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Post by the2ndevil on Oct 13, 2014 9:25:49 GMT -5
I'm actually debating seeing it, if for no other reason than to see if it is as much of an unintentional comedy as the original.
Though looking through the description on the AMC Theaters website, the focus is one the pilot and his family, and absolutely no mention of the character Kirk Cameron played.
Opinions on this matter, FAN?
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Post by Hawk Hart on Oct 13, 2014 11:04:40 GMT -5
Unless you're going to see it because of faith, then don't go to the theater. I'm not on the same page as those who really "feel" the message but I keep my mockery to the privacy of my own home.
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Post by The Mark of Mark on Oct 13, 2014 11:08:44 GMT -5
I'll see it, just to see if it is better than the Kirk Cameron version. That and I really enjoyed the books.
Cameron was just dreadful casting for the original. He was okay for his character in Growing Pains, but the only thing he's been good in since then was the movie Fireproof and that was simply because he was working with a good director. I'll take Nick Cages over acting as the pilot over Cameron's blandness any day.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 11:16:04 GMT -5
No real interest honestly
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Post by Michael Coello on Oct 13, 2014 11:20:41 GMT -5
Going by the Midnight Screening review of it, it seems to be more focused on Cage and the airplane/family drama than the actual apocalypse, like an old Airport film.
I rather wait to see The Identical when it hits DVD, cause that just seems like a riot of a film.
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Post by kidglov3s on Oct 13, 2014 11:40:42 GMT -5
As an adpatation it's really bizarre. This is a series of 14 or 16 books, and this movie covers about 20% of the first book of that series. The only real comedy I found was an Asylum feel to some of the effects (in particular a wacky shot of a small airplane careening toward Chloe in a shopping mall parking lot). For hokeyness, it's nothing compared to Last Ounce of Courage, Persecuted, The Identical or any of the Atlas Shrugged movies (I still haven't seen God's Not Dead  ). For rapture epic, it's nothing compared to the Thief in the Night movies or the Apocalypse movies. It's even significantly weaker than the old Left Behind series (which I already found to be anemic and of little value next to the aforementioned 2 that I think are a lot more fun and crazy with it). My only hope is that the next movie covers the like 12 and 4/5s books of Nicolae's rise to power, and that for a part 3 we finally get a movie that chronicles the end when Jesus returns and massacres the Earth's population with laser eyes and fire breath. THATS ALL I WANT! COME ON! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 11:55:27 GMT -5
A scene with Nicolas Cage confronting God and demanding that he put the bunny back in the box the people back on the Earth would make it the greatest movie ever.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Oct 13, 2014 12:12:19 GMT -5
Will is succeed or perhaps be left behind in the box office?
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Post by the2ndevil on Oct 13, 2014 12:13:17 GMT -5
Unless you're going to see it because of faith, then don't go to the theater. I'm not on the same page as those who really "feel" the message but I keep my mockery to the privacy of my own home. Too late. Already bought a ticket. Though even if I find it hilarious for the wrong reasons, I would never do anything to ruin it for those around me. If I managed it for Man Of Steel, I can do it for this. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 12:24:52 GMT -5
I was going to see it with friends but fantasy hockey delay got in the way. What I heard from them its a bad movie but not a so bad it's good way
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Post by Hawk Hart on Oct 13, 2014 12:30:16 GMT -5
Unless you're going to see it because of faith, then don't go to the theater. I'm not on the same page as those who really "feel" the message but I keep my mockery to the privacy of my own home. Too late. Already bought a ticket. Though even if I find it hilarious for the wrong reasons, I would never do anything to ruin it for those around me. If I managed it for Man Of Steel, I can do it for this. You're a better man than I am, I took a dump on Man of Steel in the theater for the midnight screening. I expect a review. |
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Post by the2ndevil on Oct 13, 2014 14:54:56 GMT -5
Just got out of the the threater. Will post something when I get home, but I actually kind of liked it.
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Post by the2ndevil on Oct 13, 2014 16:01:38 GMT -5
Okay, like I said, I actually kind of liked it, because they were smart about how they went about adapting it.
The focus was on the plane ride, and the reactions both on the plane and with the pilot's daughter, focusing on dealing with the situation at hand, and not even touching the obvious antichrist that is obviously obvious.
Speaking of, I thought they nailed the absolute panic, and looting that would happen in such a situation.
It's an Asylum movie with a budget, but that actually works for part of the movie's charm.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 16:48:37 GMT -5
It's been in theaters since last weekend. I think that says all we need to know about if it did well or not.  EDIT: Actually, it's made $10mil and it only cost $16mil. So.......technically, it may do well enough for what it cost. |
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Post by The Mark of Mark on Oct 13, 2014 19:51:04 GMT -5
It's been in theaters since last weekend. I think that says all we need to know about if it did well or not. EDIT: Actually, it's made $10mil and it only cost $16mil. So.......technically, it may do well enough for what it cost. I don't expect it to light the world on fire personally. It wasn't very well marketed, if at all. |
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Post by kidglov3s on Oct 14, 2014 4:41:47 GMT -5
Some more thoughts... it's interesting that Paul Lalonde's history of piggybacking on Left Behind has led to this wide-release major motion picture starring famous actors that he is a producer and writer on. Going back it was his low budget film company Cloud Ten that produced the 2000 movie, largely on the strength of CT's Apocalypse and Revelation, which were essentially unauthorized Left Behind adaptations. Tracing further, in 1995 or so he and his brother Peter created a VHS tape to cash in on the books, Left Behind: Where'd Everybody Go? {Spoiler}  I had the good fortune of finding that tape at a Salvation Army this Summer, and it's a fascinating piece of work. Some times it presents itself as 'the tape to leave for people who've been left behind' (which there is one in the book), other times it plays as mock news broadcasts that would be airing if the rapture were to have happened. All with public access level production values. If you want comedy with Left Behind, if you want to be entertained with Left Behind, don't go for either of the movies, try to seek out Left Behind: Whurd Errbody Go? |
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Post by the2ndevil on Oct 14, 2014 7:28:03 GMT -5
The theater's website called it a special event, so it's clearly a limited release. The auditorium it was in had a capacity of 92, of which I was one of about 5, or so, and from what I recall, was both the youngest, and only make, there.
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Post by ICBM on Oct 14, 2014 9:07:28 GMT -5
I avoided these books and movies during the great hype Heralding their coming. This thread made me finally Wikipedia the series. Ok so the arrival of Jesus...well I don't know how else you finish it but it still sounds a bit out there. And basically it nullified the impacts if any significant events earlier so I'm not so sure that literary rules apply to this series. Went on to read the synopsis of the last book. Umm...it seems to have rehashed the same themes and events from previous novels under a different set of circumstances. So in brief it sounds like it is not all that well written at the end. So those of you who read it, does it come off better when you read it? I hate to judge from Wikipedia so your opinion matters to me
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Post by the2ndevil on Oct 14, 2014 10:07:45 GMT -5
I kind of want to do a comparison between the new one and original movie.
From what I know, the original is much broader in scope, and the new one is more localized, focusing more on the people than the whole rise of the antichrist... thing.
All I've seen of the original is some that my parents were watching, and Diamanda Hagan's review.
I also have a former co-worker that is actually a preacher, and he considers the story an abomination and a total corruption of Christ's messages.
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