History YMMV / Fireproof

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Striving to make a marriage work and making sacrifices for it are good messages; the movie's shortcoming here is that [[TheUnfairSex it's one-sided against the husband and the wife isn't held to any responsibility]] for her own wrong-doings.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming:

* {{Glurge}}: ''The opening scene'' which features an example of [[FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother Mother, I Want To Marry My Father]] that is meant to sound cute, but in execution comes across as a little {{Squick}}y.

* {{Glurge}}: ''The opening scene'' which features an example of [[FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother Mother, I Want To Marry My Father]] that is meant to sound cute, but in execution is rather {{Squick}}y.

** A notable mention goes to ''the opening scene'' which features an example of [[FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother Mother, I Want To Marry My Father]] that is [[{{Glurge}} meant to sound cute]], but in execution is rather {{Squick}}y

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Two of them actually. Catherine appears to be a long suffering wife who does all the work around the house, while her husband Caleb is a slacker who works 24 hours and rests 48. They also depict him as having "rejected" God, and fallen prey to the evils of adultery through pornography. This seems to be the message shown by the film. Actually, from the events, Catherine is a cold merciless jerk who doesn't bother to consider that he needs food too (she doesn't buy groceries either), who looks critically on his pornography while she actively carries out an affair, and can't see what is being done for her while he is trying to fix things. Meanwhile, Caleb his given up a computer (which, by the way, can hold pictures of her in addition to uses other than porn), worked tirelessly without any appreciation, and gave expensive medical equipment using his boat savings. Even before, when he was supposedly "rejecting" God, he stood in support of his Christian friend's choices, saved lives everyday, and whose only real issue was that he was angry and didn't help around the house.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Striving to make a marriage work and making sacrifices for it are good messages; the movie's shortcoming here is that [[TheUnfairSex it's one-sided against the husband and the wife isn't held to any responsibility]].

* {{Narm}}: God, the whole thing. ''Especially'' Kirk Cameron's performance.

* NightmareFuel: the little girl in the burning house.
* {{Padding}}: Most of the scenes involving the firefighters have little, if anything, to do with the main plot of the film, and seem there only to pad out what is at its core an hour-long TV movie to a two-hour theatrical release.

-->''I love you more.''

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The ending.

* UnfortunateImplications: Is your marriage failing? Probably because you're not a Christian. Christians certainly don't have marital problems of any kind.
** The message is "Marriage is a sacred covenant to Christians, and marriages fall apart because they were not entered into with that in mind, or both partners have not put effort into building a lasting bond."

* UnfortunateImplications: The hot sauce drinking contest. God is cool with deceit?
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* {{Narm}}: God, the whole thing.

* CriticalDissonance: Mainstream critics generally panned the film, but it made a very impressive $33 million on the back of a $500,000 budget. Related products (such as the website [=FireproofMyMarriage=].com, advertised in the credits, and the [[TheRedStapler "Love Dare"]] book) have been similarly financially successful.

* FridgeLogic: In the scene with the car on the train tracks, earlier Caleb had told the dispatcher to tell all the trains to stop. Why did that train even show up?
** The dispatcher told Caleb she wasn't able to make contact with the train dispatcher. Cue BigDamnHeroes moment. That there happened to be a train coming at that particular moment was just RuleOfCool.

* CriticalDissonance: Mainstream critics generally panned the film, but it made a very impressive $33 million on the back of a $500,000 budget. Related products (such as the website FireproofMyMarriage.com, advertised in the credits, and the [[TheRedStapler "Love Dare"]] book) have been similarly financially successful.

** At the time Caleb gave the order, the train was already too close to the crash site to be able to stop in time. Cue BigDamnHeroes moment.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The ending. YourMileageMayVary, however.