Audiences flood to see Noah

The movie where Noah teams up with demon rock monsters to fight Cain's people and protect the ark while using the snakeskin of satan?

Just because people are going to see it doesn't mean they will be satisfied with it.

I refuse to go see this movie because of how much it tries to make the story of Noah into something it's not.

This story of Noah tells the story of a planet where the inhabitants destroy the earth and its resources because they are not environmental, so the "creator" (NOT GOD) floods the earth because man didn't take care of the earth and polluted it. The "creator" (AGAIN, NOT GOD) chooses a drunk and extremely sinful man named Noah to build the ark for the flood.

3 things wrong with that.

1. The flood happened as God's wrath against sin. Not because God was mad because man was not taking care of the earth. It was a judgement from God, next time he is coming with fire.

2. Using "creator" instead of "God" is ridiculous and blasphemous. Would this director make a movie about Mohammad and use the word creator instead of Allah?

3. Noah was chosen because God was pleased with him and his dedication toward obeying God. No where in scripture was he depicted as a drunk heathen.

Using the term creator instead of God to me is acceptable. The name Yahweh first occurs when Moses is writing the Torah scrolls.

It should precipitate plenty of controversy.

Yeah, I heard that at the end he debates killing his whole family so that Humanity doesn't destroy the world, all over again....My head is spinning on that one.. No, I won't be going, got to go hoard some more bullets, to protect my family from the real liberals.

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1. The flood happened as God's wrath against sin. Not because God was mad because man was not taking care of the earth. It was a judgement from God, next time he is coming with fire.

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3. Noah was chosen because God was pleased with him and his dedication toward obeying God. No where in scripture was he depicted as a drunk heathen.

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Yeah, I heard that at the end he debates killing his whole family so that Humanity doesn't destroy the world, all over again....My head is spinning on that one..

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SPOILERS


I saw the movie today. Its boring as frick, but let me correct these comments.

1. While the Earth in the movie does look pretty messed up environmentally, ie humans are taking advantage of the Earth, their sin towards each other is also violently depicted, which looks like it includes cannibalism and implied rape/taking advantage of women.

2.Noah is not "a drunk" during the movie. He is rather pious throughout the movie, and tries to do "the Creator's" will. He gets drunk ONE time that runs maybe 2 minutes of film length. This occurs after the flood, where the burden of what he went through has become too much, and he has felt he has failed the Creator. By the way, this leads to his nakedness, which I believe is in the Bible (including the wine drinking), but I may be wrong.

Lastly, he doesn't try to "kill his entire family." Going back to feeling like he failed in the previous paragraph. When the flood finally comes, Noah believes that his duty was to save the innocent animals to return them to Earth, and that Creator's will was for his family to die NATURALLY ending humanity after the task was complete. ie The kids bury their parents, then the second eldest buries the eldest, then the youngest son buries the middle. Then the youngest dies, leaving the Earth in a paradise state without man.

However, his adopted daughter gets pregnant (a miracle as she was previously barren), and he believes he needs to kill the twin girls to complete the Creator's task. Since, obviously, two females can procreate.

By the end, he determines that the Creator chose him to CHOOSE humanity's fate, and he spares the children.

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I hope Noah is really a good film

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It isn't. I could tell the people in the theater couldn't leave fast enough, so it wasn't my sole opinion.

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Considering "Allah" is the Aramaic word for the same "God"

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Wrong. Elah is the Aramaic word for God.


ETA: On Noah:

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Here is a short list of some of the stupid story problems in Noah: (Is it possible to spoil a rotten thing? Well, be warned anyway…)

- Some of the angels felt compassion for Adam and Eve. God was so petulant and wrathful that he turned those angels into rock people. Then, human beings killed most of the rock people somehow. So, the rock people hate humans. But they take a hankering to Noah for no reason and build the ark for him.

- Noah chides his son for ending the life of a teeny wildflower. And then he cuts down an entire forest to build his ark.

- We are told that the cities are centers of technology, but when we see the cities close up, they are just tents and unwashed people with really bad hair. You would think if they were so advanced they might have invented shampoo.

- It starts to rain, and five minutes later, Tubal Cain attacks the ark with an army of thousands and thousands. That’s a great general!

- The evil city people believe it is the apocalypse within seconds of the first drops of rain.

- Tubal-Cain hides on the ark -unknown to Noah – for nine months. He stays hidden despite the fact that he is eating the animals raw to keep up his strength. There went all the unicorns, I guess.

- The animals are lulled to deep sleep by a herbal smoke potion. But it has no effect on the humans.

- Noah spends nine months firmly entrenched in his plan to murder his grandchildren at their birth. He’s intractable and insane in his conviction that this is what God wants. But then, when he is about to stick the knife in the children, he just changes his mind. Unmotivated choice.

- Five minutes after they emerge onto the new land, Noah makes himself a winery and gets crazy drunk and naked. It’s not clear if he is angry at “The Creator” or angry at himself or just an introvert who suddenly has nothing to do.

- ROCK PEOPLE. ROCK PEOPLE. ROCK PEOPLE.

I was looking forward to the effects, but, really, the movie storytelling is so bad, that the effects fall flat. The score is over the top and intrusive. It is striving so transparently to make up for the lack of emotion in the picture that it repeatedly calls attention to itself, in the worst way.

Oh yeah, and there is a ton of annoying, superior liberal preaching about how we should all be vegetarians, and that technology and cities are innately bad because they hurt the planet. Dumb, oversimplified liberal utopia nonsense. But it barely offended me because I was so much more offended by the terrible story craft in the piece.

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From a really pissed script writer

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Big12fan

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Big12fan try this, be a man.

don't execute a girl punch and then run away.

if you have something controversial to say, at least be man enough to stick around and field the results.