Antichrist Attacks again?
I finally got around to stealing and watching “Left Behind III” or whatever they called it.
The title is unimportant and the movie utterly useless. The movie was based on a period book written sometime in the mid 90’s when conservative evangelicals feared the “evils of big guv-mint” and of course the evil UN.
Included in the movie are very sympathetic militia people that somehow have political connections. I can’t guess how this works and can only imagine that the authors were murderous jerks for writing so sympathetically about these lunatics so soon after OKC. But the public flagellation of the terrorist bombing in Oklahoma never really matched 9-11. Maybe it was a body count that was needed a number that functions like heat in a chemical reaction. Or maybe a random federal building in Oklahoma was an inadequate symbol. But considering the blowjob given to the militia movement by the fringe right wing christian evangelical scum (such as in this book) maybe there was actually a lot of sympathy for people that blow up federal buildings. Who can say?
The Antichrist plants poisoned bibles in secret repositories, having already made Christanity illegal. This is one of those clever-stupid moments in film. The kind of plot that seems very clever in the context of the arrangement that dissolves instantly in any scrutiny.
-Is the Antichrist stupid? if you ran a global dictatorship where all religion was outlawed (good luck with that one by the way) why would you not do the time honored thing and burn the damned books.
-Are Christians stupid ? Wouldn’t you be the least bit suspicious if you were of this religion and found out about secret deposits of your sacred book?
-Are Christians stupid II? These people managed to keep a secret underground movement going but they obviously don’t know how to operate a copy machine.
-Are Christians stupid III? Obviously none of them know how to operate a computer either, the internet might not have been in full bloom in the mid to late 90’s (some sarcasm intended) but surely they could have put the damned thing on a disk and copy it.
-Is the Antichrist stupid II? You’re a master of evil and the best you can do is come up with a bug that is easily killed off by a bit of fermented grape juice? I don’t care what super-powers you have, if you are that stupid then you need to be killed by your more capable lieutenant. Ernst Blofeld would never have made such an amateurish mistake.
The movie is dumb and full of absurdly long prayer and conversion scenes. No doubt the effort here it to connect the movie and the drama of the characters living in the “end times” with the daily work of most evangelicals: to be as annoying as possible.
The title is unimportant and the movie utterly useless. The movie was based on a period book written sometime in the mid 90’s when conservative evangelicals feared the “evils of big guv-mint” and of course the evil UN.
Included in the movie are very sympathetic militia people that somehow have political connections. I can’t guess how this works and can only imagine that the authors were murderous jerks for writing so sympathetically about these lunatics so soon after OKC. But the public flagellation of the terrorist bombing in Oklahoma never really matched 9-11. Maybe it was a body count that was needed a number that functions like heat in a chemical reaction. Or maybe a random federal building in Oklahoma was an inadequate symbol. But considering the blowjob given to the militia movement by the fringe right wing christian evangelical scum (such as in this book) maybe there was actually a lot of sympathy for people that blow up federal buildings. Who can say?
The Antichrist plants poisoned bibles in secret repositories, having already made Christanity illegal. This is one of those clever-stupid moments in film. The kind of plot that seems very clever in the context of the arrangement that dissolves instantly in any scrutiny.
-Is the Antichrist stupid? if you ran a global dictatorship where all religion was outlawed (good luck with that one by the way) why would you not do the time honored thing and burn the damned books.
-Are Christians stupid ? Wouldn’t you be the least bit suspicious if you were of this religion and found out about secret deposits of your sacred book?
-Are Christians stupid II? These people managed to keep a secret underground movement going but they obviously don’t know how to operate a copy machine.
-Are Christians stupid III? Obviously none of them know how to operate a computer either, the internet might not have been in full bloom in the mid to late 90’s (some sarcasm intended) but surely they could have put the damned thing on a disk and copy it.
-Is the Antichrist stupid II? You’re a master of evil and the best you can do is come up with a bug that is easily killed off by a bit of fermented grape juice? I don’t care what super-powers you have, if you are that stupid then you need to be killed by your more capable lieutenant. Ernst Blofeld would never have made such an amateurish mistake.
The movie is dumb and full of absurdly long prayer and conversion scenes. No doubt the effort here it to connect the movie and the drama of the characters living in the “end times” with the daily work of most evangelicals: to be as annoying as possible.