Posted on 03/30/2014 7:14:50 AM PDT by beebuster2000
Noah. don't bother, painful experience.
major beef with the movie is just the twisted plot. crazy long, the two kids sitting behind me long about 2 hours in totally lost it. i didn't blame them. drags on and on.
basically a bunch of time up front in the movie doing what exactly? not sure, Noah and family wander around eating moss and stuff, they don't eat meat, thats evil. those that eat meat will be destroyed by the Creator. ok fine, accept that in the movie and move on, but its weird. the meat eater theme continues throughout. as does the green BS about planet stewardship etc etc, ok, again fine, lets move on.
then Noah teams up with these fallen angels who live in these really stupid and silly looking giant rock bodies. What? anyway, those guys build the ark and they really look dumb like a kids cartoon. again, fine lets move on.
big battle as the ark starts to float. good.
now the really painful part, the ark trip, one of the babes is pregnant and eventually delivers twins. BUT, Noah goes nuts on the trip, like his meds run out. he now wants to kill his family this goes on and on and on.
please Creator, make the flood stoop so the movie can end and i can go to the bathroom.
FINALLY, the ark lands, but we don't get to see the animals get off. did i mention that they have been "asleep" for like 10 months? anyway, we do get to see Noah, now drunk, naked and living in a cave. Why? we don't know. Apparantly he gets his scrip renewed and gets back on the meds because he comes back to the family and helps dig around in the dirt.
I think Emma Watson is cute. She’s the next door type.
And keep in mind that “Day after Tomorrow” and “2012” totals aren’t adjusted for inflation.
There is no room for God in Socialism. The State is God.
There is no room for God in Socialism. The State is God.
Tonto, I don’t support liberals. A movie is a movie and I didn’t go see the movie thinking I was going to be inspired by the word of God. I like those Lord of the Rings movies and I figured it might be something like that. From the looks of the box office so far looks like I am not the only way that can tell the difference in a realistic biblical movie and a fantasy adventure, which Noah is. Roma Downey and her leftwing husband made that God-awful Bible mini-series. Now that one I didn’t like in the least because they passed it off as being true to the Word of God, which it was not.
know what you mean man, one can become over basked.
wow, that hurt deeply. and its not really PC is it? i mean the retarded part.
Sorry about that.
and its not really PC is it?
No.
i mean the retarded part.
They ALL float down here, Jimmy.
Since veggie Cain was driven by envy he's the Bible's first clearly identifiable libtard. They've been with us since before the world's oldest profession, and probably supplied the first ones.
Let’s see how Noah’s $16 million looks a week from now, when the next Captain America’s opening numbers come in.
Know some Libs that saw and advanced screening if it. They’re furious, think it was a direct attack on the Obama Admin, and specifically the surveillance scandals.
Being rich helps that a lot.
When you pay money to a studio that has an atheist, liberal, leftist, ‘green’ and enviro-whacko director producing this agenda for PROPAGANDA — you’re SUPPORTING LIBERALS!!
Let’s make it clear what is going on here ... as compared to other people shopping in normal society.
When someone goes to the store, there is probably a liberal on the other side of the cash register, getting a paycheck and your purchases are going partly to that paycheck. However, he’s not propagating propaganda as part of that job in selling that product to you.
That manager in the store might be a liberal — but — he’s not engaged in the “job” of propagating some liberal propaganda directly as part of that job he’s doing in selling those goods.
You pull into the gas station - the owner might be a liberal and you’re paying money there - but - some liberal propaganda is not what he’s selling at that gas station.
You buy a computer, and you’re probably supporting a whole slew of liberals down the supply chain of getting that computer to you, from top to bottom. It’s inevitable. However, when you buy that computer, you’re not paying for a liberal, leftist agenda as the product you’re buying in that computer. You’re simply buying a product, which is that computer.
NOW ... on the other hand ... when you’re dealing with a DIRECTOR and a STUDIO who is DIRECTLY DISSEMINATING PROPAGANDA as the PRODUCT YOU’RE BUYING ... then “YOU ARE SUPPORTING LIBERALS” and “YOU ARE SUPPORTING LIBERAL PROPAGANDA TO BE DISTRIBUTED!!!
This atheist director made it a point that he was going to make the MOST UNBIBLICAL MOVIE POSSIBLE, EVER, IN THE HISTORY OF MOVIES about a Biblical subject — and YOU ARE SUPPORTING THAT AGENDA ... no question about it.
You are also supporing THEFT!!
The producers hid the information that they were making an unbiblical movie, knowing very well what their director said. And - they ADVERTISED TO THE PUBLIC that this was going to be FAITHFUL TO THE BIBLE. What a lie! They got their money through a LIE and misleading the public into thinking it was “one thing” — when it was the exact opposite. Selling a product by LYING and taking the public’s money by subterfuge and lying advertising is THEFT!!
YOU ARE SUPPORTING THEFT!!
