On Wednesday night, Jess and I passed the Wal-Mart display of the “Facing the Giants” DVDs and remarked together how many times we have heard, “you’ve got to see this movie”, so we picked up the DVD and took it home. Thursday afternoon we put the DVD in and were thoroughly pleased.
My first impression of the movie – before watching it – was that it would be another “typical Christian movie” – low-budget, terrible storyline, bad acting, etc.
While watching the few first minutes of the movie, I was assured that my stereotype was correct – the budget was obviously small, the storyline was predictable, and the acting was sub-professional.
Even with these three “Stevan’s opinion” negatives, I will still promote this movie as a GREAT family film – to be enjoyed by most viewers.
I was impressed with the movie after it was all over and done because of its low-budget, its volunteer-actors, and its media-minister-written storyline! What I found out through the bonus features on the DVD was that a local church – Sherwood Baptist Church – made this film in 6-weeks with the support of its congregation and entire staff! What a feat!
I am quick to judge our Christian-produced media because of growing up with terrible examples in the past, but I will truly say that this film is a great step in the right direction of where Christian-produced media should and could be! I look forward to seeing more media produced by this church and the Christian community in general.
My thoughts will continue to be that the Christian community should be producing media that is NOT so far behind what the “world” is producing that it looks like an out-of-date, irrelevant production – but that it is similar and BETTER than what the world is currently producing!
Great review, Stevan. We saw “Facing the Giants” last week and felt very similar. Definitely check out “Amazing Grace” at the theater…. we saw it Friday and LOVED it. It totally challenged both of us….
Deanna
Your Dad was to leave you a comment about this because he watched this movie Friday night at the Wild Game night with the men from our church! They enjoyed the dinner of wild game (frog legs included) and the movie after! He was quite impressed with the quality the church that made the movie produced too!
Hey Stevan!
You should make a full length movie…you’d be great at it!
Hi there,
My name is Monique & I’m part of the PR team for Sherwood Pictures–creators of FACING THE GIANTS.
Thank you so much for supporting the movie on your blog! We wanted to keep you informed of their latest project–FIREPROOF.
It’s due to hit theaters this September in theaters nationwide. You can go to http://www.fireproofthemovie.com to view the trailer, read the synopsis, and sign up for updates to stay up to date with all of the FIREPROOF happenings! If you’re interested in learning more or need any resource, pictures, and downloads for your blog please email me at monique@lovell-fairchild.com and I will be happy to get you what you need.
Again, thanks for blogging!
Monique
Lovell-Fairchild Communications