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ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

feraghi It's Holy Week in Greece, and wanted to watch something closest possible to the spirituality of these days. Yesterday i was glad to watch the "Gospel of John" (2003). What happened today? Did God punish me because i'm not a good Christian, and subconsciously suggested me to watch this movie? Of course not. I'm probably not a good Christian, but this is not the point. Like everyone else, i have free will, so i could have picked a European or a Russian film to watch. Mea culpa, but i'd like to say a few words… Mr. Kendrick (if you ever read this), please do me a favor (and a favor to yourself) and reconsider some things: God is not Aladdin's lamp. He doesn't give us championships, success, new cars, great relationships, better wages. Most of God's people suffer during their lives. Most of Jesus' disciples, and saints, they have been tortured and died as martyrs. Can't forget of a modern orthodox saint who carried several health problems and finally died from cancer. He was so purified that he was connected with the Uncreated Light (or Tabor Light) of God. This elder had healed and saved many others, but never asked God to take away not even one of his sufferings. In addition, he asked God to "plant" him the cancer. He once said: "all these people who visit me, they have terrible problems: Family problems, problems with drugs, or cancers. I'm a monk, so i can't have family or drug problems. But i asked Lord to send me at least the cancer, so i'd share some of the pain of His children". This is called "humbleness", "sacrifice" and "love". Christianity should have been built around those terms, not around American (or any other) dreams. After all, God is not a capitalist or a patriot, neither a communist or a friend of one nation (or of a football team) and an enemy of an other. He doesn't care about things we (people) consider as significant (money, politics, lifestyle, success etc). Do you really think that this kind of movies can bring people closer to God? Honestly, i wouldn't like to believe there's a bad (f.e. misleading) or a selfish (f.e. profit) intention behind the film, but i believe it can work in the opposite (of the desirable) way. There are many who could think God is a kind of Santa Claus. If they try to approach Him the way it's suggested here (ask for insignificant things, read couple of Bible's parts and attach them in a silly way inside their daily activities, provoke God for signs, pray loud or in public, and children tell their dads they will be good kids and obedient to their "authority"), God will not answer. He certainly won't (of course there's a possibility for some to explain simple events under the term of "miracles", but this is a different story). What could be the result of this way? They will turn away from any other try or will to get closer to God, they will become atheists (which is "cool" nowadays), or they will fall in a deep dream that maybe one day their expectations will be fulfilled (by praying louder, or with being more obedient to the "authorities"?). As for the "giants", the only "giants" we have to face, are the ones inside our minds. The "giants" of vanity, ambition, pride, selfishness, complacent, lust and insecurity. We all have them. I have them. But we can do better. Movies like this they won't help, but i'm pretty sure that Mr. Kendrick can do better than that too.

w-a-johnstone OK so me and my ethics and faith class at school were forced to watch this movie and holy molly we all laughed all the way through. Not because it was funny but because the acting was just terrible, Im sure they tried to make a good movie but they failed so badly. The hole religion aspect was completely unnecessary it just annoyed me it was just so forced. Now back to the acting in the scene about 30 minutes in to the movie were Grant and his wife are crying at the table. It was meant to be an emotional scene but because of the terrible acting it was outrageously funny the whole class including me exploded into tiers of laughter. But I'm sure that the filmmakers were trying to make a good movie so thats why i gave it a 2.

