dvdjunkie32

Will Christian film making ever get a fair shake in Hollywood? Apparently not. Almost every major film critic has taken turns bashing the uplifting flick, Letters from God. And you wouldn't even know the film exists if you use imdb.com.


So what's the main beef critics have with this tear jerker? The movie dares to talk openly about faith and Christianity. Heaven forbid! A Christian movie that talks about Christian faith. Nothing is said about other merits such as acting and direction.

Face it, any Christian movie gets this type of crap treatment every year. They tried their best to trash Mel Gibon's Passion movie, and it ended up being a massive success. Hollywood in their biased stupidity missed out on lots of revenue as a result. I hope this little movie rakes in the money and makes the reviewers look like idiots.

Supermallet

I haven't seen it, but is it possible that this is just a bad movie?

Eddie W

So it is a good movie or not? Interestingly, you don't talk much about acting & direction either. Just imply that it should be given a pass because it's a Christian film.

NORML54601

Who is "they"? The fact is religious movies don't often appeal to people who don't subsribe to the religion in question.

Graftenberg

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Ugh! Looks really fucking cheesy. Way to waste a stamp dumbass.

Hokeyboy

Fat fucking chance. It hasn't even made its production bugdet back yet, let alone marketing and distribution.

Letters to God

Domestic Total as of Apr. 18, 2010: $2,020,830
Distributor: Vivendi Entertainment Release Date: April 9, 2010
Genre: Drama Runtime: 1 hrs. 50 min.
MPAA Rating: PG Production Budget: $3 million

Mopower

Does he answer back this time?

Numanoid

Well now I never have to watch it, since that trailer tells the ENTIRE story, complete with full character arcs and resolutions.

Numanoid

That mom looks like the chick from Soultaker.

starman9000

It hasn't even made it's money back in 9 days? What a bomb!

Seriously though, this movie will probably make money soon based on the "word of mouth" like from the OP. Has this hit the AM radio circuit yet?

Ash Ketchum

Ummm, it's LETTERS TO GOD, not LETTERS FROM GOD. You can't even get the title right, yet you're bashing the reviewers.

islandclaws

Guys, c'mon... don't you get it? This movie DARES to talk openly about faith. Don't you know how revolutionary that is? It's obvious that people are scared of the truth, so critics have been put in place by Satan to warn you away from a film that preaches the TRUE word.

Matthew Chmiel

It's because Christians don't know how to make movies, duh.

WHO'S COMING WITH ME ON THE BULLET TRAIN TO HELL!??!

Groucho

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462054/

(it helps if you search on the correct title)

DonTHX1378

I didn't think that critics hated Passion that much. In fact I remember Roger Ebert giving it four stars and defending it. I think a lot of the critics hate these films because there made as low budget films. I saw Left Behind just to see what the hype was about and it was laughable because it was made like a low budget tv movie. And I hate to say this, but I don't see Hollywood making any big budget Christian films like this even though there is money that could be made. If a company got a budget of $30 to $40 million, and some name stars, it would make money just like those damm Tyler Perry movies make money.

NoirFan

God has answered prayers before.

Artman

Besides being a few wks late, this should've gone in the already existing Letters to God thread...

Edit: Actually I'm assuming this topic was a joke from the start. Haha

Artman

Obviously there are people of faith in the mainstream industry, it's just the people on the outside who try to make these message movies that always fail miserably.

Hokeyboy

I think we can all show Aubrey a bit more sensitivity in this matter.

Groucho

Is this a remake of that Greg Kinnear movie?

Draven

50% on Rotten Tomatoes for Passion...looks like they only gave it 50% of a trashing.

Groucho

I decided to see what the critics actually were saying about this. Here are some actual quotes courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes:

"Letters To God keeps letting the story be interrupted by the sponsor, which in this case is Christianity." - Janos Gereben

"The true story is inspiring but the film gets much too preachy." - Jackie K. Cooper

"The plot feels formulaic and doesn’t have any real surprises." - Avi Offer

"Parental Content Review" - Jim Judy

The first three quotes come from positive reviews of the film.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/letters_to_god/

LickTheABCs

Damn, that chick from Teen Witch is still bangin'.

Supermallet

That review is scathing! I am shocked at the way that Godless Jim Judy is treating this faith-based film (whose acting and directing I will mention but not comment on its quality)!

devilshalo

It's got a long way to go before it makes Fireproof money.