The bar was six feet under and they still grabbed a shovel to dig deeper.
Movies like this just show that evangelical Christians have remarkably low standards for their movies. Objectively, this was bad. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. There was no getting to know the characters. You couldn't care when they lost people they cared about. Since this was based on the kids' series, there was literally no need for a love triangle. Also, why not just?? Use the original characters?? Especially when your dad created the series?? But at least we know that Randy LaHaye was a big Mark/Vicki shipper.
This movie wasn't a Left Behind movie. It barely addressed the Rapture. Barely talked about Christianity. It was a movie about cults, which is really ironic because a church that distributed flash drives with their pastor explaining the Rapture would be viewed as a cult.
Before Christians come at me, I am also a Christian. I just wish more Christian filmmakers (in fact, I wish all of them) treated movies and tv as the art form that it is. Get storytellers to tell stories. It's not God-honoring to put out bad movies that are so bad that everyone makes fun of Christian movies.
It's very interesting to me that two sons of both the Left Behind writers created Christian entertainment. Dallas Jenkins created The Chosen, which is actually good and well-done and every character has a personality. Randy LaHaye made...this. But it's a win for the Mark/Vicki shippers!! Even though it doesn't seem very welcome most of the time.
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