Noah

[Chuck N]

SPOILER ALERT!!!

I was going to hijack Jim's thread on the Hunger Games but decided that wouldn't be nice so I started this one.

Any of you gone to see the movie "Noah" yet? What did you think of it? Personally, I think I could replace my Hoover vacuum cleaner with it.

First off it is not anything like the story of Noah that I read - read - in the Bible. It comes off as more of a Transformers movie than a biblical story. But I listened to an interview on NPR of the Director/co-producer/co-writer. He said he got the story line from the Book of Enoch, the Bible and bits of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Being that I'm not Jewish I'm wondering if the story of Noah is that much different in the Jewish Bible than what it is in the Christian Bible. If that's the case and the movie followed the story line in the Jewish Bible then that would put a whole new light on it for me.

[Gymrat]

The producer of that movie is a self proclaimed atheist. Don't expect it to follow any spiritually founded guidelines.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... blical-bi/

[Chuck N]

That explains A LOT! I too noticed that the name of God was not once used in the course of the movie.

Shame on the makers of this movie and shame on me for seeing it.

[Gymrat]

That explains A LOT! I too noticed that the name of God was not once used in the course of the movie.

Shame on the makers of this movie and shame on me for seeing it.

I see no shame on you for seeing it if you didn't know this ahead of time.

[Chuck N]

Actually I meant shame on me for not walking out of the theater about fifteen minutes into the film because I knew then that it was going to be crap but I stayed anyway.

[T8rSalad]

And as the they in Hollywood say:

"Thank you for donating your hard earned money to our extravagant lifestyle. NEXT!" Noah Noah

[Beer-lord]

Hollywood does things in movies that boggle my mind.

[Yankeedag]

Hey! Beer-lord has a mind. He said so right up there. I done saw that. And I'm a Tellin'.

[jimjohson]

thanks for the heads up guess I won't be watching that one

[FedoraDave]

A far cry from the D. W. Griffiths biblical epics, I guess.

I like movies if they're well-made and entertaining, even if they don't necessarily follow the accepted story. All The President's Men is entertainment, not a documentary. If they left stuff out of the historical record, it's because they're telling a story that needs to be about 90 minutes long. I'm okay with that.

Same thing here. I haven't seen "Noah", and may never see it. But I don't expect it to be anything other than entertainment based on a biblical story. Gone With The Wind is a classic, but I don't expect it to be a historically accurate depiction of the Civil War.

[jimjohson]

but with out God in the story why the flood, how come the animals came, and who gave him the heads up to build the thing? kind of need God to make it work. it would be kind of like removing the civil war from GWTW

[Gymrat]

A far cry from the D. W. Griffiths biblical epics, I guess.

I like movies if they're well-made and entertaining, even if they don't necessarily follow the accepted story. All The President's Men is entertainment, not a documentary. If they left stuff out of the historical record, it's because they're telling a story that needs to be about 90 minutes long. I'm okay with that.

Same thing here. I haven't seen "Noah", and may never see it. But I don't expect it to be anything other than entertainment based on a biblical story. Gone With The Wind is a classic, but I don't expect it to be a historically accurate depiction of the Civil War.

The problem is Dave, this movie was produced by a self proclaimed atheist who called it the least biblical movie ever made. It was not trying to tell a story and limited by time constraints.

[FedoraDave]

Since I haven't seen the movie, and don't intend to, I can't comment specifically on it. I can only give my opinion on film-making in general.

[jimjohson]

I hope you don't think I was upset or arguing, it was all for the sake of discussion. like you I have not seen the movie and probably won't.

[zorak1066]

read somewhere that it kinda sorta follows the Enochian version of the story. the enochian texts were not included in the official church canon. Christians easily forget that the vast majority of their religion's foundation is Judaism... and with Judaism come a multitude of texts, scrolls, etc that the "church" deemed unworthy of being in its bible. the essenes, gnostics, etc wrote tons of stuff that never made it in the Christian bible. when king james commissioned his version of the bible not only were there tons of mistakes made in translation.. hence so many side bar notes regarding translations of various words leaving it up to the reader to decide which is correct... much material got left on the cutting room floor for various reasons.

ive never read the book of enoch because when I was a believer I was told 'if it aint in the bible it aint worth readin...'. and now have no motivation one way or the other.