I just read Jackamo's review of Exodus, saw Noah the worst movie of my life, and now another supposedly Christian movie. Here is a review that urges people not to go.
Left Behind | Christianity Today
"I was ready to be upset at this new movie because certainly it would have all those same faults. But it doesn’t. It has many, many faults, and almost no positives, but purporting to be Christian while not actually being Christian is not one of them.
I will bold this next point so that readers now searching desperately for the vanished comments section can take note: Left Behind is not a Christian Movie, whatever “Christian Movie”could even possibly mean."
The Left Behind movie, then, has the same relationship with Christianity that the Left Behind books did. The books used Christianity as a setting, but the real intrigue was political, or situational. How will they make it out of this? How will they stop the bad guy? What happens to the good guys? This stuff is closer in line with the structure of the Harry Potter books than any kind of Biblical narrative.
The books favored political intrigue, a form that better suited the medium of books; the film, in response, is just a run-of-the-mill disaster flick, where the Rapture is the MacGuffin driving the plot. Consider: one of the characters proposes that the Rapture was caused by aliens, and the movie would be no different if this were true.
Or consider this line from director Vic Armstrong:
[My agent] David Gersh said, “Well, what about the religious aspect?” And I said, “What religious aspect?” He said, “Didn’t you find it strange when people disappeared on the plane and everything?” I said, “David, I did Starship Troopers, and I didn’t question it when great big bugs came climbing over the hill and ripped people’s heads off. That’s the world I live in!"
Hollywood is losing it. Trying to appeal to Christians in the name of neo-gnosticism (Noah) or using faulty eschatology to supposed bring in the churches, esp. youth groups!
Beware!
Left Behind | Christianity Today
"I was ready to be upset at this new movie because certainly it would have all those same faults. But it doesn’t. It has many, many faults, and almost no positives, but purporting to be Christian while not actually being Christian is not one of them.
I will bold this next point so that readers now searching desperately for the vanished comments section can take note: Left Behind is not a Christian Movie, whatever “Christian Movie”could even possibly mean."
The Left Behind movie, then, has the same relationship with Christianity that the Left Behind books did. The books used Christianity as a setting, but the real intrigue was political, or situational. How will they make it out of this? How will they stop the bad guy? What happens to the good guys? This stuff is closer in line with the structure of the Harry Potter books than any kind of Biblical narrative.
The books favored political intrigue, a form that better suited the medium of books; the film, in response, is just a run-of-the-mill disaster flick, where the Rapture is the MacGuffin driving the plot. Consider: one of the characters proposes that the Rapture was caused by aliens, and the movie would be no different if this were true.
Or consider this line from director Vic Armstrong:
[My agent] David Gersh said, “Well, what about the religious aspect?” And I said, “What religious aspect?” He said, “Didn’t you find it strange when people disappeared on the plane and everything?” I said, “David, I did Starship Troopers, and I didn’t question it when great big bugs came climbing over the hill and ripped people’s heads off. That’s the world I live in!"
Hollywood is losing it. Trying to appeal to Christians in the name of neo-gnosticism (Noah) or using faulty eschatology to supposed bring in the churches, esp. youth groups!
Beware!
