Posted on 10/31/2014 9:00:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It is easy for Hollywerd to screw up a good story, it is difficult for them to make a good movie from a book ( Referring to LaHaye's books not the Bible.).
To this day, I still remember the silence of the crowd at intermission - everyone filed in and out of the theater lobby barely speaking because we were simply stunned.
I had talked myself out of seeing Noah. I’m a frequent movie viewer.
Then my wife’s bible study group asked me if I would do a critique in anticipation of them seeing the movie.
Not only was it “off-track” as far as the Bible was concerned, the movie was terrible. My technical opinion.
The ladies deferred and I got some free popcorn.
Love some Christian Bale acting, but I like Russell Crowe also. Don’t expect much but another flop.
What next? Some Iman will do a biopic of the Pope?
Left out a word: It is easy for Hollywerd to screw up a good story, it is difficult for them to make a good movie from a Terrible book ( Referring to LaHaye’s books not the Bible.).
Anyone with half a brain, who can READ a Bible and just spend a few minutes THINKING can kinda get a better feel for the real Moses.
As you stated:”Moses was 83 years old when he freed Israel and wandered the desert with Israel until he was a bit over 120 years old...”
That, and surely Mr. Bale understands that Moses was RAISED in the household of Pharoah - as an ‘adopted’ but favored son -for years, before realizing his true heritage was that of the millions of SLAVES they were oppressing. Talk about messing with one’s mind! But he ultimately knew what was RIGHT, even though it appeared to harm him personally.
He could’ve continued living as royalty and passing the buck to some other generation. He didn’t. He MANNED-UP and led 3 million contentious and complaining people toward who knows where they were to end up. Not an easy task. But Moses stuck it out, sought GOD every step of the way and SUCCEEDED in the end.
Sounds like a very admirable MAN to me, Christian.
What a wonderful memory. They don’t make movies like that any more.
I knew the author Jonathan Kirsch during the time of this book’s printing. He is a good man. As a silly aside, he thought I was very striking-looking and praised me for my writing. I wish him well.
What’s with the ‘overlay’ voice recording on the trailers re recovering druggies?
annoying...
go direct to YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rkAccVSPfA
BTW - wonder when they’ll catch up and acknowledge/admit who Moses REALLY was - half Hebrew and HALF Egyptian ... who was not only raised as a Prince of Egypt, but sat on the throne as Pharaoh - Pharaoh Akhenaten
Go to Amazon and search ‘Moses Pharaoh ‘
BTW - this cast pales beside Charles Heston and Yul Brynner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahkwQhQZWG8
This is the one to watch
It’s funny, too. All my mind’s eye memories are waist high in that crowd of adults. I also remember the entire movie.
Bale like most actors is so stupid someone will have to read him the ten commandments.
I have vivid memories of seeing it for the first time as well. I should buy the movie.
I mean CHARLTON Heston!!!
R.I.P, “Moses” aka Charlton Heston
a great actor
an honorable man with core values - as apposed to today’s actors
The world needs more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkS5i8qpEXA
I wonder. The population growth f the world in 1 BC extrapolating from Roman, Gupta, Parthian and Han sources was 100 million. 500BC at the time of Cyrus the great was 50 -70 million. I would say it was 50 million at the time of the exodus (around 1500-1200 BC). 400K seems more plausible considering these as the remnants of the Hyksos
Moses didn't free 400,000 slaves from Egypt.
God delivered HIS people from the Egyptians.
They didn't have a community organizer like Obama?
Moses to Pharoah
doesn't have quite the same zing as
Typical atheistic take. In reality, despite being shown unmistakable evidence of the reality of God and His love and power towards then, the Israelites (too often like us) immediately whined and complained, when tested for a short time, even accusing Moses of contriving to to kill them!
If anyone was irrational it was them, but Moses is a profound example of a brave leader (you go face Pharaohs and make such claims to do what you neverread or saw God do) and pastor and pastoral care, manifesting stedfast sacrificial unrequited love, even to being willing to be damned if it would save Israel.
While also being meek (power under control) when challenged, literally in dependance and faith in almighty God, but not weak, as in Egypt he took matters into his own hands out of zeal for his people.
His words and actions at the end when the Israelites "provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips," (Psalms 106:33) - and which i have done - was uncharacteristic of him, and cost him (but later he was in the mount with Christ), yet show me any pastor who has endured such a whining double-minded multitude who has done better, save for the Lord Himself. Glory to Him.
Which pope?
One of THESE?
Surely Mentally Ill, 'Barbaric' would fit at least ONE of them...
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
More Mormon 'history'?
Exodus 2:1-2
Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son.
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