BIBLEMAN #2
Christian superhero series, just a reminder.
I'll be honest here and say while the series isn't great at least in the beginning it wasn't sucky as the later ones were.
When Ames, the former actor in the TV series Eight is Enough, started this, from what I could tell he made it adolescent friendly but also had his and the villain charracters at times break the fourth wall and make comments adults can understand. Not nearly as good as Deadpool, but it made the early ones amusing. The Despair one, for example, had the bad guy clearly hamming it up, being partly Jim Carreys The Riddler type and partly the Mask character ( also played by Jim Carrey). The sets were better than in the later episodes, which makes me wonder if this was such a sucessful series for Christians why they later seriously cheapened the sets and the costumes. In the early ones even the Bibleman costume,though not great, looked better on film than the Bibleman Adventures version ( which looked strongly like it was a Goodwill store mash up of various cheap plastic. Look at the "gauntlets" for example. They are toy coffin lids from Halloween painted yellow with a cross on them. Not to mention the beer gut chest plate.)
I pretty much figured out the bad guys were demons lite, more of comic relief and cartoonish slapstick than anything really scary. Then OC there is the George Lucas light sabers rip.off. Funny the demon villains who presumably sneak around don't know Biblemans identity.
I started watching these movies not expecting much in terms of credibility, plot or special effects. As I said they started out well enough to be above campy level but clearly watered down for children. Then for some reason (maybe Ames having to go into rehab) the quality overall seems to have taken a downward spiral toa point that it was so bad even high school kids can make better sets, costumes and acting.
I think Bibleman originally had promise, the potential of being one of the few "faith based" entertainment to break into the secular world. The first two movies had that spark, that cleverness. But crap like Gods Not Dead 2 with its one sided antagonists and heavy handed unrealistic plot that plays more like a bigoted propaganda film rather than an honest story get into the secular world.
Sort of a shame, really.
I'll be honest here and say while the series isn't great at least in the beginning it wasn't sucky as the later ones were.
When Ames, the former actor in the TV series Eight is Enough, started this, from what I could tell he made it adolescent friendly but also had his and the villain charracters at times break the fourth wall and make comments adults can understand. Not nearly as good as Deadpool, but it made the early ones amusing. The Despair one, for example, had the bad guy clearly hamming it up, being partly Jim Carreys The Riddler type and partly the Mask character ( also played by Jim Carrey). The sets were better than in the later episodes, which makes me wonder if this was such a sucessful series for Christians why they later seriously cheapened the sets and the costumes. In the early ones even the Bibleman costume,though not great, looked better on film than the Bibleman Adventures version ( which looked strongly like it was a Goodwill store mash up of various cheap plastic. Look at the "gauntlets" for example. They are toy coffin lids from Halloween painted yellow with a cross on them. Not to mention the beer gut chest plate.)
I pretty much figured out the bad guys were demons lite, more of comic relief and cartoonish slapstick than anything really scary. Then OC there is the George Lucas light sabers rip.off. Funny the demon villains who presumably sneak around don't know Biblemans identity.
I started watching these movies not expecting much in terms of credibility, plot or special effects. As I said they started out well enough to be above campy level but clearly watered down for children. Then for some reason (maybe Ames having to go into rehab) the quality overall seems to have taken a downward spiral toa point that it was so bad even high school kids can make better sets, costumes and acting.
I think Bibleman originally had promise, the potential of being one of the few "faith based" entertainment to break into the secular world. The first two movies had that spark, that cleverness. But crap like Gods Not Dead 2 with its one sided antagonists and heavy handed unrealistic plot that plays more like a bigoted propaganda film rather than an honest story get into the secular world.
Sort of a shame, really.