On the other hand it's nice that they put such a clear reminder that the books were irredeemably stupid and mean-minded towards the beginning of the series. It could have been worse, you could have gone on reading themchiggerwood said:
6 Reasons the Left Behind Books Suck (And Why the Movie Might, Too)
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I've always felt that the people into this sort of thing are those at the latter end of the life, they've been there done that so now rather than going grey & decrepit being swept away by the 'rapture' is a much more romantic way to go. From the last time the world was supposed to end a few years ago according to that radio show host guy, if you looked at the bio's of the people who sold everything and rode around in motorhomes preaching the end of times the description 'not much left to live for' fit them to a T.Coreless said:
On the other, other hand I had successfully buried that memory, and you dug it up causing me pain and misery. So there's that :bBrotherRool said:On the other hand it's nice that they put such a clear reminder that the books were irredeemably stupid and mean-minded towards the beginning of the series. It could have been worse, you could have gone on reading themchiggerwood said:
Towards the end of the article, he says abstinent people go to hell. I think he meant atheist. After six hellish years in a Christian high school, I'm fairly certain that the abstinent people would be given a first class ticket to heaven.
Wait to see how the movie turns out? From advance screenings and critic reviews, apparently it lightens up slightly on the horrendousness of the books and plays up their dull nature.
If someone else hadn't linked Fred Clark, I would have. Glad he's picked he's series back up recently.bificommander said:
Books and movies suffer from the same problem that unimaginative Christian writers have suffered from since they decided to put their own spin on the New Testament: It's hard to create drama and remain meek.
It goes back centuries and there are stories written by newly converted Germanic tribesmen trying to fit in te New Testament into the setting of Northern Europe and finding themselves scrambling for anything to make it live up to being a good old Germanic epic and largely falls to Peter cutting off the servants ear to make up almost all of the violence that Germans (and many modern American audiences) are looking for.
If you're unable to make a essay heavy story about the NT work you have to sit back and rethink how to present what you want to tackle either going for allegory or using the themes in your own original work.
It goes back centuries and there are stories written by newly converted Germanic tribesmen trying to fit in te New Testament into the setting of Northern Europe and finding themselves scrambling for anything to make it live up to being a good old Germanic epic and largely falls to Peter cutting off the servants ear to make up almost all of the violence that Germans (and many modern American audiences) are looking for.
If you're unable to make a essay heavy story about the NT work you have to sit back and rethink how to present what you want to tackle either going for allegory or using the themes in your own original work.
6 Reasons the Left Behind Books Suck
1. Because it's the fantasy of old men who hate their world for not rigging the economic competition in their favor as much as it used to.
2. Because it's the fantasy of bitter old men who hate their world for not rigging the economic competition in their favor as much as it used to.
3. Because it's the fantasy of bitter old white men who hate their world for not rigging the economic competition in their favor as much as it used to.
4. Because it's the power fantasy of bitter old white men who hate their world for not rigging the economic competition in their favor as much as it used to.
5. Because it's the masturbatory power fantasy of bitter old white men who hate their world for not rigging the economic competition in their favor as much as it used to.
6. Because it's the self-righteous masturbatory power fantasy of bitter old white men who hate their world for not rigging the economic competition in their favor as much as it used to.
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Here's a fun drinking game: Take a drink every time somebody doesn't act particularly upset that all of the world's children have gone away.
Are you trying to Kill people?
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If you need more than 6 reasons why the Left Behind books suck, try http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/tag/left-behind/
His blog could be summarized as 666.666 reasons (and counting) why the Left Behind books suck more than any other series of books: kinda like the superlative of superlatives of left-behind reviews.
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It's a damn shame they wasted Nick Cage on Rayford Steele. Nicholas Cage does one things good, and that is crazy. How they didn't get him to play the anti christ I will never know.
Because you'd end up rooting for him, that's why.
If you want to cast Nick Cage as the anti-christ, start lobbying for a live-action interaction of Xenogears and have him casted as Fei. Doesn't matter how cheesy the rest of the movie will be, Nick will carry it all on his shoulders.
1. Because it's the fantasy of old men who hate their world for not rigging the economic competition in their favor as much as it used to.
2. Because it's the fantasy of bitter old men who hate their world for not rigging the economic competition in their favor as much as it used to.
3. Because it's the fantasy of bitter old white men who hate their world for not rigging the economic competition in their favor as much as it used to.
4. Because it's the power fantasy of bitter old white men who hate their world for not rigging the economic competition in their favor as much as it used to.
5. Because it's the masturbatory power fantasy of bitter old white men who hate their world for not rigging the economic competition in their favor as much as it used to.
6. Because it's the self-righteous masturbatory power fantasy of bitter old white men who hate their world for not rigging the economic competition in their favor as much as it used to.
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Here's a fun drinking game: Take a drink every time somebody doesn't act particularly upset that all of the world's children have gone away.
Are you trying to Kill people?
***
If you need more than 6 reasons why the Left Behind books suck, try http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/tag/left-behind/
His blog could be summarized as 666.666 reasons (and counting) why the Left Behind books suck more than any other series of books: kinda like the superlative of superlatives of left-behind reviews.
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It's a damn shame they wasted Nick Cage on Rayford Steele. Nicholas Cage does one things good, and that is crazy. How they didn't get him to play the anti christ I will never know.
Because you'd end up rooting for him, that's why.
If you want to cast Nick Cage as the anti-christ, start lobbying for a live-action interaction of Xenogears and have him casted as Fei. Doesn't matter how cheesy the rest of the movie will be, Nick will carry it all on his shoulders.
Unacceptable! You wave your chequebook around long enough to get Nicholas Cage to sniff it out and wander in to your crazy evangelical apocalyptic movie set then you damn well better get him to play the Antichrist. You don't even need a script for him, just tell him "Nick, you're the antichrist. Go!". What a missed opportunity, this is why everyone in Hollywood is gonna get left behind.
If not more talented, then at least more entertaining and fascinating. Just don't do like Abed Nadir and dwell too much on it, or you'll really Cage out!TiberiusEsuriens said:
I don't know about the 9's, but at least the 6's. 3 of them, by my math.Red Panda said:It's a damn shame they wasted Nick Cage on Rayford Steele. Nicholas Cage does one things good, and that is crazy. How they didn't get him to play the anti christ I will never know. It blows my mind the missed opportunity. It could have been the best comedy of the year, nick hamming it up to the 9's as the antichrist. What a waste.
Your prediction of the future has proven to be accurate: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/left_behind_2014/Phil Owen said: