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DeathMetalViking666 t1_iycuenx wrote

Reply to comment by ColdPressedSteak in 30 Movies With 0% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes by Maxcactus

Left Behind was the Christian rapture one with Nic Cage in if I remember right. But that's the only one I recognised. If it wasn't for him, I'd have never heard it either.

From what I know, he's also not very 'Cagey' in it either, so it's not even funny bad. Just 'I had bills to pay' bad.

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January28thSixers t1_iycwt3h wrote

Hercules made a sequel that's coming out next year. Expect to hear boring excuses about poor performance about wokeness.

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dreamnightmare t1_iycyxme wrote

There were already two “Left Behind” movies that were made in late 90s early 2000s.

Starring Kirk Cameron (of course) and Clarence Gilyard (Trevette from Walker Texas Ranger).

They were tv movie level mediocre.

The Nic Cage one was supposed to be the big Hollywood version…

It didn’t work out.

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Ccaves0127 t1_iye4l0a wrote

Cage said he starred in the movie because one of his brothers is a pastor but really I think it's because he just had to be on a cockpit set for like 5 days and get paid $1 million, which I would also happily do.

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Lucaonthetub t1_iydr2qu wrote

It’s a shame because the books are pretty fun.

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Pryoticus t1_iye9q03 wrote

I actually enjoyed reading the books. I’m not exactly religious but they were an interesting and entertaining interpretation of Revelation, especially considering the “let us save your soul” vibe

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LiveJournal t1_iyekg2d wrote

I remember the Kirk Cameron one being pretty good. No idea why they bothered remaking it.

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sonofeevil t1_iycyy6v wrote

Yay... I can't wait to fall asleep to yet another Dawyne Johnson movie.

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January28thSixers t1_iydjysh wrote

Shit, I forgot they made that. Yeah, pathetic grifter from the TV show Hercules.

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Usual_Concentrate_58 t1_iyczutd wrote

I watched the trailer and Left Behind looks like The Leftovers meets 7th Heaven meets Snakes on a Plane. I'm intrigued.

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Rage_Like_Nic_Cage t1_iyd2k8i wrote

it’s not. it’s not even so-bad-it’s-good, it’s a boring slog. Nic Cage is a pilot mid flight when the rapture happens and people just disappear from the plane, yet he is the most calm, level headed person imaginable.

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AlistarDark t1_iydadma wrote

And don't forget, he doesnt go to heaven because he thought about cheating on his crazy wife. His daughter is atheist. A person on the plane was going to buy stocks with insider information. A reporter (aka the level headed hero guy) was a reporter, which was enough to prevent him from getting to heaven.. I forget the other ones, but they were all barely a sin.

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holy_plaster_batman t1_iyeb6ei wrote

My wife and I really like watching terrible religious movies (shoutout to the Thief in the Night series) but this was literally unwatchable

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Rage_Like_Nic_Cage t1_iyeftye wrote

same. My wife and I love to laugh at movies like God’s Not Dead, but Left Behind was just a boring slog despite is batshit insane premise.

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holy_plaster_batman t1_iyegzqs wrote

If you also like terrible Christmas movies, our favorite is called All I Want is Christmas (also known as Switchmas)

It's about a Jewish kid Ira Finkelstein who really, really wants to be able to celebrate Christmas. It has everything a terrible Christmas movies needs: super low budget with a C-lister cameo, a big city person stuck in small town, a weird and even lower budget animated musical scene, plot holes so big you can drive a semi through, and Jewish stereotypes not seen in cinema since Triumph of the Will.

We were pretty stoned when we first watched it and laughed a lot, it's now been added to the annual holiday watch list.

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justduett t1_iyevc17 wrote

Even in a thread of comments about Cage’s Left Behind terribleness, I still wasn’t expecting a Thief In The Night shoutout! It’s been 25+ years, but we watched those movies on a summer retreat one year and I still can’t forget how cheesy those were!

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holy_plaster_batman t1_iyezpj1 wrote

My wife calls them duct tape movies. When she was forced to watch them as a child, the VHS cassette was held together with duct tape

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Ozlin t1_iyfdodp wrote

In college my English teacher made us read the book and then watch the movie. I fell asleep in class. It's indeed terrible and boring and not worth anyone's time. The book is also poorly written and I only kept it in case I ever need a book to burn. The movie deserves all of its 0%. If a movie could go into a negative percentage, this would be one of them.

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DeathMetalViking666 t1_iyd1lpm wrote

Only going off second hand knowledge here (watched a youtuber review it once), but I wouldn't bother unless you're one to find Christian movies really funny.

It's your absolutely standard rapture movie, except there's a B plot with people getting raptured on a plane. Cage spends most of the movie in the cockpit not doing any of the things that makes Cage enjoyable to watch. He's clearly there just for a paycheck.

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AnAquaticOwl t1_iyd9t0v wrote

The Leftovers is quite possibly the best tv show ever made. Left Behind is Revelations fan fiction

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stomach t1_iydbfl5 wrote

even the movie cover for that one lol

looks like whoever retouched the photo thought nic cage was someone else entirely.

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PhinsFan17 t1_iye59lf wrote

The books came out in the 90s and were first adapted to movies starring Kirk Cameron. Chad Michael Murray plays his character in the remake.

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timojenbin t1_iydwkfx wrote

>he's also not very 'Cagey'

He claims to never have phoned it in. I'm pretty sure he's forgotten about this movie.

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HalloweenBlues t1_iydhtqu wrote

Oh wow I didn't know they remade it with Nic Cage and Chad Micheal Murray. That's quite a step up from the Kirk Cameron one.

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Pryoticus t1_iye9fst wrote

Surely, nick Cage left behind cannot be worse than Kirk Cameron Left Behind…

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Spherical3D t1_iyefcfo wrote

I thought you were describing The Knowing until I hit up Google. I guess Nic Cage is the go-to guy to star in a terrible film about the Second Coming lol!

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uhhhhhhhhhhhyeah t1_iyektbr wrote

I thought he took that million dollar birthday gig in Majorca, and retired. huh.

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