Nick Nolte.. as an ANGEL.. there is a joke there, and I will find it.

I may be rusty on my bible but I don't recall a Watcher Samyaza, or a giant rock monster.

Uh, yeah there were definitely no rock creatures mentioned in Genesis...Haha. The nephilim were angels who had sex with humans...How does that produce a rock monster?

Semyaza was mentioned in the book of Enoch, which is not a part of the Bible, but was a part of all the Biblical texts discovered in Qumran with the Dead Sea Scrolls.

I thought the nephilim were the giant offspring of the angels and mortal women?..in which case I'd say that's what we're looking at in the pic.

@myHero: I was just about to write that, thanks. The book of Enoch might just be a part of the bible just as any other book discovered in Qumran. I think Samyaza is one of the fallen angels.

THE Watcher? UAT... Ah, no. Meh.

Yes! Ok. I feel much better about seeing this now. I was afraid the studio was going to prune all the weird goodness out of the graphic novel.

I just can't get over how white washed this movie is. In a story created by people of the Middle East not a single person is brown. I am disappoint. At least in passion of the Christ they were tan.

What difference does it make johnblake? Didn't we just have a huge discussion about it being okay to change races in fictional stories?

LoL ^fictional stories.

this film is going to be nonbiblical. Probably won't be interesting either,.

Nolte is the man!:)

George Lucas was a student of Joseph Campbell and studied mythic archetypes and evolution of stories from one culture to the next

"Jedi" and "anakin" were words to describe the angel human hybrids

@JorL5150
Dudebro, I'm something of a Biblical/ancient Hebrew scholar and 'Nephilim' is the causative form (hiph'il) of a verb 'naphal' meaning 'fellers' i.e. 'those who cause others to fall'. The Greek-speaking Jews of c.300 BCE understood the Nephilim to be larger than yer avergage human and so rendered the word 'giants' (in Gk), even though technically 'nephilim' has absolutely no such connotation. It's like when the Gospels say 'Rabbi' means 'teacher' because that's what they called teachers, even though the word more literally means 'my excellency' or 'my great one'.
The film is 'whitewashed' as usual- in my opinion at least; this is a story that originates in Mesopotamia. It wouldn't have been hard for Aronofski to figure out how early Mesopotamians dressed and looked (Middle Eastern), but in light of Noah's wearing trousers an' all, I really don't think Darren's going for anything resembling authenticity, just a look for a story he wants to depict in his own artistic way. -And he's not claiming authenticy for his film as far as I know, so I'm only so bothered. George Lucas as a 'professor of mythology and religion' as he has been graciously called, only cares so much for authenticity before unleashing his artistic fancies to the fore in his Indiana Jones films, for example, but they were still great films.

@arrowhead77- dig your avi! great minds bro, great minds...

Nick nolte looks like me after an all night bender with GUSTO