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Not to mention that, as harmful as the messages Twilight promotes are, the message Left Behind promotes are the same ones...with a bunch of vindictive self-righteousness and outright murderous bigotry tacked on.
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One I'm proud to hold.
edited 13th Feb '13 7:02:15 AM by Achaemenid
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Looks pretty standard action fare, if it is legit. I am really tempted to see this now. I do like me a bit of standard Cage ham.
edited 18th Feb '13 2:04:42 PM by Achaemenid
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Visiting from the Hoag Galaxy
Mad Scientist Wannabe
I think she's trying to escape the stigma of being "Disney-made". It worked for Kurt Russell.
Wants Captain N for SSBU
She's already in Scary Movie V for that. She doesn't need it.
She seriously doesn't need it, especially since she's in Scary Movie V.
Signatures are for lamers.
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Wide Eyed Wonderman
Cage will do anything for cash won't he?
David Bowie 1947-2016
Splendid Ninja
Nic's leg looks weird on that poster. Maybe I'm looking at it wrong, but to me it almost seems like his left leg is backwards.
"With hard work and dedication, I will become a splendid ninja!"
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This movie seems bad enough for Cage to be in. Maybe he's trying to avoid being typecast? (Technically, I don't think "the guy who picks terrible roles" is typecasting. Unless you're Jeremy Irons.)
Also, I'm looking at the poster, and it looks fake. The smoke is going in two different directions and the surface cage is on is... sand? Water? Whatever, there's too much of it. Why so much empty space?
Maybe they can just cut the story down the bare bones and play it straight. Person of no particular religious beliefs gets an OH SHIT moment when an actual religious apocalypse starts kicking. On paper, you could make this a skeptical work [dodges thrown objects] with the protagonist trying to piece together what's really going on as all this illogical stuff starts happening.
...but then I realized the problem with this: unless I'm forgetting something, the protagonists don't- can't- have any impact on the larger plot. All the major elements are predetermined, so like a zombie apocalypse/mega-disaster movie, it would have to be about the individual humans involved and giving them some kind of arc against the backdrop of the end of the world. The Antichrist, Second Coming, and all that malarkey don't even have to take center stage. Though as I understand it, this would make it Left Beind In Name Only.
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The comments on that article are quality, so they are.
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The first clip is out.
I'd have thought evangelists could come up with some better marketing; instead of showing, for instance, an action scene, they're showing a banal conversation with some homely music over it. Anyhow, the clip features Rayford Steele (pornstar name alert!) played by Cage chatting with his improbably attractive wife, Irene. She talks about how her mother is feeling distant because she's found Jesus. Cage offers an extremely obvious comment the film treats like an insight. Cage's wife notices he doesn't have his ring on. After an extremely long pause, he says "I never wear it when I fly". End.
Hope the rest of the film is better. True to form for a very strait-laced Christian movie, the first line is an innuendo: "I just feel like she's always trying to shove it down my throat" - is that right, aye?
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I watched the Rapture episode of Mc Farlane's best cartoon show. American Dad, in case you didn't know, So, the question I have to ask is this. Do I have to watch this thing just because it has one of my fave actors?
What is with ALL these Bible Movies this year?
Son of God? Left Behind? Gods not dead? Heaven is real?
Good lord... And most of them look like they're going to be incredibly preachy or offensive in the process, so I think I'd take the plagues from Prince of Egypt more. That's probably the best "Bible Movie" I've seen since it isn't preachy.
I'm a critical person but I'm a nice guy when you get to know me. Now, I should be writing.
Did you know this section has a character limit?
It's the 2000 year anniversary of Jesus going into puberty and all records of this time going missing.
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These things come in gluts. We have two Hercules movies this year (odd, since I can't remember him on the silver screen since he was played by Steve Reeves) and there's the obligatory copycatting eighteen months after something from left field becomes a hit (remember the post-Gladiator box office?)
And yeah, what's with all these characters having porn star names- actually, sort of the theme park versions of porn star names (the sort of names people give when they want to say "porn star name," not the actual monkiers they often go by.) I dunno. Maybe they don't know anything about porn or it's stereotypes and wanted to make their characters sound "hardcore." If so, mission accomplished, I guess, just not in the way they intended.
his wife's name is Irene Steele. or Iron and Steel.
ophelia, you're breaking my heart
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Any relation to A Confederacy Of Dunces' Liz Steele?
if it amuses you
mostly she's a Dead Wife We Didn't Appreciate Enough
ophelia, you're breaking my heart
hmm. unsure if i'm actually in the fandom or in the hatedom
edited 1st Feb '14 9:23:57 AM by Maridee
ophelia, you're breaking my heart
The Slacktivist blog made its reputation with page by page analysis of just exactly how awful the books are and why.
Rayford Steele seems to be a role not crazy enough for Nicholas Cage. He's a prematurely greying airline pilot who's simultaneously emotionally cheating on his wife while self-righteously patting himself on the back for not physically cheating. And when he converts to Real True Christianity, he blames his emotional cheating on how sexy his stewardess was, tempting his weak flesh with her wicked woman-ness.
In a good story, Steele having his head up his ass so far he can see out the neckhole would be an interesting character study. In these books, he's an unqualified hero.
Somebody earlier mentioned on this thread that the Left Behind series is just as bad as Twilight.
Oh no, you have it wrong. Twilight is honestly far, far better written than the entirety of the Left Behind books, almost objectively so. At least the writer wrote about what she knew in most cases, and despite the scenes with Bella the books do have some good moments: the LB series... well, let's just stop and say that the writer has got one hell of a fact-checking and re-tooling task ahead of him if the movie is to even stand a chance at being taken seriously...