You get the feeling that Old Fashioned owes its entire existence to Fifty Shades of Grey. It's as if the Christian movie industry pays attention to mainstream cinema just long enough to see what it's up to, before raising funds to do slightly different versions of the same thing, only with less famous actors, more Jesus, and rocking chairs. (There are always rocking chairs.)
Any person even vaguely familiar with Evangelical subcultures will recognize the trend of copying and sanitizing whatever pop culture is doing. This trend belies a certain impulse within Evangelical Christians to separate the entire world into two categories: sheep and goats, wheat and chaff.
I don't believe so. The same author quotes Martin Luther,
The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.
My kids and I have watched some wonderful movies from Sandlot to The Mission to Its a Wonderful Life, movies that are low-budget, well-acted and with great humor or plot development. Victor Hugo wrote a book called Les Miserables, completely anchored on the themes of law and grace. That seems to have done well for itself without all of the sexual and violent trimmings of the day. If Christians could work on such movies, even without the altar calls and Jesus moments, perhaps more people would actually come to see their utter need for redemption themselves and turn to Jesus as their only hope.