Posted on 04/11/2014 9:28:54 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
A large budget, plenty of FX, and familiar biblical source material can’t make up for an awful script, and an overall twisted concept from helmer Darren Aronofsky. Ginned up by the controversy gained by its less than faithful adherence to the bible story, Paramount/Regency should see brisk business, at least at first.
The Noah saga comprises Genesis 5:28 through 9:29, and runs around 2300 words. There is little dialog, of course, and it is all spoken by God—inexplicably called the “Creator”—in this movie. Yes, Aronofsky is an atheist, but a Creator with supernatural powers sounds a lot like God to me. At any rate, fleshing out a 138 minute feature based on such limited material will necessitate some flexibility with the story line. And, therein lies this movie’s big problem.
The pic starts off with a crash course in...
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the summation....STELLAR!
“Noah is about what you’d expect from an atheist vegan director with way too much money to spend.
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Thank you.
what biblical source material?
a guy named Noah and a boat and a flood is all they borrowed apparently
“Noah” is to the real story of Noah, what “Abrahan Lincoln, Vampire Hunter” is to the real historical Abraham Lincoln. i.e. there was some truth but it is a work of fiction that differs wildly from the original story/character.
I’m waiting for “Pocahontas, Agent 008 in her Majesty’s Secret Service”.
Or how about, “Moses, Mummy Slayer”.
It as absolutely horrible. No worth the electrons used for its transmission.
The film has not yet made money. Cost 140+ million to make and now it’s dying at theaters after grossing about 1/2 that in the US.
“David, sex fiend and murderer.”
Go see “God’s Not Dead” instead. Not perfect, but pretty good stuff. It’s about a college student who has to make the case that God is not dead, that he created the universe, etc., to a philosophy class with a very hostile professor (Kevin Sorbo - of “Hercules” fame).
IMHO, they should have allowed more time in the movie for the case itself, esp after I had read “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist” by Dr. Norman Geisler, which I also highly recommend. But otherwise, quite well done.
Took my wife, sister-in-law, and a neighbor to see it last weekend. All of us enjoyed it and found it very thought provoking. I have recommended it to others and intend to buy several DVDs when they become available. I loved the party scene with the know-it-all professors. Reminded me of a social event where several professors were discussing what motivates people. I would have had more faith in their comments had any of them had real world experience and conclusions that matched my employee observations.
It figures that this guy could get away with even releasing this fiasco
as a good number of Anericans “think” that Joan Of Arc....was Noah’s wife
The quirky gimmick of calling God "The Creator" seems pointless at best and most likely intentionally offensive, as do so many other decisions from the rock monsters to the idea that Noah was supposed to let mankind die out, or kill his newborn granddaughters, and the result varies from numbingly boring, to absurd, to simply offensive. To be fair to the writer, Methuselah could easily have died in the Flood (based on the ages listed in Genesis - see my last paragraph), so including him might have been done appropriately. I just don't see the Methuselah in the Bible as a magician with an obsession for berries.
Genesis 6:9 Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. - This is not in any way the Noah of the movie.
Genesis 6:18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. - This is not God ordering Noah to murder his granddaughters, leaving that decision up to Noah as the movie's Methuselah implies, or in any way tolerating the idea of wiping out Noah's family.
Genesis 5:25 - When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech. Genesis 5:28 - When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. He named him Noah. Genesis 5:27 - Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died. Genesis 7:6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. Methuselah's age at the time of the flood would have been 187 + 182 + 600 = 969, the age at which the Bible reports his death, one of the very few details the movie gets right, I suspect only because the director could permit that event without interfering with his goal of reversing the Biblical meaning of the Flood.
I hope no one from FR will pay to see this terrible movie. Our money should not support people like this director.
It is Noah’s story the way Hollywood fags would have it, filtered through Algores dystopian vision, or so I’ve been told. I might find out someday when I can watch it for free on the internet, when I don’t have something more important to do, like organizing my desk drawers.
Sounds like it would make a good double feature with Kevin Costner’s “Waterworld.”
They’re both disaster movies, as in the movie is the disaster.
“I hope no one from FR will pay to see this terrible movie. Our money should not support people like this director.”
Good point. The money that would have been spent should go here to Free Republic instead.
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