Anyone here planning to see any Biblical movies coming up?

[Archae]

"Noah"

Son Of God"

Others...

I'm sure most here can guess my opinion of these over-written, over-hyped (especially that "Son Of God" movie,) films.

The right-wingers are going all out to promote the "Son Of God" movie.

[The Straight Story]

1. I'll probably see them eventually

Just to see how they were done. Though I won't see them at the theaters

More looking forward to the next Hobbit movie. And Captain America. Guardians of the Galaxy looks fun as well.

Watching the Stand right now, which is going to be remade and will certainly see that.

I don't mind religious flicks but prefer religious type movies that are based on, oh I dunno, HP Lovecraft

[stage left]

7. Yes.

Lovecraft was a very religious man.

[yeoman6987]

13. I saw Son of God

It was good. I actually thought it was better than the Passion. Everyone go see Non-Stop…that is a great film….sorry to go off subject.

[hrmjustin]

2. I will do what I did with Passion of the Christ and wait till it comes on cable.

But I doubt I will bother even then. The Son of God had the devil looking like Obama and that turned me off.

I am all for religious movies but when they did that it turned me off.

Other than the flogging scene in Passion of the Christ I thought the rest was ok.

[yeoman6987]

14. Actually there is NO devil in Son of God

[hrmjustin]

15. They took it out due to pressure and anger I believe.

[yeoman6987]

18. Maybe

but I think they took it out because they have 10 hours of film to make into 2 hours. The focus was on Jesus' life with the New Testament more so.

[hrmjustin]

20. Fair enough.

[LisaLynne]

26. It's fairly well documented that the filmmakers faced a lot of controversy over the

depiction of the 'devil' having an uncanny resemblance to Obama and they then suddenly decided to remove it. Also, the devil does actually play a part in the tale of Jesus, so the "focus was on Jesus' life with the New Testament" statement doesn't make a lot of sense here. That's part of the story. And ... Jesus isn't mentioned anywhere EXCEPT the New Testament ...

[Scootaloo]

3. I just looked up "Son of GOd"

Is that... Is that Joey Lawrence?

[Warpy]

4. Uh, I'll pass

Those movies were OK when I was ten and used to goof on them with my cousins.

I'm not ten any more.

[lob1]

5. I'll pass on the biblical stuff.

but I plan to watch a few movies where they scream "Oh God, Oh God!" a lot.

[Tx4obama]

19. LOL :) n/t

[edbermac]

6. Only if it's Monty Python's Life Of Brian.

[Archae]

10. The funniest part about "Life Of Brian..."

It was more accurate than just about every other Jesus movie before it!

Israel was under foreign domination.

Secular rulers were kissing up to Rome.

Religious rulers were obsessed with God's name and being ritually "clean" or "unclean."

Anti-Rome terrorist groups spent more time fighting each other than fighting Romans.

Would-be "Messiahs" were falling out of the woodwork.

[hobbit709]

35. Why do you think it upset the fundies so much?

"Blessed are the cheesemakers"

[FSogol]

40. I wonder in we could make a important point for DU from "Anti-Rome terrorist groups spent more time

fighting each other than fighting Romans."

[Deep13]

8. No. nt

[LeftyMom]

9. I promised a friend I'd write a drinking game for A Thief In the Night, but that's not new.

BTW, if anybody wonders why fundies get so scared about internationalism or technology, it's because this movie scared the crap out of them when they were little fundies:

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Only for a good laugh

actually they had a showing of Son of God here at the theater for one of the churches. To hear the people talk about it was a good anthropology exercise. It is a different world they live in.

[fizzgig]

12. i'm just going to leave this here

things not to say when seeing "the passion"

classic

[Skittles]

16. I am a movie buff but....no

zero interest

[Tx4obama]

17. Nope. But I have other films on my 'gotta see list'

12 Years a Slave
Dallas Buyers Club
Osage County



p.s. I'm still upset that the Oscar folks snubbed 'The Butler'

[longship]

21. Not much into Biblical apologetics, especially Hollywood style. nt

[2naSalit]

22. Nope.

[bluedigger]

23. Probably not, but don't post any spoilers, just in case.

Maybe this time Satan wins.

[Iris]

24. no.

[Warren DeMontague]

25. I'll watch "Greatest Story Ever Told"

at least this one

[SamKnause]

27. No

Not even when they make it to cable or satellite.

My mother, who is 89, watched Son of God and enjoyed it.

She is very religious.

My sister and her husband also watched and were shocked at all the killing. (I really don't know what bible they have been reading.) Maybe over the years they just forgot how savage the bible is.

They quit being religious when their pastor told them to turn their backs on the non believers in their family.

[bklyncowgirl]

28. Previews of Noah looked sort of interesting--neolithic looking costume instead of Biblical

When the first few frames were shown I didn't know what it was--it didn't look like a Biblical story. The actors were wearing furs and crudely woven cloth not robes. It could be a different take on the story but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Personally I'd like to see someone make a film of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the flood and arc story that predates the Noah story and see fundamentalist heads explode.

I won't go out of my way to see it in the theaters though unless it gets the best reviews ever.

[hobbit709]

34. The ancient Hebrews lifted the Gilgamesh story and filed off the serial numbers

Changed it to the story of Noah and everybody thinks it's theirs.

[demwing]

29. Yes, Noah looks interesting

Should be fun, in a global catastrophe sort of way.

[B Calm]

30. No, I'll let the mega churches boost their phony ratings!

[Blue_Adept]

31. Tempted

I was tempted to see Son of God, to take my kids to see it since they loved Jesus Christ Superstar, but when I found out it was a reworking of the problematic TV series, it fell from my list. I'm exposing them to different pieces of various religions and doing a dramatic non-musical take would have been interesting if it was a bit more reality based I guess I'd say.

Noah is one that I'm curious about, simply because of the talents involved, but that first full length trailer just did not work at all. It's too "star" filled and hard to see past them into the kind of lives these people would have really lived.

[2pooped2pop]

32. Not if they were free and came with popcorn, coke and a sucker n/t

[hobbit709]

33. Not particularly.

[CBGLuthier]

36. Once you have seen And GOD Spoke you don't need any more biblical films

[el_bryanto]

37. I might well see Noah - because of the director

But I'd read the reviews first.

The Son of God looks awful though.

Bryant

[Bluenorthwest]

42. Noah is a whole different ball of wax than Son Of God, it i an actual piece of cinema

Both Aronofsky and his writing collaborator Ari Handel are very excellent and the cast is sterling. I expect it to be interesting to say the least.

[el_bryanto]

43. Yep - the question is will it be an interesting failure or an interesting success.

But it's bound to be interesting at the very least.

Bryant

[JaneyVee]

38. Son of God was actually produced by 2 big Obama

Supporters. Mark Burnett and Roma Downey.

[LWolf]

39. Nope.

I've read it, and didn't find it all that entertaining. Or enlightening.

[Tom Ripley]

41. Only for laughs

[StopTheNeoCons]

44. No, I am secular, I believe religion is root of all evil...nt