Christian Movie Reviews on the Michael Landon Jr. interview with Christianity Today

In a recent interview with Christianity Today, Michael Landon Jr. made some splashed with many Christian Movie Reviews.

I found one answer to a question particularly interesting:

Q.Christians want truth in movies, but not always the depiction of reality.

A.Yes. With a Christian audience, sometimes there is hypocrisy. The same people who will see a secular PG-13 or R-rated movie have a different standard if there is violence or sexuality or bad language in a Christian film. I don't get that. How is anybody going to tell a really good urban story if these kids from the streets are saying, "Oh, gosh darn!"? Sometimes I think how cool it would be not to be a Christian and have no boundaries to telling a story. But that will never work with me. Never.

Now this is a very valid point, should movie classifications change to take religious values into consideration? Do we need special ratings on christian movies? Or do we take it one step further and form a movie rating panel of christian leaders who will apply their stamp of approval for christian audience on all main stream movies.

For instance, The Simpsons Movie is rated PG-13, but our christian leaders could add "Vulgar Language, crude humor, derogatory, disrespectful, sinful acts" etc.

Perhaps Christians on a whole are taking the movie industry a little too seriously. As language evolves, one might suggest a little leniency on content.

You can read the full interview here