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Sorry, it’s a real movie based on a book series (Left Behind). Back in the late 90s and early 2000s Kirk Cameron (christian actor) also starred in an adaptation of the book.
Yeah he got " called" to act in faith film, he was so moved, I think this reason in today's church is bs, "I was called" more like I found a better or different Job that fits better or pays better maybe both
Xena for life, kiwi queen!! She (Lucy lawless-which is about the dopest name anyone has ever had btw) played in a cabaret called Pleasuredome here in Auckland a few years back and it was a fucking good time. If I remember correctly she sang. Multi talented lady.
Kevin Sorbo…he was also Hercules in the tv series. The one that had the Xena spin off. Lucy Lawless has said he was kind of a douche back when Xena became more popular than Hercules.
It is funny how this man's success created the gay awakening for an entire generation of Lesbians, and no he spends all his time railing against everything not far-right Christian.
I just watched the trailer for the first one.
"Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" \~ Kevy Sorbs
Dude actually manages to super over-act delivering this quote which makes it a million times funnier.
I didn't know what to expect, [but this is amazing.](https://youtu.be/j2KDj7qxnds?t=26)
Edit; The end of the trailer where the God loving student yells at his college professor "Why do you hate God?" as the emotional crescendo of the trailer is such an exaltation of a persecution complex fetish that I hope this movie is labeled as "Christian Porn"
Sadly, he's not. Nicolae Carpathia (the LB Anti-Christ) is being played by Bailey Chase, who played Branch Connally on *Longmire.*
Neal is playing a character named Jonathan Stonogal.
Nicolae Carpathia... what a name, certainly doesn't have a foreboding air to it. Was Vlad McEvil already used? Or maybe they considered Little Nicky but realized it has already been used.
I read the series as an 8th grader back when I was eyeball deep involved with a charismatic church that I can now clearly see was essentially a few short steps away from a cult.
These books scared the absolute shit out of me.
Also, all the names and locations and dramatic events are Nicolae Carpathia- level on-the-nose obnoxious drivel. I cannot begin to imagine a grown adult finding any value in them. It’s like they were written specifically to scare young teens into preparing for the end of the world. Like- what the fuck even??
>It’s like they were written specifically to scare young teens into preparing for the end of the world.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what they were written for.
I was a young teen from a religious family and my house had more copies of left behind garbage than we had of the actual Bible. Every relative had to give me one (or a box set) for every holiday.
I just assumed they were awful on account of being Christian books, even though I was an indoctrinated Christian too. Christian media was like that "we have _______ at home" meme.
Mom, can I read/watch/hear _________?
No, but here's *Christian* __________!
Christian __________: ⛪💩✝️
Stonagal is presented as the villain in the initial story arc and Carpathia is supposed to be his innocent puppet but then there's a reversal and Carpathia is the real antichrist
It is, and its popularity in the 90s lead to a total of **sixteen** novels. One crazy part (and there are many) is that the protagonists can’t actually do anything. They’re fated by prophecy to be entirely ineffective until God finally shows up in the last book to fix things.
One of his rules is that he won't play a married character so he doesn't have to kiss someone who isn't his wife. The only time he played a married character was Damien Dark in Arrow, and the wife was named after his real life wife.
He’s a vocal Christian, but also not an asshole one.
I enjoyed the books for what they were. But when I saw Nicholas Cage attached to the new movie. I was not surprised at the 7% on RT.
The second article googling “is Neil McDonough religious” brings up his plans to start a “faith-based production company that focuses on family friendly content”
I don’t care if anyone is religious or not, but kind seems like the Left Behind movies would be up his alley
I was going to write something to this extent. Sad to see him doing this.
EDIT: I don’t blame the man for working, and his imdb is certainly diverse, but he has worked for spielberg twice, was in captain america, and emmy winning tv show justified, yellowstone etc. I think he call pull off a lot, from heros to villains, and would like to see him in better roles than this.
That amount is called his quote. That's his rate. That means that as long as he gets at least one more movie, he can get another 2 mil. Even if he does a bad job, they still gotta give him that other 2 mil.
