Wes said:
I wouldn't consider all movies to be a form of amusement. Motion pictures are just another medium which can be used for good or evil.
I believe that there is a huge difference between movies that portray historical and biographical events, and movies that portray events of Scripture, - especially those that image our Lord (such as The Pasion of the Christ). These movies nearly always detour from the Scripture to portray the
script from the mind of the Director or the actors. Some of these movies are so bad that they might as well be fictionalized cartoons.
I also saw the Luther movie you mentioned. It was OK but I wonder why no one has made a decent movie about John Calvin? I think the reason is obvious that there would not be enough paying customers to even pay production costs of a movie about one of the greatest Christian teachers in history.
I don't think it's generally a humble spiritual sense that drives the hype and emotional production of these
Holy Wood movies but something of a much more worldly nature.
It was, after all, the selling of sinful indulgences that led to the construction of the deceit of St. Peters Basilica.
Denny
Romans 3:22-24
