Courageous: The Movie

Yesterday, since it was rainy and quite cool, my wife and I decided to head for a matinee at our local movie theater. We had wanted to see the new movie, Courageous  (produced by the people who came out with Fireproof). The movie proved to be a good fit for a rainy day.  It was an entertaining film with a great message. This morning, I received an email from the producers of the film ... in part it read: 

"What an amazing Opening Weekend for COURAGEOUS! Thank you for the role you played in helping this film reach a wide audience—it was the No. 1 new release of the weekend. What did people think of COURAGEOUS? It scored it an A+ on CinemaScore—one of just four films to do so this year.

While opening in fewer than half of the theaters as the three other new releases—and three holdover films—COURAGEOUS finished No. 4 in the box office this weekend. And in the per-screen average, COURAGEOUS was by far the No. 1 movie of all movies playing in 1,000 or more theaters.Talk about exceedingly, abundantly more than we can hope or imagine!"

Not everybody is thrilled with the film. On RottenTomatoes.com, even though moviegoers gave the film a 93 rating (out of 100, only one film was rated higher), movie critics gave it a lowly 31. Here is what the critics were saying, "While the filmmaking is fairly competent, Courageous is overall worthless to anybody who doesn't subscribe to its dogmatic agenda."

Hmm. Quite a harsh statement from the critics. Why such a statement? Could it be because the film mentions the name "Jesus" several times ... and NOT as an expression of profanity? Could it be because the gospel is given in no uncertain terms? 

I would encourage you to go and see the movie. Especially you dads out there!  You won't be disappointed!  

Thanks for stopping by . . . 

pj