EXCERPT FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES :
Noah, one of the last descendants of the peaceful line of Seth, is a vegetarian and a nomad, camping out on the brown hillsides with his wife (Jennifer Connelly) and their children. The family is occasionally harassed by marauders from the line of Cain, a clan that has blighted the planet with greed and industry, killing off animals and strip-mining precious minerals. Their leader is a shaggy, bellowing warlord named Tubal-Cain (Ray Winstone), conveniently the object of Noah’s justified vengeance as well as of fully merited divine judgment.
Everything I have read about this movie makes it out to be a total and complete pile of crap where adherence to that actual biblical story is concerned.
Don’t waste your money and don’t support those that would distort and twist this wonderful story.
I will be interested in hearing what Michael Medved has to say. He is a bit too mainstream Republican and Rhino for me, but he is very good at breaking down a film. If half of what Glen Beck says is true, which is often the case, it should be a scathing review.
i have not seen it... do not know if i will see it in the theatre, as i rarely go... but Russell Crowe is one of my faves, and i like that he has re-teamed with Jennifer Connelly... i thought they were superb in A Beautiful Mind...
Wow this sounds truly awful. Hollyweird and the self-hating JINO Aronofsky won’t get my cash.
That its purpose is 'serious' I have no doubt. That its purpose is the subversion of a biblical story for non-biblical (even anti-biblical) purposes, I also have no doubt. Consider me not won back.
Couldn’t be any worse, or could it, than THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, SAMSON AND DELILAH or SODOM AND GOMORRAH (1962), or a dozen other awful Italian epics.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056504/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049833/?ref_=nv_sr_1
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041838/?ref_=nv_sr_1
De Mille’s films were well over the top, but never dull!
"It's not the accuracy of the plot but the seriousness of the purpose."
If God isn’t mentioned in the movie, what about Mother Gaia?
I’m definitely giving this one a pass. They can get their ticket money from the Greenie Loonies.
Honestly, if this is a movie about cleansing the earth of humanity acting in their best interests (NOT for their SIN, but because humanity dared mine minerals) then it’s another waste of time from Hollywood.
In other words, if the sin of man is equated to industrialism and resource exploitation, then it completely misses the lesson of the story. And might even be blasphemous to boot.
Sounds like one to wait until it’s available out of theater so to speak. I would want to give them as little money as possible, in case my suspicions turn out to be correct.
Sorry, but who gives a rats *^s about what the Boston Globe has to say about anything remotely connected to the Bible.
As for me, I stopped reading when the writer equated the sacrilegious movie “The Last temptation Of Christ” in any way with “The passion of Christ”.
After that sentence, anything this writer says is worthless and should be ignored!
Besides, it’s from the Boston Globe for crying out loud. Since when does anyone care about a review from them on a movie about Biblical history?
Ty Burr is a big liberal — the sort who mockingly puts the term “liberal media” in scare quotes. He’s “gotten the memo” that this film is to be promoted. Gotta get those conservative bitter clingers in to see it, eh, Ty?
No sale.
(Oh, I’ll eventually see it, I suspect. Just not at $12.50.)
Last Temptation grossed about 8.4 million dollars total, yet it has been the first, or second religious movie to the left for what, about 25 years or so? No one saw it, no one ever will, yet it is kept front and center by the media.
I liked Bill Cosby’s Noah skit done 40 years ago.
Hollywood thinks we’re so stupid that if they put their liberal message in a bible setting that we’ll buy it.
Conservatives need to make a movie with an Al Gore look-alike in a liberal college setting that LOOKS like a liberal movies, but the movie really pushes Christianity. I’m sure liberals would be thrilled.
About as ‘thrilled’ as we are...
Review by Randall Price ...
Noah, The Film: All Washed Up
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3138756/posts
Unicorns are murdered in this movie, I will not see it.