I'm sitting in a telephone meeting that's already been going on for almost an hour.

Maybe the filmmakers didn't see much humor in God telling someone to build nuclear bombs.

Instead of being ridiculed by everyone, modern-day Noah gets shipped to Gitmo? Test of faith, indeed.

I saw that trailer this weekend, and I'm wondering if maybe the Flood won't be a bit of a red herring.

That's what I'm waiting to hear.

Maybe it's more about faith and believing in the unseen than an actual Flood?

So, more Abraham-esque in its way...this could work.

But everybody's on board with me about the Jane Austen one?

Or, I just embrace the t pedant tag that never closes.

Congratulations to your sister, Aimee!!!

So far I have called the electric company and switched over my service for the move, called the cable company, who I have to call back in two days because they are idiots, and called the movers who are going to send me an estimate. Mom and I are about to make our second trip over to the new place. We have mainly been packing kitchen stuff that we don't use everyday.

But everybody's on board with me about the Jane Austen one?

The what what? Is this the Jane Austen biopic??

What real event is Evan Almighty based on?

Actually, I phrased badly. It's the concept that there could be another (Capital "F") Flood. In the Biblical Flood story, God very clearly promised that there would never be another planet-destroying-level flood. Blah, blah rainbow-as-a-sign-cakes. I know, many people don't believe in the Bible (and note that friends who thought I was being an anal psycho at this trailer are friends from church). It just bugged me. There's so much in the Bible that's "interpretable," or doesn't make sense in the context of modern times, but this particular promise was pretty black-and-white.

I think you have to let this one go, Epic. I don't think that movie execs really care about stuff like that.

Did it bother you that Mel Gibson added in all sorts of stuff THAT NEVER HAPPENED to The Passion of the Christ?

I guess I don't like the basic premise being "God lied", or "changed His mind", or "couldn't Foresee that Humanity would suck this bad" or whatever.

Seriously? I think the basic premise is "We think that the average American will find this funny." I don't think the studio execs gave one single thought to biblical correlations/implications.

Cereal:

Congrats to your sister, Aimee. Come down here and help me with my twin sister's wedding next month, pleeeaaassseeee?

Becoming Jane isn't really a biopic -- it's more along the lines of Shakespeare in Love or Marie Antoinette.

Ah. Makes sense. I can suspend belief if it's fun and interesting.

Did it bother you that Mel Gibson added in all sorts of stuff THAT NEVER HAPPENED to The Passion of the Christ?

That's what bothered me the most -- all the sorts of Anne Catherine Emmerich (I think that's the mystic's name) visiony stuff. That's where the film probably got closest to anti-Semitism in my eyes, too.

Epic, that said, I think you're adorable and I feel your annoyance at this stuff, but it's a losing battle, I think.

Come down here and help me with my twin sister's wedding next month, pleeeaaassseeee?

Okay!!!!