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Casting......Noahs Ark a comedy?


Ok..Someone please tell me this is not going to be a comedy! I've seen the cast listing and it scares me.

Jason Lee as Japeth?
Jason Mewes, of Jay and Silent Bob fame, as Ham!!??

Don't get me wrong.... they and others listed in the cast are comedic actors in their own right..... but.... I don't see our Grand Creator taking to lightly to a movie that makes fun of the seriousness involved this one.

Wickedness was rampant during that time because of the Nephilim ("fellers" who may have been the roots of Greek Mythology). These 'giants' raped women and were very brutal and violent. God even "felt hurt in his heart" because of what happened. God saw that there was "badness throughout the earth", and that's why he caused the deluge.

Could you imagine a cast like this for a Holocaust movie? (thats how the flood account should be viewed as well)

"I started out with nothing - And I still have most of it left !"

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"Don't get me wrong.... they and others listed in the cast are comedic actors in their own right..... but.... I don't see our Grand Creator taking to lightly to a movie that makes fun of the seriousness involved this one."

I don't know what's worse; the fact that your actually offended by people exercising their literary right to deliver a humorous slant on the Noah's Ark story OR that you actually believe in what the Bible has to say about it to begin with. Don't get me wrong, I have no problems with people and their respective faith, but I do have to question one's sensibility when they read the document strictly and not as it was meant to be, as a metaphor (or whatever you want to call it) for life and how to live. Give these guys a break. They aren't out to do harm, in fact humor is a great way to get a message across to young kids, especially if its done well. Lighten up, man...it's people like you that hurt the world more than you know by expressing such oversensitive thoughts.

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"Don't get me wrong.... they and others listed in the cast are comedic actors in their own right..... but.... I don't see our Grand Creator taking to lightly to a movie that makes fun of the seriousness involved this one."

I don't know what's worse; the fact that your actually offended by people exercising their literary right to deliver a humorous slant on the Noah's Ark story OR that you actually believe in what the Bible has to say about it to begin with. Don't get me wrong, I have no problems with people and their respective faith, but I do have to question one's sensibility when they read the document strictly and not as it was meant to be, as a metaphor (or whatever you want to call it) for life and how to live. Give these guys a break. They aren't out to do harm, in fact humor is a great way to get a message across to young kids, especially if its done well. Lighten up, man...it's people like you that hurt the world more than you know by expressing such oversensitive thoughts.

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"Don't get me wrong.... they and others listed in the cast are comedic actors in their own right..... but.... I don't see our Grand Creator taking to lightly to a movie that makes fun of the seriousness involved this one."

I don't know what's worse; the fact that your actually offended by people exercising their literary right to deliver a humorous slant on the Noah's Ark story OR that you actually believe in what the Bible has to say about it to begin with. Don't get me wrong, I have no problems with people and their respective faith, but I do have to question one's sensibility when they read the document strictly and not as it was meant to be, as a metaphor (or whatever you want to call it) for life and how to live. Give these guys a break. They aren't out to do harm, in fact humor is a great way to get a message across to young kids, especially if its done well. Lighten up, man...it's people like you that hurt the world more than you know by expressing such oversensitive thoughts.

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could you please explain this "metaphor" more for me?

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I think it can be interpreted as a metaphor for believing/preparings in/for things yet to come. And being faithful/stoic during troubling times.

-It could also be seen that when the writing's on the wall- we should prepare for trouble ahead and keep up hope even when the trouble hits.

Of course these are very secularized ways of looking at the Bible...and that tends to scare a lot of Christians.

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Clearly Bill Cosby should be the voice of god..

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Yes, it's a comedy.

From the Wikipedia article on this same movie: Noah's Ark: The New Beginning is an upcoming animated film featuring an ensemble voice cast. It is a retelling of the Biblical story of Noah's Ark, told from the point of view of the animals on the ark...

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Praise science! Someone actually gave a straight bloody answer. Thankyou kind sir!

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C'mon, it's a work of fiction derived from Babylonian and Sumerian flood myths. You realize that there is no physical way in this universe the events of Noah could possibly have ever occurred.

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If a god were to exist, then he or his followers wouldn't be worth my respect in the LEAST considering all the unnecessary hatred and death in this world. This god figure people worship is a worthless, evil, primitive fairy tale, and those that follow it are no better than the mucus-latent scum that collect in the gutters, no matter how many time the sweepers come by.

"God is a crutch for the weak and the scared"

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I'm curious. How do people like you respond to the existence of the movie 'Dogma'?

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Just as long as it's not a PIXAR movie!

LOL!!!

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