily
rips out of the guy. Then Adam reproduces, though all his descendants
are these inbreds, so God decides to kill everyone off except Noah. but
Noah isn't exactly thrilled with the idea of having to build and ark
and gather animals. In fact, they are so busy with this they forget to
pack food for the voyage, so they eat some of the animals onboard,
starting with the Unicorns and dragons. When the waters recede the
entire landscape is covered with dead humans, so they resort to
cannibalism. Then when he asks Abraham to sacrifice his son, he's only
too happy to do this, since he hates the irritating offspring. When he
tells Job that all the disasters he caused was simply a test--and a bet
with his know it all girlfriend, Job is not too happy. There's also
some zany interpretations of what the burning bush and the second
coming actually were. Most importantly, there's a plausible explanation
why men get weird nose and ear hair.
It ends with God finally confronting these two terrorists that have
been trying to kill him throughout the movie and they turn out to be
intelligence and science. They force him to sign a contract saying he
won't interfere with mankind anymore so basically the only thing he and
Jesus can manifest with their powers is to appear on trees and
tortillas.
Be warned. As the disclaimer says "Warning: Some material may not be
suitable for children or the deeply religious--technically the same
thing".
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Rating: 10.0 out of 10.0 - 3 votes cast
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