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

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Have you ever seen Blue Like Jazz?

Because good Christian (or Christian-themed) movies aren't marketed towards boring evangelicals as "Christian movies", you won't fill buses of suburban or rural Evangelicals to watch The Passion

pretty sure they did.

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Probably a combination of a theology that doesn't have much room for doubt or irony, plus wanting to mass market to churches so trying to be as inoffensive and saccharine as possible.

I've seen a few Catholic films from European studios about the saints that recognize the ambiguities and struggle of faith to a greater degree and are good cinematically, ex, Je m'appelle Bernadette (2011) 

And as I mentioned, Blue Like Jazz, the adaptation of the book by Donald Miller and I think may be the sort of thing you are looking for BRTD.

Image Journal has some lists of films that they see as having Christian or spiritual messages:
https://imagejournal.org/read/film/

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Because most Christians are clean and lame.

If anything is problematic with the religion in America, it’s hypocrisy, not adherence.

That's actually a good point. Look at Rand-ites who claim to be Christians yet support gutting every form of government assistance for the poor.

You can’t be a Randist and a Christian. Those two things aren’t possible.

Thank you for coming to this realization.

Speaking of philosophies, I think that Christianity could probably be compatible with both virtue ethics and deontology, and honestly it might qualify as a mix of both depending on which book of the Bible you look at.

The real question is whether you can be a utilitarian thinker and a Christian!

Seems to me they'd be essentially incompatible. Utilitarianism seems to dispense with the very idea of the sacred and any sort of extravagant sacrifice out of love that can't by justified by some calculation.  That is not to say that Christian ethics aren't informed by consequentialism - they should be - but it can't be considered the foundation of ethics.