WHY AREN'T THERE ANYMORE 'BIBLICAL' movies being made?

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I enjoyed Passion of the Christ through and through. Great movie.

This is coming from a complete non believer too. Faith isn't necessary to appreciate a well knitted film.

It was torture porn

 

[Franklin Richards]

Snuff film. No drama. No suspense. No intrigue.


A glorified passion play. It was about as entertaining as church. And not those Black Churches where you get some great singing either. And not those White Churches where they drink poison, speak in tongues, and handle snakes either.

I'm talking those churches where you sit in the back and sleep. Or write dirty jokes on the offering slips. Or fart.

 

[snakeinthegear]

Cool. But the old testament stories are shared by both Muslims and Jewish teachings alike, not just Christians; it's the new Testament that seperates the faiths.

Anyhow, the Passion was somewhat of a preachy movie as it is the core of the Christina faith. A King David/King Solomon movie is simply a rags to riches type story, of how a simple boy slays a giant (Goliath) and becomes a great King through many battles, and the flight and wisdom of his son. I don't see that as controversial at all. In fact it has all the things that alot of hollywood blockbusters have in them; action; lust & sex.....i can't see them shying away from this.

An Adam and Eve/Abel and Cane through to the tower of Babel events- could be a pretty ballsy and kickass movie if executed right.

Whether we believe them or not, they're still just stories. There's just so many good tales in the bible that can be made into movies that don't have to come off as being religious , but just good movies.....

The fact is, there's just too much controversy in so many forms, especially when it comes to religious/biblical and historical accuracy.

People moaned that passion of the chrsit was too bloody, too graphic, yet what was shown in the film was a fraction of what Christ actually endured. Fact.

Lets take the tower of Babel story as you mentioned. Nimrod who pulled a lucifer and led the revolt and stupidly built the tower to challange God, who God himself acknowledged as a mighty warrior was in actual fact a black man. Will hollywood cast a blackman in the lead for this or would they pull a Prince of persia and cast a Jake Gylenhaal type? I think we all know the answre to that one.

 

[Franklin Richards]

People moaned that passion of the chrsit was too bloody, too graphic, yet what was shown in the film was a fraction of what Christ actually endured. Fact.

I'm pretty sure you can't say "Fact" when there isn't any proof at all that Jesus even existed. Much less him being crucified.

 

[snakeinthegear]

Snuff film. No drama. No suspense. No intrigue.


A glorified passion play. It was about as entertaining as church. And not those Black Churches where you get some great singing either. And not those White Churches where they drink poison, speak in tongues, and handle snakes either.

I'm talking those churches where you sit in the back and sleep. Or write dirty jokes on the offering slips. Or fart.

Catholic churches??

 

[Franklin Richards]

And some protestant ones I've seen.

 

[snakeinthegear]

Catholic churches.

 

[snakeinthegear]

I'm pretty sure you can't say "Fact" when there isn't any proof at all that Jesus even existed. Much less him being crucified.

Are you being serious? People can choose not to believe Jesus is the Messiah but it's a historical fact that Jesus did in fact exist.

 

[Infinity9999x]

I'm pretty sure you can't say "Fact" when there isn't any proof at all that Jesus even existed. Much less him being crucified.

Oh come on now. Even scholars admit that there was a man named Jesus who this was based on, however, as to what he actually said in his sermons and what he did, well, yeah that's up for debate.

However, all that aside, it's not to hard to find out the rituals for crucifications at the time. However, since I haven't researched that, I can't attest to how accurate the film was.

 

[Franklin Richards]

No piece of physical evidence has been introduced that conclusively proves that the man known as Jesus Christ existed, although there is a fair amount of historical writing that suggests that he did.

 

[Nightmare]

And of course, this thread turns into a religous debate.

 

[Franklin Richards]

There's no proof Shakespeare wrote his plays either.


Does that help?

 

[Infinity9999x]

There's no proof Shakespeare wrote his plays either.


Does that help?

I see what you're getting at. But really, I think it's more logical to believe that there was a person named Jesus who's actual teachings were expanded upon and fabricated upon then to believe that some huge conspiracy of individuals created this person.

