A few months ago, I wrote a diary on a movie called 'The Purge'. Well, I'm here to write another article on yet another right-wing propaganda piece disguised as Hollywood Cinema: Left Behind.
For those of you who don't know of it, let me give you the short version: Left Behind was a series of books that talked about what many 'Christians' claim they know is going to happen 'soon': The Rapture...you know, that magical event where the 'true believers' are whisked away with Republican Jesus on his white horse to some magical paradise in the sky while the rest of us suffer what many Christians refer to as the Tribulation, a 7-year period of pure, unadulterated chaos egged on by the Antichrist, and in the midst of things, the so-called Tribulation Force, led by a philandering airline pilot (Who also happens to be white) whose wife was raptured out, do their best to shove Bibles up as many human asses as they can before the world goes to shit. Then, after all the suffering, Republican Jesus comes down on his white horse and throws all non-believers in the Lake of Fire with the Antichrist before declaring himself the ruler of Earth for the next thousand years.
It. Gets. Worse. You see, This particular Left Behind film is a reboot, starring Nicholas Cage as the cheating pilot, and Chad Michael Murray as Buck Williams. You read right. This isn't the first time this Bircher-inspired tripe has been in theaters. The first incarnation of this movie saw Kirk Cameron cast as reporter Buck Williams. The picture was a total flop despite the book being a NYTimes best seller.
That brings me back to the remake scheduled to be released next year. The reason they're pushing this crap out again should be obvious to anyone. This film is the Shock Doctrine AND the Southern Strategy personified. Add to that the fact that the author of these books, Tim LaHaye is a well known Bircher and Christian Reconstructionist and the purpose of it all becomes quite obvious.
I have to wonder how much the actors and actresses are being paid to star in this load of crap. I know you sure as hell couldn't pay me enough to read it, much less watch even five minutes of it. Take a look at this page if you want to see who else may or may not be starring in it. Most of them are cast-offs from discontinued Disney shows or movies. Some are currently starring in idiotic drama shows on ABC Family (Lea Thompson plays one of the mothers on Switched at Birth), and then there's Nicholas Cage. How the hell did they manage to get him to sign on to this crap?
And those of you who say 'this is just a movie' or 'this is just a book', it's not. Many people believe this shit to be reality right now, except instead of some guy at the UN, President Obama is their Antichrist (Thank you very much Roma Downey). Keep in mind that the same people who are pushing movies like this are the same folks who've been trying to destroy the social safety nets since the day Social Security became law of the land. They're also the same folks who deny climate change, science, education in general and a whole slew of things most of us understand and accept as reality.
The question is: Just when are we going to rise up and send these assholes back to the fringe where they belong?
See you around,
Homer