David and Goliath (2015) Reviews

• Could have been shot better by high schoolers.

  kevin-cooke2015-11-16

  Without any possible doubt the single worst biblical movie I have ever had the misfortune to watch. The acting for want of a better term was diabolical, the cinematography again for the want of a better term was on a par with that of parents shooting their kids school play on a VHS camcorder (although the acting would doubtless be better), the sound recording at its best points was muffled and at its worst sounded like it had been done with a microphone at the bottom of a metal bucket on a 1970's cassette recorder. I accept I will never get back the half hour of my life I managed to force myself to sit through this travesty in the hope that it might get better but I sincerely wish there were a way I could at least UN-watch it. The ONLY ways I can imagine anyone could possibly give this rubbish a good review are either:- 1. they were in it themselves. 2. They know someone who was in it and want to promote it on their behalf. (if you are one of these people do your friend a favour, let this movie disappear into the oblivion it deserves, the same goes for those who were in it) 3. They are so deeply indoctrinated into their faith that they are unable to accept that anything to do with it could possibly be bad. 4. They have been paid. or 5. They have never before seen any kind of movie and were just blown away by moving pictures that can talk (even if you can't actually hear what they are saying a lot of the time). I actually felt embarrassed for everyone involved in this movie, I felt embarrassed for the actors (I use that word very liberally here), the director, the producers, all of the crew, the animals, the guys who made the cameras lights and sound gear and the guys who sold them to whoever shot it; it was so bad those responsible should get down on their knees and apologise to the very locations and equipment for involving them in the making of something so thoroughly awful. I only hope that none of those involved relied on the skills demonstrated in this movie to keep them from homelessness and starvation and that having got it out of their system were able to go back into society, perhaps with the help of some counselling they will one day be able to forget.

• These trolls hurt. All positive reviews of this film are trolls

  aphoenix-570272016-04-19

  As a child I watched Avatar the Last Airbender with fanatical devotion, when I first heard of a live action movie of said series I felt joy that was quickly dashed and destroyed the very second I saw it. Saying this, I would rather watch M. Night Shamalamadingdong's god awful train wreck of a live action atrocity than see this thing again. The plot is a twenty minute story copy and pasted into a ninety minute train wreck and beaten with a stick, during the battle they copy and paste the army, you see the paste, you see four men in center screen just appear out of no where. AND THATS NOT EVEN THE WORST EFFECT! The acting is nonexistent, a deaf man could do better sound, the camera man should've been shot, the scene in the philistine black smith, the king and the blacksmith are standing in front of a greenscreen image of a MODERN FORGE. This thing has scarred me. This movie is more preachy than Birddemic, Goliath is fat, not muscular, not big, just fat. The costumes, the "armor" blows in the wind. I actually made this account solely to bash this, I can't, I can't call it a movie. I swear the costumes are cardboard. Kubrick, Hitchcock, and all the greats are rolling in their graves by the fact that this thing exists. Chey, the director of this train wreck, had a budget of $50 million, and it doesn't show. In short, take Batman and Robin script writing, Birddemic camera work, and throw in every badguy cliché in the history of film and you get David and Goliath (2015) This is the Sonic 06 of Film.

• The Worse Acting Ever

  joseph_elijah2016-03-30

  This movie was comedic through out the whole movie. It is not because it was funny, but because the acting was so bad. I felt like someone was making a joke of the story of David and Goliath. This movie would be great though if it was produced in the 1930's when moving picture was rare. I think they should hide this movie for their family entertainment only. I think a high-school student's drama is better than this. The sound effect and the screen effect was terrible. The conversation was so raw, the drama was terrible. There were even oldest version of David's movie that is better than this one. Don't watch this unless you want to use this as a joke in your stand up comedy session.

• So bad, I don't think they really tried

  boxer5672015-12-23

  (6.7 ???) Did I watch the same film as the others that rated this movie? I kept getting the feeling that this was the offering of a 1st year college film class. Just because the film is based on a religious story doesn't earn it praise. Only the main actor/character 'David' had close to any acting skill. And don't get me started on the writing. Although the writers must have had it easy as many lines were repeated many times throughout the film and many scenes were likewise with slight variations, so much so that this would have been improved had it been a 20-30 min movie short. When the script included lines like "Yo!", and "Whoohoo!", I thought is this supposed to be a comedy or is someone pulling my leg? This should be an example of how not to make a film.

• How could this movie receive so may glowing reviews/stay away!

  bhoidas2016-05-23

  I don't usually write reviews but have to for this awful movie. First I am a born again Christian and read the Bible and Devotionals every day and after reading the good reviews for this movie I was so excited to watch it. This movie has the quality and acting of a grade school project. And how could reviewers say it is "Biblical?" Besides the terrible quality and over acting it has too many errors to list them all. First of all the battle between Israel and the Philistines by Elah was NOT a "last stand" for Israel. Secondly (a more common error made by many Christians and even Pastors) Nowhere in the Bible does it say David is small. His father and brothers were tall so there is no reason to believe David was small. Saul despite all his shortcomings was not stupid and was a very tall man and he had David try on his armor. David took it off not because it was too big but because he was not used to wearing armor. King Saul in the movie wears regular plain clothes instead of the battle clothes that he would have worn. Many of the Philistines wear ridiculous eye makeup which just makes them look silly. Saul's daughter Michal is depicted throughout the movie wandering along the front battle lines-what? Never would have happened. Throughout most of the movie there is inexplicably thunder even though the skies are always sunny or partly cloudy. The giant Goliath isn't even that tall. In the Bible he was depicted as being over 9' tall. And the scene where David kills Goliath has no action or drama at all. The movie has David think about battling Goliath over night. That's not Biblical nor is the constant begging of David to battle Goliath. He asked once. I repeat awful movie!