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A movie on mending marriage
There’s never a shortage of discussion on this blog about same-sex marriage, but what about the problems facing men and women united in holy matrimony? These struggles are real and growing more problematic every day, affecting believers and nonbelievers alike. Fireproof, a film by the makers of the surprise hit Facing the Giants, takes on the societal issues of infidelity, addiction to porn, and divorce while offering a message of hope and redemption.
Blogger Tim Challies attended a screening the other night, and despite being stood up by the movie’s star, Kirk Cameron (Cameron’s flight was late), he offered this positive assessment:
“I enjoyed Fireproof and am excited to know that, come September 26, a film with such a good message will be debuting on hundreds or thousands of screens across America. It is a refreshing film with a refreshing message that speaks boldly to a culture infatuated with immorality and convinced that divorce is freedom. I am grateful for this film and pray for its success.”
Tim adds, “While the movie deals with difficult and serious themes, it does not take itself so seriously that it cannot pause for a few laughs now and again.” You can read the rest of his review here.
Here’s the movie’s trailer:
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Oh I dare someone to say that movie doesn’t look terrible.
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Production-wise, it looks like a made-for-cable movie
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Uh.. Luke, it has potential.
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Gay “marriage” = Unholy matrimony
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So Outcast is conceding that same-sex marriage IS matrimony?
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I can think of a lot of hetero marriages that = unholy matrimony.
Point is, there are a lot of marriages that need mending, and I’m glad to see someone addressing the need in a movie. Now hopefully this filmmaker and others realize that it takes more than a positive message to make a movie good. Not sure if I’ll ever see this one, but I’m curious to see some more reviews.
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Why don’t you just watch “For Keeps” again, Graceland?
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It doesn’t look up to the technical specs of Batman: The Dark Knight or a typical Hollywood production.
But a lot of very good stuff doesn’t have high technical production standards (think the original Dr. Who series or much other BBC stuff).
It could go either way.
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For Keeps? You’re going to have to explain that one to me, Luke.
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I think it looks AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love facing the giants and flywheel (another movie by sherwood productions) and I really like Kirk Cameron movies. The production might not be awesome but the story lines are. I kind of like the very stable kind of camera veiws and I think the production kind of makes the film unique.
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Yes, Luke, you can call ANYTHING marriage/matrimony. You can even dress a horse up and call her your bride, but it’s just semantics with no substance. According to the Bible, it’s “unholy.”
What God has joined together (one man/one woman) let no man put asunder.
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I don’t expect much in regard to the artistic value of the movie, but if it makes a difference in some people’s marriages, it’ll be worth it.
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Having been pleasantly surprised with Facing the Giants and Flywheel, I’m looking forward to this movie. They’ve not had the flashy-smashy “feel” of a typical Hollywood movie (the ones with million dollar budgets), but I appreciate having something more real to watch. And as someone struggling in her marriage, I look forward to the encouragement to keep on keeping on as a way of glorifying God.
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Ree – If they’re going to slight the artistic merit of the movie, it ought ot go direct to DVD and be marketed as some sort of Christian marriage helper rather than marketed as a mainstream (or even niche) movie.
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Hmmmm…
As I thought about Don Henley’s song Heart of the Matter today, something occurs to me…
I remember vividly making choices to love my wife – even when it was very difficult to do so. Usually it was difficult because I was hurting so bad, and wanted to lash out.
Loving is not just an emotion, but an action that is repeated daily.
I realized today that forgiveness is just like that. It must be repeated almost daily. It’s never a once and for all kind of thing. There are times when hurts are renewed and remembered, and forgiveness must be practiced again and again.
I guess it’s just like our Lord said; “seventy times seven”.
Wow. That’s hard.
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So far, of the movies made by this company, I’ve only watched Facing the Giants, but that had a good story. They seemed to have done a good job, especially with such a small budget.
I’ve also heard good reviews about Flywheel.
Hopefully this film will live up to the name of the others.
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Rio
Flywheel is AWESOME!!!!
Make It Man
Just like DCTalk says. Love is a verb!
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Facing the Giants was awful. There may have been a good story in there somewhere, but it got lost in poor production. It was like someone said, it was made for TV quality only with bad acting. I won’t rush out to see their next offering.
