Originally Posted by Ilya

One movie cliché that gets on my nerves (and I am not even a Christian!) is that world will end/Satan will emerge victorious if certain manuscript is found/certain incantation spoken/certain child born/certain demon walks through a certain gate/etc. – and the heroes must prevent this from happening. Examples are "End of Days", "Warlock", "Dogma", or "Wishmaster".

In a generic fantasy setting that’s not a bad premise – if you accept supernatural, why not accept that something supernatural can end the world? But in Judeo-Christian setting, which such movies almost always have, it’s terrible. Basically, it means that God cedes the world to Satan if some completely arbitrary event occures. Why would God do that?

Always hated that sort of thing.