Cameron v. Gere

Who do you think would win in a fight between actors Richard Gere and Kirk Cameron? I tend to think Cameron, and I certainly hope his love story movie will prevail over Gere’s at the box office this weekend.

You see, each stars in a new movie, specifically a love story. While Gere has the promotional engine of Hollywood in his corner, Cameron has had the support of Evangelical churches, which gives him a fighting change.

One of the many glowing secular reviews of Gere’s says in “‘Nights in Rodanthe,’ based on another highly adaptable romance novel by Nicholas Sparks (“The Notebook”), we witness a couple of middle-age characters slowly getting a life after denying themselves one for many years.”

As best as I can tell, this is a story of two married adults seeing each other outside of the bonds of their own marriages. So here we apparently have yet another film begging the viewer to root for an inappropriate romance. Meanwhile, in the Dallas Morning News, Kirk Cameron talks about his role in Fireproof, that I previously reviewed. OK, I’ve admitted I’m rooting for Kirk. For whom will you root with your movie ticket dollars?