Russell Crowe & Jennifer Connelly Get Some NOAH Character Posters

Someday bravado will be born again

Cripes!!!

I will just have turned 40 when this movie is out!

I think I will take myself to see it as a present to myself and then go subscribe to the hair club for men then go get drunk

@rogueshrimp only call it when it starts, unless you're trying to instigate

This website needz jeebus in itz life!

In the Bible story, humans had become so corrupt that the only moral thing to do was wipe them out and start again with Noah (the last decent bloke left). Factual content aside, the moral logic of the story makes perfect sense to me.

They got part of the story wrong but yet partial right. It wasn't because of man's sin but also to wipe out a serious genetic problem. But most of you won't see it.

@Bravado – You’re getting really mad about something that never happened. If a "world ending flood" happened a few thousand years ago there would be evidence, lots of evidence, but there isn't because it didn't happen. The bible is many things, but factually correct is not one of them.

I like Crowe and Connelly and think this might be a pretty good movie, so I'll check it out when it hits Netflix.

i kind of picture the world in this story looking like it did in The Road. its just so [frick]ed theres no saving it

@indignant waffle

EXACTLY

I bet 99% of the "it's wrong to kill and god is evil for the flood" have ZERO problem with killing fetuses

An often overlooked anecdote to the flood story is the tale of Noah's cousin Larry, who made a small fortune selling kayaks just outside the ark.

It is exasperating to see the intellectual laziness of the Noah movie haters-

There simply is NOT a single monolithic church /religion ruling our society. It doesn't exist .
The bible can be and has been and is inyerpereted in any number of ways shapes and forms

Opportunist politicians will use the bible/ faith to support whatever policy they want then pretend to be aghast when someone else does it for their policies
Fiscal conservatives and socialists
Social conservatives and liberals
White skinned brown skinned and otherwise
Literalists and metaphorical Gnostics
All and everyone either use the bible / church or ridicule it as needed

We just need to use the force

"The law, separate from religion, is the only thing that stands between the people and religious fanaticism and tyranny. Perish the thought that churches ever regain the power over people that they once had."

Wait, what? 99% of the law is derived from Judeo-Christian moral principles. Christendom was a shepherd for two thousand years, not a tyranny.

Let ME say again-

I am agnostic and do not take the bible literally (though the books of Samuel and kings have some historical veracity )
So no, I don't think animals "sin" or that entire societies are in redeemable

But
That
Is
Not
The
Point

The story is not about god wanting to kill, but god wanting to SAVE but only having a few worth saving
The story is not about a world ruined by Yahweh but ruined by evil/ demonry and drastic action - with deep pain and regret on yahwehs part - to save a remnant

Of course an all powerful diety could be more clinical and selective - and at that rate could even remove free will.
But that is not the kind of story it is.


Maybe instead of feeling persecuted over a movie you don't even think is about a real thing you could study mythic archetypes and hero cycles and the cultural context where utnapishtim / zisusudra morphs into Noah of the bible.


I can assure you - this movie will not harm you unless you allow it to wound you emotionally

And oh yeah-

The Bible's cool in my book (no pun intended). I look at it as sort of a science fiction/fantasy/political thriller.
All due respect.

@blacknight

I will defer to Harold bloom on that one - historically it's been good and bad
There's slavery in the bible (usually depicted in a negative way as the Israelites were slaves) but while professed Christians at times practiced slavery the abolition movement was also started by Christians
In the American civil war slave states were predominately Christian but so was Abraham Lincoln

You would have at times tyrannical rule of the church or Rome or the "divine rule of kings" but the freedom seeking pilgrims were Christian as were many of the revolutionary founding fathers ( some were also diests and Thomas Paine was atheist)

@miracleme

I think you'd enjoy the books by Jonathon kirsch - he has written a few about the Hebrew bible and really brings out a lot of stuff Sunday school overlooks and the story of king David is a very lurid political and sexual drama

Check it out - its fascinating

Thanks Jor. I just might do that.

OR

Get a photo book featuring J. Connelly! heh heh ;-)

Of course nothing precludes both. Except if there happens to be TWO JenCon books on sale!