I agree with Brucesmells420 about the books. These books are awesome, and follow the Bible very accurately. Even though they did not follow the books I did enjoy the movies and have watched them all several times. The 1st one was closer to the book than the other 2, but still wasn't nearly as close as I would have liked. But the 3rd one, although there is absolutely nothing other than the double wedding that even resembles the books, was a very good film in my opinion...for a couple of reasons. 1st, I thought the story line was well written and well portrayed by the actors. But mostly, I thought it was great because, unlike the 1st movie (and I can't remember about the 2nd), it plainly gave the gospel message! Without giving anything away, the scene between Buck and the President in the White House was awesome! The 1st movie hardly even referred to Jesus Christ, which is one of the main reasons the writers, Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, were upset with the movie. But this movie made several references to Jesus (not just "God")...and that one scene said it all! I love the books, but so what if the movies don't follow the story line of the books exactly? They tell the story to lost people! I would like to see them closer to the books, too, but at least they are getting the message across to a lost and dying world!
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17 years ago
I have watched all three movies and I have read through the first three books. I have noticed this as i was reading. Although in the first movie it does somewhat pull away from the books on how fast Buck, Clhoe, Rayford, and Bruce meet eachother and all become belivers. One thing that just shows is how when you try to take a book that is over 200 pages long and try to make a movie it shows how the movie people cut some corners on things instead of doing things to match the first book exactly. On the second movie I have noticed it is based on the events of the first thru 17th chapter of the second book but one thing i did notice was missing was they did not have Chaim Rosenwieg appear in the second movie or have the two witnesses at the Wailing wall contact Rabbi Ben Judah after he gave his speech. Plus in both the combination of the first two movies they did cut out the scene of where Buck gets accused of not being at the meeting where Carpathia shoots those two men and he gets sent to Chicago to deal with Verna. It shows how those movie people cut corners. Now on the third movie I have noticed besides the final two chapters of the second book it also has some of the events of the first 3 to 5 chapters of the third book. You see what matches up is when Rayford and Buck have the double wedding. Then what matches is Hattie revealing she is pregnant. The other things is how there is that group of people that the President gets with that want to attack Carpathia and it shows how Carpathia is commanding people to drop bombs on Washington D.C. New York, and other major cities just like in the books. Then it also shows what matches in the third book how Raford is no longer flying that 757 called "Global Community One" because it shows him at an airport hangar that has a bunch of other design aircraft. So you see if they were to make a fourth movie it would have to have the scene where Buck would use a fake I.D. and go overseas to get Rabbi Ben Judah out of Israel and back ot America. One thing I can say is all the rest of you need to do is slowly read some of the chapters in the second and third books and you will see how when they made that third movie they copied some of the things from the third book along with the final two chapters of the Second book. The only difference is when Bruce Died. One thing I can say is how just a minor change does not make much difference right there but I do hope if they make a 4th movie it will have the big action scene of Buck going after the Rabbi and with the help of their pilot friend Ken Ritz they will be able to get out of Israel and back to America.
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