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Thursday, November 17th, 2022 9:18 PM

Live Poll: Face-Off: Old Testament or New Testament

Which of the Bible's two Testaments do you think has produced better movies?

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls566016901/

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/-vFC-FmZWJQ

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2 years ago

Some more films you might consider mentioning:

Old Testament - Noah's Ark (1928), The Green Pastures (1936), David and Bathsheba (1951), Sodom and Gomorrah (1962), Joseph (1995), Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)**, Noah (2014)

Apocrypha - Judith of Bethulia (1914)

New Testament - From the Manger to the Cross (1912), Salome (1922), The King of Kings (1927), The Robe (1953)*, Ben-Hur (1959)*, The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Jesus of Nazareth (1977)**, The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Left Behind: The Movie (2000)*, The Nativity Story (2006), Left Behind (2014)*, Last Days in the Desert (2015), Paul: Apostle of Christ (2018)

*: These movies are heavily fictionalized, so you may or may not want to include them.

**: TV & Video

(I've emboldened the ones that I think are most worth mentioning.)

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@timothy_gray_el34lojg1aih1​ I've added some of your suggestions as examples that were more Biblically accurate. Thank you.

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1 year ago

Bump.

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1 year ago

I suppose you could add Face-Off in the title:

Face-Off: Old Testament or New Testament

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@Jessica​ Done.

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1 year ago

Congratulations, @themoviesmith!

Face-Off: Old Testament or New Testament

Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/-vFC-FmZWJQ/

Please change "Poll Suggestion" to "Live Poll" in the discussion thread title and change the settings so that it appears under "Praise" now, rather than "Idea."

 

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@dan_dassow​ Thanks Dan!

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1 year ago

The Bible, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, whatever, I just don't get the appeal of fantasy sagas.