The Bible show on LIfetime

[annm4peace]

Is really creepy.

I don't know how I go sucked into watching it.. it just gets worse and worse.

Stereotyplical looks of the main characters. Moses looks like he came from Europe as did Issac.

[madamesilverspurs]

1. Watched in last night on History channel.

Creepy doesn't begin to cover it. Middle East "setting", sounded like Aussie accents, weird narrator voice popping in and out. Loved the machine-graded road in the distance behind Abraham and Isaac, also the river that was bloody when the camera was on Pharoah but clear when the camera was back on Moses. Script seems to have been written from Cliff Notes with half the pages ripped out.

[Warpy]

2. I've been reading about it on the knitting boards

and some of the wisecracks would get this post alerted and censored on DU.

I did manage to sit through the trailer. I don't honestly think I could sit through the silly propaganda with an all European cast without hurling everything I'd eaten for the last week.

I'd still like to know what the hell it's doing on a channel that calls itself "history."

The script was written by true believers. That's all that's wrong with it.

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. I am SO not detail oriented

Definite weakness. I don't know if it a blessing or a curse, but things like airplanes or wrist watches (like the original Ben Hur) never catch my attention until pointed out. No idea why, but when I watch a movie, its almost like I want to be sucked in where I don't see the faux paus.

Blessing/Curse.

[msongs]

3. which version of the bible? there are many to choose from lol nt

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. I haven't seen it but watched the trailers last weekend

Yes, 2 minutes vs 10 hours - of course they are going to pull the best CGI they have - but it looked interesting. (She says skeptically...)

Thanks for the review.

[tjwash]

6. Did they have the aryan blue-eyed jesus?

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. CNN said he was an actor from Brazil, IIRC?

Quick google gave me: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287133/The-Bible-History-Channel-New-miniseries-features-impossibly-beautiful-actors-greatest-story-told.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

[baldguy]

10. Obviously, God doesn't like ugly people.

Love the captions:

"Critics are noting that the new Bible miniseries has perhaps the best-looking Jesus ever cast."

"The sweeping ten-hour show will retell famous religious stories, all with beautiful actors."

"While the show's cast may be stunning, the narrative itself has been derided as tedious and cheesy."

"Several members of the cast have backgrounds in modeling."

"Critics have mocked the show's attractive cast noting that few of the actors look as if they truly inhabit a B.C. world."

"The show is produced by the same people behind such non-religious hits as The Apprentice and Survivor."

[sakabatou]

8. That's in Part Two

The three angels in Sodom were an interesting take.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. They were really ancient aliens.

[Zax2me]

12. The actor who portays Jesus is Portugese.

[Lint Head]

11. They are playing to the typical audience who thinks Jesus looked like Charles I of England.

Without the fancy mustache.



Jesus was not a Caucasian from the Upper Palaeolithic period.

[MzShellG]

13. The Romney spray tans cracked me up....

Especially teenage Moses & the young/old pharaoh. Lol

[EC]

14. I know

it was on History Channel last night , I watched because I was waiting for The Vikings history show. It was definitely creepy. The guy who played Moses really looked crazy.

[Zen Democrat]

15. It's a Mark Burnett production. Reality TV meets the Bible.

[snooper2]

16. They should do a poll at the end...

Is this dramatization more or less likely to encourage you to believe in mythology?