The Prophecy Collection

I watch and buy videos due to the acting in them. This collection almost never plays on cable, too. The DVDs are awful, no features, and the primary three movies in the series are put on a DVD with no title. But again the collection is very hard to find, you can't just wait for it to show up on Comcast. At most, they only play the first two videos occasionally. Prophecy, which is first, is the wittiest, though great performances are in all five movies.But of course forget any semblance to Bible. Just like all the Bible debunkers and frankly most 'scholars', the actual Bible is never consulted. Instead, people just make up whatever they want to pass off as if true, and then slap God's name on it, claiming it's in the Bible. Flash a page or two of Revelation, as if the content in the movie, was in that book. Flash Genesis 6, as if the movie was a faithful representation of that Chapter. Guess again.Example of this lying in 'Prophecy' comes early; just after the wonderful Elias Koteas screams, he makes up a fake Bible verse, attributed in a 'Gospel' of 'Paul' about angels having 'savage weapons'. Paul never wrote a Gospel, and there's no verse anywhere about angels having savage weapons. They wouldn't NEED weapons, duh. They just ORDER a thing and it happens, even as God SPEAKS 'Light, BE!' and it is. Oh well.And OF COURSE angels would wear long black trench coats and walk in fog. Gotta love it. My fav campy version in this brilliant collection is the fourth with Sean Pertwee (son of my fav Dr Who), called 'Uprising'. But you gotta see the first three (which are together a story of their own), prior. The last two, concern the book, which is common throughout. Clever script. Seriously. Way underrated.The only true thing about these films is that YES there is a war in heaven, but the Bible's depiction is never taught, fuzzily imagined, so the significance of YOUR life, goes unknown. Ironically, the Bible's own story is far better than any movie ever made; if you sought to make money on a movie, you'd do better to actually READ Scripture and tell its own story. Sex, money, violence, politics -- it's all there. Biggest political battle of all, is God versus Satan. Bible says a lot about it, because the purpose of Scripture is Due Diligence Disclosure so you can pick sides. Yet we remain fuzzy in our explanations in pulpits, and only have series like Prophecy, which frankly are childish (and maybe purposely campy). But hey: they are fun.So, I've tried to correct that fuzziness by summarizing what Bible says (so you can check it) beginning at LordvSatan1 (search on that term on the web), and am constantly refining/correcting the data in vimeo (Satan's Strategy series). But all that, is not excitingly told, like these movies.So enjoy the great acting and the fake story line AS fake. Scripts are usually great, even campy.

I recently bought this set. I have great respect for Christopher Walken's talent, but I wasn't too sure about this concept. I love books in this area of fantasy, but movies have been disappointing. I don't go to the movies very often, so I had not seen any of these in the theatre. I'm sorry now. Walken's interpretation of the archangel Gabriel is fabulous. The development of the character throughout the three movies in which he appears is subtle and fascinating. By the third movie he has changed dramatically and your interest in seeing how things will play out grows. This is not a series where the quality of the films deteriorates in script, character or creativity.The last two movies, without Walken, are not at quite the same level of intensity, but they are interesting in their own right. They continue to explore the very Old Testament version of the concepts of angels and their relationships to god and man. Our modern, sentimental view of angels dates from those romantic paintings of the Renaissance. Angels were not seen as being benign or necessarily sympathetic to humans in earlier times. They did the bidding of their ruler, which was often brutal and destructive. You may find your "Roma Downey-Della Reese" concepts challenged if you consider the underpinnings of these movies seriously. The inspiration comes straight out of the Bible.Leaving comparative religion aside, the movies contain excellent performances, clever plot angles and plenty of action. Chris Walken towers over the original trilogy like a colossus. His Gabriel is furious, funny, arrogant, brutal, and painfully childlike in his portrayal of the spoiled favorite son who has been supplanted in his father's favor (as he sees it) by smaller, imperfect, mortal creatures he can barely tolerate. His hatred and jealousy make him more like them (us, actually) every day.This set is a real bargain for the five movies included with all the entertainment they provide and thought they provoke.

The first three movies of the set are good, Prophecy 2, being the best. But 4th and 5th will could have been good movies just don't get there for me. If you want the first or second movie, this is the collection to buy. Just skip the fourth and fifth and not waste your time.

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