Just got back from watching the new Noah movie. My initial reactions are that it was an average movie with some good (older) actors in it. The younger members of the cast were forgettable and bland. Russell Crowe played Russell Crowe. Ray Winstone played Ray Winstone, and Anthony Hopkins did his kindly grandfather act. The plot had little to do with the Bible story, and nothing to do with the original flood story as told by the ancient Summerians on their stone tablets, and deciphered by Zecharia Sitchin. There were no aliens in this movie, no Gods and no Yahweh. It was all Russell Crowe talking to himself, with no reply from any divine presence, and justifying his actions by talking about what ‘he’ wants, even though ‘he’ never actually says anything. It was a very safe movie, religiously speaking. There’s nothing there to upset anybody as the movie has nothing to do with the Old Testament story, and it doesn’t speculate that their God/Allah/Yahweh is anything other than what it says in their old books. This was not a controversial movie; it was a very safe one. Personally speaking, I’m disappointed that it didn’t go down the Summerian route, or even speculate that something other than the Bible story is what was happening here. Here’s the strange thing about it though. It really mangles up the Bible story to make the movie as exciting and tension filled as possible, so you can’t really criticise it as a bad interpretation of that story. It doesn’t even try to tell that story. It’s a movie very loosely based on it, and they’ve just used the Bible names to try to get more mainstream attention. So what have they done here? They’ve made a movie that’s not about the Bible story, and not about any other flood myth story. It’s a brand new story, very safely done, just in case it upsets religious people, designed for the cinema, with no point to it at all. That’s my overall conclusion really. It’s just a movie, designed to make very rich people even richer. You watch, and you forget. You can’t take anything from it, because there’s nothing there to take. I’d give it a rating of 5/10, but that’s just because of some decent acting from the old guys. It’s not a great movie, and its certainly not a controversial one. It’s just another blockbuster popcorn job, average and safe.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 23:50:40 +0000
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