Marjoe (1972)

Let's be realistic.

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Oh, I so want to make fun of this, but I can't. It is horrible. Period. I want to stick in a "Halleluja" as snark, but I can't. It is horrible. I want to praise Jeebus, but I can't. It is horrible. Period and EXCLAMATION POINT. Oh lord, I cannot continue this. It is horrible. You must watch this in order to understand where we are at. It is horrible.

Do yourself a favor and queue this movie in Netflix. It's exactly the kind of great documentary I was hoping it would be. Much better, actually since I wasn't expecting it to be so funny! As for some of the comments here expressing sympathy for the so-called victims in the churches, please consider the possibility that we are all responsible for our own spirituality. I think Marjoe was right on when he said he wished they all could see that they don't need someone to put on a big show for them to connect with God.I felt like the movie did have a transcendent effect, just to have witnessed Marjoe's way in the world. He was just as connected spiritually as he claimed to be under those revival tents, only in a way that the confines of that particular religious culture could never really recognize or acknowledge.Kudos to Sarah Kernochan for making the film and also, it should be mentioned, for being the first female director to win an Oscar!

This is good for so many reasons. First off it's just a well done and to the point documentary, but the main reason it is good is because it exposes the truth about these faith healers out there in the world.Some would say that its true that this film shows that marjoe was a fake but that doesn't go for all the faith healers out there. Here is why i believe it outs all the faith healers as fakes. Marjoe was able to do all the big things they do.He could Touch people and have them fall over and not only that but he had people shaking on the floor and speaking in tongues. Marjoe explains how to do all this. Its no different than a magic trick. Marjoe just proved that its easy to take advantage of desperate and ignorant people.

I don't think the average non church goer would even "get" this movie in its deepest sense. But, it should be required viewing for every Pentecostal/Charismatic leader. Why? Because Marjoe is warmer, more people oriented, a better communicator and radiates sincerity more than most of the top names in evangelism today. If you could take clips of his preaching and put them along side of any of the top televangelists today, and ask which is real and which is fake, Marjoe would come off as the real one every time! He is more giving, more compassionate and more warm than any of the top ones of today. He also has more integrity than most: He states in the film that he had better go one way or another, because he can't live two lives - he either needs to get in all the way and become "real" or go into acting, because he'd been acting all his life.Nowadays, various leaders have no problem living adulterous or drunken lifestyles. They want to do what they want and still be in ministry. Hats off to Marjoe for having higher levels of integrity than that. He'd be welcome at our house anytime! Note to Pentecostal/Charismatic leadership: Watch this movie, and ask yourself if you'd have him at your church, based on his performances in church... you'd have him and you'd have him back. He's that good!