The Sobbing Stone

Try this... Watch the movie in its entirety. Every time one of the "scientists" speaks, respond with phrases like "What?!" or "Huh?!" or "What you just said was nonsense." It will mesh perfectly with the dialogue. That pretty much sums up the quality of the writing on display here.

This film is amazingly incompetent at being a film. It feels like someone confused an internet argument between an atheist and a Christian for a film script, then filled in the gaps with stock sound effects. For a film that seems to be intended to defend Christianity against criticisms, it does nothing but attempt to pander to existing Christians, while accidentally raising some interesting points against Christianity, or at least certain particularly vocal Christians.

The film barely has a plot at all. There is no real character development, nothing really happens. In a way it's a genius piece of art, because it gets people to sit down to watch other people sit down and listen to a rock. The basic premise of a stone producing sounds could have made an interesting film, but instead it becomes a subplot to the main focus of this film: an atheist spontaneously abusing a Christian for being a Christian. Even then, the stone plot ends with a nonsensical non-twist, in which the historical inaccuracies are more entertaining than the actual plot. There's one other subplot about the professor's family, but that somehow makes just as little sense.

All in all, a terrible film. Still, it's so bad you can actually laugh at it, rather than being completely dull or just offensive, like an Adam Sandler film. Watch it, IF YOU CAN!

This is one of the most hilariously AWFUL movies I've ever seen. Incompetence shines from every frame of this train wreck, and it is GLORIOUS. Acting that would be deemed too poor for even the worst community theater? Check. Terrible, inconsistent, and sometimes missing sound? Double Check! A script so poorly written, so inconsistent, and so stupid that no one in the universe could ever take it seriously? TRIPLE CHECK. And, on top of that, they deliberately mis-classified the movie on netflix to try and get non-Christians to watch it. Classy. Bottom line, if you want to see some of the worst written Christian propaganda ever ineptly put to film, this movie is for you. I won't spoil the stone's secret, but it's so stupid your brain might not be able to handle it. I recommend getting together with some friends and a LOT of booze, then riffing the crap out of this.

i watched the sobbing stone with my wife on the last weekend of April 2006. i read a review in christianfilmworks magazine. it caught my interest, so i contacted Mr.Christie and asked him if he would be willing to trade one of his movies for mine. i do trade a lot instead of buying, i'm no fun films. he was very friendly and sent me the trade right away. this impressed me right away, first that he was not stuck on himself, and that he was humble. so we watched it and enjoyed it very much. we give it two thumbs up! for a low budget movie we were very impressed. the ending was the only weak part, not bad, when i say weak it is not a criticism, because this was a hard movie to wrap up. i may have tried it differently. but that is me. Mr. Christie definitely gets top score on this film for doing so much with so little. Aaron

Contrary to some people's feelings on the film, I found Sobbing Stone to be quite a fascinating concept. If there was a lack of understanding to the plot, it came from a lack of attention span. It was pretty clear cut.

I always like to believe that I would have tried to stop Jesus from being crucified but in actuality, who knows? I could have been just as bad as the rest of the mob that was there.

As for the look of the film, I thought that the environment looked dark but considering the nature of the film, I thought it was appropriate.

Robert Christie did a phenomenal job with the budget that he had to work with and I would be very impressed if anyone could have done what he did with this film.

There is always room for growth in the entertainment industry and I think Robert just took a big step forward.