Noah

[BuffyGirl]

the best part is if they were in the Bible verbatim, they would be accepted and defended fervently as fact

Seeing this Saturday.

 

[quadcent]

Seeing this Saturday.

save your $$$, I don't care about the religious comparisons since I don't know of them. I saw it purely on an entertainment value and I found it very hard to stay awake through. I had some good spots and Crow does a pretty good job in it, but for the most part all the other actors didn't really get a chance to do much. maybe you'll like it more though. Enjoy.

 

[buzzybean]

I really liked it. I haven't read any reviews or any comments here and went into the theater just wanting to be entertained and I was. But I imagine there will be those who bemoan the less than established events of the classic story and those who dislike anything with a religious theme and just won't bother seeing it. Crowe was great and Connelly was fantastic. I enjoyed this as much as any of the superhero stuff that's been released lately although I'm seeing Cap 2 tomorrow and figure I'll end with a real good movie weekend!

 

[buzzybean]

That's why I said to a couple people that if you go in looking for the straight out of the bible story you're a fool. You're also looking to be insulted.

Well la-dee-dah, aren't you the wise one... Why would you call anyone a fool who went in thinking they were going to get the straight biblical story? The trailer didn't include every little suprise you know? And do you think everyone who isn't you is online 24-7 talking about this stuff? Some of you mods on here need a good slapping.

I knew going in it wasn't the version I had hear before and so the changes didn't shock me.

I just in the end didn't think it was that great of a movie.

I was more than happy with the flick. Glad I didn't read a bunch of this nonsense before I went in and saw the damn thing. I see now some of you forgot the "spoiler" thingie when you were giving away a bunch of details even before the movie was released.

 

[Merle's Right Hand]

It's a beautiful film IMO. I felt for Noah, especially the choice he had to make whether to let humanity die off or let it continue.

Spoiler

When Noah had to make the decision to kill his grand daughters was heart wrenching for me. Crowe was magnificent portraying the inner conflict he faced. Feel weird putting this in spoiler tags because we all know the eventual outcome but still it's a big moment in the film.

The comic book is a great companion piece to the film and actually has a lot about it that is different. I like that the animals did not help Noah in the film version attempt to kill his grand daughters as that kind of makes them no longer innocent and also hints that God wanted mankind to die off and Noah then failed in his task given to him. That's the way I read it anyway. The film makes it a more optimistic ending. I wonder if that was Aronofsky's decision or the studios?

I agree with your view. I'm very disappointed so many people didn't 'get' the movie.

 

[Merle's Right Hand]

The only thing I am curious about seeing is the giant rock monsters that help him build the thing... I don't want to ever rent this or anything but I would like to see what they did for that

If you're uninterested because you are not religious then you are making a mistake. There is so much more to the movie than "giant rock monsters".

 

[Merle's Right Hand]

the controversy it stirred with the "faithful" kinda gave this movie a rebound effect. its doing well despite the negative hype.

After having seeing it I now understand why - IMO it's a movie made for atheists.

 

[Rorywan]

Saw this at the weekend. A mix of Neverending story, Lord of the Rings with a bit of Game of Thrones thrown in, I liked it though, it was refreshing to see something original in the cinema. It was all a bit silly though.

By the way I googled certain points afterwards to check accuracy with the bible. Most of the end of the movie was pure dramatisation. But I was surprised to find that Noah did indeed get drunk on wine and stick his arse cheeks in the air. What Ham did to him in Genesis though came as a bit of a shock!
Wonder why Aronofsky shyed away from that?

 

[fosing]

this wasn't strictly based off the bible story to begin with. creative take on comparable mythology more likely. if this had a tinge of Lars von Trier(nyph()maniac) on it, we could have had a more subtle "banging" ark.

 

[morphosis]

the Daily Show had a great and hilarious segment on Noah last night, mostly about people on News channels being interviewed about how they are upset that its not accurate to the Bible in their minds.

One person clearly didn't even see the film. He criticized it for not having something in the film, but what he was upset about not being in the film was actually in the film.

Others were complaining they portrayed him as a drunk, and they thought wasn't accurate, but clearly Genesis has some parts about him getting drunk.

