Post by @DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz

A discord I'm in noticed that I've logged the original Left Behind (the one with Kirk Cameron in it) on letterboxd and I felt compelled to go off on it lmao

- The original movie was crowdfunded by a bunch of televangelists, who all play extras who get raptured in the airplane scene. Most have since failed to live long enough to get teleported to heaven IRL.

- There's multiple shots of people's pets standing awkwardly by the abandoned clothes of their owners, because people's clothes get left behind when they get raptured and *no* dogs go to heaven!!

- At the start of the movie, multiple military forces attempt to invade Israel simultaneously, and magically explode without causing any casualties. This has no effect on the plot whatsoever, and everyone responds to this obvious act of divine intervention with "damn, iron dome is pretty good, huh?"

- despite the movie being ostensibly pro Zionist, the movie goes off a LOT on how those International Bankers (pronounced in such a way that you can hear the triple parentheses) are up to no good.

- the antichrist wants to rebuild the temple of Jerusalem in between the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque somehow. As a symbol of religious coexistence. Which is bad.

- every single child on planet earth vanishes. This has surprisingly little bearing on the plot, which involves the antichrist using a magic crop formula to become head of the United Nations — - The original movie was crowdfunded by a bunch of televangelists, who all play extras who get raptured in the airplane scene. Most have since failed to live long enough to get teleported to heaven IRL. - There's multiple shots of people's pets standing awkwardly by the abandoned clothes of their owners, because people's clothes get left behind when they get raptured and *no* dogs go to heaven!! - At the start of the movie, multiple military forces attempt to invade Israel simultaneously, and magically explode without causing any casualties. This has no effect on the plot whatsoever, and everyone responds to this obvious act of divine intervention with "damn, iron dome is pretty good, huh?" - despite the movie being ostensibly pro Zionist, the movie goes off a LOT on how those International Bankers (pronounced in such a way that you can hear the triple parentheses) are up to no good. - the antichrist wants to rebuild the temple of Jerusalem in between the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque somehow. As a symbol of religious coexistence. Which is bad. - every single child on planet earth vanishes. This has surprisingly little bearing on the plot, which involves the antichrist using a magic crop formula to become head of the United Nations

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@rnd@toot.cat 25 min. ago

@DotMaetrix the part about the televangelist cameos reminded me that there are also cameos from libertarian and right-wing pundits in one of the "atlas shrugged" movies, which happen at a point in the plot where nearly all of the "great men" have been taken by john galt (and the u.s. is nearly finished becoming a full-on communist state, with full state control of the media)

which means that (1) they're basically admitting that they're not good enough for galt's capitalist paradise, (2) they somehow still have media jobs and are able to express their opinions on TV in a world where the socialists are in unquestioned control of the whole of the united states (they all use their own real-life shows' sets for the cameo segments, none of them are presented as if they're doing pirate broadcasting)

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@DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz 16 min. ago

@rnd it was quite blatantly the same thing going on. The third one of those was crowdfunded and it's ridiculously obviously that one of the backer rewards was getting the name of your cryptocurrency website graffitied on to the wall of a random corridor.

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@rnd@toot.cat 15 min. ago

@DotMaetrix there's a similar thing in "kung fury", where in one scene the wall of the miami police station in 1985 has a bunch of random messages on sticky notes, including a website address

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@DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz 14 min. ago

@rnd lmao oh my god!

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