Posted on 03/24/2014 2:16:34 PM PDT by MNDude
It is truly a Hollywood epic of biblical proportions, the original disaster story of the man chosen by God to undertake the greatest rescue in history before an apocalyptic flood engulfs the world.
But even before it opens in America this week and Britain on April 4, Noah, a $130 million blockbuster with Russell Crowe in the lead role, is already awash in a turbulent sea of controversy.
The film, packed with special effects based around a massive replica arc built in Long Island near New York, also stars Sir Anthony Hopkins as Methuselah and Emma Watson, the Harry Potter actress, as Noah's adopted daughter.
Noah's director Darren Aronofsky, a self-described atheist who made the Oscar-nominated hit The Black Swan, has described the movie as is "the least biblical biblical film ever made" and called Noah "the first environmentalist". According to one early review, the name "God" is not actually spoken at any stage.
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There’s a movie GOD’S NOT DEAD in current release. It’s a Christian-themed movie, and a well done one, defending belief in God. The whole family (except under age 12 or so) can enjoy it together. I would recommend it for anyone who does not want to see a movie directed by someone who thinks he can improve upon the word of God in telling a biblical story.
Really. I read the headlines about "no mention of God in the movie", only to read that "the Creator was mentioned".
It's really hard to tell what's a valid criticism of this movie and what's not. And which reporters have an agenda.
I've read that it portrays God as "fallible" because God becomes sorry that he made man. But God's sorrow is right out of scripture. Doesn't make God fallible, just means free will has consequences.
Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Gen 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. Gen 6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Isn’t this basically a remake of “Evan Almighty”?
“I’ve read that it portrays God as “fallible” because God becomes sorry that he made man”
He should have just ‘cancelled’ the project and started all over again.
I am curious how that worked... Did Noah hear a voice telling him to build an Ark, and Noah did not acknowledge who was talking to him?
That has always made me wonder...considering the evil loose in today's world, what did man do in the days of Genesis to merit the flood? It's hard to imagine them being worse than the current crop of humanity.
LOL pretty much what he did.
LOL pretty much what he did.
A real Christian movie could do leftists-atheists one in the eye by making it about Nimrod.
An interpretation of the Tower of Babel was that Nimrod was so arrogant about his power that he thought he could build a temple to heaven and become “like God”. And that is leftist-atheists in a nutshell.
They are so arrogant that they think they control the weather, can create life from lifelessness, and other things ascribed only to God. So the theme of the movie is the downfall of vanity and pride.
If they wanted to enlarge on the theme, they could make the movie about all those who were prideful, vain and arrogant. Even start by depicting the fall of Lucifer from heaven, showing him being horribly burned in the atmosphere.
Ptolemy, Odin, now Methesuleh, but he still hasn’t played God like Morgan Freeman.
The hated Glenn Beck was given a private screening then came on his show & absolutely ripped it to shreds.
BTW, the last time I saw `rock people’ was in an episode of Outer Limits.
Methuselah? I've always read in commentaries that as long as Methuselah lived there would be no flood. When he died the flood came.
Did people think it was going to be a “bible epic” ? I’m almost sure its based on a comic book that the director wrote.
It would be like complaining about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter for not being historically accurate.
Unable to sell tickets to Christian movie goers due to heretical distortion of Biblical proportions, the studio is now concentrating on making ‘controversy’ hoping to attract mainstream idiots willing to fork over $10-20 to view this fig-leaf over yet another global warming farce.
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