Why is there no attempt at ANY biblical or theological accuracy?

Because it's a goddamn movie. Who cares! It has an angel kicking ass, Dennis Quaid being angry, and lots of guns.

No biblical accuracy because nobody knows if the bible is a work of fiction or if it's real, therefore leaving it open to changing whatever they want in movies that deal with religious subjects.

I personally think their take on religion in this movie was pretty awesome.



You would think killing people would make them like you but it doesn't. It just makes them dead.

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I have to agree with you on this. I have gotten so tired of seeing some of these Christian Bible based sci-fi movies that seem as though they were written by a 13 year old who has watched too many b-movie attempts at this very same garbage. Only a small handful of movies out there have made it worth the time to watch. It really is a shame, because the bible has a great number of really compelling and fantastic stories. But either you get crackpots who make into a joke, like Legion or you get overly simplistic uber-religious mumbo jumbo like the charismatic/evangelistic people keep putting out to try and counter pop culture.

~~If nothing exists, how would you know?~~

Of course it has no biblical basis. It needs none just as the 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' anime series and movies need none. The movie's universe implies that all bets were off between God and mankind, and there were a lot of things unknowable to mankind in this game of cosmic chess.
--Dancougar82

I'm constantly amazed how far people are up their own a**es! FFS it's a work of fiction! It may not be a particularly good film, but criticise it for that, not for the fact that it didn't fit in with someone's ideology.

It's a MOVIE... who says it has to be biblically or theologically accurate?


"This script writers didn't even try to appear to have done any form of research and it shows in their foolish movie devoid of any real theological thought when it is supposed to be about God and angels."

you say this as if god and angels are real and should be treated as such when making a film. Everyone knows that what's in the bible isn't strictly true or related to anything that really happened, a glorified story book at best!

So what if there is evidence to suggest that there was a real person called Jesus... the son of an all powerful creator I'm sure he was not.

And sure there is real evidence to suggest that a flood happened... but many texts from around the world suggest such a thing at a similar time but none make it out to be some crazy story like Noah and the Ark as the bible does... again.. the bible is a just a glorified story book, nothing more.

and this movie isn't about mocking peoples faith or any of the craziness that you're talking either.... it's just a story!!! and last time I checked the bible wasn't copyrighted so... people can use names and words like "god" and "angel" as much as they please, right ?

ps. the part where you said that Jesus should make an appearance... I almost nailed myself to a cross to stop myself from laughing so hard.

you're ridiculous and your post is ridiculous.

"The world moves for love, It kneels before it in awe" - The Village

First off, this movie sucks hardcore without the incredibly wrong theology within it. That said, I'm am so very tired of movies using biblical stupidity to make crappy films.

The idea that God wiped the slate clean once, so obviously God will do it again ticks me off to no end, mostly because after wiping out almost all of mankind, God then told Noah that mankind would not be wiped away again. Easy bible story, Noah and the Ark, and yet so many film makers simply stop reading before the end of the story. "OMG, God has detroyed everything with a flood, let's do it differently because God will obviously want to wipe out mankind again". Seriously? Is anyone even trying?

Also, while angels and God are spoken of profusely, the fact that this movie claims the God of Christian faith, then Jesus should have probably made an appearance, you know, if for no other reason than to set the angels straight, "You know guys, I came and died so that mankind would live, so maybe wiping out the 'last hope for humanity' is pretty stupid. Also, if the child is really the last hope for humanity, then the child is probably ME, which means that God didn't tell you to wipe out mankind and kill the child since the child is me, and I am God. Thanks for your attention, now go back to your choir practice."

I watched the trailers thinking that it was Michael the angel fighting against the legions of evil to protect a child. I can get into that I guess since even if it isn't biblically accurate, it is at least in line with muddled theological thinking. But, the legions of angels coming down to wipe out mankind on God's orders by killing the unborn "last hope for humanity" is offensive to anyone who believes in God and has read the Bible. Not just the few verses that argumentative people memorize to show how "terrible" the bible is, I mean read the whole bible and then think how terribly offensive this movie is. You want to make an atheist friendly movie and mock Christian faith, then at least try to do it without being so obviously and offensively blind to your subject matter and read your source material. You want to mock the bible, God, and faith, then read the bible and some quality theological texts and then try not to be a jerk.

This script writers didn't even try to appear to have done any form of research and it shows in their foolish movie devoid of any real theological thought when it is supposed to be about God and angels.