Left Behind’s Antichrist fails to rise against Avatar at the weekend box office
Everyone would still rather see Avatar: The Way Of Water than the other movies in theaters
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Avatar: The Way Of Water is still the number one movie in America, as it has been all year, and it’s now the 4th biggest movie all time (sucks to be you, The Force Awakens). It only slipped 22 percent from last week, adding $15 million to its total (now $620 million in the U.S.), which was actually enough to let number two movie Puss In Boots: The Last Wish gain a little ground (it made $10 million this week and has $140 million total after six). That’s how things have stood for a while, though, so if you’re looking to hear about some other movies, the rest of the top 10 has you covered.
For starters, a somewhat resurgent Man Called Otto has stolen third place from M3GAN, the movie with a three in its name, partially because of a slightly wider rollout the Tom Hanks movie got this weekend (it’s playing in more theaters than M3GAN, which bumped it up from fifth last week). Down in fifth place is Indian film Pathaan, which had a very good per-screen average of $8,557. In fact, that would’ve been the best average of the top 10 this week if not for Chinese sci-fi film The Wandering Earth II, which had a per-screen average of $9,542 (though it only played on 142 screens, so that only amounted to $1.3 million and tenth place for it).
Totally chill vacation movie Infinity Pool made a respectable… splash (heh heh)… this weekend, debuting in eighth place with $2.7 million (and playing in 2,000 fewer theaters than Avatar). Ninth place went to Left Behind: Rise Of The Antichrist, which humorously suggests that a charming man taking over the U.N. will lead to humanity’s downfall. C’mon, you think America is not going to have an active hand in the apocalypse? The same people making and going to movies like this would never allow it. It made $2.3 million in its debut next week, and we regret spending so much time talking about it when we could’ve been talking about Plane, the movie that dared to ask “What if there was a plane?” (Plane made $3.8 million in its third week, and has a total of $25 million.)
Here’s the full top 10 from Box Office Mojo.
- Avatar: The Way Of Water
- Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
- A Man Called Otto
- M3GAN
- Pathaan
- Missing
- Plane
- Infinity Pool
- Left Behind: Rise Of The Antichrist
- The Wandering Earth II
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I’m impressed that they keep making Left Behind movies roughly twenty years after the books were last popular. If your antichrist movie doesn’t have Michael York playing the antichrist, count me out.
Evangelicals are a built in audience. They’re more fanatical than Snyder fanboys.
There are rural towns in the bible belt, where movie theaters do not play non-Christian movies.
#ReleaseTheSorboCut
And, perhaps more importantly, less discerning.
Had a similar thought. Only in this dark timeline would I ever find myself defending The Omega Code, yet here we are.
I know I watched that and the original Left Behind and had a firm opinion as to which one was more fun (i.e. more wack-ass) but I don’t remember which. They covered all the exact same ground, though.
This was stars Kevin Sorbo! …20 years after he was last relavent.
I thought all this bible-thumping millennial apocalypse shit was out of favour, thought it was all bible-thumping drab dystopia where we’re all emotionless robots now.
Casper Van Dien, Michael York, Catherine Oxenberg and Michael Ironside! It’s had the A-list of B movie actors from 25 years ago.
And Omega Code 2 has Michael Biehn and Udo Keir!
This is my antichrist:
It has a devilish sex scene!
Avatar 2 is a much more spiritual than “Christian” grifter movies.
Is it really spiritual? Yes, they treat Eywa like their god, but Eywa seems to literally exist in Pandora and you can plug into it and talk to it and your dead friends. So no faith required.
hey fuck you
Avatar: The Way Of Water continues to be a testament to the genius of the greatest filmmaker of all-time, Mr. James Cameron. And unlike others here who limit their worship to mere praise, I am proud to admit that I would suck James Cameron off if given the chance. His films are THAT GOOD.
I honestly can’t tell if this is sincere or a bit.
Hilarious either way
It’s going to be a bit harder to get your hands on physical copies of the movie that beats it for Best Picture to destroy, like you did with The Hurt Locker.
The Hurt Locker is a military suck fest. So is Zero Dark Thirty.
Kinja name checks out.
Name checks out.
I preferred the porn parody, Left Behind: Rise of The Penis.
Can you have a porn parody of what is effectively porn parody?
This Ain’t Orgazmo: XXX
Ahh yeah, forgot about that one.
