Tremendously popular but only amongst the rabid Christians.
Left Behind is a series of 16 best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B.
Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times.Total sales for the
series have surpassed 65 million copies
As to the movie:
"Yea verily, like unto a plague of locusts, Left Behind hath begat a further
scourge of devastation upon Nicolas Cage's once-proud filmography."
In a review for Entertainment Weekly, film critic Lindsey Bahr writes, "At
best, Left Behind is shoddily made sensationalist propaganda—with atrocious
acting—that barely registers as entertainment. At worst, it's profoundly
moronic. Audiences, Christian or not, deserve better, and it's hard to imagine
that the ham-fisted revelations in this schlock could serve any higher purpose.
Paul Chambers from MovieChambers.com begins his scathing review with, "There
are millions of Christians with average or above-average intelligence. I’d like
to think that I’m one of them. So, what possessed the makers of Left Behind to
produce such an ignorant piece of garbage that’s easily one of the worst films
of 2014, if not all-time?"[30]Christian magazine Christianity Today heavily
criticized the film, saying,
"Left Behind is not a Christian movie, whatever 'Christian Movie' could even
possibly mean. In fact, most Christians within the world of the movie—whether
the street-preacher lady at the airport or Rayford Steele's wife—are portrayed
as insistent, crazy, delusional, or at the very least just really annoying.
They want churches to book whole theaters and take their congregations, want it
to be a Youth Group event, want magazines like this one to publish Discussion
Questions at the end of their reviews—want the system to churn away, all the
while netting them cash, without ever having to have cared a shred about actual
Christian belief. They want to trick you into caring about the movie. Don't."
And they would say that they "tried to give the film zero stars, but our tech
system won't allow it."
From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A movie so bad.....
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
And I forgot to mention the "productplacement!" There are scenes in a mall and
they made sure theStarbucks, Best Buy and another of other outlets are
clearlydisplayed. Then outside Macy's and Sears. The film is just sobizarre I
just cracked up laughing several times. Yup, the actingis bad and there are a
number actors you see regularly see inother films. And I bet they aren't there
because of theirreligious beliefs any more than the actors who were in the
"AtlasShrugged" jokes are libertarians. They're there for the moneytoo
Do you get to see heaven and hell at any point. Does Nic get saved?
How popular is the "left behind" idea in the US really?
On 04/27/2015 09:15 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...>wrote :
Well I just had to see whatthe hell Nicolas Cage was doing with the
movie "Left Behind." He really must have enjoyed makingit. It's so
bad that it has one star on Netflix. But it's also sobad that it's
like a comedy, almost like the "Airplane" of the "leftbehind"
apocalypse movies (of which there are many). Talk about"Christians"
not understanding analogs, they're far worse than any"Hindus." It
really deserves a Mystery Science Theater 3000treatment.
So if you need a good laugh here's the trailer:
Wow, how much bad acting can you pack into asingle trailer?
This "left behind" thing is a real culturalphenomenon over there isn't it?
Bizarre as we neverhear of it over here. I wouldn't even be surprised ifthis
doesn't even go on release here. Not leastbecause it looks really dreadful...
https://youtu.be/GrXe8YDbzYs
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