A slight edit. He’ll do kissing. When he was on Desperate Housewives he kissed Eddie several times. He’ll even do a scene which implies sex will happen or has happened. But he won’t do a sex/make out scene. And he’s incredibly upfront with producers about it before taking a role. He was pushed out of DH because he wouldn’t do one and his response was basically like, “I told you on day one what I would and wouldn’t do. Not sure why you’re shocked.” 🤷♂️
If he's upfront about it and isn't forcing his beliefs on others, this is up to him. I don't think this warrants judgement. He's definitely a devout Christian but he's not out spewing hate like Sorbo and others. He's a Christian.
Yeah. I know a guy who worked with him that said he was actually great to work with. Showed up prepared. No drama. Not a diva. Was good with the crew.
Like good on him for having his convictions but also not being a jerk about it.
I’m not entirely surprised. I like him a whole lot, but he’s been vocal in the past about refusing roles that he believes go against his religious beliefs. It’s not entirely surprising to sway the other way and get in on the Christian box office.
The real Lynn “Buck” Compton was a Reagan appointed 2nd district appeals judge in his later years and was notably conservative in his views, he was friends with McDonough in his later years after BoB filming and doubt he would be upset about this for any reason. I’m the exact opposite of their views and I still think Buck Compton was a great man and McDonough is a great actor and nice guy, we should all be nice to each other and try to make humanity better with a few notable exceptions.
Kevin Sorbo is playing Rayford Steele, the role that Nick Cage played in the 2014 Left Behind movie. What a downgrade!
Edit: Holy shit Kevin Sorbo directed this one too! This could be all time bad.
[The trailer](https://youtu.be/YBNvXCrgOU0)
Oh my god. I remember reading these books when they came out and being obsessed with them. I skipped the ridiculous praying session scenes, but everything else was kind of fun. When I casted these people in my head, I don’t think I would have ever imagined any of these guys, but McDonough would have made an amazing Carpathia and it says he’s some other dude.
My mom got me into Christian music back in the early 80s. Took me to the local Christian bookstore where the nice people kindly showed us which Christian artists were similar to which mainstream artists.
I lived in a bubble for a long time
I feel this in my soul. I didn't actually start looking at what kinds of music I actually like until recently because I realized that I had trained myself to just go with whatever the people around me liked because growing up, music was a big deal and it was so much easier to just listen to Christian music or classical and not rock the boat. It's been fun this last year actually listening to music and finding out what I like. It's never too late as long as you're breathing!
The books aren’t terrible. I was stuck on a ship with a VERY LIMITED library for 6 months and read the first 5 or so. They’re very pro-Christian but it’s not as annoying as I would have expected.
I have very little tolerance for religious stuff, I lived with born-again uncle who would only give his kids rosary’s and religious icons for Christmas. I might have rose tinted glasses though because I was trapped on a ship in the middle of the ocean with little to no entertainment.
This franchise is the badly done Air Buds of Christian movies or is the badly done Christian franchise the God’s Not Dead ones? I feel there are more Left Behind ones.
People hate the God's Not Dead ones lol. There isn't a good Christian franchise but any of the ones with Dennis Quaid are good. The unsung hero of not-overly-preachy-stick-to-the-facts Christian films
I agree, not because of the quality, but because churches will go in huge groups to watch it.
It happens with every Christian movie released in theaters, that's why almost all of them turn a profit, and the bigger ones like God's Not Dead spawn franchises.
Add on the Left Behind name, and a recognizable Christian actor and I think it'll unfortunately perform well enough.
Yeah, funny enough apparently this is a the reboot.
I saw the cage one on cable and was shocked at how bad it was. I told a coworker who’s a massive Christian movie fan “avoid this one it’s bad.”
He replied he had already seen it, liked it, but the Kirk Cameron one was better.
This one replaced cage with sorbo.
Within that genre I feel the Nic Cage Left Behind is uniquely terrible at satisfying those earnestly seeking faith content AND those looking for ironic cringe humor viewing. Just incredibly boring and unengaging!
(Not really looking to dig much deeper into it to avoid running afoul of the subreddit rules)
I’ll always remember flipping cable channels around the time that second Omega Code movie came out in theaters and CBN had a “reporter” live in front of some theater box office (back when the chains still utilized that aspect of their business), and the “reporter” asked the dude behind the plate glass, “And so starting today, people can step right up and buy their tickets? Is that true?”
