Monday, June 22, 2009

Christian Cinema Sucks

Oscar time has come and gone and I would like to make a comment on the problem with Christian cinema.
As I was watching television one night and was flipping through the channels I came across a cable Christian channel showing a film and I don’t no the title but it was set in a diner at night and the two primary characters one was an atheist, who looked like a warmed over heroin addict and a Christian that was a clean cut blond haired, blue eyed boy and looking like something that came off a Hitler youth poster. As the movie rolled on the Christian and the Atheist traded words with one another, and the usual Christian arguments were put forward. As predicted in a film made by Christians the Christian ultimately won, BIG SURPRISE THERE and we are shown that the Atheist had suffered some emotional and psychological abuse and was shown, rather heavy handily, as the cause of his atheism. As if this was the cause of disbelief in god or gods.
The overall production was second rate and the acting was as hammy as a butcher shop. Why do they make such films like this? Not to convince atheists to convert to there religion. It is probably to keep the ones already converted feeling good about there choice and prove their religion’s superiority over any other belief system or any other philosophy. That’s right its Christian propaganda.
Who is the blame for such shoddy work? One could blame the dogmatic conformist mindset among the filmmakers. A mindset that says produce the same low grade stuff over and over again and never go outside the Christian box. Produce the same tired and improbable morality tales no matter what. Nothing challenging or creative because if do that it won’t be a Christian film. Making movies that in the end looked like a bad made for TV melodrama.
And two the people that lap this stuff up. Never challenging your creative people to take risks once in awhile and wanting the same cookie cutter films over and over again to satisfy your worldviews and pious egos.
What can they do to fix this problem. First fire all the people involved in making your films and replace them with competent creative people. I mean for the price of one of those mega-churches they could fund films and get good actors and production staffs and make a film that people who are not church people would actually see. Maybe then your films wouldn’t be preaching to the choir and reach what you considered “the lost”. But you probably won’t listen to little old me anyway and continue to producing the same old crap as before.

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