Facing The Giants

Macnut · Post by **Macnut** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:31 pm

Wendy Koopa wrote:
macnut24 wrote:
danadelfos wrote:It's made 4 million so far.
Yeah! That's really exciting. I wanna go see it again...anyone want to come with me?
Me! Pick me! $\:D/$

Sounds good. How about Saturday?

Post by **Catspaw** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:51 pm

macnut24 wrote:
Wendy Koopa wrote:
macnut24 wrote:
danadelfos wrote:It's made 4 million so far.
Yeah! That's really exciting. I wanna go see it again...anyone want to come with me?
Me! Pick me! $\:D/$
Sounds good. How about Saturday?

Sure, works for me! Your country or mine?

Macnut · Post by **Macnut** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:54 pm

Wendy Koopa wrote:
macnut24 wrote:
Wendy Koopa wrote:
macnut24 wrote:
danadelfos wrote:It's made 4 million so far.
Yeah! That's really exciting. I wanna go see it again...anyone want to come with me?
Me! Pick me! $\:D/$
Sounds good. How about Saturday?
Sure, works for me! Your country or mine?

We can go in yours if you don't mind paying for transportation...

Post by **Catspaw** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:08 pm

macnut24 wrote:
Wendy Koopa wrote:
macnut24 wrote:
Wendy Koopa wrote:
macnut24 wrote:
danadelfos wrote:It's made 4 million so far.
Yeah! That's really exciting. I wanna go see it again...anyone want to come with me?
Me! Pick me! $\:D/$
Sounds good. How about Saturday?
Sure, works for me! Your country or mine?
We can go in yours if you don't mind paying for transportation...

Somehow this is starting to sound like a bad deal.

I'll let you know on Sunday if it works.

Macnut · Post by **Macnut** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:10 pm

Wendy Koopa wrote:
macnut24 wrote:
Wendy Koopa wrote:
macnut24 wrote:
Wendy Koopa wrote:
macnut24 wrote:
danadelfos wrote:It's made 4 million so far.
Yeah! That's really exciting. I wanna go see it again...anyone want to come with me?
Me! Pick me! $\:D/$
Sounds good. How about Saturday?
Sure, works for me! Your country or mine?
We can go in yours if you don't mind paying for transportation...
Somehow this is starting to sound like a bad deal. I'll let you know on Sunday if it works.

Sure...but that's kinda a long trip for a 2 hour movie...I think it comes out in Feburary. Maybe, I can come up then.

Post by **Catspaw** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:39 pm

macnut24 wrote: Sure...but that's kinda a long trip for a 2 hour movie...I think it comes out in Feburary. Maybe, I can come up then.

Well, see you in February...if you manage to find where I live, that is.

Good luck!

readywriter · Post by **readywriter** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:43 pm

I think that movie has made $6,000,000. So far! It's really surprising since they only spent $100,000 on it. $\:D/$

Laura Ingalls · Post by **Laura Ingalls** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:34 am

Sorry to bump this thread, but we went to see Facing the Giants last Saturday! $\:D/$ It turned out to be quite good! Yes, in a couple of places the acting could have been better, but it was fine overall.

If anyplace in your area is still showing it, I'd definitely recommend it.

We were fortunate that a small theater downtown had it - we just had to travel a few minutes to see it. $\:D/$

thelovelyrose · Post by **thelovelyrose** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:17 pm

I watched a scene from that movie in class, actually. It was where the blindfolded guy had to crawl across the field with another guy on his back. My heart was pounding when he made it to the end zone! That's all I've seen, but it sure looked good! $\:D/$

Macnut · Post by **Macnut** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:11 pm

thelovelyrose wrote:I watched a scene from that movie in class, actually. It was where the blindfolded guy had to crawl across the field with another guy on his back. My heart was pounding when he made it to the end zone! That's all I've seen, but it sure looked good! $\:D/$

That part was awesome! I loved it!

Baragon · Post by **Baragon** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:41 pm

I just saw this movie...

Like someone else mentioned, a few spots the acting could have been better but I definitely liked the movie. Overall, it was an awesome story\awesome moral... Really good movie!

Shad Lexer · Post by **Shad Lexer** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:27 pm

I may be the only person here that didn't like it.

*SPOILERS*

I thought the acting was pretty bad, and the story was cheesy. Since the first part is self-explanatory, I'll just yap about the second.

