and leave out the uncomfortable stuff.

It was an action/adventure/special effects movie, which put it way ahead of any of the 50s movies starring a Charlton Heston whose acting was leaden and who took it all just a bit too seriously.

Prior to that she was "i'm not religious, I'm spiritual, all gods are the same" blah blah blah

THen about 5 years ago or so she started doing these online bible studies with some end-time prophesier culty churchy thing and now she's all Jesus, all the time. Oh and aliens. don't forget the aliens.

I have no idea what her real beef is with the movie. I guess it wasn't sufficiently Godly enough? Who the hell knows. She probably doesn't even know.

She does know how to cherry pick. For all her God this and Jesus that, has yet to step foot in a church, pays no tithes, and lives in sin with her shiftless live-in boyfriend. Oh but she's a Christian alright. Just ask. Doesn't read the bible. Only likes the parts that diminish her sinful behaviour. But she's a Christian....

After years of the occasional snark because I refused to have anything to do with the whole Irish Catholic thing, my mother sat down to read the bible cover to cover.

Her reaction was hilarious, "This is the pile of crap that's been held over my head all my life?" She never set foot in a church again.

My dad never read it, so I have no idea what caused his final turn away from religion. He just announced "I don't believe that Sunday school crap any more." I knew it was his death bed, so I just reminded him it had been a very long time since I'd given even lip service to it.

I was just glad they both went without fear of judgment by a nasty, vengeful god.

But I'll bet dollars to donuts that your mother is upset because Charlton Heston wasn't in it.

I keep thinking that I should see that movie, just because it pissed so many people off.

I am sorry your mom has gone over to the dark side.

In fact, god doesn't actually appear in it much. It's just awful because...it's an awful film. And poor old Crowe is his usual ludicrous self. But at least he doesn't sing. And as for supposedly being 900 years old, he doesn't look a day over 300.

I can see why it pissed off the religionistas - Noah doesn't build the ark for the reasons given in the Babble; instead he's a kind of eco-warrior trying to save the planet.

No dinosaurs though, which was a disappointment.

I haven't seen it. But being a costume designer and maker, I thought "Oh look! Noah as an American Survivalist! Too funny!"


I'll just wait til it's on the boob tube, get high and try to slog thru it....perhaps.... meh!

I love how every time some Biblical film comes out it's supposed to be the mostest specialest importantest work of art ever made! Then it's completely forgotten in about 3 weeks.

The actual story is only a few pages long. You could cover the entire story in a fifteen minute short film and be 100% true to the source.

What do people expect is going to happen when directors have another 2 hours to fill?

That said, so many fundies have bashed the movie, and it actually got a decent rating on rotten tomatoes, so I am actually kinda wanting to see it.

When you have an entire world to wipe out, there's a lot of gory detail you can go for.

more banal fictional 'error'?

The 1999 TV mini-series "Noah's Ark." With Jon Voight and Mary Steenburgen.

If you've never seen it, move the furniture so you don't injure yourself while ROFLing.

Among other weirdness, it completely trashes the Old Testament timeline, so the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah happens before the big flood. That was just so the producers could insert hints about kinky sex and general depravity. (Though not much - this was made for TV, after all.)

And it turns out, other people survived the flood besides the Noah family. Including pirates! And James Coburn, popping up at random on a raft as some kind of seafaring peddler/philosopher.

Best scene - one of Noah's daughters-in-law is playing with a cute koala bear. Which takes an unscripted crap in her lap.

That koala was a very perceptive critic.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168355/

That reminds me of the brouhaha over the Rapture prediction, when some Christians said that the guy who predicted it was loony -- not because it makes no sense that a long-dead carpenter from ancient Judea could return to Earth and suck the righteous up into the sky, but that the guy put a precise date on it. That's what was loony.

How do you know - were you THERE?

Jaclyn Glenn confesses her lust for Ray Comfort, hilariously. That part starts at 2:10:

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