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Date: 28 August 2007 22:12:38
We have just watched Left Behind - The Movie.
I'd got it a few months ago for £4 at our old Christian bookshop but not got round to watching it. I've never read the books and, as I'd worked from home today, we decided to watch it tonight.
This is no Hollywood blockbuster. If you're hoping for special effects and great dialogue then this is not the film for you; it is definitely a little light on the theology as well. As with all such films the message takes the forefront and is rammed home with a sledgehammer.
People start disappearing and all that remains are their clothes. All the young "innocent" children are taken as well. The film makers seem to like showing pictures of abandoned pets wandering, or standing, around looking lost. No cats mind; I take it that they get taken up in the rapture.
The attempts by those people left behind to find faith and then lead others towards the truth is very simplistic. Watch this video that the former pastor made 3 years earlier - "but how did he know?" - and everything becomes clear. Not convinced then look at this presentation on the computer you have. See those "codes" in the bottom corner? well they're bible verses.
We now wonder how this film would play to non-Christians.