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
Christian web site so you can see if this is a film worth getting.

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:The Two Towers Linked to main entry on CAP Web Site

Findings / Scoring

Wanton Violence/Crime:

• evil beast attack
• great falls
• action violence, repeatedly
• violent battle with incendiary beast
• battle with demon-like creatures
• invasive imagery of demon-like evil, grotesque beasts, repeatedly
• graphic injuries and deaths, repeatedly
• hideous gruesome demon-like faces, repeatedly
• graphic battles with the demon-like evil, grotesque beasts (Orcs), repeatedly
• many graphic deaths
• sword/spear threats, repeatedly
• Orc's head on a pole
• "un"dead bodies underwater
• many arrow deaths and other impalement deaths
• great battle with demon dogs
• human tossed by demon dog like a rag doll
• many attacks by demon dogs
• eating raw flesh
• long and graphic battle sequences, repeatedly
• bodies flying through the air
• bodies being scattered by great stones tossed
• exceptionally graphic death
• hundreds of dead bodies strewn about
• planning murder

Impudence/Hate:

• brutality, repeatedly
• lies, repeatedly

Sex/Homosexuality:

• multiple angles and positions of a scantily clad male humanoid
• full side nudity, male, repeatedly
• woman on man kissing, clothed

Drugs/Alcohol:

• smoking

Offense to God:

• unholy influence on thinking
• tale of evil control over "good"
• sorcery to defeat beast
• gaiaism (talking trees), repeatedly
• psychic premonitions and possessions, repeatedly
• "all-knowing wizard"
• unholy apparitions
• the "undead" terrorizing others
• sorcery to defend
• sorcery to do battle with evil beast
• resurrection, mockery of the Transformation
• casting out demon
• miraculous reverse aging
• creatures claiming immortality
• crystal ball sorcery
• foretelling future
• demon possession
  

Murder/Suicide:

• mass murder
• beheading murder