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Following on from the Last Temptation of Christ thread. How would a film about the End Times be received?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

REVELATION: The Movie! Industrial Light & Magic would have a field day!

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i had the same idea a while back, Peter Jackson to direct

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I just want to tag "... throwing darts in lovers' eyes" at the end of the thread title.

Now I'm done.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I've just had a gruesome thought. What if someone tries to do 'Paradise Lost' as a big fantasy epic like LOTR, CGI angels demons and God.... the whole thing would be aimed at CS Lewis reading US Christians and thus be literally fauthful to Milton's religious message......i'm nauseous.

― pete s, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, if they kept it faithful to Milton, that would include showing Adam and Eve having sex in the Garden of Eden, which would to my mind be interesting for such an intended audience.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah but that would be okay because it's Adam and Eve having sex, the first untainted, unaware (of the filthy sinfulness of sex) couple, the fundamentalists would smile in contentment and praise a sex scene back from the days when sex was good. Adam doesn't even have to wear a rubber cos Eve cant be impregnated.

― pete s, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

must've been good being Adam. No navel so no navel lint.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

My serious answer is that you can't make a movie from Revelation alone, you have to read tons in -- which usually gives us Left Behind and The Late Great Planet Earth and the other bottomfeeder muck like that. It might be interesting to see a movie done that doesn't do that and doesn't concern itself with plot, just enacts some old interpretation of the book -- Newton's, maybe, or one of the early ones responsible for getting it canonized to begin with, etc.

(That said, the novel I'm working on is about it, too. So nyah nyah, Lahaye.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Can I star as a lackadaisical prophet who helps mankind to a state of constant partying?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

'Bill and Ted's Excellent EndTimes'

― pete s, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/avg/cov120/DRV000/V093/v09339jxvkj.jpg

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

You should check "9 Nine Lives of Thomas Katz", even though the end-times saviour in that flick is the "white astral baby of life", instead of boring ol' Jesus.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, "The Rapture" to thread?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I always kinda hoped that in the last episode Buffy would stake Satan and, ta-da, instant Rapture!

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

House of Vampire Slayers?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

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