Why are 'Christian movies' so bad? Talking about Jolie, Zamperini, 'Unbroken' and...

[Michie]

...Robert Duvall

It's a question I have puzzled over throughout my career as a journalist and as a mass-media professor: Why are Christian movies so bad? Yes, there need to be quotes around the term Christian movies. We are not talking about movies that are made by talented Christians who work in mainstream film...

Why are 'Christian movies' so bad? Talking about Jolie, Zamperini, 'Unbroken' and Robert Duvall...

 

[crossroad]

...Robert Duvall

Why are 'Christian movies' so bad? Talking about Jolie, Zamperini, 'Unbroken' and Robert Duvall...

I like the ones that are not mainstreamed.

 

[Inkfingers]

It's strange that Christian movies tend to have lower production values but greater wholesomeness than mainstream movies. Given the choice, I'll take wholesomeness over production - the other way around would be putting form before content.

Also, most mainstream films are obsessed with seeming utterly real (as if documentary footage) as if we must absolutely lose our sense of reality and fall into the film to enjoy it - something that has never been necessary for people to enjoy theatre..... So I don't mind if the special effects are not so good in Christian movies, as I don't want to really think the actor is being blown apart.

 

[Fantine]

I have always been a huge fan of Robert Duvall, and one of the movies I liked best was "Tender Mercies," in which he, a down-and-out former country western singer who had turned to alcoholism, found redemption and love and baptism.

I never saw "The Apostle" but am going to look it up.

When I saw "Unbroken" I didn't think it would end as Zamperini landed in Los Angeles after being released from the Japanese POW camp at the end of the war. I thought it would go into his healing and learning to forgive--but since the footnotes said he had gone through years of PTSD before attending the Billy Graham crusade I think it would have been hard to bridge that gap and have a manageable movie. Maybe his life would have been better suited to a miniseries.

When he was in the Pacific and on the raft in the ocean, there were a few brief conversations with his airman friend about religious faith. The movie wasn't completely devoid of religion.

 

[sylverpiano]

I have always been a fan of Robert Duvall. His absence from The Godfather 3 was a large reason why the movie was not nearly as good as the other two. Sophia Coppola was the main reason...

 

[Michie]

I have always been a huge fan of Robert Duvall, and one of the movies I liked best was "Tender Mercies," in which he, a down-and-out former country western singer who had turned to alcoholism, found redemption and love and baptism.

I never saw "The Apostle" but am going to look it up.

When I saw "Unbroken" I didn't think it would end as Zamperini landed in Los Angeles after being released from the Japanese POW camp at the end of the war. I thought it would go into his healing and learning to forgive--but since the footnotes said he had gone through years of PTSD before attending the Billy Graham crusade I think it would have been hard to bridge that gap and have a manageable movie. Maybe his life would have been better suited to a miniseries.

When he was in the Pacific and on the raft in the ocean, there were a few brief conversations with his airman friend about religious faith. The movie wasn't completely devoid of religion.

I'm a Duvall fan myself. Watch the Apostle. You will love it.