The MovieByte Podcast #108: Balanced On The Back of a Turtle

The MovieByte Podcast

TJ wanted to discuss the new ‘Left Behind’ (starring Nicolas Cage), but since he was out sick, Joe Darnell and Michael Minkoff talk about the film and critique Christian arts at large. As the ‘Left Behind’ film’s description put it, “In a moment, the entire planet is plunged into darkness.” This says a lot about how lame the film is. We believe that true Christianity is largely not practiced by artists, and the Church doesn’t appreciate Christains that produce great art.

Show Notes & Links

• Michael Minkoff, President of The Nehemiah Foundation for Cultural Renewal

  The Nehemiah Foundation is dedicated to rally support for Christian artists…

• (Trailer) ‘Inside Out’ “A Major Emotion” Motion Picture

  These clips, along with the help of onscreen text, show us the range of emotions and feelings PIxar has been through in their many films over the years. It then concludes with introducing us to some actual footage and characters from the upcoming film.

• The original ‘Monsters Inc.’ teaser trailer

• The original ‘The Incredibles’ teaser trailer

• The original ‘Brave’ teaser trailer trailer

• Sony’s Spider-Man To Enter the Marvel ‘Avengers’ Universe?

  According to HitFix, the two studios are discussing an alliance…

• Spider-man in eighties ‘Transformers’ comic books

  Peter Benjamin Parker is a photographer for the Daily Bugle newspaper under Editor-in-Chief Joe Robertson.

• Mechanized Rhino villain in ‘The Amazing Spider-man 2’

• Michael’s article: Why the Label “Christian Art” Needs to be Left Behind

  First, I must say that I won’t be seeing the new Left Behind movie. Ever. I don’t think you should see it either. In fact, I beg you not to see it. It may be “Christian art,” but it isn’t Christian.

• ‘Left Behind’ — IMDb

  A small group of survivors are left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.

• ‘Left Behind’ — Rotten Tomatoes

  Critics Consensus: Yea verily, like unto a plague of locusts, Left Behind hath begat a further scourge of devastation upon Nicolas Cage’s once-proud filmography.

• ‘Left Behind’ trailer on YouTube

• About ‘Left Behind’ novels on Wikipedia

  Left Behind is a series of 12 best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times: pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatological viewpoint of the end of the world.

• Christianity Today’s ‘Left Behind’ review by Jackson Cuidon

  This is not the Left Behind movie anyone expected. The last time the property was in the public eye—2005, with the release of the third movie installment, Left Behind: World At War—the movies had Kirk Cameron and spanned the first two books in the Left Behind series of novels.

• Christianity Today’s follow-up to the readers’ response to their review

  Last week we published our review of Left Behind, written (contrary to some assertions) by one of our regular critics. It took the film, and its source material, to task for a few things: not being at all entertaining, being outright offensive in its portrayal of a number of characters both Christian and not, and pursuing the minimum “Christian” content to be marketed at Christians while not embodying or exploring any particularly Christian traits or concerns.

• LeCrae: ‘Christians Have Prostituted Art to Give Answers’

  They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus That means guns, sex, lies, video tapes But if I talk about God my record won’t get played, huh?

• Nathan the prophet confronts King David in II Samuel 12

  Nathan Rebukes David

• Michael’s video: “Beyond Judging a Movie by its Poster”

• Michael’s video: “How Can Movies Help You Understand Your Times”

• Joe manages to make a Star Wars reference at 56:53 ;-)

  Your Search For: star wars

• About Ben-Hur 1959 film on Wikipedia

  Ben-Hur is a 1959 American epic historical drama film, directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Hugh Griffith and Haya Harareet.

• Michelangelo, 15th century artist

  Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo (Italian pronunciation: [mikeˈlandʒelo]), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art