Fireproof - the movie!

Mission Of One Age : 38 Joined : 03 Jan 2007 Posts : 5408

Today, Sept. 26, is the release date for the new movie "Fireproof". This movie was made by Sherwood Pictures, the same outfit that brought us the highly successful 2006 film "Facing The Giants". Sherwood Pictures started as an outreach of the Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, GA. They wanted to make films featuring stories about people of faith and their struggles and how those things can change as we draw nearer to Christ.

"Facing The Giants", Sherwood's 2nd film, was made with a $100,000 budget with absolutely no professional actors. But, due to a great story, hardworking volunteers, and a lot of prayer, this independant film caught the eye of the Hollywood machine as they grossed over $12 MILLION in theaters alone. Sherwood Baptist is investing a lot of that into the new film. But, they also built a sports complex complete with gym, pool, indoor walking track, etc. and GAVE it to the City of Albany. How's that for community outreach?

The new film does have one pro actor in it. 80's teen icon Kirk Cameron stars in "Fireproof". This movie portrays a man who is a firefighter who believes in never leaving a partner behind when he is fighting fires, but struggles in that area at home with his wife. Can their marriage that is on the rocks be saved?

You can find out more about the movie at: www.fireproofthemovie.com

You can check with your local theaters for showtimes and pricing. If you go to the "Fireproof" website, you can find out about many theaters that are carrying this film.

In my neck of the woods, only 2 or 3 theaters carried "Facing the Giants". With the new movie, I have found 9 within less than an hour from me.
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Age : 34 Joined : 07 Apr 2007 Posts : 2260

I want to see this, but getting a night out with my wife right now is nigh unto impossible. Then when we do get a date, my wife wants to spend the evening talking of course. Good grief, who wants to talk to their wife when there's a good movie to see? Cool

Mission Of One Age : 38 Joined : 03 Jan 2007 Posts : 5408

Maybe with this film, you could tell her that you can talk about the movie after it's over. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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Age : 40 Joined : 27 Jan 2007 Posts : 5683

Facing the Giants was an excellent movie. I'm looking forward to this one. Twisted Evil

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Mission Of One Age : 38 Joined : 03 Jan 2007 Posts : 5408

We're gonna go sometime today with some friend from church. Should make for a great evening.
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Man in Morph Age : 40 Joined : 08 Apr 2007 Posts : 8523

I'll see it but I don't think Cameron is a good actor so I hope they didn't have to pay a lot for his services.
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I bet Pillar's on the soundtrack Laughing

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Age : 18 Joined : 31 Dec 2007 Posts : 359

My sister went to this last night with her fiance, but I have yet to hear her review.

Heaven's Metal Cowboy Joined : 08 Apr 2007 Posts : 1129

I took Vindication Angel today and we loved it.

Go see it!
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Mission Of One Age : 38 Joined : 03 Jan 2007 Posts : 5408

We went to see this last night. There are several things worth pointing out.

1) The story for this is amazing! It really shows a married couple whose marriage is well past the breaking point. But, when God finally gets ahold of one of the couple, he buckles down and decides that he will fight for his marriage. The main character goes through a ton of pain to follow through on saving his marriage. I hope that married couples everywhere can see this and decide to tough things out no matter how bad it has gotten. God is God and He is still fixing broken lives, broken marriages, etc.

2) The cinemetography of this movie is excellent! Having a much larger budget this time, this movie looks and feels more professional than "Facing the Giants". When the firefighters are attempting to rescue people from a car accident with an oncoming train barrelling down or when they are in a burning home, it looks and feels real. You will see some familiar faces from "Facing the Giants" and "Flywheel", but that just adds to the movie as you see familiar people.

3) The acting ability of Kirk Cameron is vastly improved. In the other movies I have seen Kirk in, I could never really shake the notion that this was just that goofy kid from "Growing Pains". This part almost seems like it was created for Kirk, and he is able to really bring the character to life. I was worried about the choice of him in the lead, but now I see it was the right choice.

All in all, it was a great movie! They had so many people show up last night for the 7PM show that the theater we went to shut another movie down to open a second screen for this film! God is awesome!
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Man in Morph Age : 40 Joined : 08 Apr 2007 Posts : 8523

Sounds good alldat. Thanks.
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Age : 34 Joined : 07 Apr 2007 Posts : 2260

Well, what do you know! My wife came to me last night and said she arranged a date for us so we could go see it! Just when you think you know your wife! scratch

We're going on Friday night. I'm looking forward to it.

Heaven's Metal Cowboy Joined : 08 Apr 2007 Posts : 1129

Alldat, how good do you think the new Billy Graham movie will be?

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Age : 33 Joined : 09 Jun 2008 Posts : 296

so any ideas on how i can get Exo to take me to see this one ??????
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Mission Of One Age : 38 Joined : 03 Jan 2007 Posts : 5408

"Fireproof" was made on a paltry $500,000 budget. As of Sunday night, the movie has grossed $6.5 million and is officially the number 4 film in the nation!

Way to go, Sherwood! Keep it up!

Man in Morph Age : 40 Joined : 08 Apr 2007 Posts : 8523

Oh great, now he's gonna get a big head an make us call him sir and stuff.
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Lay inside the ways of death
All our trying and our denying
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Mission Of One Age : 38 Joined : 03 Jan 2007 Posts : 5408

That's SIR Alldat to you, Black Rider.
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Age : 41 Joined : 24 Oct 2007 Posts : 1913

as a single, this movie holds no interest for me. in fact, it would probably be completely depressing, on many levels, so i'll be avoiding it like the plague.

HOWEVER, i'm glad there are people out there making and releasing movies like this.

i stopped by Chik-Fil-A for lunch the other day after school and they're putting cards, advertising 'Fireproof' in with every bag, apparently.
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Subject: Re: Fireproof - the movie! Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:19 am

Kirk probably got the part because he's "Joe Evangelist", not because he was a good fit.
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Subject: Re: Fireproof - the movie! Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:21 am