Left Behind (2014)

[Wien 401]

 

Guuuuuuuuuys, its all happeniiiiiing

 

Boy, the comments on this video.... the Amazon second opinions on this one should be a work of art. Of course we could always get a sense of whats to come by reading the Amazon reviews for the book...

 

"To the individual who wrote the review entitled "Christian Propaganda", you don't know what it is to be a Christian. No, you will not be saved based on your works, you must confess Jesus Christ as your Saviour. However, if you do evil works and commit sin that is not forgiven, you will not make the rapture either. You have to be forgiven! You can not commit evil works and make it to heaven without forgiveness. This book is very true about the end time events. And I will pray for your soul, because it sounds to me like you will be here during the Tribulation. I truly hope you come to the saving knowledge of Jesus before that day approaches. He is coming back. And it will not be long. If you truly believe this is bogus, for your sake, I hope you're right."

 

Five Stars.

[sillstaw 414]

I wonder how the Christians who will supposedly go see this movie would react if they saw Nicolas Cage in "Drive Angry." Heck, it'd be amazing to see somebody sneak in the slow-motion sex gunfight from "Drive Angry" into a screening of "Left Behind."

 

Also, I just love that the two heroes of this Christian story are named Buck Williams and Rayford Steele, which both sound like gay porn star names.

[Joven 373]

I dont know, can Nicolas Cage match the powerhouse performance that Kirk Cameron gave in his Left Behind movie(s)?

[Bodhilv 12]

http://www.christianpost.com/news/left-behind-preview-clip-featuring-nicolas-cage-released-actor-calls-rapture-fascinating-113609/

 

(drops mic)

[Quasar Sniffer 4174]

Coming this fall, everybody! It's gonna be some crazy Rapture, religion-exploiting garbage. You can see the trailer on the Facebook page:

https://www.facebook...647482285318432

 

[seanotron 2307]

Left Behind starring Terrible Nicholas Cage Toupee #237

 

[haleymcpunchy 79]

You beat me to it

[jarrycanada 2483]

this isn't a real movie poster is it?

boy that sure does look fake to me..

[seanotron 2307]

this isn't a real movie poster is it?

boy that sure does look fake to me..

 

Sadly, it's real. Since this is a remake of a z-grade Kirk Cameron movie, I have to imagine they aren't dealing with much of a budget. Or maybe they recognize that it's obviously a comedy and made a poster appropriate for that.

[jarrycanada 2483]

It looks like the kind of poster you would get made in a shopping mall..

"Kirk Cameron" now that's a name I have not heard in a long time, God now I feel old.

[PaulFortney 0]

This one hasn't been even released yet, might have to be a still in theaters HDTGM, here's a link to a poster and trailer:

 

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/67509

[PaulFortney 0]

Didn't realize someone had posted this, sorry, please feel free to delete post

[jarrycanada 2483]

I found this at badassdigest "Nicolas Cage’s LEFT BEHIND Gets The Poster It Deserves" lol

[Lando 2019]

FWIW they just added the original Kirk Cameron trilogy to Netflix Instant

[jarrycanada 2483]

Grrrr I hate Kirk Cameron. almost as much as I hate Ricky Schroder..

 

dare I ask what is the original Kirk Cameron trilogy?

[Lando 2019]

This:

 

Basically, these were a series of trashy Christian lit that Cameron adapted to straight-to-dvd quality films.

[PlanBFromOuterSpace 3138]

The original was playing in our biggest auditorium the week I started working at my theater, and I had seen it on DVD at Wal Mart months before, so I wondered what the hell was going on. For some reason, I also remember that the poster wasn't even a full 27x40, like it didn't even fit in the case. Why the fuck do I have a hard time remembering the IMPORTANT things...

[jarrycanada 2483]

This:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFu8cjaPmEA

 

Basically, these were a series of trashy Christian lit that Cameron adapted to straight-to-dvd quality films.

 

Cloud ten pictures!!! I think that says it all. wow hollywood is really running out of ideas if they are taking Kirk Cameron movies and remaking them. Nick cage is going to deliver in this movie, Joke's on us.

[PlanBFromOuterSpace 3138]

 

Cloud ten pictures!!! I think that says it all. wow hollywood is really running out of ideas if they are taking Kirk Cameron movies and remaking them. Nick cage is going to deliver in this movie, Joke's on us.

Come on, "Like Father, Like Son" is RIPE for a remake.

[Lando 2019]

 

Cloud ten pictures!!! I think that says it all. wow hollywood is really running out of ideas if they are taking Kirk Cameron movies and remaking them. Nick cage is going to deliver in this movie, Joke's on us.

 

Hollywood is first and foremost greedy. I would bet you that some time in the past two years someone released a Christian movie that swept up at the box office and Hollywood executives decided that it was a hugely neglected market and decided to go after it.

[PlanBFromOuterSpace 3138]

 

Hollywood is first and foremost greedy. I would bet you that some time in the past two years someone released a Christian movie that swept up at the box office and Hollywood executives decided that it was a hugely neglected market and decided to go after it.

