He put his name in the title of a film he neither directed nor wrote, which nobody does, and the film went on to sweep the Razzies. Late last year, he asked fans to upvote his film on review aggregators and the stunt backfired, sending Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas to the frozen Cocytus at the bottom of the IMDB skunk list. Despite the dismal review I offered up of Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas, I should say that I find Cameron an intriguing, likable, and somewhat beguiling personality.
The two films attached to his name over the last year (the literally attached Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas and Mercy Rule) are about as different in quality and intent as is possible (though both share Darren Doane as a director), but neither has much in common with Fireproof. Granted, Cameron seems in a much difference place intellectually than he was seven years ago. I was also interested in the film for the sake of Kirk Cameron, star. For this reason alone I was interested in having a look. In the last decade, excepting perhaps The Passion of the Christ, Fireproof (2008) has enjoyed a wider audience than any other “Christian film.” When discussing the lately arisen popularity of “Christian film,” Fireproof is nearly always the first example employed. That the star of “Christian film” has begun to ascend comes as a genuine shock to me, let alone the names attached to “Christian films.” Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas was one of the most oft-discussed films of last December, and had I been told years ago that James Jordan would get name checked in the credits of a film showing in a theater down the street from my house, I would have laughed out loud. At the same time, the “Christian film” industry is a burgeoning industry, and simply ignoring Christian films because they tend to operate with smaller budgets and without well known actors would be no less snobbish than dismissing foreign films, documentaries, independent films and many classic films. FilmFisher has no vested interest in “Christian films,” per se, but rather film criticism written by Christians. A few weeks ago, Kanaan Trotter and I watched Fireproof and then discussed the film.
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