ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture (CAP) Review Summary

(The ChildCare Action Project (CAP) is a nonprofit Christian ministry)

Just in case you hadn't realised just how bad this film is - here are some Christian reviews done by a
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NOTE: These opinions are not my own and I am not responsible in any way for these comments expressed here (which are a copy of those expressed on the main CAP web site). These opinions are merely reproduced verbatim here for your convenience so you don't need to read all the additional text at the main CAP Web Site.

Film Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Rings Linked to main entry on CAP Web Site

Findings / Scoring

Wanton Violence/Crime:

• graphic injuries, including amputation and a beheading
• explosive startle
• monstrous "walking dead" being threats and attacks
• graphic torture by demons
• theft
• attempted sword murders
• sword threats
• attempts to murder by sorcery
• animal attacks
• many dead and decaying bodies, repeatedly
• multiple exceptionally graphic attacks by unholy beings, including by thousands of creeping beings with much impalement
• graphic imagery of impalement
• crumbling cavern perils
• falling death
• fire demon attacks
• arrow threats
• orders to kill
• long sequence of dire urgency with explosive sound
• many graphic seething battle sequences
• exceptionally brutal killing with multiple arrows, slowly
• many battle deaths
• a very graphic hand-to-hand combat sequence with a hideous demon
• near death by drowning

Impudence/Hate:

• lies

Sex/Homosexuality:

• none noted

Drugs/Alcohol:

• smoking, repeatedly
• drinking, repeatedly

Offense to God:

• thousands of demonic beings of various sort, some extremely graphic
• many uses and portrayals of wizardry/sorcery
• many threats by unholy things
• multiple battles with sorcery using sorcery, some very, very graphic
• many attacks by evil beings, some (especially one) very, very hideous
• portrayal that being stabbed by an evil being's sword will make the victim evil
• many instances of demonic faces/eyes
• unholy control of the elements to fight evil
• claims of immortality
• ability to choose unholy mortality or immortality
• many mystic voices
• sorcery to open mountain wall
• light by sorcery

Murder/Suicide:

• impalement then drowning murder