I bet the Antichrist can organize some sick orgies.
These movies are porn to people like Kevin Sorbo and Kirk Cameron.
hey fuck you
Kirk Cameron has got to stop trying to make fetch happen.
Two out of the top ten movies in America are foreign (with one made by a country hostile to the US) and one is pitched almost exclusively to an evangelical Christian audience.
That sure wouldn’t have happened fifteen years ago. I’m sure this bodes well for the future.
It’s January. January being a dumping ground for crap films is a pretty longstanding meme. Save your strange doomsday predictions for if the box office looked like this in May.
In a few more years, he’ll look like either a whackjob or a prophet.
God, I honestly forgot it’s still January. It feels like April or May by my crows feet.
yeah it’s definitely just china that’s hostile to the united states, there’s no history there of that going the other way. good fucking lord the ramping up of this new cold war is making people insane.
ah yes in january 2008 we would be hooting and hollering for stuff like rambo 4, meet the spartans and 27 dresses. truly a golden age of cinema.
James Cameron’s Canadian but the movie is still American. And as a Canadian I can tell you we’re not so much “hostile” as we are perpetually annoyed.
So many of you are so hateful. I pray you find peace and ultimately find the truth. The ONE truth that is Jesus. It’s strange you make so much fun of a film that you also have no interest in or any true awareness of. That’s okay, Jesus and us his followers are used to your mockery and will love you even still.
I feel Jesus would have been cool with making fun of kitschy interpretations of Revelations.
Especially given that even to believers Jesus had nothing to do with Revelations. It was written by a guy named John who probably wasn’t even the apostle – it seems to have been written in about 95 AD, so sixty some years after the events in the gospels.
Yeah, it’s in the same ballpark as the earliest Gnostic gospels in terms of dating. It’s weird that it became part of the biblical canon at all. It’s pretty out here and doesn’t have much to do with the historical Jesus.Even the Gospel of John is fairly suspect in terms of its relation him (not the religious Jesus, that’s a matter of faith).It’s a fascinating moment in history because there are so many primary sources, and you can see them diverge very quickly.
Now this is the kind of gimmick account that can be fun.
Get off the cross, we need the wood.
I…who mocked Jesus?Jesus seemed like a great dude. It’s his fans that I can’t stand.
Remember when Jesus hated a fig tree so hard it died? Fun times.
Jesus is just alright with me.Shitty Premillenial Dispensationalist ‘Jesus is going to make sure everyone who doesn’t worship him like I worship him dies horribly’ fanfic, however, is not alright with me or with Jesus.
I enjoy the irony of you being a part of a hate group and being mad at people being hateful.
Not hate, contempt. Know the difference.
I think you’ll find that those looking to make a quick buck off of media like this are the ones forsaking Jesus.
“So many of you are so hateful”Ah, straight out of God’s playbook, then!
Jesus’ followers are some of the most hateful people I’ve ever met.
Ironic, considering the Left Behind version of Jesus is a vengeful murder machine who literally ends up ankle deep in the blood of his enemies.
If this is a parody account, I love it, if this is real, smoke some devils lettuce and chill the fuck out.
Jesus isn’t even in revelations, it’s all antichrist stuff
You would think they would read the Bible…..and actually understand it.
hey fuck you
Discarded title suggestions for the Left Behind movie: The Antichrist Awakens, and The Last Antichrist. I guess you could say Left Behind: A New Antichrist Hope, but that flick would have been made by Satanists.
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Stop trying to make Left Behind movies happen. They’re never going to happen
They have actually happened. They’re just not good. I will guarantee you that my mother has seen them all, and will probably recommend this one to me sometime soon. I will, of course, smile and nod and change the subject immediately.
Ugh, that’s a shame. Whatever makes her happy i guess.
David and Brandon Cronenberg > God and Jesus.
TIL that Left Behind movies are still a thing. Caught one with Gary Busey in it, years back.
One summer while recovering from surgery I thought I would give the Left Behind series a go while laying around in bed. I did not know that it was a christian fundamentalist literal interpretation of the apocalypse, so stopped after one book when it became pretty clear (I was expecting something like The Stand). Not only was the story messed up, the writing was high school level at best. I am not surprised at all that these books are very popular with a subset of Americans.
“It made $2.3 million in its debut next week”Huh?