{"id":20998,"date":"2014-08-11T10:51:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T17:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=20998"},"modified":"2014-08-11T10:57:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T17:57:35","slug":"first-the-leftovers-now-the-remaining-will-audiences-be-tired-of-the-rapture-by-the-time-left-behind-comes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/08\/first-the-leftovers-now-the-remaining-will-audiences-be-tired-of-the-rapture-by-the-time-left-behind-comes-out.html","title":{"rendered":"First <i>The Leftovers<\/i>, now <i>The Remaining<\/i>: will audiences be tired of the Rapture by the time <i>Left Behind<\/i> comes out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"float: right; padding-left: 10px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DF8JLQFxsEI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Rapture, Rapture everywhere! With <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/leftovers\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Leftovers<\/a><\/i> almost finished its first season on HBO, it turns out we may have another Rapture story to tide us over until the <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/left-behind\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Left Behind<\/a><\/i> reboot comes out October 3. A couple of trailers for a movie called <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/remaining\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Remaining<\/a><\/i>, which opens September 5, have popped up on my radar, and you can see the newer, longer one at the top of this post.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Remaining<\/i> is produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.affirmfilms.com\/catalog\/catalogDetail_AFFIRM043396022998.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Affirm Films<\/a>, the same \u201cfaith-based\u201d branch of Sony Pictures that had a hand in <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/heaven-is-for-real\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Heaven Is for Real<\/a><\/i> and <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/moms-night-out\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Moms\u2019 Night Out<\/a><\/i>. The only actor I recognize is Alexa Vega, who starred in all four <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/spy-kids\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Spy Kids<\/a><\/i> films as well as the later Robert Rodriguez films <i>Machete Kills<\/i> and <i>Sin City: A Dame to Kill for<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Based on the footage here, the film looks to me like a mishmash of <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/01\/cloverfield-memory-and-time.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Cloverfield<\/a><\/i> and <i>Paranormal Activity<\/i>. A post at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Hollywood\/2014\/07\/31\/A-Film-Review-of-The-Remaining-A-Fright-Fest-With-a-Message\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Big Hollywood<\/a> gushes that the film dramatizes the horrors of the end times \u201cin gory detail\u201d \u2014 and it also claims that the Rapture and all that follows it are spelled out in the Bible, but, um, they aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>A part of me is also inclined to caution anyone against trusting a \u201cChristian\u201d film that refers to the Book of \u201cRevelations\u201d, plural. It\u2019s Revelation, singular.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, I\u2019ll give <i>The Remaining<\/i> this much, at least: the general horror-movie mayhem it depicts looks marginally more interesting than the sight of Nicolas Cage trying to land a plane in the most recent <i>Left Behind<\/i> trailer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Left Behind Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Nicolas Cage Movie HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GrXe8YDbzYs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>The Remaining<\/i> isn\u2019t the only \u201cfaith-based\u201d film coming out September 5. <i>The Identical<\/i>, about an Elvis impersonator and his long-lost twin brother, is also coming out that day. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/song-2014\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Song<\/a><\/i>, which reimagines the biblical story of Solomon as a story about modern-day country-music stars, comes out a few weeks later, on September 26. And then, as mentioned above, <i>Left Behind<\/i> will come out October 3.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch an earlier, shorter teaser for <i>The Remaining<\/i> here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Remaining: Teaser Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gEYj9rF8qrA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Remaining<\/i> will come out the same weekend that <i>The Leftovers<\/i> finishes its first season on HBO &#8212; and four weeks before <i>Left Behind<\/i> comes to theatres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2451,2452,372,271,287,2450],"class_list":["post-20998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-alexa-vega","tag-cloverfield","tag-end-times","tag-left-behind","tag-rapture","tag-remaining"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>First The Leftovers, now The Remaining: will audiences be tired of the Rapture by the time Left Behind comes out?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Remaining will come out the same weekend that The Leftovers finishes its first season on HBO -- and four weeks before Left Behind comes to theatres.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/08\/first-the-leftovers-now-the-remaining-will-audiences-be-tired-of-the-rapture-by-the-time-left-behind-comes-out.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First The Leftovers, now The Remaining: will audiences be tired of the Rapture by the time Left Behind comes out?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Remaining will come out the same weekend that The Leftovers finishes its first season on HBO -- and four weeks before Left Behind comes to theatres.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/08\/first-the-leftovers-now-the-remaining-will-audiences-be-tired-of-the-rapture-by-the-time-left-behind-comes-out.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-08-11T17:51:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-08-11T17:57:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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