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The Late Great Planet Earth By Orson Wells (Actor), Hal Lindsey (Actor) & Emile Benoit (Actor) Our Price $ 7.79   Retail Value $ 9.99   You Save $ 2.20  (22%)   Item Number 26042   Buy New Item Quantity: Available on the Internet only.

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	Truth be told  Mar 14, 2006
People don't want to look at the obvious fact that this world is falling apart. this flys in the face of evolution which says we are getting smarter and better but a simple look at the billions of people living in poverty and the daily disasters in the news tell us of the grim truth, that the Bile is Right! Hal Lindsey does an excelent job of explaining some of the last days events (the times we are living in) and how they are culminating into the global judgments listed in Revelation and the prophets. If this movie doesn't open your eyes to the truth of God's Word and how it is being played out in the news today, nothing will.
	When The Sun Goes Nova  Dec 29, 2005
Hal Lindsays' teaching on Biblical prophecy as encapsulated in his best-selling book 'The Late Great Planet Earth' had a major effect on evangelical Protestantism during the decade of the '70's. An effect so profound that just about every pastor teaching prophecy today approaches the subject using the same methodological framework that Hal made so popular a quarter of a century ago. This DVD released in '78 is a visual restatement of Hal Lindsay's prophetical teachings. Now that some 27 years have passed since it's release the information contained upon this disc is far from cutting edge material. It does however serve as a fascinating timecapsule concerning many of the current events of that generation and the theological underpinnings of how the Church interpreted those events from a Biblical perspective. Whether you buy into the "End of the World" scenario as presented by Evangelical Christianity or not it's worthy of at least one viewing. There might even be a few surprises that you didn't expect.
	Hal Lindsey - Father of modern eschatology  Nov 21, 2005
Please ignore the bigoted comments of the person above who obviously has an axe to grind with Christians. This movie left quite an impression with me as a teenager. Hal is a dedicated student of Bible prophecy and his book from which this movie is based has sold 10 million copies since it came out in the late 60's. Hal Lindsey is not a prophet, nor ever claims to be one: He is simply a scholar of Bible prophecy that is unafraid to speculate on the meaning of the imagery presented in the book of Revelation. Keep in mind he saw the Islamic threat long before it became national headlines. Yes, we are probably safe from killer bees. But with the current wars, rumors of wars, pestilences, earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes Hal's movie is more relevant than ever.
	Hal Lindsay, False Prophet  Dec 13, 2004
"It's almost as if we had an unconscious desire to see the biblical prophesies fulfilled," frets narrator Orson Welles in this classic piece of Christian fearmongering. Quietly insane evangelical minister Hal Lindsay attempts to marry revelation to then-current affairs in an effort to prepare us for the armageddon that lies just around the corner. Obviously, with 25 years of hindsight, we now know he was wrong, and continues to be wrong, but had really swingin' fashion sense circa 1976. Many actual scientists and deep thinkers appear on screen in LATE GREAT PLANET EARTH, and you'd be forgiven if you felt that some of them (who are clearly talking along evolutionary lines) were being taken out of context to support Lindsay's crackpot theories. Lindsay's apocalypse is scotch-taped together out of all the Bad News that was available at the time of production. Thus, Lindsay's world was set to end as a result of any number of nasty afflictions. Recombinant DNA! Brazilian killer bees! Viruses from Hell! Atheists and witches run amok! And, as Orson says, "Nucular" Holocaust. It's Hal's nauseating belief that if you don't have hardcore Christian faith, then your ONLY possible options are witchcraft, astrology, transcendental meditation, Hare Krishnas or the Rev. Sun Myung-moon's wacky Reunification Church! In any case, Hal sez you haven't got a prayer. As always, Hal saves the best for last, enlightening us as to the coming of the antichrist, a figure he believes is alive today (at least as of 1976), and who would achieve omnipotence through seemingly good deeds and the establishment of world peace before enslaving everyone with microchip implants supplied by the then-fledgling computer industry. Or something. Apparently, only those who heed Hal's book and movie can avoid falling under the spell of this evil maniac. He then proceeds to illustrate his argument with imagery designed to stoke the usual cold-war paranoia: before or around 1982, sez Hal, Russia and China will invade the middle east (didn't happen), the European market will grow to a prophesied ten member nations (25 and counting and still no armageddon), and the "nucular" bombs will rain from the skies like the falling stars seen by the biblical John on his island retreat (well, we're still waiting!). Nonetheless, this allows the filmmakers to go mad with stock footage, a delirious and depressing exercise in escalating doom that runs a full six minutes, unnarrated. Oh, the humanity! Just because Christians love to fulfill prophesies, or see fulfilment where none rationally exists, doesn't mean the prophets were right. It just means that we'll always have to live with people like Hal, desperate to prove their "faith" has substance rather than just keeping it to themselves, and actually learning from it. Now, having said that, I must now reveal to you that I really DO have the power of Prophecy, and I shall prove it to you! You shall bow before the glory that is ME when the light of my Truth is revealed, for I have the insight granted only those who've given their lives over to the ethereal boogeyman or have figured out how to pull of age-old "miracles" without anyone seeing the slight of hand. That is for you to decide puny humans, but bookmark this item and heed my words, for my prophecy shall come TRUE! Here's how. As the first person to post a review of this title, I shall now prophecize that many if not ALL the reviews that come after this date, shall be posted by Christian "believers" and Hal Lindsay fartcatchers who shall offer no pertinent details to even remotely suggest that they've actually watched this DVD! Praise!! Verily, they shall only make sweeping comments about the greatness of Hal Lindsay and his books, and how the times we live in today truly are the end of times because of all the bad things THEY see in the world, like starving little children just like those exploited, err, aided by Sister Sally Strothers on the tee-vee, and murder and homa-sexy-ality, which, as it happens more today than it did in "the olden days" they shall claim as irrefutable proof that these are indeed the end of times and that the Bible done got it right! One of these weak-minded sheep shall even claim that people are ACTUALLY IGNORANT of all the disasters happening in the world, as if such NATURAL OCCURENCES are acts of God, and then they shall, rather appropriately, refer to the Bible as "the bile." Yea, this vision has been delivered unto me by the almighty creator-thingy hisself, therefore it MUST be heeded as a fundamental absolute. You just watch. Here endeth the lesson. Oh, by the way, the Trinity DVD is full-frame, from a tolerable print. No restoration appears to have been done, nor was the film worth any, so dirt and scratches are evident. Sound is undistinguished mono. Extras include a "making-of" theatrical trailer and TV spot, plus a documentary, common to many Trinity discs, called "How American Cinema Changed Hollywood Forever," in which reps for the company grossly overinflate their importance in the Hollywood food chain of the 1970's. EDIT: Nice to notice someone actually noticed my review here, as "Whammo" has seen fit to respond to it in his or her own review. However, I have no axe to grind with JUST the Christians, as he will would have you believe, nor am I an athiest, which he probably believes. No, my axe to grind is with ALL people who try to find MEANING where none RATIONALLY exists, and miss out on all the real JOY this world has to offer and will continue to offer for millions of years to come, and particularly people like Hal Lindsay, who DOES try to pass off his INTERPRETATIONS as PROPHESY so as to better scare dimbulbs back into the rapidly emptying pews and vague santuary of the church. As such, this film WOULD scare a fearful believer like Whammo, but can provide 90 minutes of fun for just about anyone else. My one star review, however, is given precisely BECAUSE the film was marketed at the former mindset. As mind-boggling entertainment for the latter mindset, it rates a good three stars, maybe four. Looks like my prophecy came true, though, doesn't it?

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