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The books don't have big budget adaptations because they're hate-lit. They're full of all sorts of vile prejudices, and Hollywood doesn't want to associate themselves with it, no doubt

Ehh Kate isn't a fan, im shocked.

Kate's 100% right on this one.

 

A great article for those not in the know when it comes to this series

Look im not religious at all so im not really defending these films but realistically lets not pretend they couldn't trim out whatever the offensive bits are. The Narnia books were able to get made and so was it's opposite the golden compass. Not to mention the big daddy Passion.
 

 

No, you really couldn't. The entire narrative of the series is predicated on some truly repugnant thinking. There is no way to excise it

And yet... Twilight.

And that is the other thing. Many thought Passion was offensive but it still happened and it made a shit load of money. I kind of like the Narnia movies but I think it's pretty fucked up that the giant lion doesn't show up to help until the little girl begs him. When your dealing with any religion there is ALWAYS going to be some slightly fucked up shit in there but the question is why isn't this getting made? I can't believe some studio is turning down that built in fan base. I won't see it but clearly there are so many others that will.

I'm as atheist as they come, but there's no reason a religious-themed apocalypse film has to be bad. Having said that, the source material here is just dreadful.

Left Behind is appalling. It's Theology for Southerners who define their cultural identity in terms of their own resentments and isolationism.

Look at it this way: for all the anti-Semitism of The Passion, at least Gibson's picture isn't devoted to gloating over the pending destruction of the Jews by the vengeful second coming of Christ. Left Behind is.

I read the first book in the Left Behind series. It was literally the worst book I've ever read. Problems with comparing it to the Narnia books as filmable properties:
 

1) Narnia is allegory. Left Behind is text.

 

2) Left Behind is very explicit about it's Fundamentalism. It is also militant. Characters who don't fall into the Fundamentalism advocated by the novel are "evil" and come to bad ends.

 

3) It is so literal about the Bible that it is embarrassing. I know people really believe this shit, but my God...

 

4) It's a shitty plot. The "Antichrist" in the first novel is so dull and boring that it would take some major effort to pull a script from it.

 

5) Shitty, one dimensional characters. So one dimensional they make most Hollywood fare look good.

How would you rate the novels against L. Ron Hubbard's ten volume "Mission: Earth" series? I was able to get through at least the first one of those novels, if only because I was patiently waiting to see if it would get good.

I'll actually take "Left Behind" over Hubbard's boring bullshit, because I find it entertaining, but there's a difference between laughing at and laughing with.

Well I only read the first "Left Behind" book, and none of the Hubbard "Decology". Did read Battlefields Earth though: it was really boring; I actually thought the film did a good job of condensing the ideas into a concise story.

 

Problem with Left Behind is, you're reading it and laughing at how stupid and awful it is, but then you realize that, like with Hubbard, it is not simply a work of fiction: it's a call to action. And a lot of people take it dead serious. Then it gets scary.

A red letter media like analysis of the first Left Behind

 

Holy shit The anti christ is the hero Rick from Puppet Master 4 and 5!