What I can't figure out is why the Christian community doesn't make its own movies. All that's required is to form a production company, hire talented folks to write and make the films, and the talented actors to act in them.
If the films are successful, it'll be a money-generating proposition, as well as a tool to spread the word.
It's one thing to whine about what Hollywood is doing. It's another to do something about it by making better movies. Surely good movies with a Christian theme would be popular, since this is a country primarily made up of Christians.
So far, most of the Christian-themed movies I've seen have been pretty lousy. The "Left Behind" movies are awful as movies, whatever you think about their scriptural basis. They've been box office disasters.
There's an opportunity here. Why doesn't someone take it?
That's easy...you get three Christians together, and you have at least half a dozen opinions about who Christ is.
There have been efforts but they have mostly been disaster because of poor screenwriting, acting, editing, directing, or any combination thereof.
The "Left Behind" series of books had the is very popular yet the movies suck because the storyline doesn't flow smoothly and the acting is 2nd rate at best. The books talk often about prayers and the individuals' spiritual transformations to Christianity, yet the movie seems to be afraid of being "too churchy" and edits them out.
I'm hoping the folks who made "End of the Spear" ARE taking that opportunity. We'll see when it opens tomorrow.
"What I can't figure out is why the Christian community doesn't make its own movies."
They do. My wife and I just saw "love comes softly" and it was very moving. It's production values leave something to be desired. At one point they are standing in the rubble of a burned down barn and all the wood was perfectly good lumber painted black.
We went through half a box of cleenex though, beginning about 10 minutes into the movie and progressing pretty much to the end.
Mel Gibson had a heck of a time getting his movie distributed until he made a stink.
The whole process has been dominated by liberals so they are biased against putting a christian movie through their system.
Christians will change things, although the movie engine turns slowly as does the political engine, the education engine, the medical engine, etc. etc. etc.
That's what happens when you have had liberal control for 100 years.
They do. The problem is that those who do do not have pockets as deep as Hollywood's. Therefore, most projects look somewhat amaturish and fail to garner widespread support, even from Christians.