Noah......

[Worf]

Got a couple of free movie passes from my friends at the Spectrum Theatre (www.spectrum8.com) and Sugi recommended we go see "Noah". So... loving popcorn with REAL butter we trundled off to the Saturday Matinee. Great popcorn as usual... as for the movie... welp I ain't so sure. It seemed, at least to me, to be a "mash-up" of Science and Religion.... kinda like intelligent design... The narrator talks about what occured on the 6 days of creation but it occurs in fast forward so you know that they consider, at least for the film, a day was obviously longer than a day. Besides religion there's an ultra-heavy pro environmental slant to the whole film. Lots of talks about man despoiling the earth, running out of resources etc.. There's also a LOT of pridefull pontificating about the nature of "man". You don't know how much of it you're supposed to "take seriously" as the movie was "inspired" by books of the old testament. Which in Hollywood terms means "bend it till it breaks". Two plus hours filled with waliking, talking rocks, really, really good people vs. really really bad people and lots of CGI and I was ready to do violence myself. I'm sure some folks enjoyed it cause they clapped at the end and according to ads, Noah made a boatload of money last weekend (sorry couldn't help myself). I myself am glad I didn't pay to see it and don't feel its a film that scientifically minded people can sit through without their heads exploding... mine almost did.

Worf

 

[LizzieMaine]

The 1929 part-talkie "Noah's Ark" is a far better filming of the story, even with the hokey paralell-modern-day story grafted onto it.

 

[scotrace]

I'll wait for DVD. Thanks for the review!

 

[jamespowers]

Got a couple of free movie passes from my friends at the Spectrum Theatre (www.spectrum8.com) and Sugi recommended we go see "Noah". So... loving popcorn with REAL butter we trundled off to the Saturday Matinee. Great popcorn as usual... as for the movie... welp I ain't so sure. It seemed, at least to me, to be a "mash-up" of Science and Religion.... kinda like intelligent design... The narrator talks about what occured on the 6 days of creation but it occurs in fast forward so you know that they consider, at least for the film, a day was obviously longer than a day. Besides religion there's an ultra-heavy pro environmental slant to the whole film. Lots of talks about man despoiling the earth, running out of resources etc.. There's also a LOT of pridefull pontificating about the nature of "man". You don't know how much of it you're supposed to "take seriously" as the movie was "inspired" by books of the old testament. Which in Hollywood terms means "bend it till it breaks". Two plus hours filled with waliking, talking rocks, really, really good people vs. really really bad people and lots of CGI and I was ready to do violence myself. I'm sure some folks enjoyed it cause they clapped at the end and according to ads, Noah made a boatload of money last weekend (sorry couldn't help myself). I myself am glad I didn't pay to see it and don't feel its a film that scientifically minded people can sit through without their heads exploding... mine almost did.

Worf

Noah was an environmentalist...... That is a new one to me. I wonder where he got the wood that it purportedly took waaaaay more than 2,000 trees to make. Did he hug each tree before cutting it down? No wonder there are so few trees in the Middle East even today. :rofl:
I think I'll beg off this monstrosity. lol lol

 

[HoosierDaddy]

This new Noah movie certainly isn't Biblical and on purpose it seems....but maybe many like it that way....



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[jamespowers]

This new Noah movie certainly isn't Biblical and on purpose it seems....but maybe many like it that way....



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All of that too?! Rock Monsters?!
What is this one of those Sci-fi end of the world movies? lol lol lol Does he smoke dope too?! :doh:

 

[Worf]

All of that too?! Rock Monsters?!
What is this one of those Sci-fi end of the world movies? lol lol lol Does he smoke dope too?! :doh:

No but he does get knee walking, face down in the dirt, buck ass nekid drunk on home made wine...

Worf

 

[LizzieMaine]

Well, Genesis 9:21 and all. "And he drank of the wine and was drunken and he was uncovered within his tent." Nothing about knee-walking, but you get the idea.

 

[Worf]

^^^^^ Didn't mean to take biblical liberties... I was describing the numerous drunks I had to round up while serving in the Army. We'd go from bar to bar trying to find guys from our unit before the curfew and the MP's got em. Numerous times did I observe knee walking before face planting.