Now ... let’s say you go to a movie and it’s a new Star Wars movie. They say it’s going to be a continuation of the previous Star Wars movie and move the story forward. The public knows exactly what they’re getting. It’s a science fiction movie and it’s in the same vein as the previous Star Wars movies. The public knows what they’re buying and they are not being fooled and their money is not being stolen.
Let’s say you’ve seen a movie that is advertised as a docudrama about the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln. Now, if you end up seeing something about George Washington and the Revolutionary War — you’re going to be real mad and are going to want your money back, no matter if the movie is a perfect movie about the Revolutionary War. They told you it was about the Civil War.
If you go to a movie that you are told is a detective drama/mystery ... and instead you get a cartoon about some lion in Africa and a boy — you’re going to demand your money back. You’ve been LIED TO.
HOWEVER ... I can understand that some people actually got snookered and they thought they were getting something else, in this movie - Noah - because they were lied to.
In your case - though - you are COMPLICIT with this LYING, ATHEIST, LIBERAL, LEFTIST, GREEN, ENVIRO-WHACKO DIRECTOR ... because you actually KNOW what a lie has been propagated to the public. You’re going right along with it. You’re actually SUPPORTING LIBERALS and supporting THEFT BY LYING.
That’s absolutely shameful for someone who says they are a Freeper!!
NOW ... on the other hand ... when you’re dealing with a DIRECTOR and a STUDIO who is DIRECTLY DISSEMINATING PROPAGANDA as the PRODUCT YOU’RE BUYING ... then “YOU ARE SUPPORTING LIBERALS” and “YOU ARE SUPPORTING LIBERAL PROPAGANDA TO BE DISTRIBUTED!!!
That sounds a lot like what I said to a “conservative” who went to see “Avatar.” He “hemmed and hawwed” when I asked him about the way they painted Marines as the bad guys. When I finally told him he could have saved a lot of money by staying at home and watching his kid’s “Pochahontas” video he stomped off in a snit.
It’s a good thing I don’t go to a lot of movies. I believe the last one I paid to go to was ... “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” ... with Ben Stein narrating.
It was hammered by all the pro-evolutionists and those who are anti-Bible, saying that (basically) the God of the Bible doesn’t know anything about science, and so the Bible can’t be correct in regards to any scientific matters ... :-) ... never mind that God created it all.
“When you pay money to a studio that has an atheist, liberal, leftist, ‘green’ and enviro-whacko director producing this agenda for PROPAGANDA”
The movie was about God destroying the world because of man’s wickedness. Nothing at all about tree huggers. The man that directed the movie was raised an orthdox jew. I could care less if he calls himself an athiest or an alien now or Gonzilla. He was raised Jew and Jews had memorized the Old Testament by time they were ten years old. If you like movies in the same vein as Lords of the Rings go see it. If you want to learn more about Noah, trying reading your damn Bible for a change. It’s right there, not in the movies, and quit thinking you’re gonna learn about the Lord from going to movies. It don’t work that way.
Even though you actually know how anti-God and against the message,of the Bible this movie is (in spite of the fact that the studio lied about it and said it was faithful to the Bible) ... you seemed to have missed the posted articles on it, here on Free Republic ...
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20)
This verse repeatedly came to mind while reflecting on this movie because the film often flipped biblical morality on its head. It’s important to realize that the director and cowriter, Darren Aronofsky, is a self-professed atheist. This fact alone doesn’t mean that he couldn’t make a good film on the Bible’s history (especially if he seeks advice from Bible-believing Christians), but it should make believers wary of what he is going to present. Nearly every moral issue seen in Noah is inverted.
As mentioned earlier, Noah, renowned in the Bible for being a righteous man, is portrayed in the second half of the film as a psychopath bent on wiping out humanity. He is far more concerned about the plants and animals than he is about people.
Rather than being the holy God described in Scripture, the god of this film is a vengeful being who remains silent when Noah pleads for an answer about his pregnant daughter-in-law. The god of this film is shown as using the cruel process of evolution (survival of the fittest) to bring about Adam and Eve, meaning that billions of animals must have lived and died long before Adam sinned (more on the evolutionary teachings below). This pro-evolution approach turns the film’s god into a cosmic hypocrite. He wants Noah to save all the animals on the ark so they could repopulate a new paradise where man is absent, yet in the process of creating the world he allowed billions of animals to suffer and die long before man was ever on the scene. Why would he have ever created man in the first place?
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/noah-movie/detailed-review
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Those who know the Bible were aware of how little the script followed Scripture. Those who didn’t know the Bible still didn’t know it when the final credits appeared. It is to the movie studio’s credit that they chose to even make a film with a biblical theme, but the torturous fiction that was the final cut partly written and directed by an atheist is a discredit to both the studio and the actors and is, in result, worse than having not made it at all. Remember the old adage of making a bottle of poison look nicer by removing the ugly skull and crossbones label and replacing it with one that read “essence of peppermint?” The bottle now looks pretty, but is even more deadly because of its deceptive label.
To a generation that already rejects the Genesis account as pure fiction, mixing a little Bible with a film of impure fiction is even worse – and certainly more dangerous to faith. For those who have not seen the movie and may think my judgments too harsh, please consider the following.
