Poppa Must Be So Proud. Kimber Eastwood Prepares For The RAPTURE

Todd Brown, Founder and Editor
Funny thing ... I know rapture theology is young and all - the concept being only around a hundred years old, a relative drop in the bucket of theological history - but last time I checked the concept was that God was going to take all the good Christians away before things got nasty. It very definitely was not that lightning bolts were going to come from the sky and blast people to black smudges on the pavement. But, hey! That's what reformation gets you, everybody just making their own shit up! Like rapture theology in general. (*)

It happens without warning. All electrical devices are abruptly shut down. Dark, unearthly clouds form over cities and towns from which lightning strikes and vaporizes its victims. Food and water is suddenly contaminated, causing bacterial infection that kills within the hour, Ominous robed figures sweep the cities and landscapes, vaporizing everyone in sight. Caught on the outside of civilization are four people, confronted with the unexplainable dangers surrounding them at every turn. In their perilous journey to find refuge, the burning questions arise: is this an alien attack on mankind? God's biblical wrath? Biological warfare from an earthbound enemy? As the nightmarish events continue to unfold, the grim reality becomes clear to them, that by day's end mankind will be extinct. With over 150 state-of-the-art visual effects shots, this is a timely and exciting apocalypse thriller.
Kimber Eastwood - yes, the daughter of Clint - produces this one. And, supposing that her film talent is something genetically inherited from her father, the selection of 'over 150 state-of-the-art visual effects' included in this trailer provides evidence that Clint stays away from effects because he is not genetically disposed to doing them well. Yow.

Rapture is meant to be a cautionary tale, no doubt, but what this trailer mostly cautions against is ever spending money to watch this movie. It's pretty hysterically bad.

(*) Yes, I have a degree in religious studies and am prone to ramble off course from time to time ...
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  • Kimber Eastwood

    Your funny....I guess some people are just REALLY REALLY bored!

  • minimay7

    I don't know where you got your education in theology. But the concept of rapture was an issue from the early church (pre Roman Catholic). Letters to Thessalonians was written because of the converts in Thessalonians thought they would be raptured any day and quit working.

  • Perhaps I should be more clear ... pre-trib rapture theology (i.e. God's gonna come and take all the Christians away before anything bad happens on the earth, i.e. the way the rapture is popularized and understood throughout the western world) was developed in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby and the Plymouth Brethren Church and spread from there. It was, according to some reports, based on a dream that a young girl who was part of the church had.

    Theology previous to this certainly subscribed to the concept of the resurrection of the dead in the end times - that the dead faithful would be resurrected and brought into heaven following the tribulation - but that's a very different scenario with very different connotations than what is generally referred to as the rapture these days.

  • minimay7

    Ah! i see where you are coming from.

    Actually, that's not true either... athough You are right that it gained popularity post 1800's more than before. More so after the WWII... But the idea existed all through out.

    I don't know how you are singling out John Nelson Darby. Other than people like Darby (and later, J.C. Ryle) were voice of pre-trib rapture at the height of post-millenialism/post rapture's popularity.

    You can trace the idea of pre-trib dating back to people like Papias and Clement which puts them as a contemporary of The apostles.

    Although this is not the cardinal doctrines of the essential christianity, it is hotly debated one as you might know.

  • Thomas T.

    Clint Eastwood is without a doubt "not genetically disposed" to doing special effects scenes well. The CGI stadium crowd shots in INVICTUS are appalling.

  • ;)

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