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Doug Wilson on Fireproof
“If I set myself to think of couples in marriages that I think would be greatly helped by watching this movie, I would run out of fingers inside of a minute. I can also think of Christians who would be offended by the schlock, but many of them would be those who know more about how a movie ought to be made than about how a woman ought to be treated. And they would rather watch a movie about a woman being abused so long as the movie was made right than to have the woman treated right in a movie that offended their refined sensibilities.”
CT Reviews Death by Love
“Sadly, Driscoll and Breshears too often become mired in relentless proof-texting, cheap shots against “flaccid church guys,” and obsessive branding of non-Reformed theologians as heretics. Yet even so, they bravely follow Christ in his descent to hell to preach to those who are held captive by sin and death. Despite their faults, the authors take their stand at the foot of the cross as witnesses to the power of the gospel in a dark, despairing world.”
Tales of Christian Tailgaters
A little tale or parable from Ben Witherington.
Earth Hour Pictures
You don’t have to have celebrated Earth Hour to enjoy this pictures of various public locations going dark. Be sure to click the photos…
Pupils Will be Taught to Twitter
The fun in this article is in the sidebar where they have condensed many subjects into Twitter format (i.e. human reproduction or World War II in 140 characters or less).
Deal of the Day: Wii Games
Amazon is offering various Wii games at a steep discount today.
“If I set myself to think of couples in marriages that I think would be greatly helped by watching this movie, I would run out of fingers inside of a minute. I can also think of Christians who would be offended by the schlock, but many of them would be those who know more about how a movie ought to be made than about how a woman ought to be treated. And they would rather watch a movie about a woman being abused so long as the movie was made right than to have the woman treated right in a movie that offended their refined sensibilities.”
CT Reviews Death by Love
“Sadly, Driscoll and Breshears too often become mired in relentless proof-texting, cheap shots against “flaccid church guys,” and obsessive branding of non-Reformed theologians as heretics. Yet even so, they bravely follow Christ in his descent to hell to preach to those who are held captive by sin and death. Despite their faults, the authors take their stand at the foot of the cross as witnesses to the power of the gospel in a dark, despairing world.”
Tales of Christian Tailgaters
A little tale or parable from Ben Witherington.
Earth Hour Pictures
You don’t have to have celebrated Earth Hour to enjoy this pictures of various public locations going dark. Be sure to click the photos…
Pupils Will be Taught to Twitter
The fun in this article is in the sidebar where they have condensed many subjects into Twitter format (i.e. human reproduction or World War II in 140 characters or less).
Deal of the Day: Wii Games
Amazon is offering various Wii games at a steep discount today.
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Comments (10)
Like Wilson says, I would rather see a well-made movie that accurately portrays the human condition, even if it contains abuse and other painful, sinful, activities, than a cruddy movie where every female character is treated properly. Why is that in any way negative?
Umm…dude. Wilson wasn’t praising the guy who preferred gritty realism to this gospel trac on film. You might want to read the full post.
Earth Hour and going dark. There is no need for a separate day of observance to witness Western culture’s going dark.
I would be a lot more moved and impressed were it not such preposterous, misplaced priorities nonsense. Turning out lights for one hour. Good grief! Would someone have the courage to convince Mexican border cities to stop belching out their smokestack pollution for 15 minutes? What about the fuel allowance for BOTH Air Force One’s crew of 500 (!!) to travel to the G-20? Sorry for being curmudgeonly; Just trying to make a point of contrast.
I enjoyed the Earth Hour graphics, if nothing else. Frankly, I agree with Jennifer. The Earth Hour deal reeks of feel-goodism and moral preening. It might be nice if those lights were off all the time, if it really makes all that difference (which I don’t believe it does).
Regarding “Fireproof,” I agree with Wilson’s take entirely, though I would like to see both good filmmaking and the good message. I think Christians can do better and we should stop making excuses for poor filmmaking.
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I know. I was placing myself in the category Wilson clearly views negatively, then questioning the wisdom of his negative view.
The ability to toggle back and forth and see the lights on and off during Earth Hour was interesting. Seems that most of the impact was on exterior lighting of large “attractions” and very little evidence in private quarters.
Interestingly, it appears that with literally just a couple of exceptions (being aesthetic exterior lighting), Toronto did not “get the memo.” Well done, Tim.
My wife and I liked Fire Proof. It may not have been of the same quality of a movie like Ben Hur (off the top of my head), or of some of the top films today, but I think it was pretty good. Actually considering it was made by mostly volunteers from a Church, it was quite impressive.One of the things I couldn’t help but think after I found out that the film was made up of mostly amateur actors, was the fact that most of them actually believe the message that the movie was conveying.As I watched the movie, I actually was quite caught up in the characters of the film. In many ways, the way the main actor was treating his wife, I could actually relate to. It was very real, because I have experienced things very similar.Even after the main character took the love dare, he didn’t experience anything really positive until he repenting and turned to Christ. Then and only then, did he begin to really mean the actions that he was doing to win back his wife.I actually got the feeling from the main character, that even if his wife didn’t reconcile with him, he would still press on in Christ.Some found the film quality embarrassing, but personally I think that matter is subjective.
By any measure, Fireproof was a cringefest of painfully bad acting, poor writing and afterschool-special production values. That some Christians chose to praise substandard work merely because the religion appeals to them is unfortunate for them and embarassing to other Christians.
There was no picture of Al Gore’s estate.