The film presents the sole purpose of Noah and the Ark as the preservation of the innocent animals. The pre-Flood world is portrayed as barren and denuded as the result of human corruption. What could be more evil and deserving of judgment in ecologically-minded Hollywood? Therefore, as Noah interprets God’s purpose, mankind – all of mankind, including Noah and his family – are supposed to die so the new world can continue with only with an innocent animal population.
The Ark has nothing to do with the salvation of mankind, but with its punishment. Noah was only chosen to save the animals, and he is so intent on fulfilling his task to see humanity destroyed that he announces to his family on the Ark that they must all die, for “the Creation is only safe when mankind is dead.” For this reason, when Noah learns that Shem’s wife is pregnant, he declares that he will murder her baby, if it is a girl, as soon as it is born! The ensuing drama aboard the Ark has Mrs. Noah trying to help her expectant kids escape, a crazed Noah stalking his newly born twin granddaughters, and Shem and Ham trying to kill their father (especially after he sets fire to the couple’s escape raft).
Add to the drama the evil meat-eating king of the old world, Tubal-Cain, who sneaked on board and remained hidden throughout the voyage, only to finally die in a knife fight with Noah when the Ark lands and breaks in two.
In the end, Noah spares his family because of “love.” Mankind is not so bad after all, for as Mrs. Noah explains, “all the heart needs is love to be good.” God, who has remained silent through the drama on the Ark, despite Noah’s pleas for divine guidance, is shown to have stayed away because, as Noah’s adopted Cainite daughter (the wife of Shem who had been miraculously cured of bareness by a healing touch from Methuselah) states, God wanted to let Noah chose whether mankind should live or not.
So, in spite of the ecological hype, it is about humanism in the end. The film closes with newly sober Noah brandishing his snake-skin phylactery (a relic from the serpent in the Garden of Eden) and telling his kids to be “fruitful and multiply” as a rainbow appears (sans the Noahic covenant).
http://www.worldofthebible.com/update.htm
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What does matter, though, is The Message. The Message is everything. And this is where Aronofsky is the snake in the garden. Using $135 million, he and Paramount have brilliantly and deviously disguised the Pagan god Gaia as the God of the Old Testament … as THE God.
And let’s give the Devil his due: using the story of Noah to twist Christianity into something it is not, is a genius piece of propagandizing that is sure to lead many away from God under the mistaken belief that through left-wing environmentalism they are coming closer to Him.
Aronofsky is the anti-Michelangelo: a master craftsman using his talents to a dishonest and wicked end.
Let me put it this way: According to Aronofsky’s mesmerizing multi-million dollar masterwork, God will later hand Moses only One Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Harm Mother Earth Beyond What Is Absolutely Necessary to Live In a Tent as a Vegetarian.
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If Paramount and Aronofsky had simply made a movie about a homicidal man and his two dysfunctional oversexed sons, who descended from aliens to a world filled with magical snake skins and lava monsters, but named them differently than Noah, Ham and Shem, it would fly just fine.
People would watch the movie, watch them get on a huge boat, watch the earth flood, and say to themselves: “Hey, this really reminds of me that story in the Bible where the guy builds the ark and all the animals get in, isn’t that the story of Noah?”
Christians would watch and and be like “wow he put some Biblical references in this fantasy movie, let’s give him points for using the Bible as inspiration!”
But no.
They got greedy, and decided to make a movie targeted at the “faith audience” but, true to their Hollywood spots and stripes, they couldn’t actually make a Biblically accurate movie and do it with A-list actors and such, because, well, that’s so 1950’s and 1960’s (”The Greatest Story Ever Told”, “The Ten Commandments”). They could have made a movie like “Ben Hur” and put Noah in it, but kept him in his Biblical character, and told the story.
Except, the Biblical story of the flood is not really a happy ending for anyone else except Noah and his family, right? I mean how would it be watching this movie about a guy who doesn’t get on the ark? No twist ending there. People don’t like unhappy endings, especially when they know it from the beginning.
So Paramount and Aronofsky took Noah and made it into “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” without realizing they were making a farce.
http://thanks-project.blogspot.com/2014/03/noah-classic-blunder.html
Try reading your Bible if you want to know the word of God and quit thinking you’re gonna find it in the secular world of movies. All these threads about something that came out of Hollywood are a waste of bandwidth. But if you insist on getting your information about God from the movies, check out the below movie. Why do I recommend it? It does not deviate from scripture. Word-for-word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_of_John_%28film%29
The Gospel of John is a 2003 film that is the story of Jesus’ life as recounted by the Gospel of John.[1] It is a motion picture that has been adapted for the screen on a word-for-word basis from the American Bible Society’s Good News Bible. This three-hour epic feature film follows John’s Gospel precisely, without additions to the story from other Gospels, nor omission of complex passages.
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Americans are a population ripe for another Caesar.
Bread and circuses.
They are too ignorant and stupid to even realize when they are being flim-flammed. And Hollyweird Flim Flams with nearly every picture they put out.
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