Has anyone seen the movie 'Noah'?

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When a guy makes a movie called Noah and is a self proclaimed atheist it is probably going to be weird to say the lest. No thanks, I agree I'm sick of Hollywood and Washington DC.
 
OK, first off, I hadn't planned to see it, and still don't.

But not because of the reviews that castigate it for the artistic license and lack of similarity to the Bible story.

Folks, it's a movie. The fact that a screenwriter takes an ancient story, applies some imagination and creativity to his interpretation of it, and then a director and the rest of a movie company turns it into a piece of art, is perfectly reasonable.

I love and respect the Bible as God's word. The Bible story stands on its own as a way that He reveals his nature to us in the broken world Noah lived in then, and that we live in now. Nothing about a movie that features the same character changes that.

So I just urge everybody to lighten up a bit. Hollywood is putting this out there to entertain and to make money. Nothing wrong with that, and we have the option of voting with our pocketbooks whether to buy into it.

As a separate issue, I do think it was cheesy for Crowe and the director to try to get an audience with the Pope, and presumably to obtain his blessing on the movie, as has been reported. That was just crass.
 
I love and respect the Bible as God's word. The Bible story stands on its own as a way that He reveals his nature to us in the broken world Noah lived in then, and that we live in now. Nothing about a movie that features the same character changes that.
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Ascribing the name, Noah, to the movie character does not make him the same character. Hollywood dreamed this Noah character up completely. Contemporary films out of Hollywood are much more fixed on changing thoughts and attitudes than on entertaining movie-goers. I will agree on one thing...we all have a choice NOT to support bad messages with our dollars...
 
It has always interested me that movie folks have missed what already is great subject matter in the Bible. Good acting based on the many incredible aspects of the account of the Ark would make a very interesting film. Start with the fact that he was preparing this boat for a 40 day rain when no one on the earth knew what that was at that point. What's RAIN Noah?? The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, because they are Spiritually discerned, and so are foolishness TO HIM. (my paraphrase).
 
Jessie said:
Glen Beck reviewed the movie before he saw it? How does someone do that?
Sounds like something a congress person said about a recent law. You need to pass it before you read it.
I guess I'm older than I thought and things are just done differently these days.
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I believe Glenn rejected the movie even though he hadn't seen it based on reviews.

He was given a private screening so he could accurately submit a review.

It was so bad, they laughed out loud. Especially at the rock monsters that help Noah

Also, Noah tried to kill his family when they were in the ark........animals good.....people bad

When I read the directors response towards Christians and how it was a good f.........g movie, I knew I would reject it before any reviews came out.

Pre flood time has a lot of interesting things that would make an incredible movie, but i don't want a Hollywood, atheistic interpretation with Hollywood "flair"

"Rock Monsters"!?!?!? Indeed :rolleyes:
 
Jessie said:
Glen Beck reviewed the movie before he saw it? How does someone do that?
Sounds like something a congress person said about a recent law. You need to pass it before you read it.
I guess I'm older than I thought and things are just done differently these days.
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Glenn Beck wrote about the movie and added some opinions. He later WATCHED the movie in LA courtesy of the Producers and wrote his review.

All of the speculative press apparently helped "Noah" as it did very well on it's opening weekend. Once again proving they can turn out ANYTHING and people will pay to see it.


FN in MT
 
G-Mac said:
Someone please correct me if I am wrong...but I heard that no mention of God is made in the movie. Is this true?
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True. The words "God" or "Yahweh" are never used, but there are repeated and continuous references to "The Creator". The story of Adam and Eve is told and woven into the plot, and Methuselah is played very well by Anthony Hopkins.
 
Jebus35745 said:
My wife and I will see it later, hope we aren't wasting our money. Larry
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I think that depends upon what you're expecting out of it. If you think you're going to see an accurate representation of the Biblical story of Noah, you're sure to be disappointed.

To tell the truth, I didn't really like this movie much even as fiction. The character of Noah is very morally conflicted: telling his children not to eat animals because they are gentle and deserve to live their lives, but then prepared to see his family die, and even commit murder, because he mistakenly thinks that "the Creator" wants him to end human life on Earth.

Like I said, a very strange movie....
 
CAJUNLAWYER said:
Rock Monsters????
Any light sabers???
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No, but the bad guys have (and I am not making this up) mortars. They fire them at the Rock Monsters guarding the Ark as the flood begins and Noah is trying to protect his family. And although the Rock Monsters (who were originally fallen angels) die, their spirits ascend into Heaven, as the Creator forgives them...

I told my date after the movie that I wondered how old the director is...could he be some 1960s throwback who took just one too many bad acid trips? :)
 
preacherjeffro said:
...However, Noah as a Vegetarian is not as far fetched as you might think. Genesis 9:3 says "Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything." So it appears from the text that mankind was vegetarian since the creation and here was given permission to eat meat. And then in Acts 10 he gave Christians permission to eat pork. YAYYYYY. Barbecue :D
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Thanks for the clarification...as I said initially, I am certainly no Biblical scholar! :)
 
What? I heard it was a great Rock Monster movie and now I hear it's got biblical characters in it! Turble, just turble! :eek:
 
Now you folks know that Noah was the world's worst skipper. After all he was lost at sea for forty days and forty nights. Next he ran his ship aground and then lost his cargo.:D
 
Let's see :rolleyes:

Noah's a vegatarian.

God is never mentioned.

Glen Beck panned it.

There are monsters in it.

The guy that made it is an atheist.

Al Gore would love it.

Animals good, people bad.

Hollywood and Washington DC's version of The Great Flood.

Changing thoughts and attitudes.


Folks I think we have an Oscar winner here for sure, Best Picture !!! Best Screenplay !!! Best Everything !!! What designer will have done Michelle's dress ??? ;):p;)
 
Nico Testosteros said:
The ark myth predates the Bible by a long shot.
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Technically true, Nico, as the written canon of the Jewish Bible was closed in around 400 B.C. as I recall; the Christian Bible a few hundred years after that. The ark "myth," as you call it, had been passed through the Hebrew culture for many, many hundreds of years before that.

It's also true that variations of the ark account are part of the oral and written traditions of other cultures as well, and some are quite ancient.
 
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