More likely, it’s suicidely despondent over never having been used.
You can get the gist of it by watching this episode of the Simpsons instead.
Except that Kirk Cameron plays Buck Williams.
Btw, LaHaye & Jenkins hate the movies & tried to keep any more from being made after the first.
I’d take the basement-budget 1970s series A THIEF IN THE NIGHT anyway.
Though there is a halfway decent set called the APOCALYPSE series, with semi-stars in it. The first one APOCALYPSE is abyssmal, but REVELATION with Jeff Fahey & Carol Alt, TRIBULATION with Gary Busey, Margot Kidder & Howie Mandel,
and JUDGEMENT with Corbin Bernsen and Mr. T, I think are pretty good.
And their AntiChrist “Franco Macalusso” (played by Nick Mancuso) could kick Nicolae Carpathia’s ass any day.
There’s also the execrable “Omega Code” series that features R. Lee Ermey as the President.
Robin
Very late to the party:
I’m one of the most churchified people on this board, and I ask you: Have you no soul or taste? You’re actually reading this?
I borrowed one of those books about 7 years ago, and had to return it in about 20 minutes on literary grounds. Oh, and the pre-trib heavy-handedness (you Christian eschatology nerds will know what I mean).
I actually didn’t mind the second one MEGIDDO, more a re-make than a sequel to the horrid first one. Only MEGIDDO had Ermey, and also Udo Kier as the False Prophet/mentor to Basil Exposition, the AntiChrist.
The original O-CODE’s only halfway-decent scenes were with Michael Ironside as an apostate priest/wanna-be False Prophet.
I’ve had to stomach worse, actually.
BTW, I’m working my way through The Mark. I’ve got some projects due this week, so I don’t have the time I’d like to have to read start to finish as I’ve been able to do so far.
Robin
Hah, sorry for skipping the rest of this thread, but this (post #5) was the reason I clicked on it, first real question!
I’m a Christian, and I tried to read it but gave up very early into the first book even though the “end times” “Revelations” talk is very cool. I love reading about the end of the world. That’s why I enjoy zombie pop culture so much. 
Btw, I’ve never actually sat down and read ANY of them through. I skimmed about every one of them. Actually the “Before They Were Left Behind” trilogy was better, especially interesting was the Judgement of the Raptured Christians. And there were some intriguing ideas in the Millenial novel “Kingdom Come”.
Still, I will continue to shout from the housetops- anyone interested in a decent literary treatment of all this needs to read “The Christ Clone Trilogy” and maybe “We All Fall Down”.
Wow, I have to rent those. They sound like the Super Bowl of scenery chewing, now with extra apocalypse! And I’m guessing some really dodgy CGI, right?
My father had his own special brand of tribulation-related theology where he didn’t believe in the Rapture, but thought the Tribulation was coming soon and all Christians would be hunted and persecuted during that time. Aaaaaand he believed that he was called to be a special prophet during that time, so our family probably would be singled out for persecution and torture and martyrdom, so I’d better be ready for all that. That was a fun worldview for a three-year-old, lemme tell ya. For a few years, we stored several kinds of grain in our house so we would have provisions during the “coming famine.” By the time I was in third grade, my mom got pretty tired of waiting for the world to end so she went back to the Catholic church and took us kids with her, and my dad got quieter about the whole “being a prophet” thing. My point is, I think I’ll get a huge kick out those movies. If I ever want to watch a near-docudrama about my childhood, I can always watch Bill Paxton’s Frailty.
I guess my husband wasn’t reading the LB DVD box too closely when he decided Kirk Cameron played Rayford Steele. Buck Williams is kind of a cheesy name too, but not quite as glaringly goofy-assed.
Of course with FRAILTY, Dad turned out to be right. 
And yes, REALLY dodgy CGI!
I have a question: Other than the details surrounding the end-times, I would suppose the main theme of the series is “See how bad things will be for those left behind? Be a fundamentalist or else…” How heavy handed is that theme?
I suppose a related question would be if you have spotted other themes that may touch on Christian ethics. My impression is that the series is an overly-simple good-vs.-evil adventure story, one that has little if anything to say about the role of Christian values in the world.
So Robin, did you ever finish them?
I did, actually. I didn’t read the prequels, and I didn’t read Kingdom Come. Maybe, someday, I’ll get around to them, but I’ve had enough for now. A little Left Behind goes a long way, y’know?
I can’t believe I missed the opportunity to make an obvious joke…
Talk about resurrection from the dead!
Well, for those of you still interested, Slacktivist is still going through them. If you have to experience these, his takedowns are really better than the pain of reading the books yourself – all the snark you want, but the blogger also makes real insights into humanity and religion.