Reminds me of the New Age movie that I went to a matinee to see years
ago. The auditorium was packed. Figured they all got free tickets. The
film was mentioned by Turq the other day as he knew the person who
produced it. I certainly did not expect a packed house for a matinee at
such a film.
On 04/27/2015 09:47 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Tremendously popular but only amongst the rabid Christians.
/*Left Behind*/ is a series of 16 best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_LaHaye> and Jerry B. Jenkins
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_B._Jenkins>, dealing with
Christian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity>
dispensationalist <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensationalism> End
Times <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind_%282014_film%29#cite_note-PChambers-30>
Christian magazine /Christianity Today
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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."
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*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 "product placement!" There are scenes in
a mall and they made sure the Starbucks, Best Buy and another of other
outlets are clearly displayed. Then outside Macy's and Sears. The
film is just so bizarre I just cracked up laughing several times.
Yup, the acting is bad and there are a number actors you see regularly
see in other films. And I bet they aren't there because of their
religious beliefs any more than the actors who were in the "Atlas
Shrugged" jokes are libertarians. They're there for the money too
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
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>, <noozguru@...>
<mailto:noozguru@...> wrote :
Well I just had to see what the hell Nicolas Cage was doing with the
movie "Left Behind." He really must have enjoyed making it. It's so
bad that it has one star on Netflix. But it's also so bad that it's
like a comedy, almost like the "Airplane" of the "left behind"
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 3000 treatment.
So if you need a good laugh here's the trailer:
Wow, how much bad acting can you pack into a single trailer?
This "left behind" thing is a real cultural phenomenon over there
isn't it? Bizarre as we never hear of it over here. I wouldn't even
be surprised if this doesn't even go on release here. Not least
because it looks really dreadful...
https://youtu.be/GrXe8YDbzYs
