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It's basically a Bible "End Times" movie but without the Rapture

I wasn't familiar with the right-wing Bircher paranoia that influenced Christian end-times eschatology at the time so I recognized that the cinematography was portraying the Antichrist as sinister but I couldn't figure out why he was supposed to be bad? He was uniting the world into a global democratic union and preaching cooperation and an end to war and I didn't see what the problem was supposed to be. Then he made himself dictator and started mass-executing dissidents and that felt like it came out of nowhere.

Casper Van Dien and Michael Ironside are both in them. I dunno if that's a coincidence or if the creators were fans of Starship Troopers

The US and China team up to take down the Antichrist's global dictatorship (this would never get made today lmao)

The second movie's climax is Casper fistfighting a CGI Devil

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Casper Van Dien and Michael Ironside

This is a circumstance of "Man's gotta eat"

You can't live off of being Darkseid or Jonny Rico

this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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