# Sodom and Gomorrah: the Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 22, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067 "2006-01-22T04:10:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![baronsabato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@baronsabato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baronsabato)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/21 "2006-01-22T11:46:35Z")
Aw nuts. At first glance, I thought this was going to be some awesome epic about Sodom and Gomorrah, complete with shouts of “We want to KNOW those men!!” and fire and brimstone raining down on the Cities of the Plain. Instead it sounds like an episode of [Seventh Heaven written by Jerry Falwell](http://www.sodomandgomorrahthemovie.com/synopsis.htm). Although the actor playing Pastor Raymond looks to be pretty hot, so maybe this movie won’t be so bad after all… And why do I think that the audience for this film will be a healthy mix of Christian fundamentalists and camp-lovin’ gay guys? ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/22 "2006-01-22T13:04:03Z")
> [@ZebraShaSha](#): > > Man, did you check out that forum? Yes. _shudder_ Why do they write “f\*gs”? Is it like the way we write “Og,” or the way Jews write “G-d”? Are they worried about conjuring up a real live fag by speaking the sacred word? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/23 "2006-01-22T13:49:13Z")
> [@cowgirl](#): > > Why do they write “f\*gs”? Is it like the way we write “Og,” or the way Jews write “G-d”? > > Are they worried about conjuring up a real live fag by speaking the sacred word? I thought you had to say it three times in front of a very tastefully arranged mirror to do that. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/24 "2006-01-22T14:21:38Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I thought you had to say it three times in front of a very tastefully arranged mirror to do that. \ ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/25 "2006-01-22T17:11:03Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I thought you had to say it three times in front of a very tastefully arranged mirror to do that. No, that only brings the Candyman. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/26 "2006-01-22T17:14:18Z")
> [@cowgirl](#): > > Yes. _shudder_ > > Why do they write “f\*gs”? Is it like the way we write “Og,” or the way Jews write “G-d”? > > Are they worried about conjuring up a real live fag by speaking the sacred word? I’m guessing there’s an automatic censoring feature built into the board software, and thus it won’t let them write “fags”. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/27 "2006-01-22T17:50:18Z")
> [@cowgirl](#): > > Why do they write “f\*gs”? Didn’t you know that [God hates figs](http://www.godhatesfigs.com)? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/28 "2006-01-22T17:51:29Z")
The synopsis reads like a porno flick. I like the real story a Lot better. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/29 "2006-01-22T17:59:16Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > And that, while they haven’t, as **lonesome loser** noticed, listed the real reasons that the cities were destroyed, the apparently spent _four years_ researching it? Actually, the following verse is quoted on the site: “Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.” If that were the basis for the movie, it might be worth seeing. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/30 "2006-01-22T18:17:18Z")
Anastasios Filactou: I’d tap that. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/31 "2006-01-22T18:36:18Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Is anyone besides me surprised that the filmmakers are an interracial couple? I like how she’s overexposed to the point of being a bespectacled white blob with hair for the sake of the random black guy next to her. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/32 "2006-01-22T19:22:31Z")
I like their tagline 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/33 "2006-01-22T19:48:30Z")
I like the flames shooting up from all the links. Can we do that here? (Yeah, one of the posts I read from a “Guest” flaming {hee hee} the film had all its naughty bits removed and replaced by innocuous terms. “This film is nuts. You guys are all not very nice persons.” started out as “This film is shit. You guys are assholes.” to paraphrase.) ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/34 "2006-01-22T19:51:46Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > Anastasios Filactou: I’d tap that. Wait, is he in the Sodom movie? 'Cause he’s real purty . . . ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/35 "2006-01-22T19:56:00Z")
The synopsis reads like the back cover of a trashy romance novel: > [@](#): > > Provoked by temptation, a tumultuous affair is about to begin, and it will burn as deep as the desires that brought it to life. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/36 "2006-01-22T20:05:52Z")
> [@lonesome loser](#): > > They obviously don’t know why the cities were destroyed. OK. I’ll bite. Why were those cities destroyed? (I am not Christian, and haven’t read the Bible.) ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/37 "2006-01-22T21:18:51Z")
My Whooshdar is going off. If this is a real movie, I’d almost bet money this is a parody of Fundie movies. No mention of personal faith or testimonies or anything in the Cast/Crew except for a generic reference to the Creator of All. Oh yeah- and on the Bible passages page- they spelt Ezekiel wrong. Speaking of Ezekiel, in the interest of full disclosure, this is the Ezekiel passage copied & pasted from the site- complete with the misspelling \*Ezekial 16:49-50 [49] Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. [50] And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.\* Most Biblicists would include the homosexuality in V 50’s “abomination” category. One of Sodom’s sins was sexual violence, straight or gay- female-guised angels wouldn’t have been safe out at night either. Conversely, if the Sodom’s gay community has strolled over to invite the male angels for a night of disco & anal sex, and then has peacefully strolled away when they were refused- I doubt the Nuking would have happened. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/38 "2006-01-22T21:37:33Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > One of Sodom’s sins was sexual violence, straight or gay- female-guised angels wouldn’t have been safe out at night either. Conversely, if the Sodom’s gay community has strolled over to invite the male angels for a night of disco & anal sex, and then has peacefully strolled away when they were refused- I doubt the Nuking would have happened. A nuclear blast would be deemed a perfect ending in a movie like this. Ed Wood would be proud. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/39 "2006-01-22T21:40:22Z")
Posted too soon, I meant to say that: A nuclear blast would be deemed a perfect ending by the fundamentalists in a movie like this. Ed Wood would be proud. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067/40 "2006-01-22T23:08:39Z")
> [@Dewey Finn](#): > > OK. I’ll bite. Why were those cities destroyed? (I am not Christian, and haven’t read the Bible.) IIRC, Sodom’s destruction was triggered when the men in the city wanted to buttfuck the Son of God without properly greeting him first and it all went downhill from there. Dunno about Gamorrah. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sodom-and-gomorrah-the-movie/341067.md?page=3)