There was obviously a starting point, something happened that this was all based on. And that holds true for almost any major mythological tale that we know of today.

And just to be clear, I consider myself a Christian, but I have no problem debating this aspect of history. We're not getting into a religious debate here, it's just about historical accuracy. I could care less if Frank thinks Jesus is god or not.

But back to a side note, I still really think they should make a movie out of Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff. That book is seriously one of the funniest things I've ever read.

 

[BestGirl]

Lets take the tower of Babel story as you mentioned. Nimrod who pulled a lucifer and led the revolt and stupidly built the tower to challange God, who God himself acknowledged as a mighty warrior was in actual fact a black man. Will hollywood cast a blackman in the lead for this or would they pull a Prince of persia and cast a Jake Gylenhaal type? I think we all know the answre to that one.

I'd be more amazed if Hollywood were willing to make a movie in which the hero's name was Nimrod.

 

[craigdbfan]

It was torture porn

Yup it sure was. So was Saw and I enjoyed that movie too.

I'm a fan of gore especially when its tied to iconic (albeit fake/real) characters. Jesus, greeks at the battle of thermopylae, and ninjas in the upcoming Ninja Assassin.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Ive always wanted to see someone do the Golden Legend of St. George. Romanticized obviously to fit a feature length and would include George's martyrdom

 

[Red Mask]

Last temptation of Christ is far superior to Passion.

Having watched neither one competely, I wouldn't know.

I can get the story for FREE at church, every Easter Week.

 

[Heretic]

Do we really want to see things like this????

Michael Bay Presents: The Book Of Numbers

(Trailer sneak peak)

Explosions
"There's how many people?? I demand a recount...by fire!"

OOH WA AH AH AH!

"THERE'S NO WATER!!!! HOW WILL MY WIFE, DAUGHTER AND PUPPY SURVIVE?"

GET UP COME ON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS!!!

"Joshua, you are the chosen one!"

The Book Of Numbers, starring Keanu Reeves as Moses, and Megan Fox as the object of his insatiable lust...

Numbers...action you can count on! In theaters Summer 2011.

 

[bullets]

They should jsut do a film about the book of revelations. That would be a trippy movie.

 

[StrainedEyes]

I'm sure there's an Adam and Eve porno out there somewhere.

 

[Addendum]

There's always nun porn

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Over the years there have been re-makes upon re-makes of old movies; except for the biblical ones (Jesus flicks excluded). I'm really surprised there has never been a re-make of The Ten Commandments or such...then there are other great stories in the Bible that would make great movies:

Samson
The Book of Job
King David
The Walls of Jerico

.............to name but a few.

Is Hollywood scared to touch these stories? There's definitely a market for it. The Passion of The Christ proved that.

Your thoughts.....

What's A Serious Man if not the Book of Job in suburban Minneapolis?

Also, Chuck Heston and the like did a bunch of biblical epics 50 years ago which were pretty darn good. Why not just be happy with those?

'Sides, in post-Breathless/Bonnie and Clyde cinema the concept of biblical epics is pretty dated. They're neat stories and the mythology is still kind of interesting, but since the New Wave movements came along they seem rather old fashioned. Such stories are best suited for classical Hollywood filmmaking, which most audiences don't really respond to anymore. Of course a **** ton of people paid good money to see Jim Caviezel get the crap beaten out of him for two hours, but that kind of lightning usually doesn't strike twice.

 

[Red Mask]

They should jsut do a film about the book of revelations. That would be a trippy movie.

It got screwed in "Knowing".

 

[Golgo-13]

I'd like to see Disney or Pixar do an animated 'Samson' movie.

 

[Fresh Prince]

Snuff film. No drama. No suspense. No intrigue.


A glorified passion play. It was about as entertaining as church. And not those Black Churches where you get some great singing either. And not those White Churches where they drink poison, speak in tongues, and handle snakes either.

I'm talking those churches where you sit in the back and sleep. Or write dirty jokes on the offering slips. Or fart.

Church must not be interesting then.