Another mentioned her recollection of the Noah's arch story is through a children's book she read as a kid. So apparently a children's book thats maybe 20 pages written for 6 year olds is accurate.

They still all fail to acknowledge that Noah who is like 950 years old and builds an arch out of wood to save hundreds of animals isn't at all too far fetched. They can accept that as fact no problem.

And no one ever brings up Aronofsky wrote this as a sci-fi fantasy graphic novel FIRST or that he said he loved the story of Noah as a kid, so he just wanted to create his own version of it.

 

[SnakeDoctor]

The problem here is a mix of mis-educated Christians, cavalier use of the source material, and a few atheists whose sole aim is to make a mockery.

Adult Christians don't hear a lot of sermons about Noah ... as most sermons tend to focus on the Gospels or some of the later parts of the Old Testament. So, Christians tend remember Noah as the sanitized Sunday school story of a kindly old geezer on a boat with a couple of giraffes. The Noah story is ultimately one of sin and death, capped with a touch of redemption at the end. Its a horrifically dark part of Biblical history. God literally saw so much sin and corruption in the world that he wiped most of it out. Noah was drunk in the Biblical account, and he probably was thought crazy by a solid portion of humanity.

Honestly, I think that's one of the great benefits of this movie. People are re-reading and reconsidering a part of Biblical history that is often sanitized and relegated to a children's story. There is great benefit in seeing the unsanitized version of Biblical history. There are some dark parts in there, and churning them out as feel-good kids stories does a disservice. The lesson of Noah is not one that can be learned without the darkness.

I haven't seen the movie yet. I'll see it eventually, I'm sure. My understanding is that there are a few needlessly cavalier directoral decisions that detract from the movie. I'm still interested in seeing it, mostly because I find the Noah story somewhat difficult to picture, and I'm interested in the visuals, but it could've been a much more powerful event had it simply abandoned some of the directoral weirdness. I don't know that those decisions particularly helped with atheist audiences -- who'd disbelieve, whether there are demon rock monsters or not -- and it certainly hurt the overall reception from believers.

That one change probably would've smoothed things over quite a bit.

SnakeDoc

 

[Irvy]

Nolan should have made this film.

A grounded real world Noah (Tom Hanks?) who works as a cargo ship captain transporting zoo animals

 

[morphosis]

Here is a really good recent interview with Aronofsky about why he made the film and his ideas about the story of Noah. As you will read, its his own story, hes not saying this is a documentary story from the bible. The story he wrote a lot of it has to do with scenes that were not depicted in the bible, just ideas he came up with to make an interesting entertaining story, to kind of fill in the gaps that we dont read in the Bible. He talks about how in the Bible Noah doesn't even speak and you don't even know the name of his wife and son, that the Bible story is very straight forward story, which it is. So Aronofsky's Noah is just fiction, using the characters and original story and then coming up with his own ideas. And this is not an atheist movie. Aronofsky is Jewish. He was raised Jewish. His movie Pi was all about god. Religion seems to be an occurring theme in his films. But he was trying to make Noah a more human story, like to show the struggles of what someone like Noah would go through during these events and also take liberties to make it an exciting and entertaining movie. And I would highly recommend reading the graphic novel first as well which he did first because he couldn't get the funding to make the film. Its a really great graphic novel!!!

https://www.religionnews.com/2014/0...darren-aronofsky-on-justice-vs-mercy-in-noah/

 

[BB&WSF]

Going to watch this tonight.

@morphosis: I never knew that this was a GN by Aronofsky. It is this one, right: Noah Wil get it for sure.

 

[JAWS]

Goofy movie.... Too serious to have Treebeard's distant cousin's action scenes and too goofy for the dark and strange madness of Noah wanting to kill his grandchildren.

Strange goofy film. I knew what I was getting into before I watched it so I was somewhat prepared. But P-U it was pretty much a stinker. Even accepting it as an alternate non biblical story... It was still goofy dumb. IMO of course.

 

[Rorywan]

I agree it was goofy and unbalanced. I liked it though, at least it was interesting.