The Preachiest Movie You've Ever Seen?

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 5:33pm

The horribly maudlin and treacly John Q not only takes this cake but also eats it completely so nobody else can get their hands on it.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 5:43pm

Ugh yes I LOATHED John Q.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 5:57pm

Ugh John Q.

Finding Neverland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are the most recent films that irritated me due to their preachiness.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 5:59pm

The Preachers Wife?

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 5:59pm

The one that pops into my mind is
Pay it Forward
So much talent, so little execution.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 6:13pm

Pay It Forward was perhaps the worst film adaptation of a book since Simon Birch.

In the book, the Kevin Spacey character was black, and it was a HUGE plot point. And that was only problem #1.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 6:22pm

Wow. And when the original author hates the adaptation so much he withdraws character rights, that should be a sign to stop. A sign that Simon Birch clearly didn't heed.

[Dame Fanadette]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 6:47pm

Aw. I absolutely loved Finding Neverland.

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 6:52pm

I liked Finding Neverland well enough, but it is hard to deny it is very preachy.

There was so little to like in Pay it Forward I was already hating it, and then the ending came and for the only time in my life I wanted to scream at the screen, talk about cheap emotions in film.
It was so ridiculously preachy from the begining, ugh, remembering it makes me cringe.

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 6:56pm

"Bruce almightly" which church group payed for that, it was like sitting through a sunday in church.!

[Anakela]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 8:34pm

Did anyone else hate "Signs" for this reason? Towards the end I was all yeah, I get it, faith, faith, faith, faith, faith, now please stop beating me upside the head with it.

Really hated "Pay it Foward" too.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 10:15pm

"The Aristocrats."

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 10:24pm

I love Ms. Margaret Cho, but when she starts preachin', I wanna start pukin'.

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 10:36pm

Fern Gully.

I consider myself an environmentalist, but when I was a kid, that tripe made me want to go burn down the rain forest myself.

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 11:13pm

My only Faith that i was praying for in "SIGNS", was the the aliens would attack and kill the cast so i was put out of my misery...

That should have sat people, sinners to left, god fearing people to the right.

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 11:53pm

Without a doubt, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME with Robin Williams. The entire movie was just one over-the-top piece of New Age propaganda.

Otherwise, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Give me a break. An anecdote taken to the extreme.

Updated On: 11/10/05 at 11:53 PM

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/10/05 at 11:54pm

If I lived in Bedford Falls, I'd jump into an icy river, too. Give me Potterville any day.

[broadway86]

Posted: 11/11/05 at 12:24am

Crash.

[CostumeMistress]

Posted: 11/11/05 at 12:35am

Calvin, some friends and I watched Fern Gully a bit ago, with the assistance of some other fun stuff (wow, the colors! ) and realized how incredibly propagandic it was. We kept saying, "wow, that was another really SUBTLE message about how LOGGING IS BAD. I'm so glad I'm a SMART COLLEGE STUDENT so that I can CATCH THOSE HIDDEN MESSAGES."

LOL

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 11/11/05 at 12:40am

I wonder how many sheets of bleached paper were used to make FERNGULLY.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 11/11/05 at 9:30am

Nothing touches:

American Beauty

Talk about preachy. There was never a real moment in the show, nor was there ever a moment of depth or comment. It was all preaching (which is not unusual for a Kevin Space-cadet film).

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 11/11/05 at 9:57am

I loved American Beauty! I didn't find it preachy at all. And, therefore, your opinion is negated, touch.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 11/11/05 at 10:02am

I honestly can't think of any movies that are preachy, but along the lines of the environmental cartoons, does anyone remember Captain Planet and the Planeteers (or something like that)? That show gave me a greater appreciation for big corporations and their plots to kill the earth.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 11/11/05 at 10:18am

FernGully: The Last Rainforest

I loved it when I was little but I caught it on Starz recently and went to see if I remembered anything about it or whatever and I found myself wanting to puke because of how preachy it was.

[lildogs]

Posted: 11/11/05 at 10:54am

Oh my, It's a Wonderful Life? (breathes deeply)

My Man Godfrey I'd buy, but IAWL?