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8 reasons for Catholics to see the upcoming Noah movie
http://www.catholic.org ^ | March 13, 2014 | Scott Landry

Posted on 03/16/2014 9:25:11 AM PDT by NKP_Vet

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1 posted on 03/16/2014 9:25:11 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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2 posted on 03/16/2014 9:39:01 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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Oh, get bent Alex. Run to the mods.


3 posted on 03/16/2014 9:40:31 AM PDT by Hacksaw (I haven't taken the 30 silvers.)
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To: NKP_Vet; newgeezer

In the advertisement they call it the most epic story ever told. Really?


4 posted on 03/16/2014 9:42:50 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (No one can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.)
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I’;; tale “The Passion of the Christ” as the mmost epic story ever told!


5 posted on 03/16/2014 9:52:46 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Oops
I’ll take “The Passion of the Christ” as the most epic story ever told!


6 posted on 03/16/2014 9:53:35 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: NKP_Vet

The review doesn’t seem to bad. Might be worth seeing on the big screen.


7 posted on 03/16/2014 9:56:16 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: NKP_Vet

I just go to movies because I love movies. I really don’t pay much mind to “issues”. I am there to be entertained not to have a political or religious discussion.


8 posted on 03/16/2014 9:59:21 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: NKP_Vet

I suppose no matter how literal one takes a Biblical story and translates it to the silver screen, it will miss it by an inch (best case, highly unlikely) or a mile or several miles (most likely case). As much as the film industry attempts to reverently (rare in more recent decades)present these wonderful depictions, the word of God is best understood straight from one’s own reading of it,from the pulpit or as read by family members or friends. My two cents. God Bless.


9 posted on 03/16/2014 9:59:30 AM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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To: NKP_Vet

It looks like a very interesting movie, and I’m curious to see how they handle the story. I believe they might even bring ideas from “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, which is another, and similar, flood story from, I believe, the ancient Sumerian culture.


10 posted on 03/16/2014 10:09:00 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Alex Murphy

I’m fine with spreading the word of yet another phony movie from the cesspool that distorts our inherited knowledge of western religion.


12 posted on 03/16/2014 10:23:30 AM PDT by sgtyork (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

We are getting a flood (pun intended) of Christian and religious message flicks. Son of God, Noah, Heaven is Real, and I forgot the title of the family film by Focus on the Family.

There are a lot of “scholars” here who criticize, nitpick, and try to run people off. But I think we should be thankful that we’re getting what’s coming out instead of Hangover IV.


13 posted on 03/16/2014 10:24:08 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: NKP_Vet

If it is as I seem to recall hearing somewhere an environmental flick, I probably won’t like it.

But I am not expecting it to be an OT “Jesus of Nazareth” so I might enjoy it as my expectations are pretty low.


14 posted on 03/16/2014 10:31:44 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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“I just go to movies because I love movies. I really don’t pay much mind to “issues”. I am there to be entertained not to have a political or religious discussion.”

I Haven’t seen this movie nor am I likely to since I don’t doubt, based upon life experience that it would anger me at some point. Maybe I miss a good movie here and there but I save myself a hell of a lot of annoyance and regret of the ticket price and time.

Unfortunately film makers don’t just tell tales to entertain anymore. Today they propagandize by forcefully presenting a series of related events that they hope will result in implanting a particular view. Could many of them even make a “Maltese Falcon” now without inserting their weird religion into it?. In the matter of any “True Story” or a story drawn from some actual source Fidelity is a thing of the first import. Many people believe without much reflection things that are presented to them in an orderly, sensical way.

Propagandists know this and value the phenomenon. I miss going to the movies and enjoying a well told tale. What recent movie/s that you saw was in your opinion nothing more than a well told and entertaining tale?


15 posted on 03/16/2014 10:33:24 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: NKP_Vet

The solution to this ‘problem’ is far better catechism and far better Pre-Canna instruction.

The root of the problem is the very poor leadership of the local bishops and their instructions to the parish level priests as to what is truly relevant to the weekly sermon and religious instruction. Couple that with the abandonment of the Catholic Schools by many of the diocese and we leave exposed more and more Catholic souls to the spiritual death that is the secular schools and their societal teachings.

It is difficult to combat hours of highly secular and sinful teachings a week in a single hour every Sunday. That is IF the ‘Catholic’ actually bothers to show up every Sunday. We already KNOW that fewer than forty percent actually do.

This is NOT a problem with the ordinary Catholic it is the direct result and problem caused by the terrible leadership and almost every level of the Church hierarchy.

Simply put: Actions and decisions have consequences. To get remarried after a divorce that is not subject to annulment is to live in a state of sin. It is committing fornication. It is no less a mortal sin than homosexual sex or bestiality. They are all sins of the flesh. All cut a person off from God’s grace and expose them to the terrible truth of an eternity in Hell without the benefit of being in the presence of God.


16 posted on 03/16/2014 10:39:10 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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inadvertently posted comment here as apposed to the proper board. Please ignore post.


17 posted on 03/16/2014 10:41:15 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: NKP_Vet; NYer; zot; Salvation; Alex Murphy

A hodgepodge of thoughts: Greatest biblical epic: The 10 Commandments. I don’t go to movies expecting ‘literal’ interpretation of the Bible; However the closest is probably “The Gospel of John.”

We, as Christians, should use biblical movies to further the spreading of our faith.

And, most importantly about this movie: “will it reveal the true reason why Noah didn’t make sure a pair of unicorns didn’t get on the Ark.”


18 posted on 03/16/2014 11:19:00 AM PDT by GreyFriar ( Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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But I think we should be thankful that we’re getting what’s coming out instead of Hangover IV.

No kidding, huh?

19 posted on 03/16/2014 12:03:03 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: TalBlack

You might like this comment from Mark Steyn [WARNING: Plot spoiler for “Non-Stop”]:

“But even so a film still needs to be about something. Hitchcock called it “the MacGuffin” - the pretext that kick-starts the plot, and explains why good guys and bad guys are chasing each other up hill and down dale. It’s the secret formula, the microfilm, whatever - see The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, North By Northwest... Hitchcock defined the MacGuffin as “the mechanical element that usually crops up in any story. In crook stories it is almost always the necklace and in spy stories it is almost always ‘the papers’.” A MacGuffin in that sense principally motivates the villains.

What motivates the villains these days? In the perfunctory “monologue-ing” speech in Non-Stop (I’d preface this with “Warning: Plot Spoiler”, but it barely qualifies as a “plot”, and therefore can’t really be said to make much difference anyway), the head bad guy explains that his father died on 9/11 and so he wants to blow up a plane to show how, despite post-9/11 security, it’s still really easy to blow up a plane...”

http://www.steynonline.com/6163/from-macguffin-to-macnuffin

For the biblical Noah, this is the “MacGuffin”:

“And the Lord said, “I will wipe this human race I have created from the face of the earth. Yes, and I will destroy every living thing—all the people, the large animals, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and even the birds of the sky. I am sorry I ever made them.” But Noah found favor with the Lord.”

In the movie? Well, I haven’t seen it. If I hear good things about it, I might risk getting a used DVD someday from Amazon.


20 posted on 03/16/2014 12:12:10 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (I sooooo miss America!)
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