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Post by Brainchild on Feb 18, 2005 1:07:13 GMT -5
What do you think of this series of movies?
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Post by Soulfyre on Feb 18, 2005 1:40:13 GMT -5
I find them interesting, as are many movies concerning the "end times". As a representative of the premillennial, pretribulational genre, they're not bad. The books are interestingly written, and take on the aspects of both action/adventure and suspense (with...yes...an admixture of fantasy since their interpretation involves a great deal of speculation). My only concern is that I think we must show great care in "speculating" concerning the Bible, especially in the area of apocalyptic writings. In fact, I am often somewhat disconcerted by the many films out ostensibly depicting the life of Christ (often with a blue-eyed, rather WASPish Jesus). Now don't get me wrong. I think Mel Gibson made great strides in his casting choices for The Passion and his decision to film the dialogue in Aramaic and Latin (although the lingua franca of the period, even among Romans, would probably have been koine Greek). And perhaps the best "dramatic treatment" of the life of Christ was Zeffereli's Jesus of Nazareth (in spite of Robert Powell's blue eyes). But there is danger in "adapting" the life of Christ to the sensibilities of Western Christendom. And there is always the problem, within our video-oriented culture, of mistaking the Jesus of film and television with the Jesus of the Bible. So in general, although perhaps some films portraying Biblical subjects, either historical or, forgive the pun, "pre"-historical (in the case of prophetic/apocalyptic films) may be used as adequate conversation starters, we must beware in subtly replacing the truth of the word with the romanticised pseudo-history of Hollywood. God bless and keep you and yours, Matthew (soulfyre)
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Post by Kenny on Feb 21, 2005 17:04:39 GMT -5
They were really low budget films...the books were tons better and they should have just left it there unless they had a bigger budget to make the film. I thought they were horrible films
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Post by Brainchild on Feb 23, 2005 1:27:52 GMT -5
O I think horrible is a little harsh.It's the message that was supposed to be foremost. But yeah it did look like a B feature graphics wise. The movie content ,and storyline was good.
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Post by rgrove on Feb 23, 2005 11:12:11 GMT -5
I think one of the best things to come out of the films was Kirk Cameron. People laugh because they still associate him with that TV show in the 1980's, but he's a great Christian. Works with the evangelist Ray Comfort in the Living Waters ministry. I've been favorably impressed by him and he actually preaches quite well. www.livingwaters.comBeyond that, I'm not a premill dispensationalist so of course my take on the theology behind the film (and the books) is somewhat biased towards the negative. Yours In Christ, Ron
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Post by melinky on Mar 9, 2005 9:37:23 GMT -5
I loved the movies until I read the books, but I usually prefer books to movies. However, if you recognize that the movies are only loosely based on the books, they're okay. The second movie, "Tribulation Force" was a lot better than the first though.
Kirk Cameron preached at the church of one of my co-workers two weeks ago and said they had just begun filming the third movie, I'll be really interested in seeing where they take the movie.
As for the books, I agree with Matthew about being careful when speculating on the apocalyptic writings. Also, while I loved the stories, I didn't particularly care for the writing. They were a far cry from Tolkien.
Melinda
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Post by rgrove on Mar 9, 2005 11:16:55 GMT -5
How did they like Kirk Cameron? I've listened to him a couple times online and he actually sounds really good. Sometimes it's different in person, though.
Ron
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Post by melinky on Mar 9, 2005 12:47:47 GMT -5
My friend said he was great. Kirk walked around introducing himself to people and was very approachable. Melinda
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Post by rgrove on Mar 10, 2005 14:29:42 GMT -5
Great to hear!
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