Worf

 

[jamespowers]

Well, Genesis 9:21 and all. "And he drank of the wine and was drunken and he was uncovered within his tent." Nothing about knee-walking, but you get the idea.

I am not so sure that he meant to get drunk on purpose. Only one person saw him and I would not want to get the curse he did.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Well, Genesis 9:21 and all. "And he drank of the wine and was drunken and he was uncovered within his tent." Nothing about knee-walking, but you get the idea.

Well..it's not surprising that they'd want to get that Biblical part portrayed to the extreme in the movie even though most everything else is mainly hog wash concerning scripture.
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[jamespowers]

Well..it's not surprising that they'd want to get that Biblical part portrayed to the extreme in the movie even though most everything else is mainly hog wash concerning scripture.
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lol lol lol What do you expect when an atheist interprets the Bible? :rofl:

 

[Edward]

This will end well.

The main hoo hah I've seen reported about the film is some self-professing Christian groups taking offence at Noah getting drunk.... which is, er.... in the Bible. Same Bible these fundie types are usually so very keen on taking as literally as possible. Nowt as odd as folks.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I hope nobody's planning to make a movie about David, Uriah, and Bathsheba. Actually, I'm surprised they haven't.

In all seriousness, though, Bible movies have never done much for me -- they either go out of their way to be super-reverent and give us things like an immaculate, blue-eyed Jeffrey Hunter Jesus who looks like he fed the multitudes at the Paramount commissary, or they go to the opposite extreme and give us luridity and gore for the sake of "well, it's in the Bible isn't it?"

The definitive biblical movie has yet to be made. The 1923 "Ten Commandments" wasn't bad, if you leave out the modern story, but even as I kid I found the 1956 version hilarious when Edward G. Robinson showed up as Pharoah's henchman.

 

[Stearmen]

I found the 1956 version hilarious when Edward G. Robinson showed up as Pharoah's henchman.

"Look ma, top of the pyramids!"

 

[Edward]

If I go to glory in the end and meet Moses, I'll be gutted if he doesn't look like Charlton Heston.

 

[Worf]

I knew this could be a tricky one to start with... but I was/am conflicted about it. Sugi RAVED about it, but I believe she viewed it as a Sci-Fi epic more'n anything else. She also went back and read the old testament books concerning Noah and the Flood etc... She has some theories about what Ham really saw and why he got what he got for "seeing" it, but I'm not going there. I hope this discussion does not devolve into a religious fist fight.

Worf

 

[HudsonHawk]

I hope nobody's planning to make a movie about David, Uriah, and Bathsheba. Actually, I'm surprised they haven't.

They did. King David was released in 1985, with Richard Gere in the title role. I don't think it was too controversial, other being generally regarded as a terrible film.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Don't forget the 1951 David and Bathsheba with Gregory Peck and Susan Hayward. It's definitely a step above most Bibically derived flicks.

I have no intention of seeing Noah theatrically, but I am curious to see it eventually. Aronofsky is such a singular director, I'm sure it's at least interesting.

I'm also interested that it includes the Nephilim ("the sons of God bred with the daughters of men producing heroes, men of renown"), since that is one of the most brazenly polytheistic things that was somehow not redacted out of the Hebrew Bible... but six-armed rock monsters wasn't really what I was hoping for!

 

[Edward]

They did. King David was released in 1985, with Richard Gere in the title role. I don't think it was too controversial, other being generally regarded as a terrible film.

Bound to have been awful, with Richard Gere in it. Man simply can't act. I'm astounded he still has a career.

I'm also interested that it includes the Nephilim ("the sons of God bred with the daughters of men producing heroes, men of renown"), since that is one of the most brazenly polytheistic things that was somehow not redacted out of the Hebrew Bible... but six-armed rock monsters wasn't really what I was hoping for!

Well, the stone giants in the Hobbit went down very well with audiences. Hey, they don't call it the movie business for nothing! The Nephilim provide a great basis for cinematic exploits, IMO. I've read some pretty good fiction which builds on the notion of that legend being literally true.