Ummmmmm, what? This is from your homeboy who didn't even watch the movie........LOL!
Posted on 03/29/2014 2:59:16 PM PDT by Star Traveler
Darren Aronofsky's controversial biblical epic Noah is winning over faith-based and mainstream moviegoers alike at the North American box office, ending weeks of speculation as to whether the filmmaker's darker take on the story of Noah and his Ark would be a turnoff for more devout moviegoers.
The Paramount and New Regency movie easily topped the Friday chart with $15.2 million from 3,567 theaters for a projected $41 million to $43 million weekend, a strong start. Overseas, Noah is likewise prospering, grossing an early $28.3 million from only 21 markets (many of those opened Friday) and coming in ahead of Gravity. The film's global total through Friday was $43.5 million.
In North America, Noah received a C CinemaScore, indicating that it is still polarizing. But Christian moviegoers are turning out in force. According to those with access to grosses, half of the theaters doing the most business on Friday were in cities traditionally considered faith-based markets, including Salt Lake City, Reno, Tulsa, Mobile, Ala., Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando. Hispanics, many of whom are Catholic, are helping to fuel the film. (Hispanics are the most avid moviegoers in the U.S.)
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
NO Bible-believing Christian would be fooled by Hollywood. If this was a poll, it must have been taken by MSNBC or the White House!
Where did it all go wrong?
I'd say at the point you wrote "don't...tell me what I...should not watch."
Star Traveler had not told anyone not to watch. Basically he informed about the movie's bad reviews and it's lack of biblical fidelity.
There's the barest possibility that could be called "preaching"...
The Cinemascore rating of the “movie” is going to kill it’s potential box office. Word of mouth is pretty bad for this flick, and with Captain America opening next week I suspect Noah drops some 65%+ at the box office next weekend.
Ummmmmm, what? This is from your homeboy who didn't even watch the movie........LOL!
This movie needs to GO INTO THE TOILET!
I’m more than overjoyed now - that the Christians are getting the message that this ATHEIST DIRECTOR has done everything he can to make an UNBIBLICAL movie, to fit his atheistic agenda ... and ... his “green agenda” (which is unbelievably in this movie, too)!
Darker tale of Noah? As if this has anything to do with the Biblical tale
I’m not sure why listening to trusted reviewers is a bad thing. As I recall, that’s why Siskel and Ebert used give thumbs up and down.
My own take on it, after reading about 5 or 6 reviews now, is that I’ll wait and borrow the DVD. It sounds like it should have been titled “The Valley of the Nephalim” and the guy’s name been Nahon and not been Noah. Then it could have been a fantasy scifi and folks could’ve talked about it being an allegorical knockoff...maybe... of a bible story.
I’d take you more seriously if you also launched against the authors of the article for “preaching at you and telling what you SHOULD go watch...”
Why would anyone want to see a movie where it is obviously intended as a slam on Christians? I wouldn’t watch it for free
For any IDIOTS who are reading this far and haven’t yet understood what this movie is about ... here’s something from Randall Price (who had dealt with Noah’s Ark before in his archeological work, on a professional basis) ...
The pre-release advertising promoting the movie Noah made a point of stating that while the director took artistic license in the production it was still faithful to the biblical story. Early theater previews were carefully edited to appeal to people of faith, but this is the least biblical “biblical film” of all time!
However, to be charitable, the bare outline of the Flood story is present, but after that artistic license has taken the film so far afield of anything resembling the Bible that it is offensive to people of faith. To say that the biblical story was watered down (pardon the pun) is much too mild.
Those who know the Bible were aware of how little the script followed Scripture. Those who didn’t know the Bible still didn’t know it when the final credits appeared. It is to the movie studio’s credit that they chose to even make a film with a biblical theme, but the torturous fiction that was the final cut partly written and directed by an atheist is a discredit to both the studio and the actors and is, in result, worse than having not made it at all. Remember the old adage of making a bottle of poison look nicer by removing the ugly skull and crossbones label and replacing it with one that read “essence of peppermint?” The bottle now looks pretty, but is even more deadly because of its deceptive label.
To a generation that already rejects the Genesis account as pure fiction, mixing a little Bible with a film of impure fiction is even worse – and certainly more dangerous to faith. For those who have not seen the movie and may think my judgments too harsh, please consider the following.
More at the link ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3138756/posts
So what if he hasn’t seen it? What does that matter?
The Noah Movie: Our Detailed Review [Christian Review]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3138815/posts
Noah director and writer Darren Aronofsky told The New Yorker magazine that his movie is “the least biblical film ever made.”
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“Darren Aronofsky Gets Biblical,” The New Yorker, March 10, 2014, http://www.newyorker.com/services/presscenter/2014/03/17/140317pr_press_release.
“it’ll be out of theatres in a few weeks at most”
15 million is dismal. It won’t last two weeks at that rate.
A collection of FREEPER threads on the movie - Noah ...
Religious tide turns against ‘Noah’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3138393/posts
Noah: a classic blunder
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3138403/posts
Nine problems with the movie “Noah”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138569/posts
Don’t Get Punked by Paramount’s Pagan Noah Film
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3138604/posts
Noah – The Emperor’s New Movie (The Utter Embarrassing Mess of ‘Noah’)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3138663/posts
‘Noah’ Review: Brilliantly Sinister Anti-Christian Filmmaking
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3138716/posts
Noah, The Film: All Washed Up
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3138756/posts
Box Office: ‘Noah’ Winning Over Faith-Based and Mainstream Moviegoers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138788/posts
No meat at ‘Noah’ party
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3138805/posts
The Noah Movie: Our Detailed Review [Christian Review]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3138815/posts
The Noah Movie: Deconstructing Noah’s Ark; Godawful Storytelling
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3138821/posts
That was my first thought. What are the odds a Hollywood reporter would actually *know* *any* Faith-Based and Mainstream Moviegoers?
Same here.
Saw a bunch of people coming out of the theater after Noah. many were saying it was a bad movie, don’t waste your money.
Here is where I get my bibles.
http://www.bibles-direct.co.uk/
These are R L Allen bibles, the best quality in the world.
Don’t get their song books (Hymns old and new)as they are for a fringe Christian group.
***Aronofsky’s decision to include big special effects-laden battle scenes is curious at best and disastrous at worst.***
Any worse than SODOM AND GOMORRAH?(1962).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056504/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
15 million...that’s nothing! Twilight made 70 million its opening weekend.
Never heard of it ... I wonder why ... :-) ...
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