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Usual_Concentrate_58 t1_iyczutd wrote

Reply to comment by DeathMetalViking666 in 30 Movies With 0% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes by Maxcactus

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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