Because KNOWING is half the battleFollow

While a appreciate the heads-up on the content of the film, I'm shocked that you would go into a Nick Cage movie expecting to see acting that was even on par with a middle-school drama club performance.

Didn't he all ready play this character in Next?

I'm sad that this might be a film with a message that I'm not gonna be really happy about.

I pretty much rely on Nick Cage films to be gloriously thoughtless action movies. No acting required. I haven't seen that Vegas film he did, heard some good things of it, but haven't gotten round to it.

Nicolas Cage will stop appearing in shitty movies if you stop going to see them.

I watched Knowing and Last House on the Left last night, I enjoyed them both.

That's not true, I'm pretty sure Captain Kirk made it with about every female alien he encountered.

You've clearly never seen the original series.

I was more of a Next Generation fan...

I haven't seen the film, but I'm going to say this anyway.

Examining the idea of a supreme being is not the same as "pushing Christian propaganda." Now, maybe this movie does that; but nothing in the OP or the review led me to believe so.

I think we're getting into knee jerk territory with the whole anti-religious bandwagon. If anyone mentions God, or faith, or church they're assumed to be pushing a fundamentalist agenda; and the fact is, not all of them are.

It's okay to talk about ideas, and to question assumptions.

As far as I could tell from the trailer, it was all more of a Spock/Captain Kirk simmering sexual tension thing going on, anyway.

They certainly had some make-up sex to be doing. Kirk was really getting through that Vulcan emotional tranquility.

Samira--

**again, spoiler alert**

This wasn't merely examining the question of a supreme being. The first 2/3rd of the film was what you would expect from the trailer: a suspense film dealing with a crazy kid who predicted the major tragedies in the subsequent 50 years. The only hint of christianity was a minute of subplot dealing with the fact Cage had lost his faith due to the death of his wife leading to a subsequent distance with his pastor father.

The last 1/3rd of the film was basically the story of the rapture. I can't adequately explain without a gbaji-esque length post but here is the gist:
Nic finds out the Earth is going to be destroyed. He phones his father (the pastor) to warn him but his father refuses to seek refuge. "I'm going to be saved, are you?", he notes. Nic's son and the son's friend are 'chosen' to be saved from the destruction of Earth along with many other 'chosen' people. The beings who save Nic's son (and everyone else) are all-powerful beings with long, wispy wings and who can (obviously) foretell the future. Because of Nic's unbelieving ways he isn't saved with his son. (hence, my quote in OP--"they say only the chosen can come" "That's all right, I understand now!") The kids witness the gruesome death of one mother but note to Nic, "It's OK, they say we are going to be together in future".
The film ends with two images. One is nic's son and his female friend, dressed in white robes and bathed in heavenly light, running through a pristine wheat field toward what obviously represents the tree of life. (Believe me, it's obvious) The other is Nic striding back to be with his father since he believes now. He walks through New York which is filled with pillaging and looting but he calmly walks to his father's house where he, his father and his Christian sister (known from earlier in the film) hugging while the Earth is destroyed in fire.
Just in case you missed all the connotations, as Nic is walking through the soon to be destroyed New York he passes a large billboard which reads something along the lines of, "Jesus saves".

Again, I have nothing against Christianity. But I'd prefer to have some warning about this before I plunk down the money to see the story of the rapture in a theatre.

--DK

So the moral of the story is that it's not worth believing in Jesus until he actually appears at the apocalypse? Sweet.

This pretty much sums up my feelings. I'd like to add though, having not seen the movie but read the review linked, are you sure it's Christianity and not Scientology that it's using as a mythos? That could just be the language used by the reviewer though.