I think they believe they can get away with substandard stuff if they are dealing with a virtuous theme. They do it all the time in my country with anything to do with the Irish language.

The few I’ve stumbled across have been atrocious..

Just like porn movies.Terrible acting. Stupid stories.

I was a closet nonbeliever when I watched the Mel Gibson The Passion of the Christ with others. While watching it, beyond all of the blood and horrendous things in it, I was thinking of both the science and psychology of what was actually being shown.

Quite agree with that. Worse than The Bold and The Beautiful or whatever it is called and it’s ilk!

Spot them within the first scene in most occasions

It’s not just you. Terrible directing, terrible script writers, implausible plots. In the movie God is NOT Dead (1), the Atheist Philosophy Professor allows his student to appoint himself God’s defense attorney while appointing the Professor the prosecutor in trying the case of whether God created the universe. The null hypothesis should have been God is innocent of creating the Universe and the alternative Hypotheses should have been God created the Universe. So the roles the student decided on should have been reversed with the student as the prosecutor and the professor as the defense attorney. So in this case, the folks making the movie even had terrible consultants. A real Philosophy Professor would never have allowed his student to present the argument in this way. Of course the entire plot of the movie was contrived and ridiculous.

Can't say that I've watched any but then again I kind of pass on the flat Earth stuff too.

I avoid biblical movies like the plague.

Because they are not meant for entertainment, they are meant for indoctrination.

They have bad acting because they have bad actors. People in popular films that claim they are personally a Christian are usually just going with a current trend. Christian movies suck. I don't watch them. In "God Is Dead" the atheist hated god because god allowed his father to die. Apparently their was a handy priest on the scene at the end.

What exactly do you call christian movie? There are biblical classics that won Oscars, so it is important you clarify.

If I watch a movie and realize it is Christian, or any religious themed, I stop it and move on to more important things.

If you differentiate between mainstream movies with a religious theme and movies made for the Christian market for evangelists to use to reinforce faith and retain doubters, such as the fucking awful "God's NOT Dead" franchise then Yes especially Pureflix productions.

I can only conclude since they do have a stock of semi decent actors, that the directors must actually insist on this wooden as a crucifix delivery and performance.
Kevin Sorbo (normally a very competent performer) is in a number of these films and seems to wander through them pointing his hair at people and keeping his face so botox straight that you could mistake him for a ventriloquist's dummy.

I recommend "Jesus Bro" a wonderful parody made on a nothing budget by Brad Jones (the Cinema Snob) a couple of years ago.

Like the Kirk Cameron things?

Even those epic Cecil B films had bad acting but are fun to watch for the over bloated more cowbell panoramas.

Life of Brian is pretty good. But yes, that is satire.

I agree! So many Christian films are B-rated, very low budget, low technical and mostly unknown actors who needs more acting classes from professionals. Netflix and even now Amazon is FULL of the annoying christian films, so annoyed.

I agree. I have seen a few, and the acting is always terrible.

They're inherently bad because their message is inherently weak. Well intended, but weak.