More like last two MONTHS (which I'm sure you were getting at)! Oh man, have you seen any of "Heaven is For Real"? I've seen a lot of it in bits and pieces, and the adults seem to do just fine (I'm kind of a Greg Kinnear fan), but the kid in it is fucking brutal. I Imagine in every shot that he's either wearing an earpiece or his mom is standing JUST out of frame mouthing his dialog to him, because it's so awkward and stilted and the kid seems so fidgety and disinterested. But JESUS, so everything gets a pass, I guess.

 

Also, there's "God's Not Dead", about a kid that's taking a class that he shouldn't be fucking taking in the first place if he's a total holy roller. Kevin Sorbo is the evil philosophy professor or something, and he makes his students sign or write something saying that God is dead or God doesn't exist (which are actually kind of two different things, aren't they?), which accounts for like half of their overall grade. That sounds fucking crazy anyway, like something that wouldn't really happen, and this kid, rather than change his schedule to something more appropriate, sees it as a challenge. I saw a scene where someone DOES basically say "Hey, how about changing classes instead of being an asshole and telling someone else how to do their own job and being the kid in class that everyone wishes would shut the fuck up?" (but in a totally PG manner), and he responds with "I think God WANTS me to defend him, so there's no way I'm quitting". Contrary to what Robert Tepper led us to believe all those years ago, there IS an easy way out, but this little prick stuck around to pick a fight. Sorbo ultimately loses the debate, because the script said that he had to, and to add insult to injury, he's run over by a car and killed. Because Jesus, guys. Because Jesus.

[Lando 2019]

I knew those were recently released (there was also one that was released about Jesus that did well), but the pipeline for making a movie is usually about 2-3 years. Those films were also were a big reason why I said that there was probably a successful movie a couple of years ago that set the ball rolling on all of these films. I'm invested in enough in this hypothesis to type up a couple of paragraphs, but not invested enough to go digging around on IMDB.

[PlanBFromOuterSpace 3138]

I knew those were recently released (there was also one that was released about Jesus that did well), but the pipeline for making a movie is usually about 2-3 years. Those films were also were a big reason why I said that there was probably a successful movie a couple of years ago that set the ball rolling on all of these films. I'm invested in enough in this hypothesis to type up a couple of paragraphs, but not invested enough to go digging around on IMDB.

I manage a theater, so I've been subjected to them all No one's really said it, but I'm going to guess that this round of so many widely-released religious films was timed to capitalize on the release of the very high-profile "Noah" movie, which itself was kind of sort of close to Easter (like releasing a Christmas movie in early November, hoping it'll get a good 6 weeks at least), but then the success of these films sort of overshadowed the big Hollywood movie that was expected to be a big hit.

 

"Son of God" was the Jesus one, and all THAT was was an edited down version of the Bible TV mini series from a couple years back with a couple of deleted scenes, and apparently, they really didn't market it as such, because we did have customers that left it that were like "Ummmmm, I think we already saw this. Was this on TV?". So yeah, shady as fuuuuuuuuck. They'd already made all their money back with "The Bible" TV and DVD sales, so "Son of God" was a triple-dip, QUADRUPLE now with this week's DVD release.

 

The audiences for these movies have been kind of dumb, as they've just been told to go see them, and with so many religious films out and often overlapping, there's been mass confusion. I mean "Son of God" and "God's Not Dead" both have the word God in the title, and they were told to go see the God movie, so what to do? At one point, when we had both "God's Not Dead" and "Heaven is For Real", someone came in and was like "I'll take one for Jesus is Alive", which didn't really sound like either of them, and then we went back and forth for a bit before he finally said "the one where the kid sees heaven", which is really what he should have led with. That's par for the course though when trying to figure out ANY movie where the customer doesn't know the name. They could be unsuccessfully trying to explain what they think "Blended" is before finally blurting out "the Adam Sandler movie".

[Lando 2019]

I think I found a movie that might explain it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1630036/

Courageous, it was released at the end of September 2011, it cost $2M and on opening weekend made $9M with an overall take of $34M

 

Of course I could be looking to back fit patterns where none exist, but I have found that Hollywood frequently operates on a predictable pattern like this.

 

Also, out of curiosity did you see Courageous?

[PlanBFromOuterSpace 3138]

I think I found a movie that might explain it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1630036/

Courageous, it was released at the end of September 2011, it cost $2M and on opening weekend made $9M with an overall take of $34M

 

Of course I could be looking to back fit patterns where none exist, but I have found that Hollywood frequently operates on a predictable pattern like this.

 

Also, out of curiosity did you see Courageous?

We never got it and I've never seen it, but I think that that movie followed in the wake of "Fireproof", which did similar business and was made by the same people, but starred our boy Kirk Cameron. This latest wave of religious films has performed frighteningly well, and I fear that March may become for religious films what October is for horror.