Now I kinda want to see NOAH

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 4:12pm

Just to spite the Christian Right. I love an epic mess!
Cray-cray review from Salon.com

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 4:27pm

A lot of my friends are flipping out and boycotting.

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 4:47pm

A friend told me, if you're Christian or not it's still a horrible film.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 4:55pm

Wow, I wouldn't have expected you to have a lot of friends who were religious extremists, Jersey.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 4:59pm

Boycotting? Isn't that just "not paying for a ticket"?


I've nothing BUT this being a hot mess.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 5:04pm

75% fresh on RT

[strummergirl]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 5:08pm

The split takes over this are just driving me to really wanting to see it. It clearly has support and dissent equally vociferous.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 5:09pm

However, Stephanie Zacharek gave it a very persuasive pan

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 5:13pm

I saw it this morning. I was pretty mixed to negative about the whole thing, but I did find a few things to like.
Noah

[bobs3]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 5:57pm

It is a fun special visual effects movie. It doesn't have much substance but Russell Crowe is good. I don't really remember much about the Noah story (except for the Ark) but again the CGI effects are great.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 5:57pm

Are there cute animals in it at least? I would go to see it for that alone.

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 6:11pm

The animals are all CGI.

Jen Connelly comes up with a smoke potion that knocks all the animals unconscious for the duration of the journey, so if you're just going for the animals you will disappointed. :/

As far as biblical "accuracy" goes, Two By Two sticks closer to the story than this does. Emma Watson is the only younger female of the group so Ham and Shem are forced into a CW-esque love triangle. I don't know why Aronofsky took away the other wives, but he could he just as easily created drama with all the couples as what he did with Watson. She did give a good performance though.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 8:52pm

I don't need to see it. God told me how the story ends.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 9:14pm

The story of Noah is basically God's rage quit.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 9:42pm

I can't get the link to the tweet, but this cracked me up.
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2014/03/tweet-of-day-god.html#disqus_thread

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 10:14pm

What is it with these nuts? The Ten Commandments took countless liberties with the Bible. Nobody complained.

Updated On: 3/29/14 at 10:14 PM

[SNAFU]

Posted: 3/29/14 at 10:47pm

Rock, Rock, Rock Monsters! Down, Down, Down!

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 3:57am

Eric, I was raised in Tennessee as a Southern Baptist. I was THISCLOSE to going into the ministry. Many of my friends either went into the ministry or married men who did. My wife is an ordained Pentecostal minister. Her family members are all Pentecostal. Our closest friends here are mostly Pentecostal, which is VERY odd for mostly secular Sweden. We have a lot of devoutly Christian people in our lives. Many just laugh and shake their heads when it comes to me. I am a conundrum.

It's not all extremists that are "boycotting". There were a lot of churches that were planning on attending in large groups, like with Passion of the Christ. Christians in general are being very vocal about not seeing it.

Updated On: 3/30/14 at 03:57 AM

[E.Davis]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 5:11am

Jennifer Connelly gave a pretty strong performance and its not that I was surprised, more impressed.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 8:27am

I loved every minute of this, even the silly (at first) rock people. Once you learned their story, I found them moving. I'm not a Bible-thumper, though I do have some faith. I found the film very moving and well-acted, especially Emma Watson.

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 8:52am

This sounds like a great popcorn movie!

God's "Valley of the Dolls."

I'm in!

And the religious freaks need to shut the hell up. They all grew up on Chuck Heston playing super-Jews who drove chariots and parted oceans with people like Eve Harrington as his betrothed, Lily Munster as his wife, and Little Caesar as a desert gangster-merchant. And audiences ate them up with fork, knife, and spoon.

Why can't they remember that? Why can't they remember anything?

Updated On: 3/30/14 at 08:52 AM

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 9:15am

I thought it was a better fantasy film than Desolation Of Smaug. With a better message.

Updated On: 3/30/14 at 09:15 AM

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 9:36am

Religious institutions ride roughshod over the Bible constantly, making up things left and right.

For instance, no where in the gospels does it state that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute.

Ironic that Hollywood is held to a higher standard of biblical authenticity than the Church.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 10:36am

Mary Magdalene was more than likely the 13th and only female apostle. She had money, many biblical scholars assume from an inheritance from a father or husband, which was very frowned upon in that era. It was also thought that she was responsible for bankrolling the Jesus' travels.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 3:03pm

Maybe this is due to me being raised Catholic, I have never gotten why certain Christians are much more zealous over the Old Testament than the New Testament. Noah and the ark is not just a Christian story but a Jewish story and yet almost all of the complaints I heard of the liberties taken from the text have been from Christians. I'd say if Aronofsky has truly had this as his passion project for decades, let him make his film. It sounds like he got a great performance from Russell Crowe which at this stage is a real feat.