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Joker Rising (2013)
An fan made film that feels like a fan made film
This is apparently a fan made film. If you enjoy fan made films, you might enjoy it. However, its overall production values, sound quality, and acting level make it clear that this is not a professional production. If this were a studio or professional film, I would have given it one star. However, I don't want to completely discourage the film makers, who more than likely worked hard creating it. I did not care for it. A previous reviewer suggested that the film might be compared to Tarantino's work. The film is similar in that Tarantino is preoccupied with crime in his films. However, this film feels more like the repetitious, uninspired imitations of Tarantino's work that took the most superficial trappings of his movies but lacked the goofy, twisted imagination that has caused him to play with the film form rather than slavishly copy one film or another. I am not really a Tarantino fan, but I have appreciated some of his movies as having a unique voice, sense of humor, and awareness of how they can confound viewer expectations. This film does none of that. The Joker as a character is all about a sense of humor, sick as it may be. There is none of that either.
God's Not Dead (2014)
The usual Christian garbage
This film is exactly what you would expect if you are familiar with Christian cinema. It creates a patently false premise--the college teacher who wants his students to renounce God, because intellectuals are all atheists and haters--so that it can forward its message (i.e., knock you over the head with it). I don't have a problem with Christianity or Christians, but their films are usually not very subtle, not very well put together, and not very convincing as a result. You can't really say you win a debate when you have purposefully stacked the deck in your favor and ignored arguments from the other side.