[demshateGod]

One irritation I have with Christian movies is deus ex machina they all seem to rely on. Maybe this is ironically unavoidable. “Oh, so the whole thing gets resolved when the antagonist has a change of heart?”

[xzins]

Guys in white hats win.

The Western in 21st century drag (literally, in this movie)

[Morpheus2009]

Me too, but then again, you aren’t exactly talking experienced film makers for these movies either.

[NorthMountain]

deus ex machina

In ancient Greek theatre, they'd lower an actor portraying one of the gods onto the stage using a crane. His role was to solve whatever problem that was unsolvable even by the most heroic of heroes.

If I may be so bold ...

The real God wasn't lowered onto a stage, He was raised on a cross ... to solve a problem completely unsolvable by purely human effort.

[oh8eleven]

“Oh, so the whole thing gets resolved when the antagonist has a change of heart?”
Was just going back and forth yesterday with another Freeper whose plan to end PC was to convince some of the Lib leaders they're wrong.
Fifty years of brainwashing millions of "progressives" and that's all there is to it. Unbelievable.

[BlackAdderess]

I think you’re right, I think the problem is mostly making God too small and plotlines too pat (because God is not His right size and inhabiting enough of the world to be interesting). Jesu joy of man’s desiring soars by contrast :)

[Jeff Chandler]

One irritation I have with Christian movies is deus ex machina they all seem to rely on. Maybe this is ironically unavoidable. “Oh, so the whole thing gets resolved when the antagonist has a change of heart?”

I agree. I have nothing against such films, I just don't find them interesting. They are often heavy handed propaganda. Propaganda for the best of causes, but I don't watch films to be propagandized. I dislike when Hollywood films lecture me, too, try to teach me a better way, how to be tolerant, etc.

I think it would be far more culturally persuasive to produce good movies with sympathetic Christian characters. One such movie I saw recently was 12 Mile Road. There were secondary characters -- neighbors -- who were born again Christians, and they were portrayed as good, normal people. It was refreshing.