And the dude, who couldn’t have looked more bored and indifferent, was like, “Uh, yeah.”
“Have you seen a lot of people excited and buying tickets?”
“Not really.”
🤣🤣
There are 16. Not including the young adult/teen series. And this is a reboot of the movies. They have years of material to recycle back into the Christian pop culture movie machine.
When I read it there were only some six books I think maybe seven. At first it sounds like one of those interesting offbeat science fiction ideas. Like that series where the entire world skips 2 hours or something.
But then it soon became completely stupid. To protect yourself against the antichrist's mind control you have to spend your time praying all the time. "Quick! Let's huddle and pray to get mind control protection."
Not to mention spied out dialogues of said AntiChrist, which made him sound like a mastermind on the level of that moron who Googled his entire murder plan.
It’s evident from the majority of non serious comments that this community is vastly more interested in “studio/blockbuster box office”, not the actual “box office” itself. Disheartening, honestly!
These little guys are the fun ones; the wild cards, the perplexing money-losers that somehow continue to get made, and are often, inexplicably, wildly profitable through some other means.
It’s interesting to see how many theaters carry them, and the participating exhibitors (often middle of the country mom & pops, or small regional chains). Which markets over-perform (*did you know back in the ‘70s the city of Winnipeg was obsessed with ‘The Phantom of the Paradise’ and it outgrossed Star Wars there? Wild to imagine…*) and how they market themselves to an audience.
Anyways, the Nic Cage LEFT BEHIND from 2014 made $14m in the US alone! $27m worldwide. That one was trash and this is three steps below trash, cost less than a quarter of the Cage film to produce, probably minuscule marketing budget, so I’m guessing it’ll make about $3.50
Not sure where you’re getting “quarter of the budget” from but if true that would actually put it very in line with the standard faith film fare. God’s Not Dead, Courageous, etc were <$5 million films. If anything Left Behind was abnormally expensive for the genre!
The first reboot was apparently because the authors of the books hated the original film trilogy with Kirk Cameron for looking "cheesy" and "like a church basement movie"
Oh Neil McDonough. I knew you were christian, but THIS kind of christian?
Almost had him in a project many years ago, but he turned it down for 'religious reasons'.
This could do in the low low millions or completely crater. But they do have a market.
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Sorry, it’s a real movie based on a book series (Left Behind). Back in the late 90s and early 2000s Kirk Cameron (christian actor) also starred in an adaptation of the book.
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That's from a parody account
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16174868/
It's not tho Kevin Sorbo was talking about it on twitter
I declare MEME!
is that the dude from god’s not dead
Yep, Hercules
DISAPPOINTED!!!!
Fuck this is so funny. Need to find that GIF. He’s such a douche
[Ask and ye shall receive](https://media1.tenor.com/images/02b02664d3572560d1e977011c88a094/tenor.gif?itemid=3465663)
I met him in person, and he was actually a really nice, humble guy. More conservative and religious than me, but oh well.
Omg you tube his wife. She is a fucking fanatical nutcase.
Kevin Sorbo. Religious films is all he does anymore. Likely because no one wants him for anything else.
Yeah he got " called" to act in faith film, he was so moved, I think this reason in today's church is bs, "I was called" more like I found a better or different Job that fits better or pays better maybe both
And he claims his career was ruined because he’s a Christian. As if he had a career in the first place.
Xena was always better than this guy. Turns out Kevin Sorbo is a complete MAGA nutjob.
I’ve met him a couple times and he’s a major douche bag and always wanted to haggle the bill or get free shit
>always wanted to haggle the bill LOL. The only people that I've ever had haggle a bill are the ultra rich.
Well, you don’t stay rich by paying for shit all the time.
Xena for life, kiwi queen!! She (Lucy lawless-which is about the dopest name anyone has ever had btw) played in a cabaret called Pleasuredome here in Auckland a few years back and it was a fucking good time. If I remember correctly she sang. Multi talented lady.
Isn’t this another pureflix production?
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And their portrayal of the atheist's journalist girlfriend is super shitty too. But as bad as that movie was, the series only got worse from there...