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KRM,
First of all, I haven’t seen it so I don’t know that it’s artistically bad. I just kind of expect it to be less than an artistic masterpiece. But even if it isn’t that great artistically, neither are about 90% of the movies out there. To suggest that the makers of this one have no right to try to reach a wider audience and that they have to stay locked up in their Christian ghetto is incredibly arrogant! There’s so much garbage out there being marketed to our children that we have no control over, and yet we’re not allowed to get a message out unless it’s award-worthy. Give me a break!
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REE,
Heh. You tell ‘em.
To take this thought even further, if you walk into your local Blockbuster, I’d bet that not only are most movies about a “B”, but a very large percentage of those are pure schlock, full of portrayals of sex, profanity, drug abuse, and violence.
So if we’re to condemn any movie that doesn’t rise above a “B” movie rating, then there would be a whole lot less garbage to sift through…
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Adios
The movies are trying to reach people through the story lines as to the production considering they shot the whole thing with only one movie camera it was pretty good. I thought the acting was good. I’m excited to see something supporting the biblical veiw of marriage.
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I wonder if some of the same people who will complain about the poor production quality of this movie complained about how much money “Passion of the Christ” cost and made.
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“The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter–it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” –Mark Twain
Kinda the same difference between Passion and Giants. Not the money, the artistry.
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Artistry requires artists and the good ones cost lots of money.
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And as we learned from the whole “End of the Spear” hoopla all of those artists must be pure as the driven snow or the movie will be boycotted. That farther cuts down on the possible cast and crew.
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My neighbors saw this in an advance screening last week. They didn’t like “Facing the Giants,” but they said this one was incredible and very moving.
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I received an advance copy of Facing the Giants but was no too impressed. My wife and I, however, do see this as a very interesting film — at least based on the preview.
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“Flywheel” was ok. I liked it, but the inexperience and/or low budget showed. So as far as quality goes, it was fair. As far as plot and such goes, it was pretty good.
“Facing the Giants” was an improvement. Better everything, except that some of the God-talk came off stilted and unnatural. The only time I hear people talk like that are at the tiny Bible college I went to and sometimes church. It’s really hard to talk about Jesus in a movie without sounding corny, I think. The other problem I had with it has been criticized many times already: the idea that if you put God in charge, literally EVERYTHING will turn out great (for you). But really, that’s been slammed more than is fair. That message wasn’t as strong in the movie as many people make it out to be.
I couldn’t see the trailer (youtube is blacklisted on this network), but I’m hoping that this one will show improvement over “Giants”, just as “Giants” did over “Flywheel”. Using a professional actor will probably help.
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Maybe we should judge things as they are. If you aren’t interested in seeing an amateur movie production, don’t watch it. If you do choose to see it, don’t even bother comparing it to a big-budget Hollywood movie.
KBells has made some excellent points, in case nobody else noticed.
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Kyle A. Thanks for noticing. I fought those battles for 19 years and lost.
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Cuthalion (post 28), I don’t necessarily think that “it’s really hard to talk about Jesus in a movie without sounding corny, because it seems to me that if a movie were made from one of Ted Dekker’s books (which seems to more like weave the Christian points into the story rather than preach them in monologues), there could be a really good one.
I heard that Thr3e didn’t have very good acting, (and didn’t really live up to the book, and I’m definitely not going to watch House when it comes out in October as I don’t like horror (even “Christian horror”) And
Of course something you’d also want to have in the movie is talented actors. I’ve watched a few Rich Christiano films, and after seeing the older ones it seems to me that the quality had improved greatly by the time of Time Changer.
Those movies are the “explicitly Christian” type, but Time Changer is an absorbing
film as well as being a telling portrayal of how our society has devolved.
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Hmmmmm….
Are the same folks who denigrate the quality of Christian “art” the same ones who say that there are no objective aesthetic standards?
Luke?
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I liked Time changer too. I love Christ centered movies and books. One book they should make a movie out of is the Dragonkeeper chronicles by Donita K. Paul. I heard a rumor that they might make a movie out of Dragonknight and if they did that would be so awesome.
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Tink
Omigosh, really?? That would be the best thing ever!
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yeah
I saw a link on her website that said watch trailer but my computer didn’t hve some shockwave so I couldn’t
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