Nicolosi Slays "Giants"

Buckle up.

Barbara Nicolosi is a little late to the game with her views on Facing the Giants, but her new blog entry was worth the wait.

Here are some excerpts:

That was before the FOX Faith announcement and the small success of Facing the Giants at the box office, which has all of us Able Christians (as in Cain and Able) in Hollywood scared to death that Facing the Giants will be the prototype of the movies that all the new divisions geared to "creating product for Christians" will be seeking out and producing.

She goes on to describe the mission of Christian artists in Hollywood, and how that mission involves crafting excellent art and entertainment... something that is quite different from what we see in Facing the Giants.

Facing the Giants from any serious perspective is a fantasy film. Its message is very dangerous for Christians, and scandalous for pagans. Adult Evangelical Christians watching Facing the Giants is like sex addicts watching the Spice Channel. (Nope. Not going to take it back.)

We are going to leave alone the fact that the film is badly acted, terribly written, completely lacking in imagery, and directed and shot without any style or evident skill. Let's skip all that and just talkabout the content problem.

So then, she talks about "the content problem":

WOW! Give me some of THAT Jesus-stuff!

Absolute fantasy stuff. The kind of thing that makes Christians puff out their chests proud to be on the winning team! This film fumbles deep, deep in the prosperity Gospel end zone. It is icky to tell people that they should be Christian because of the career and health benefits. We have the problem on the team of that embarrassingly unsuccessful crucified coach of ours.

And she's just getting started...

What would the filmmakers of Facing the Giants say about this?

Barbara says:

WRONG!

WRONG.

And then, she gets serious...