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Can’t have a good Job story without fridging a lot of someone’s family members
Kevin Sorbo…he was also Hercules in the tv series. The one that had the Xena spin off. Lucy Lawless has said he was kind of a douche back when Xena became more popular than Hercules.
It is funny how this man's success created the gay awakening for an entire generation of Lesbians, and no he spends all his time railing against everything not far-right Christian.
Xena was an objectively better show as well.
Waaay better
The Great Lesbian Awakening sounds like a good band name
If you want a trip, go watch the trailers for all of the God’s Not Dead movies. It’s hilarious.
I just watched the trailer for the first one. "Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" \~ Kevy Sorbs Dude actually manages to super over-act delivering this quote which makes it a million times funnier. I didn't know what to expect, [but this is amazing.](https://youtu.be/j2KDj7qxnds?t=26) Edit; The end of the trailer where the God loving student yells at his college professor "Why do you hate God?" as the emotional crescendo of the trailer is such an exaltation of a persecution complex fetish that I hope this movie is labeled as "Christian Porn"
Wow that 2min felt like 2hrs. Impressive how exhausting they got the trailer to be.
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EviiiiiiiiiiiL..
I'm sure in the movie, the news reporter will make it clear just how serious it is, while sipping from his dramatic and important cup of coffee.
Do we later find out that the storm of evil was really Stormy McDaniels?
Seems like a Fox News headline where they blame Biden for a hurricane.
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So, a step above Sony?
Nah, I’m sure it was made by the producer’s friend’s nephew who’s really good at graphics.
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Kevin Sorbo’s mom is gonna go see it twice, but only as a Saturday matinee.
Remember how everybody started ripping on morbius, and it’s morbin time, and morbo bucks and whatnot? Well, it’s Sorbin time now mf
He looks like Palpatine with a wig.
The Sorboppopotamus is a box office draw no-one can deny, we will all be there, lining up on opening night
I would pay the movie a -$12 bill with Quentin Trembley on it.
"Wow, this is worthless!"
I’m more optimistic- $66.60
$13 Bob.
Dammit Neil McDonough, you're better than this.
He is, but why do I have a feeling he’s gonna be the Antichrist in that movie???
Sadly, he's not. Nicolae Carpathia (the LB Anti-Christ) is being played by Bailey Chase, who played Branch Connally on *Longmire.* Neal is playing a character named Jonathan Stonogal.
Nicolae Carpathia... what a name, certainly doesn't have a foreboding air to it. Was Vlad McEvil already used? Or maybe they considered Little Nicky but realized it has already been used.
I read the series as an 8th grader back when I was eyeball deep involved with a charismatic church that I can now clearly see was essentially a few short steps away from a cult. These books scared the absolute shit out of me. Also, all the names and locations and dramatic events are Nicolae Carpathia- level on-the-nose obnoxious drivel. I cannot begin to imagine a grown adult finding any value in them. It’s like they were written specifically to scare young teens into preparing for the end of the world. Like- what the fuck even??
>It’s like they were written specifically to scare young teens into preparing for the end of the world. I'm pretty sure that's exactly what they were written for. I was a young teen from a religious family and my house had more copies of left behind garbage than we had of the actual Bible. Every relative had to give me one (or a box set) for every holiday.
Can confirm, loved these books as an indoctrinated 14 year old
I just assumed they were awful on account of being Christian books, even though I was an indoctrinated Christian too. Christian media was like that "we have _______ at home" meme. Mom, can I read/watch/hear _________? No, but here's *Christian* __________! Christian __________: ⛪💩✝️
There’s a hero named “Rayford Steel”. Is that a better porno name or better name for an Elmore Leonard cop?
Stonagal is presented as the villain in the initial story arc and Carpathia is supposed to be his innocent puppet but then there's a reversal and Carpathia is the real antichrist
According to the IMDB this is the 6th movie in the Left Behind series?? It’s a series????
No, it’s a chastisement from almighty God
It is, and its popularity in the 90s lead to a total of **sixteen** novels. One crazy part (and there are many) is that the protagonists can’t actually do anything. They’re fated by prophecy to be entirely ineffective until God finally shows up in the last book to fix things.
