Noah

[fosing]

Because it's a better story? This is a perfectly good story.

epic of gilgamesh had more plot twists, and interesting characters with room for character development. noah's story is a bit monotonous.

besides the fact that noah's story was a derivative copy of gilgamesh.

 

[fosing]

Will he fight a tiger in this movie?

nah, mowgli from jungle book is on the other side of the library.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

The trailer looks ok...a bit dark. My only problem with this film, the cast. Hollywood whitewashing at its best I know why they do it, but still, it feels and looks like another religious movie with a bunch of European actors playing middle eastern characters. Seriously, those accents

 

[fosing]

U guys realize this is based off Aronofsky's 2011 graphic novel, right.

didnt see any 6 armed aliens in the trailer.

 

[CelticPredator]

^ Trying to get the Christians into the theater to make a **** load of money.

 

[Frank]

Giants........

I agree with just enjoying the story for what it is and lose the pretentiousness of insisting its accurate to stories which are impossible to verify their own accuracy anyway.

It's like many say, the Bible and Christianity both came about after Jesus existed. Neither are directly a approved by Jesus himself.

Well there are basically four ways most people look at the subject.

- Complete fabrication.
- Confabulation with some unknown core of truth.
- Word-for-word event-by-event literally and chronologically true.
- Mixture of literal and figurative truth depending on context.

The story of Noah presents a ton of challenges, but the biggest one this movie has is what the overall message is. They will be compelled to meltdown the sharper moral implications to recreate a golden calf of modern morality. I'd bet they'll narrow the scope to the "man marching to his own (prophetic) drumbeat" motif. How far could they possibly take it? We'll have to see.

I have to laugh when people scoff at the idea of human giants. It's like, the one thing that has plenty of precedence in the animal kingdom as we know it today. I'm not opposed to a more interpretive angle to describe these things, however. Given the strange descriptions given to some of these "giant" races in other mythologies, I'd think personification of heretofore unobserved natural phenomena would be appropriate.

At the very least, we're left with accounts that don't fit easily within our current understanding of the planet, solar system, universe, etc. It doesn't make anyone look incredibly smart by dismissing these ancient writings as an extended mushroom trip.

 

[fosing]

^not all text were a product of psychedelic trip. some of it were copies of pre-existing folklore.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

The fact this is frustrating Christians is what's going to make this film good imo.

I'm a Christian and I'm not feeling frustrated in any way, shape or form.

I'm a Christian and it isn't frustrating me at all. Actually, it looks like its going to be a darn good movie.

That's what I'm thinking.

I'm a Christian, and not at all frustrated. Movie looks great to me. Though it is strange that you'd like a movie because it frustrated me.

It was a genuine question. If it doesn't matter to you, why does it matter to you?

It'd be like somebody that detests the source material for Batman chiming in on Batman threads to talk about why they dislike the entire concept, and how they'd prefer source material departures because the source only matters to idiots. So, you're there evangelizing against a movie you don't care about because nobody else should care either? Bizarre.

If you dislike the source material to that extent, why bother with the movie at all?

SnakeDoc

The only explanation, IMO, is to troll.

 

[occulum]

^ Trying to get the Christians into the theater to make a **** load of money.

if the Christian community is informed, I would think they will actually be directed stay far away from this one given several of Aronofsky's past films.
Keep in mind I live deep in the Bible belt of NC where not many "gray areas" are allowed. Although I could definitely be wrong.

I always thought seeing The Passion of the Christ went directly against the reason Jesus was crucified in the first place, but churches flocked to it. So who knows

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

The trailer looks ok...a bit dark. My only problem with this film, the cast. Hollywood whitewashing at its best I know why they do it, but still, it feels and looks like another religious movie with a bunch of European actors playing middle eastern characters. Seriously, those accents

Whitewashing is apparently okay. Any other racewashing is outrageous and PC bullcrap

 

[Merle's Right Hand]

I have to laugh when people scoff at the idea of human giants. It's like, the one thing that has plenty of precedence in the animal kingdom as we know it today. I'm not opposed to a more interpretive angle to describe these things, however. Given the strange descriptions given to some of these "giant" races in other mythologies, I'd think personification of heretofore unobserved natural phenomena would be appropriate.

We have the bones of giant creatures, we do not have bones of giant humans. The oldest human fossils that have been discovered are almost 200,000 years old. No evidence of giants among all of the human fossils that have been discovered, let alone in the time frame of Noah (~4000 years ago).

 

[greygoose]

Was there giants in the trailer?

 

[Khev]

I mostly agree. Again, I'm only concerned about the Watcher characters. They're supposed to be angels, right? The angels who came to earth? If so, they are villains of the highest order. These are the first Demons, and their offspring were the primary cause of the violence that brought the flood in the first place. And these Demons are going to help Noah build the ark?

Oh. Well I guess I haven't been following this movie enough then. I had no idea that they might actually indicate that demons helped with the ark. I'll wait till the movie hits and read some spoilers before deciding to go then. I'm certainly not going to waste my time seeing such an idiotic take on the story if that turns out to be the case.

You'd think an omnipotent God would be able to get more than one family to worship him so he didn't have to commit genocide on his creation.

By definition an omnipotent God can indeed make anyone worship Him that He wants. Thankfully He doesn't roll that way. I like that we have free will even if it means that a lot of bastards get to temporarily run amuck.

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

Was there giants in the trailer?

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

^ Trying to get the Christians into the theater to make a **** load of money.

And Jewish people. Noah is part of Judaism. People only think of the Christians

 

[greygoose]

 

[ironwez20]

Ya never no. This may be another passion of the Christ. Movie made a crap ton of money on Easter .

 

[CelticPredator]

Was there giants in the trailer?

No. But there will be in the movie.

 

[CelticPredator]

Ya never no. This may be another passion of the Christ. Movie made a crap ton of money on Easter .

It's not like that, at all.

 

[greygoose]

No. But there will be in the movie.

OK.