Trailer, gameplay footage & an excellent article on Guitar Praise: Solid Rock

If there is one thing that Don & I like as much as movies, it is obviously video games.  Despite my lack of any sort of musical skills, I even like Guitar Hero  & Rock Band,  mainly because they are the best way to experience video games with a group of people who don't necessairly play a lot of video games.

We were both interested in Guitar Praise: Solid Rock  when it was announced, and we both hoped that it would buck the trend of Christian video games being either awful or bizarre.  I felt that a good precedent had been established by Left Behind: Eternal Forces , because no matter what you think about its content a good amount of production value was put into that game.

The few reviews that have come out have been pretty positive , but I think that it would be pretty simple to make a knock-off of a popular game.  Especially when there is already an open source knock-off  who's code you can peruse at your leisure.

GameSetWatch has a fantastic opinion piece  about Guitar Praise: Solid Roc k, which puts it in perspective with other Christian video games (although they leave out Left Behind: Eternal Forces ),  and comes down with some strong thoughts about what it means to have "Christian" video games.  Much of what is said can also be applied to "Christian" movies, so it is a great read.

(GameSetWatch Opinion Article)

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Mikel Wisler Continues his exploration of the state of Christian Cinema

Continuing the series we linked to last week, Mikel Wisler has part 2 of his exploration of the state of Christian Cinema. He has some really good points on the different approach to visual media by Catholic and Protestant denominations of the Church. He also has some really good things to say about the "experiential" nature of film; specifically, the way that a film is much more than what can be described in a simple plot summary. He also makes some interesting comments on two prominent Hollywood Christians; Ralph Winter and Scott Derrickson. He is very charitable to both, in different ways. Derrickson (Director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Hellraiser: Inferno & the forthcoming remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still) he praises for making mainstream Hollywood films that have Christian values, if not a explicit Christian message. Winter, on the other hand, I think he unfairly praises. Sure, Winter has produced some great films on the Hollywood side of things (X-Men, X2, Captain Ron, Star Trek III-VI), but he's also made some real stinkers (Fantastic Four, X-Men 3, Inspector Gadget), so he hardly has a perfect record. When it comes to Christian movies, he unfortuatly tends more to the stinker side than to the great side. Of the Christian film's he's produced (Left Behind, Hangman's Curse , The Visitation , Thr3e , House), only one (The Visitation ) managed to avoid being so awful as to make me curse the day I watched them. Seriously, Thr3e is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Ever. (Cin-Posium Blog) Subscribe to the SuperCandid Podcast, the number 1 podcast for Christian movies Subscribe to the SuperCandid Blog Save This Page

Great News! (I guess...) More Left Behind movies on the way

It's the most popular Christian book series I can remember.  Its already spawned several successful movies, and one of the most unusual video games ever.  

Well, you might have wondered why there hasn't been a new Left Behind movie in a while.  You might also wonder why such popular books would be relegated to no-budget direct to video affairs.  So did co-author Tim Lahaye.  Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins refused to put their names on the movie, Alan Moore-style.  So much so that Lahaye sued Cloud Ten pictures over what he said was a breech of contract over the length, budget (and probably an unspoken dispute over quality).  The lawsuit has held up production on any further Left Behind movies.  

At long last, the lawsuit is settled, in a rather unusual way.  LaHaye has been granted the rights by a judge to remake the Left Behind movies with a new studio.  However, if he does not exercise these rights in a certain length of time, then the rights will revert to Cloud Ten and they will be able to continue their series.

I'd say that this is actually kind of a slap in the face to the authors, since it places restrictions on them and gives the advantage to the film company who was being sued in the first place.  Anyway, one way or another we're getting more Left Behind movies.  Maybe we should finally review the earlier movies so we can be ready.

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