Kelsey Carlisle Facing The Giants Review The movie, Facing the Giants, is such an impacting movie and is different from many other movies today because of its family friendly appeal. Hannah Goodwyn reported that this movie was designed and directed by a church in Albany, Georgia called Sherwood Baptist Church. Alex and Stephen Kendrick, associate pastors of the church, created this movie with the ambition to spread the love of Christ with the message and positive effect of putting faith in Jesus Christ in every life situation. In fact, the actors in the movie were members of the church, including Alex who played the main character as the head football coach. Although this movie is directed towards football players or people who enjoy football, the message that it conveys can be for anyone because of the various messages that it portrays. Although there are many parts of the movie that display an impacting message, one of the most meaningful scenes that I believe changed the outcome of the rest of the movie was the death crawl scene. Leading up to this scene, the coach for the Eagles, Grant Taylor and his wife Brooke, had been struggling financially and were having complications and started fertility treatments to have a baby. Added onto this, for the past six years, his football team had not won hardly any games and everyone wanted him replaced. With all of the difficult circumstances occurring in his life, Grant did not know what to do and wanted to give up on everything. One night, a man met him at the school and read scripture to him. Grant began seeking God's guidance in his life and decided to change the focus of his football team. The next day at practice, Brock Kelley, the captain of the team, was downing the team so Coach Grant challenges him to do the death crawl blindfolded to the fifty yard line with one of his teammates on his back. As Brock is crawling across the field, he starts to get tired and wants to give up. Coach Grant then starts encouraging him and screaming "don't give up" over and over. When he takes the blindfold off, Brock realizes that he is in the opposing end zone. After exceeding to one hundred yards, Brock is amazed at what he accomplished and decides to step up and become a leader on the team. The team began to focus on Christ and trust in Him as they finished the season by giving their very best no matter what the outcome of the game was. The Eagles finished the season undefeated and won the State Championship, defeating the Giants, for the first time ever. Facing the Giants is one of the most inspirational movies I have ever seen and presents many life lessons. However, there are some drawbacks to every movie. For example, professionals did not direct Facing the Giants. Hannah Goodywn says that this was a drawback to the resources that could have inputted if experts would have made it, such as professional actors or videographers. However, this movie was not meant to be intrigue the audience because of the special effects or who the actors were at all, rather for the viewers to grasp the importance of faith in Christ. Overall, Facing the Giants has a simple plot that does not need any enhancers to better convey its purpose. Another drawback that would have affected the success of the movie would be if the ending of the movie were changed. For example, after Coach Taylor's faith impacted the team in the death crawl scene, everything seemed to fall into place with the Eagles winning and Brooke becoming pregnant. If the movie did not happen this way, the message it was trying to convey would not be supported effectively. Thus, the ending of the movie was the result of the challenge that Coach Grant made which lead to the outcome of the game. This movie is a powerful, true story, and was made for the purpose of showing viewers that everyone faces adversity in life in various ways. As Hannah states in her review, audiences will see a real life testimony of God's power and mercy in Facing the Giants. There are many life lessons to grasp from this movie and the scene that captured them the best was when Brock did the death crawl on the field. This scene was effective in presenting the turning point of the movie from not believing in the team, to having faith to overcome the fear of loosing. The death crawl was not only put in the movie to teach football players to exceed the target or goal at hand, but also as an encouragement to everyone else to give the utmost effort when facing adversity in life and never give up. Michael Lee says in his opinion of this scene that we as humans make limits as to how far we want to go, but the truth is that we should not have any limits and our minimum effort should not be our maximum effort in life. The target audience may be to football teams, but anyone who watches it can take something away from this movie, which makes it even more successful. The overall theme in the movie is that everyone faces giants in life, but it's by the power of Jesus Christ that we can conquer the giants by trusting in Him. Even though a church created Facing the Giants, it did not affect the overall success of the movie. I strongly suggest everyone to watch it because it is more than a movie, its an inspiration and encouragement on how to face life.

Brownsbros3 I really loved this movie. As a Christian, I would love to see Hollywood make more movies like this. This is a film that you can sit down with your family and watch. It is inspiring, and has a great message, "Nothing is impossible with God." Alex Kendrick and Shannen Fields made a great couple, and you really have to feel for them. I know there are a lot couples that have a hard time trying to have children. One thing that I did find annoying was the scene when she finds out about being pregnant. When the nurse is running out to the car to catch her, they were playing music. While it was a nice song, I would have rather heard the nurse tell her, and see her reaction. My favorite scene had to be the Death Crawl, where the coach urges his player to crawl to the 50, with a 160 pound player on his back, and instead he crawls the entire length of the field. If network TV would spend more time embracing God, rather than doing what they can to distance themselves from him, then maybe their ratings wouldn't be down across the board.