Why are all "Christian movies" so clean and lame?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I was thinking about this today, that Christian movie "I Can Only Imagine" is a huge sleeper hit. And it actually has half decent reviews unlike most. But why is there no real equivalent to my type of Christian music amongst movies? They're always very squeaky clean and geared to a Bushie-esque audience, like those lame Kirk Cameron ones. I mean yeah I get they probably won't have explicit sex and graphic violence stuff usually, but with the MPAA's lame rating systems you could make a realistic movie with a Christian message that would be R due to the language and content. The only R-rated movies I can think of with a Christian message are The Passion of the Christ (obvious special example) and Pulp Fiction.

So why is no one making something like a Christian version of Lena Dunham's work or anything like that? I'd LOVE that.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Pulp Fiction?

You can't see the Christian message in that movie?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

He is saved by divine intervention, accepts it as a second chance and redeems himself.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Wouldn't Lady Bird qualify as mainstream? It's a Best Picture nominee after all. And it's a movie that could've had an explicitly Christian message with just a few tweaks.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Low budgets.

You think artsy indie films have high budgets?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Also BRTD, do you consider Bruce/Evan Almighty clean and lame?

I only saw Bruce Almighty, a long time ago. It was alright.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

There was actually an article in Vox a few days ago about the kinds of faith-based movies that audiences respond to: https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/19/17136066/i-can-only-imagine-mercyme-movie-box-office-faith-based-gods-not-dead-paul-apostle

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Yeah that's what I don't want. I want a Christian version of Lena Dunham basically.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Uh, a movie in her style with a Christian theme/message?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I actually saw a play today that while not a comedy kind of fits the bill. It's about a transman who develops ovarian cancer, and develops a friendship with a conservative Christian old woman at a support group also suffering from cancer. She's seeing a hospital chaplain, who is married to the doctor at the hospital treating the transman...except they are both women. He's angry about God and religion from his events earlier in his life and learns the woman basically became estranged from her daughter once her daughter also married a woman. The writer is a transgender former Catholic priest (not Roman Catholic obviously, a liberal schismatic group), so it's not surprising it has that sort of message, and also a call for better access to health care for transpeople.