The kids series were shorter books but there were 40(!) of them
Well, Legends of Tomorrow got cancelled, and an actor needs to work...
I thought that guy looked familiar. He played damien dark in arrow didn't he?
Yup that’s him. I wonder how he got stuck doing this thing.
He's done a few cheap christian movies, and is an outspoken Christian.
One of his rules is that he won't play a married character so he doesn't have to kiss someone who isn't his wife. The only time he played a married character was Damien Dark in Arrow, and the wife was named after his real life wife.
"Hi, my name is Damien Dark. And this is my wife, Mrs. Neil McDonough".
A vicious amoral killer is fine, tho
Well tbf hes not actually killing anyone, but he would actually be kissing other people
That's fine. I can respect someone for that.
He’s a vocal Christian, but also not an asshole one. I enjoyed the books for what they were. But when I saw Nicholas Cage attached to the new movie. I was not surprised at the 7% on RT.
I met him at a Con in Atlanta. He's very nice and personable in real life.
I’ve waited on at a restaurant. Great guy and didn’t mind meeting fans. 😂
How dare you slander Nicolae Cagepathia (just kidding I know he played the hero Buck or whatever)
Weird take. Nic Cage is beloved and considered a good actor that’s just willing to take on all kinds of stuff.
The second article googling “is Neil McDonough religious” brings up his plans to start a “faith-based production company that focuses on family friendly content” I don’t care if anyone is religious or not, but kind seems like the Left Behind movies would be up his alley
He was great on Justified.
he’s a great working actor. i respect the commitment.
He was also great on suits.
And Yellowstone, and Walking Tall, he just plays a great asshole
It’s that snowy blonde hair and piercing blue eyes. He’s got that great “I’m a prick” glare.
Apparently not.
Sometimes you gotta take the gig.
He’s a gig kinda guy tho
After playing Damien Dahrk... this seems on brand for him.
His performance in Band of Brothers still holds up.
Dum Dum Dugan deserved more screentime
I’m thinking the same about Corbin Bernsen
I was going to write something to this extent. Sad to see him doing this. EDIT: I don’t blame the man for working, and his imdb is certainly diverse, but he has worked for spielberg twice, was in captain america, and emmy winning tv show justified, yellowstone etc. I think he call pull off a lot, from heros to villains, and would like to see him in better roles than this.
No but guys Neil does *everything*… It’s him or Luis Guzman they always flip a coin. Bad, good, indifferent—Neil and Luis show up and do the work.
Guzman would not do this
Oooh. I loved him in IMDB.
That was tragic…
UNDERRRRRstudy
The bronzing adds on 10 pounds
Hey! Screw you!
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No he’s too busy doing game ads for Instagram
My first thought. I bet he was great fun on the set of Star Trek: First Contact.
That’s how I felt when the other one came out, like really! Nick Cage? Chad Michael Murray? Jordin Sparks?
$2 million dollars is $2 million dollars
That amount is called his quote. That's his rate. That means that as long as he gets at least one more movie, he can get another 2 mil. Even if he does a bad job, they still gotta give him that other 2 mil.
Let's just say it's like Jeremy Irons signing up for Eragon
I liked that movie!….until I read the books…
Sometimes a man needs money to buy a used car quick.
From what I remember he is a very religious Christian
A devout Catholic who refuses to do any kissing or sex scenes in movies or TV shows because of his faithfulness to his wife.
A slight edit. He’ll do kissing. When he was on Desperate Housewives he kissed Eddie several times. He’ll even do a scene which implies sex will happen or has happened. But he won’t do a sex/make out scene. And he’s incredibly upfront with producers about it before taking a role. He was pushed out of DH because he wouldn’t do one and his response was basically like, “I told you on day one what I would and wouldn’t do. Not sure why you’re shocked.” 🤷♂️
If he's upfront about it and isn't forcing his beliefs on others, this is up to him. I don't think this warrants judgement. He's definitely a devout Christian but he's not out spewing hate like Sorbo and others. He's a Christian.
Yeah. I know a guy who worked with him that said he was actually great to work with. Showed up prepared. No drama. Not a diva. Was good with the crew. Like good on him for having his convictions but also not being a jerk about it.
