[C19fan]

Yeap confirmation that except for having Noah, an ark, and animals it has nothing to do with the Biblical story.

[cripplecreek]

Noah will rile some for the complete omission of the name “God” from the dialogue, others for its numerous dramatic fabrications and still more for its heavy-handed ecological doomsday messages

As expected.

[newfreep]

...for the complete omission of the name “God” from the dialogue...

That says it all.

[Sherman Logan]

Noah will rile some for the complete omission of the name “God” from the dialogue

Haven't see the movie, but that sounds pretty silly. Deletes the central character.

Would also like to point out the word "God" is a title, the English translation of the Hebrew and Greek words used in the Bible to reference Deity. A common noun used as a title, not a proper noun or name.

[MrB]

So... why a global flood?
Just a cosmic accident?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sounds like this is Russel Crowe's "Water World."

[AU72]

Telling the story of Noah without mentioning God is like talking about the climate without mentioning the sun.

[hopespringseternal]

At this point "Noah" sounds a lot like "Titanic": Marketing generated fluff rather than the telling of a real story (even with artistic license).

This is film maker arrogance run amuck.

I still have never seen "Titanic" and I think I will have to miss this one too.

[bmwcyle]

The real story

[circlecity]

My understanding is that the movie doesn’t omit God it just refers to him as “Creator” rather than God.

[ontap]

I predict this will be on TV for free before long!!!

[matginzac]

I’m surprised Crowe went along with this version.
He has gone on record as believing in Heaven but I don’t know if he embraces all the rest of Christianity...
Too bad because this movie could’ve been wonderful.

[Alex Murphy]

To be sure, this is not the genial, grandfatherly Noah charmingly evoked by John Huston when he led an orderly assemblage of animals into the ark two-by-two in his 1965 epic The Bible. Crowe's Noah is a fighter, a survivalist and yet a tortured man dismayed by the ruin brought upon the land by the others of his species. In a visit with his ancient grandfather Methuselah (Anthony Hopkins), the men agree that, “It's men who broke the world,” and that, as a result, the Creator will destroy it....

.... by far the most startling apparition in this context are the Watchers, the so-called Nephilim, or fallen angels only glancingly mentioned in the Bible. Here they take the form of giant, ferocious-looking rock people (given great, gravelly voice by Nick Nolte, Mark Margolis and Frank Langella, no less) who not only come to Noah's aid by doing the heavy lifting in building the ark but cut down, stomp on and otherwise decimate the hordes who eventually besiege the ark in hopes of climbing aboard at the last minute.

Related threads and "we can revisit this now" ping:
Rough Seas on 'Noah': Darren Aronofsky Opens Up on the Biblical Battle....
Noah Set to Flip the Biblical Script: Film places animals above human beings
8 reasons for Catholics to see the upcoming Noah movie
Russell Crowe Lobbies Pope Francis to See 'Noah'
Pope Cancels Tentative ‘Noah’ Meeting With Russell Crowe

[fabian]

Actually, the sins and violent evil of people has everything to do with the flood, which is dealt with in the movie. What are you talking about?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Somebody could make a fairly low budget Biblical epic right now that would seriously kick the leftists in the neuts.

The movie would be about Nimrod, king of Shinar, and the Tower of Babel. And, oddly enough, as an allegory of Al Gore.

According to extra-Biblical sources, Nimrod suffered from the same arrogance as Lucifer, vanity, figuring that he could build a tower all the way to heaven, then he could climb it and “be like God”.

The allegory of Al Gore comes into play as just the opposite. First he imagines himself to “be like God”, then proclaims he has the power to control the weather. Vanity in another form. The whole MMGW thing. How tiny humanity creates a fraction of a trace gas that somehow leverages control over the immense climate. Vanity incarnate.

In such a movie, the tower itself could just be a painted backdrop, because the purpose of the movie is the dialogue showing the utter arrogance and vanity of Nimrod. And Al Gore. Stomping around proclaiming how mighty they are, and how they intend to take God’s place in the scheme of things.

The movie is a rebuttal to atheistic socialism, which imagines for itself mankind as Leviathan, in the center of the universe. A rewriting of the Bible to put mankind in the place of God.

So the movie could be made on a shoestring, even as a stage production. And unlike “Noah”, God would be front and center, with the pathos of men trying and failing to usurp what is vastly beyond them.

[Altura Ct.]

for the complete omission of the name “God” from the dialogue

How is that possible?

[Dixie Yooper]

This movie could breath new life into “In Search Of”...

[wardaddy]

Very few historical epics worth watching now

Fags and Christ haters destroy them

Fembots too

All agenda foremost

White Queen was good....Stars...ironically

I tried to watch Black Sails...
Went lesbo and PC on slavery right away

Just junk

The lead captain was good though..

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I wonder what Aronofsky does with Genesis 6:5?

[GeronL]

Noah probably fights off ninja’a in this one

[Tijeras_Slim]

They just spelled it wrong.