So last night my Netflix selection was that wacky “moral movie” the “Christians” created last year on a $500,000 budget.
Given the nearly all-volunteer (read: unpaid) cast, and also given that Kirk Cameron isn’t exactly De Niro or Duvall, I was expecting Fireproof to be a rather cringeworthy affair. While it’s hardly a paragon of cinematic excellence, neither is it excessively amateur. It acquits itself nicely. It has beautiful things to say about sticking with a marriage, parental love, and what it is to walk with Christ. I even thought the much-maligned action scenes were well done.
Of course, it’s far too sweet, with its Christianity far too front-and-center, for mainstream Hollywood to do anything but pile ridicule on it. Heaven forbid anyone make a drama without a smack addict, a ménage à trois, and/or a mob hit or three. I like those movies too, but there is room for movies like Fireproof. Objectively, the numbers bear that out; personally, I felt deep appreciation for having seen it.
I ordered it this morning, in the interest of encouraging all those involved in its creation to continue.
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So does it make a good double feature with Mimi Rogers in The Rapture?
BTW, why is it ABC advertises and shows The Ten Commandments as an Easter movie instead of a Passover movie? Chuck Heston + Yul Brenner > DeMille’s King of Kings I guess.
I always go to Wedlock/Deadlock in my head when I think of Mimi Rogers, and then that reminds me that Ned Ryerson from Groundhog Day is the mean warden in that movie.
Now I’m having trouble getting back around to Christian movies. 🙂
I’m pretty sure Mimi Rogers does not bring the Christian…all the thetans you could want though.
Yeah, she was supposedly the gateway for Mr. Cruise, now that I recall.
She’s still pretty hot. She might make my top ten list of 50+ babes, but I’m pretty sure Mary McDonnell is at the top.
Little too much Battlestar Galactica on the brain?
Mimi seemed like a real nutjob to me. Pretty hawt from the neck down tho.
Back to this College Hockey National Championship that just got really good…
Actually not. The “reimagined” Battlestar Galactica didn’t take with me. I watched about the first five episodes, and I just never got hooked.
Mary McDonnell got me in Blue Chips and Donnie Darko, I think.
She’s ok I guess. I like BSG enough to watch the DVDs, but not use the PVR space on the actual broadcasts…which are now over apparently.
Now if I could only find out what Erin Gray is doing…