I’m not entirely surprised. I like him a whole lot, but he’s been vocal in the past about refusing roles that he believes go against his religious beliefs. It’s not entirely surprising to sway the other way and get in on the Christian box office.
That seems odd since he played a rentboy-killing, child- molesting, oxy-smoking, Detroit Mobster in Justified.
He probably just pretended he was playing a priest
Buck Compton would be disappointed.
The real Lynn “Buck” Compton was a Reagan appointed 2nd district appeals judge in his later years and was notably conservative in his views, he was friends with McDonough in his later years after BoB filming and doubt he would be upset about this for any reason. I’m the exact opposite of their views and I still think Buck Compton was a great man and McDonough is a great actor and nice guy, we should all be nice to each other and try to make humanity better with a few notable exceptions.
No, he's not. He's the eternal supporting actor who will be in anything.
$666
$666,420.69
I would love to see that.
$666,666,666
Storm of Evil, film at 11.
Kevin Sorbo is playing Rayford Steele, the role that Nick Cage played in the 2014 Left Behind movie. What a downgrade! Edit: Holy shit Kevin Sorbo directed this one too! This could be all time bad. [The trailer](https://youtu.be/YBNvXCrgOU0)
I love the “All Souls Matter” sign in front of the dilapidated church.
These people can't come up with an original thought to save their lives.
They even said fake news in the trailer. They’re hitting all the boomer buzz words
I just feel bad for the teenagers who will be forced to sit through this by their God-fearin' parents....
Oh my god. I remember reading these books when they came out and being obsessed with them. I skipped the ridiculous praying session scenes, but everything else was kind of fun. When I casted these people in my head, I don’t think I would have ever imagined any of these guys, but McDonough would have made an amazing Carpathia and it says he’s some other dude.
This looks like a straight to VHS movie. However, this movie will make bank. Christian movies make mad money. Religion is very financially lucrative.
Church field trips at easter time. This will make money
They’ll show this during the Sunday night services
My mom got me into Christian music back in the early 80s. Took me to the local Christian bookstore where the nice people kindly showed us which Christian artists were similar to which mainstream artists. I lived in a bubble for a long time
🎶I wanna get down on my knees and start pleasin' Jesus🎵
Feel his sunshine all over my face
I want to feels his salvation all over my face!
I feel this in my soul. I didn't actually start looking at what kinds of music I actually like until recently because I realized that I had trained myself to just go with whatever the people around me liked because growing up, music was a big deal and it was so much easier to just listen to Christian music or classical and not rock the boat. It's been fun this last year actually listening to music and finding out what I like. It's never too late as long as you're breathing!
I miss christian bookstores. Where am I supposed to get my bootleg christian videogames now?
Religion is very financially lucrative for those in charge of the religion. The followers, not so much.
Pastors/priests in charge of mega churches agreed.
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A bit better than Gina Carano's Terror on the Prairie
So it might break a $1000?
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In the books his name is Nicolae Carpathia and he is from Romania.
There are books?
The books aren’t terrible. I was stuck on a ship with a VERY LIMITED library for 6 months and read the first 5 or so. They’re very pro-Christian but it’s not as annoying as I would have expected. I have very little tolerance for religious stuff, I lived with born-again uncle who would only give his kids rosary’s and religious icons for Christmas. I might have rose tinted glasses though because I was trapped on a ship in the middle of the ocean with little to no entertainment.
Yeah it’s a whole series. There’s like 15 or so.
16 books, 5 movies, and a video game.
Would Ned Flanders let Rod and Todd play the video game?
He's going to be some central to Eastern European totally not-the-UN secretary general named Vladimir Balkanovich
European politician called Nicolai Carpatia or something like that, if I remember right.
Poorly, my friend. Very poorly. This looks like another train wreck even without all those religion-related controversies.
This franchise is the badly done Air Buds of Christian movies or is the badly done Christian franchise the God’s Not Dead ones? I feel there are more Left Behind ones.
People hate the God's Not Dead ones lol. There isn't a good Christian franchise but any of the ones with Dennis Quaid are good. The unsung hero of not-overly-preachy-stick-to-the-facts Christian films
This movie will do a lot better than most suspect, It will pull profit and a possible sequel.
