Well, thanks, RTFirefly. ::blushes and toes ground in a charmingly bashful fashion:: I wouldn’t really say genius… However, I have been told that I was 10 pounds of style in a 5 pound bag.
Really, the beauty of this plan (if I do say it myself) is only now beginning to reveal itself. It needn’t be only one tape we get out of circulation, you know. After all, the Mid-Atlantic Conclave is not the only nest of Dopers in the world. If every region hosted only one Stupid-Left Behind-‘Movie’-Bash-a-Thon, why, we could rid the world of dozens of copies of this crapola. I think we could make it happen. Goodness knows the world would be a better place if we did.
The catch-22 here is that the library will use the lost video fee to purchase another copy. Also, as more copies are bought…more copies will be produced. Even if there were originally a fixed number of copies produced, an attempt to buy them out would cause added production, due to the success in sales.
Stupid question: If Left Behind is about the people who are left over after all the “good ones” go away, how Christian can it be? Wouldn’t it just be a movie about “sinners”? Or am I missing something?
Actually, my own baby brother was almost corrupted today. I came downstairs after reading this thread and he was watching E! Coming Attractions…he asked me what I’d do if i was “left behind.” I realised immediately what he had just seen. (Ditto: Kirk Cameron? What were they THINKING?)
Doctor J…that idea about going into the wrong theatre really speaks to me. It’s so naughty. You’re so bad…it’s sexy.
That’s the name of the book! I saw it once at the B. Dalton in Union Station, DC. From the cover I thought it was a science-fiction thriller, but after I read it, the more it look like the rantings of a paranoid loon. But when I saw who wrote the book, I just-about threw it half-across the store.
I mentally blocked the title out of my mind, so I couldn’t find the book again. I kept remembering the title as Mind Head. For those who saw Bowfinger, “Mindhead” is that insane Hollywood cult ahemScientologyahem that Eddie Murphy’s character belonged to. I guess it’s just hilarious in my mind.
What do you mean “Kirk Cameron - What were they THINKING?” Kirk and his wife both wanted to do this movie.
I had a similar thought about what’s the point. The point seems to be about all the sinners left trying to find god and repent. Kirk Cameron’s statement in an interview - I hope this movie makes people stop and think about the possibility of there being a real God. Or something along those lines - I forget (thankfully) his actual words.
Yeah, my local news show decided to do this as a story. :rolleyes: The “news” covering infotainment. They didn’t quite come out and say this is how the end of the world will happen, but they sure hinted at it. The closest they got to any type of scrutiny was to interview a “liberal” christian minister who said something to the effect that many christians (including clergy) view the book of Revelation as a poetical book, not in any way to be taken literally, and that to limit God by boxing him in like this is small-minded.
Okay, how about this: we check it out from the library, rip it into an MPEG-2 format usign a De-CSS cracking program, burn it chapter by chapter onto a series of VCDs, return the original to the library, and watch the VCDs on my ultra-geek Apex AD600A.
Then, we can dip the VCDs in gasoline, dig up a skeet-launcher somewhere, and sail them in flaming parabolic arcs into the mighty Potomac. We’ll videotape the incident and call it an art project. And since the water’s edge is Washington, DC, nobody has any jurisdiction to bust us. The gasoline will help break down the plastic and hasten biodegradability. I, um, think.
–First off, the Rapture is not in Revelation. Rapture is a theory that is a little over 150 years old.
Secondly, the producers have already made their money off of the video sales. The whole shebang was shot for $17.5 million.
Thirdly, Hi Opal!
Fourth, distribution of the film to movie houses was not shouldered by the production company. They offered church groups sympathetic with the message to “invest” $3,000 for local showings. In return the local group would share in the box-office receipts at that particular theater (hey, a guaranteed audience).
LaHaye is suing the production company, by the way.
He sold the movie rights before the Left Behind series caught on. Now he wants a better deal.
I bow to Sofa King. You, Sir, have style. However, I must point out (and I’m not trying to toot my own horn, here) that your plan – unlike my own – suffered sadly from lack-of-hot-tub.
1859
John Nelson Darby
British minister John Nelson Darby begins preaching in America. He would create an ingenious theology known as premillennial dispensationalism, which remains the dominant eschatological system in Christianity today. “Dispensationalism” refers to Darby’s belief that human history can be divided into a series of epochs, or dispensations, in which God has dealt with humanity in different ways. Darby teaches that biblical prophecy refers to the past and future periods, but is silent on the present “Church Age,” which began with Christ’s crucifixion. By asserting that God’s prophetic clock had temporarily stopped ticking, this “Great Parenthesis” ingeniously preserves prophecy while avoiding the risks of date-setting.
One of the most enduring elements of Darby’s system is the Rapture, in which true believers in Christ would travel instantly to heaven, where they would watch the terrible seven-year Tribulation unfold on earth, killing all but a righteous few. His emphasis on the Jews’ return to Palestine and his strong reliance on scripture over church authority have also won favor with fundamentalists.
Sofa King, I have to second Jess: a truly impressive and stylish plan - I’m especially taken with the image of flaming VCDs arcing through the night sky over the Potomac - but hers still wins due to the hot tub, especially since she’d be in it.
CajunMan - I expect that whether or not the library would buy another copy of the same movie with the lost video fee would depend on the demand for that movie - how often people had been checking it out, and so forth.
Of course, we could just buy a copy on eBay, half.com, or somewhere like that. Used copies are already available.
