I Suck At Fireproof

one of the things that karen wanted to do on her birthday yesterday was to see a movie... not just any movie... she wanted to see the movie "fireproof". now i suck at fireproof.

karen has been dying to see this movie ever since she heard about it. the movie stars kirk cameron as a firefighter named caleb. caleb's marriage is in shambles. in an effort to save his marriage, caleb agrees to do the "love dare". the love dare is a book. each chapter represents a day in which he is supposed to do something to strengthen his relationship. there are 40 days to the love dare.

(the video below is the trailer for fireproof.)


needless to say, i took karen to see the movie. the only place around us that was playing the movie was the cameo located in weymouth. it was the first time i've ever seen a movie in the cameo. the cameo is nice. it's a quaint throwback to the good o' days when stadium seating didn't exist. too bad the seats are so uncomfortable.

i don't know if i was shifting in my seat due to the uncomfortable chair or the agony of watching the movie. the movie reminded me of those commercials that were on tv when i was growing. the commercials were from "the church of jesus christ of latter day saints... the mormons!". the movie was like those commercials mixed with an after school special.

the acting was not particularly good. the script dialogue was awful. i'm surprised there were actually about 30 people in the theater watching the movie with us.

aside from that, i would say the movie did actually have potential. the premise of a firefighter trying to save his marriage by following this "love dare" book is not a bad concept. it's just everything else that made the movie bad.

i also felt that the movie was preaching to the choir. like kirk cameron (which is probably why he starred in the movie), the movie is very "yay jesus!" now, i have nothing against jesus. i have issues when people say their religion is the right religion and all other religions are wrong. after all, who are we to say who is right and who is wrong? but that's probably a discussion for another day. i realize wars have been started over religion.

needless to say, i thought the movie was terrible on a whole, but it did have its moments. i think karen would agree with me as well in that the movie was not the greatest and could have been better.

i will say that afterwards... karen and i had the quickest dinner at the abington alehouse. we were seated, had dinner and dessert... all in 30 minutes. it was amazingly fast. for anyone curious, i had the baked haddock (cue rachael ray's "yum-o" sound) and it was delicious.