That would have been "What the Bleep Do We Know," or whatever it was called.
Yeah, that was a real trip. I knew Bill Arnst, the guy who produced it, from
the Rama trip. When I knew him, he was a pretty down-to-earth guy, having
parlayed some money he'd earned as a child actor into a computer company that
he then sold for many millions of dollars.
I lost touch with him when we both walked away from the Rama trip (for
different reasons but at about the same time), and found myself somewhat
shocked when I found out that he'd hooked up with the Ramtha crowd. I always
felt that was a serious "step down" from the Rama vibe.
I never saw the film in a theater but had the incredibly fun experience of
watching it in my living room with Robert Crumb. We laughed so hard I thought
our sides would fall off. :-)
From: "Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A movie so bad.....
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 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 "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, <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
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