I don't need Hollywood to make a movie, I've already read the Book.
I think plenty of people will see this movie and many other religious movies. I suspect someone is trying to get the numbers up by threatening that there will be no more.
Why should movies be the measure of anything?
If the whole industry died, big deal... regardless of what kind of films they produce. We'll survive somehow.
WAKE-UP CALL!!
Alright, fellow Christians, pony up for tickets or just shut up about Hollywood. We're going this weekend; when are the rest of you going?
I'm planing to see it for sure.
I have seen some excellent reviews.
Watch my movie or else? How about "Hey this is a really good movie"?
Didn't Mel Gibson make a successful religious movie? I heard that somewhere. Oh yes, Hollywood didn't have anything to do with it.
As usual Hollywood is short-sighted: if they judge the box-office of Christian-themed movies base on on that has elements offensive to Latin, Orthodox and even fairly traditional Anglicans and Lutherans, they are judging on the basis of a movie with only half the drawing power of The Passion or The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
(I'm still wondering if Hollywood will have the guts to finish the Narnia books faithful to the text--modulo the usual addition of 'cinematic' scenes--complete with Puddleglum's speech that rips the heart out of secularism and the veiled prophecy of a secularist-Muslim alliance in The Last Battle.)
Sure it opened in a lot of theatres but there wasn't a lot of advertising for it. That is way more important. Look at Borat opening in under a thousand theatres and being number 1, it was everywhere for weeks before it opened. Also The Nativity Story is getting bad reviews that never helps.
I saw this on Sunday, I really enjoyed it, too. Very well acted and great scenery. I found it very moving.
Wait, isn't the star, Keisha Castle-Hughes, an unmarried teen mom?
So she's in effect blackmailing us? If we don't watch her movie, there won't be other Christian movies?
I think that is a stretch.
I'm going to see the movie but not because they threaten me. I have no particular hope or fear about their future movie making plans.
What a ridiculous threat... does that mean that they won't
make any more insipid crap movies as well since those failed to draw?
Oh...and let me say that I've been really enjoying the classic movies lately. Who needs the new garbage.
I've heard of movie producers carrying out all sorts of publicity stunts to draw attention to their films and boost the box office, but this is the first time that I can recall that a producer has tried threatening the public to try and intimidate them into going.
It must be a new marketing strategy.
Apparently it's only Christian movies that are risky ventures. And they could only fail because there is no audience for them, not because the idolators in Hollywood don't know the first thing about making a Christian movie.
I don't want to rain on this movie, which seems to have been well intended, but I was put off by the review of the movie from a Catholic perspective. It sounds as if the director and the writer were too much influenced by modernist bible interpreters, two of whose names I recognized as being particularly iffy.
The problem is chiefly the portrayal of the Virgin Mary, but it sounded as if the whole thing might have been somewhat damaged by your typical "scientific Bible criticism" approach. Still a good story, I'm sure, but I don't want to see another modernized version of this story.
Noble sentiments (speaking to the article, not to you, this time,) but what are we to do? Force ourselves to go see this flick, so that more like it are potentially made so we can force ourselves to go see them too? Don't we have enough religious entertainment inside our churches, what with electric guitars and mediocre if sincere religious folk singing? Let's have a Constitutional separation of Church and Entertainment, I propose. Me old fashioned this way.