Review – The Original Left Behind

I started out kinda liking this production. It led off with a fake news broadcast about events around the world resulting from the Rapture. However much I might disbelieve in this interpretation of the Bible, I at least enjoy it as a variation on the mega-disaster sci fi theme. But gradually it started to wear out its welcome. They started using footage from actual disasters (explosions, plane crashes and the like), which struck me as a crass exploitation of real suffering. Alas, this is all too typical of the level of sanctimony that justifies any lapse in good taste and morality in the name of "spreading the Word of God." And then of course the preachers showed up. The theme was addressing people in the post-Rapture future in order to share some pre-tribulation self-righteousness with them. They should have just stuck to the fake news. Wish I'd skipped it