I’m in one of these movies.” And I was with Howie, I believe. It was like, “Oh my God.” And I said, “Wait a minute, what happens to my character?” And they went “Well, straight up in the Rapture.” And I went “The what?” And they explained the Rapture and the end times to me, and I went “Oh shit. And I said, “Who’s that?” “Oh,” say the producers, “that’s pastor such and such and such and such, and he gets a part in the movie, ’cause he sells them in his church.” And Howie and I went “What?” And then the penny dropped. These people offered me a bunch of money to go to Toronto for a few days, and then suddenly this big limousine pulls up, and out walks this guy with about nine tons of hair, like Blagojevich, but white-haired. I can’t find her in the script.” I was pretty cynical about that one. So I’m on the set, and I’m going to Howie, “My character disappears. Me and Howie Mandel were sitting there going “What happened to my character?” You know, they just offered us lots of money to do these things. Her exact, wonderful words on the matter were, “Oh! I didn’t even know it was a Christian movie. When I had the honor of interviewing Margot Kidder for Random Roles she confessed that she did not even realize what the Rapture was until she arrived on the set of the Rapture-themed motion picture she had agreed to appear in for a large sum of money. I was attracted to these movies by their hysterical proselytizing and amateurish storytelling as well as the gloriously random nature of their casts. In my early days at The A.V Club I wrote extensively about direct-to-video movies for the Video section and covered any number of Rapture-themed Christian films. This was a real blast from the past for me. Will I also plug a project of yours if you pledge at this level? Yes, I will. Who themed podcast called Drunktor Who that has a five star rating on iTunes. You have been patient with me and my secular ways, however, and have tried yet again to save my immortal soul by forcing me to watch 1972’s A Thief in the Night, the first entry in a Rapture-themed film series that would include 1978’s A Distant Thunder, 1981’s Image of the Beast and 1983’s The Prodigal Planet.īy “you” I am, in this case, speaking directly about donor Steve Dahlin, who, in addition to choosing this movie, hosts an alcohol and Dr. If there is a spiritual war between God and the devil, and these motion pictures have led me to believe that there is, then condemning these Godly motion pictures for being fascinatingly, extravagantly incompetent, puts me on the wrong side of that moral skirmish. Like a godless heathen, I laughed derisively at these messengers of faith and wrote unkind things about them in exchange for forty pieces of silver, or one hundred American dollars. Verily, I mocked them as they tried earnestly to share the miracle of faith with me. Neither of those movies took, I’m afraid.
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