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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsNicolas Cage is now in a remake of a Kirk Cameron movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2467046/?ref_=vi_tt_iNot sure if anyone remembers those 'Left Behind' books that were huge in the 90s. They were about life on earth after the so-called rapture happens. They were a warning to Christians about how Earth would be ravaged after the Rapture occurred. In the early 2000 Kirk Cameron, a favorite of the fundie set, started in a few low budget movie versions of the books.
Now it looks like the movies are being remade with former Oscar winner and now the star of countless of film flops Nicolas Cage.
It'll be interesting to see how this movie will do. It's also ironic that Kirk Cameron wasn't even invited to be in the film.
UTUSN
(70,639 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Not a bad actor.
brooklynboy49
(287 posts)Gotta disagree with ya... strongly... on both counts.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)for the love of Con Air!!!
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)I thought that was a dream I had ....
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)Glorfindel
(9,714 posts)I love science fiction, but add the pseudo-religious claptrap and it's ruined.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)So sad, this guy has the skills but essentially now is a sell out.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)however, I feel they were great films in spite of him. The guy just can't act. I find the pairing of bad actor + bad story amusing.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)When he plays some goofy near the edge of destruction type character he actually shines. Probably why he was so good in movies like "Raising Arizona", "Leaving Las Vegas" and "Adaption" (my favorite Nic Cage movie). He has some great earlier work like "Moonstruck" and "Peggy Sue Got Married".
When he plays an action hero he just tanks. I mean the best thing about the movie "Con Air" is everyone else in that movie other than Cage. He is just not an action hero and that's what he's cast as again in this "Left Behind" series.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)Gave our whole complex quite a jolt- we were only a couple blocks north of the Strat tower, and here's this plane circling around it billowing smoke and being chased by two smaller planes... we weren't sure if we should take pictures or run away.
/digression
I have to admit, I was surprised with how well he did in Leaving Las Vegas. That was the only performance that I was impressed by. I enjoyed Raising Arizona but it was one of the movies I felt worked well in spite of his presence.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I'm bummed to see him go downhill. And, a christofascist flick? Remake?? Oy gevalt, it's a shunda.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)I thought "Lord of War" was pretty darn good.
As for the "Left Behind" movie, I say a remake might be worth a try; because I saw the first ones, and there is NO WAY the new one could be worse.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)perhaps instead you'll be served a boiling bowl of piss instead.
Maybe the piss is better? Who knows but are you willing to taste it to find out?
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)This is why I'm sure that Idiocracy is a documentary.
Generic Brad
(14,272 posts)eShirl
(18,477 posts)please go back to better material, like Drive Angry and shit
sakabatou
(42,134 posts)Orrex
(63,166 posts)Of course, since the entire congretation of evangidiots will see this Left Behind crap 20X each, it'll yield the biggest budget:profit ratio in decades. And we'll have to hear more shit about how Christian films are "storming the box office," etc.
Nicholas Cage's career began with Raising Arizona and ended with Wild at Heart.
Orrex
(63,166 posts)Orrex
(63,166 posts)Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)And now Nicolas Cage is the proud owner of it through his Hancock Park Real Estate Company that has bought other properties in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The Lalaurie Mansion is reported to be the sight of sadistic acts committed upon their household servants and slaves by Delphine LaLaurie in the 1830s. These spirits have been haunting the property over the past 100 years according to local reports, so we wish Nicolas Cage all the best when he is visiting. Of course, that may have been the attraction for him as he has previously bought another New Orleans property in the Garden District from noted horror writer Anne Rice.
And that's who they choose to play the lead in The Fundie Chronicles?!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I won't deem them flops until they inevitably are.
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)Generic Brad
(14,272 posts)It's a disaster in the making on the making of a disaster. There's a lot of screaming. They had food on the set.
How is Nic Cage not in this movie???