In all honesty, I think it is one of the best made movies of all time.
It is indeed! On Tuesday I and some of the other young adults at my church (about 11 people altogether) watched this movie. There were a couple of people who hadn't watched it yet. [We had great time, and they all loved it!]
Personally, I've watched it at least 4 times, plus twice with the director's commentary, not to mention the countless times I've seen the outtakes and deleted scenes.
It's definitely up there with the best movies of all time as far as moral content goes.The movie making and acting is really good as well.
The only minor gripe I have with the movie making is excessive ambient noise.
You can hear people breathing and sighing a bit too much for my liking.
It also would've been
very beneficial to the storyline if they included the following deleted scenes:
*******Possible spoilers*******
1) the scene when Robyn (the nurse) is over at the Holt's house for pizza with Catherine. This would've explained
a) why there wasn't any pizza left when Caleb came home (just prior to the yelling match). I was thinking to my self "Surely Catherine wouldn't be able to finish a WHOLE pizza
". Also,
b) that's the part where Catherine mentions that she doesn't want to grow old with Caleb. It would make sense then, when Catherine tells Caleb at the end that she wants to grow old with him. The fact that Caleb heard what Catherine was saying probably had a part to play in why he was so angry at her when he came back [I'm not excusing his anger and shouting BTW]
2) the scene where Caleb gives The Love Dare to Terrell, whose own marriage is on the rocks. This would explain to whom Caleb gives this book. When Caleb's walking with his dad at the end of the movie, he says "I've given it to one of my firemen". I thought
"that fireman has gotta be Michael. Being a Christian, Michael can identify with the ideas in The Love Dare". I didn't think that it was Terrell.
Other than that, I'd give it a 5/5. Nothing is perfect lol, but so far, this is Sherwood Picture's best movie.
There are also 2 really cool/amazing/awesome things in the movie.
1) is that the cross scene takes place exactly at half-way in the movie. The DVD is rated at 119 minutes (including credits), and the possible conversion scene is at 59:30 seconds!
I don't have the DVD playing right now to be able to check, but the half-way point is
around 3:55 in this video:
[See end of post] ...It makes for a very fitting midpoint! Definitely my favourite scene!!
2): when Caleb and Catherine are running towards each other in the bay of the fire station, they meet exactly at the "1" on the fire truck. That can be seen as an allusion to Genesis 2:24: "...
and the two shall become one flesh". In fact, I noticed this during the director's commentary. Alex mentioned this fact, but he said that
they did not plan this at all! It was only when editing the movie that they realised what had happened. I quote, "...it gave us the chills [to see how it turned out]..."
Apologies for the length of this post. Those are just things I've been thinking about, and I really wanted to share them
Edit: I can't post links as I have less than 15 posts, but search on youtube for "fireproof cross" and the video I'm talking about is the first in the search results. The title of the video is "Fireproof | The Cross".
Ahhh, it's so good to get back to posting here after almost two years