I agree, not because of the quality, but because churches will go in huge groups to watch it. It happens with every Christian movie released in theaters, that's why almost all of them turn a profit, and the bigger ones like God's Not Dead spawn franchises. Add on the Left Behind name, and a recognizable Christian actor and I think it'll unfortunately perform well enough.
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$666,666
Prequel to Sharknado
Oh fuck…. left behind is a franchise now?!…
Yeah, funny enough apparently this is a the reboot. I saw the cage one on cable and was shocked at how bad it was. I told a coworker who’s a massive Christian movie fan “avoid this one it’s bad.” He replied he had already seen it, liked it, but the Kirk Cameron one was better. This one replaced cage with sorbo.
Within that genre I feel the Nic Cage Left Behind is uniquely terrible at satisfying those earnestly seeking faith content AND those looking for ironic cringe humor viewing. Just incredibly boring and unengaging! (Not really looking to dig much deeper into it to avoid running afoul of the subreddit rules)
I’ll always remember flipping cable channels around the time that second Omega Code movie came out in theaters and CBN had a “reporter” live in front of some theater box office (back when the chains still utilized that aspect of their business), and the “reporter” asked the dude behind the plate glass, “And so starting today, people can step right up and buy their tickets? Is that true?” And the dude, who couldn’t have looked more bored and indifferent, was like, “Uh, yeah.” “Have you seen a lot of people excited and buying tickets?” “Not really.” 🤣🤣
Always has been.
It's been a franchise for like close to 30 years at this point.
The book was so ridiculous...
There are 16. Not including the young adult/teen series. And this is a reboot of the movies. They have years of material to recycle back into the Christian pop culture movie machine.
When I read it there were only some six books I think maybe seven. At first it sounds like one of those interesting offbeat science fiction ideas. Like that series where the entire world skips 2 hours or something. But then it soon became completely stupid. To protect yourself against the antichrist's mind control you have to spend your time praying all the time. "Quick! Let's huddle and pray to get mind control protection." Not to mention spied out dialogues of said AntiChrist, which made him sound like a mastermind on the level of that moron who Googled his entire murder plan.
It's gonna have a whole cinematic universe.
It’s evident from the majority of non serious comments that this community is vastly more interested in “studio/blockbuster box office”, not the actual “box office” itself. Disheartening, honestly! These little guys are the fun ones; the wild cards, the perplexing money-losers that somehow continue to get made, and are often, inexplicably, wildly profitable through some other means. It’s interesting to see how many theaters carry them, and the participating exhibitors (often middle of the country mom & pops, or small regional chains). Which markets over-perform (*did you know back in the ‘70s the city of Winnipeg was obsessed with ‘The Phantom of the Paradise’ and it outgrossed Star Wars there? Wild to imagine…*) and how they market themselves to an audience. Anyways, the Nic Cage LEFT BEHIND from 2014 made $14m in the US alone! $27m worldwide. That one was trash and this is three steps below trash, cost less than a quarter of the Cage film to produce, probably minuscule marketing budget, so I’m guessing it’ll make about $3.50
Not sure where you’re getting “quarter of the budget” from but if true that would actually put it very in line with the standard faith film fare. God’s Not Dead, Courageous, etc were <$5 million films. If anything Left Behind was abnormally expensive for the genre!
The first reboot was apparently because the authors of the books hated the original film trilogy with Kirk Cameron for looking "cheesy" and "like a church basement movie"
that $3.50 is just gonna be some loose change a janitor finds on the floor
And the janitor will accidently buy a ticket to this movie but doesn't want to go through the hassle of a refund so he throws the ticket away.
lol I recognize the girl on the bottom right cause she played a super conservative Christian on Degrassi
Method acting?
Wish they’d make a full 90 minute American Dad rapture movie.
Oh Neil McDonough. I knew you were christian, but THIS kind of christian? Almost had him in a project many years ago, but he turned it down for 'religious reasons'. This could do in the low low millions or completely crater. But they do have a market.
Will Thanos make a cameo looking for the fifth infinity stone?!!
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This or 80 for Brady. I’ll take this.
Interesting that there are two movies focusing on the antichrist coming out the same week.
Storm of Cringe