An Old Fashioned Response to the 'Fifty Shades' Deluge
Valentine's Day stirs up lots of emotions for women, and with "Fifty Shades of Grey" hitting theaters, love, sex, and relationships are being hotly debated once again.
As the R-rated movie opens this weekend, an independent film called "Old Fashioned" is also making a debut.
Producer Rik Swartzwelder said he wasn't telling this story as a counterpoint to "50 Shades" or any other book or film.
"I was simply trying to tell a more beautiful love story that took the idea of honoring God and that takes romance and dating seriously," he said. "When we realized the marketing opportunity that was there once our film was done, that clearly was deliberate."
Check out where the movie is playing here.
Watch our webcast extra with Swartzwelder and Slattery. They join CBN's Wendy Griffith and Charlene Aaron along with reporter Abby Robertson to hash-out the many social and moral issues up for debate with the debute of these two movies.
Dr. Juli Slattery and Dannah Gresh, co-authors of a book called Pulling Back the Shades, have also written about how Christian women don't have to choose between being sexual and spiritual.
"They have legitimate longings that the Church has been afraid to talk about, and books like 'Fifty Shades of Grey' exploit," the book's abstract states.
Both movies hit theaters this weekend. CBN News reporter Abby Robertson asked students at Regent University and Old Dominion University to share their impressions of both movies after seeing the trailers.
Their reactions reveal that romance and purity aren't totally a thing of the past.
"The Fifty Shades of Grey looked really really weird, I don't think I'll ever watch that movie," Alaina Thomas, a freshman at Regent University, said. "But the Old Fashioned one seemed like a more real thing."