First of all, for the unsaved, it gave an inaccurate view of Christianity. Christians don't ALWAYS get what they want, and things don't always turn out right. I think the movie would have been 90% better if they lost the big game. We don't want unsaved moviegoers to think "Well, I should become a Christian since they always get what they want." It's very easy to stick with your faith, and say 'whether we win or lose it goes to the glory of God' when everything is going perfect. It just made me walk out of the theater thinking,"huh, why don't all my dreams just come true, since I believe". Life doesn't always work that way.

Macnut · Post by **Macnut** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:33 pm

Shad Paw wrote:I may be the only person here that didn't like it.

*SPOILERS*

I thought the acting was pretty bad, and the story was cheesy. Since the first part is self-explanatory, I'll just yap about the second.

First of all, for the unsaved, it gave an inaccurate view of Christianity. Christians don't ALWAYS get what they want, and things don't always turn out right. I think the movie would have been 90% better if they lost the big game. We don't want unsaved moviegoers to think "Well, I should become a Christian since they always get what they want." It's very easy to stick with your faith, and say 'whether we win or lose it goes to the glory of God' when everything is going perfect. It just made me walk out of the theater thinking,"huh, why don't all my dreams just come true, since I believe". Life doesn't always work that way.

True but I believe that the point was that nothing is too big for God. Also, it's not like Grant didn't believe when everything was going wrong. Overall, I think the point was that there are valleys and there are mountains and through all of it God had the power to do whatever pleased and glorified Himself. (My two cents.)

Baragon · Post by **Baragon** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:45 pm

Shad Paw wrote:First of all, for the unsaved, it gave an inaccurate view of Christianity. Christians don't ALWAYS get what they want, and things don't always turn out right. I think the movie would have been 90% better if they lost the big game. We don't want unsaved moviegoers to think "Well, I should become a Christian since they always get what they want." It's very easy to stick with your faith, and say 'whether we win or lose it goes to the glory of God' when everything is going perfect. It just made me walk out of the theater thinking,"huh, why don't all my dreams just come true, since I believe". Life doesn't always work that way.

Sure, perhaps they did win the game and the woman did get pregnant (Which I think they should have left out... Either they had kids, or the won the game. Shouldn't have been both in my opinion - too cheesy) However, the movie depicts faith standing strong in the midst of a storm - though not everyone has the miracle of losing a game in the state playoffs, and then, miraculously, the other team gets kicked out since they had players who weren't allowed and thereby landing the "Christian" team back into the playoffs - if they'd lost the game, who would have wanted to see the movie, honestly? Most football movies are about happy endings. I don't think a Christian football movie is going to drift too far from that.

I thought the film made a good point to say "Whether we win or lose, we give glory to God." They won, yes, thereby making the movie a bit cheesy, but... some people do get to win. Some don't. Besides, they didn't do well for 6 years straight. Doesn't that count for something?

Thursday Next · Post by **Thursday Next** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:07 pm

By the same token considering this film was done by a church as a fund raising project. It was pretty well done considering those factors.

Shad Lexer · Post by **Shad Lexer** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:05 pm

Yeah. I still hope to see better films made by the Christian community.

Danadelfos · Post by **Danadelfos** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:23 pm

It was 100 times better then their first move, Flywheel. We just saw Flywheel and I'm suprised any theaters carried it. I'm definitly seeing improvement so I'm hoping for alot in the next one. I think they've started filming it... Btw: Flywheel everything went right for them as well which gets a little cheesy after two movies of basically the same plot....

PJ · Post by PJ » Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:35 am

I loved it. Absolutely wonderful! It made me feel good. I love those kind of movies. I don't think it was cheesy, probably because I like it when everything turns out well. -even if it's not reasonable..I don't care, as long as the ending is happy and throughout it's happy..then I'm good.

Conniepaw · Post by **Conniepaw** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:52 pm

It was such a good movie! I really liked it! I think it was so cool how they lost and then praised God and then they won and how she praised God even though she was not pregnant and then got pregnant. They promised to love God even if they didn't get their way and they won!

actinglove299 · Post by **actinglove299** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:47 pm

It was a really good movie. Its really cool how even in today's culture those kind of movies are still being shown in theaters. I saw it at a leadership conference I went to and loved it.