(March 10, 2014 at 8:58 am)Tonus Wrote: They make changes all the time to stuff like this. I doubt that Jason and the Argonauts or Clash of the Titans were perfectly true to the source material.

Yeah, and that's the part that gets me.
They're crying foul over 'creative license' with the story of Noah. But when they ran in to see Thor or Hercules, did they check it against the source material and complain that it didn't stay completely true also? I'm going to guess, no.
Which is it people, you got go one way or the other.

To me Noah should be a good film, just like other films based on ancient greek gods and whatever. Just because I don't believe in god, doesn't mean I can not enjoy an ancient story brought to the big screen.

(March 9, 2014 at 3:43 pm)professor Wrote: And over here, apparently enough people like myself have objected to the re-writing of the story by the producers that they have added a disclaimer to it.

Just out of interest, do "people like [your]self" object to the rewriting of 'the' story by producers of school nativity plays as much? And did The Lord Of The Rings inspire as much fervour?

One wonders why so many people seem determined to obsess over such petty, childish things.

I hate the idea of when ever a new film comes out, there are so many believing its all true, its just a bloody movie.

(March 9, 2014 at 3:43 pm)professor Wrote: And over here, apparently enough people like myself have objected to the re-writing of the story by the producers that they have added a disclaimer to it.

How are you defining people like yourself? I see that you've identified yourself as a Christian but which denomination because there are thousands of them?

After all the outcry from many Christians and disapproval from Muslims I was interested to come across articles like these - (I did a bit of research because Noah was a part of Judaism long before Christianity and Islam came along.)

The first is by a rabbi.

Movie Review - Noah: A Very Jewish Retelling

The second is by a Roman Catholic priest.

Noah: A Post-Modern Midrash


Anyway, back to Islam. I found a review by a Muslim -

A Muslim's Disappointment in Noah: The Film, Not the Prophet

His opinion is coloured by the Islamic view of Noah while many Christian views are coloured by their approach to interpreting the Bible.

(April 7, 2014 at 11:37 pm)cromwell Wrote: To me Noah should be a good film, just like other films based on ancient greek gods and whatever. Just because I don't believe in god, doesn't mean I can not enjoy an ancient story brought to the big screen.

The funny thing is that I would normally make a joke about having Noah pull out a couple of Uzis and go to town on the Nephilim or something snarky like that. But as I understand it, the film introduces some massive stone monsters because... YAY, MYTHOLOGY! It's as if the producers wanted you to know for sure that this isn't your father's flood myth.

CA, "People like myself" were the target audience according to the drift from Paramount.

They stupidly trusted their 160 million investment into the hands of someone who painted Noah as nasty raving lunatic, with the purpose of the flood- to kill- off over population and save the environment.
The only thing correct was the names, the water and the boat.

After telling us they were making a true -to- story epic, they let it be turned into another monster fest.
They lied.
To their own detriment- they created another Hollywood bomb.
Is there a cure for stupid?

Oh, I call myself a Christian. No denomination.

(April 8, 2014 at 5:56 pm)professor Wrote: To their own detriment- they created another Hollywood bomb.

On the contrary. It's made a bunch of money and received good ratings. They've only been encouraged to ruin more biblical stories. Personally, I would like to see one where Jesus flies and smites his enemies with laser vision.

(April 8, 2014 at 5:56 pm)professor Wrote: Is there a cure for stupid?

Look at all of the silly gibberish the human race believes in. The only thing close to a cure seems to be death.

(April 8, 2014 at 5:56 pm)professor Wrote: They stupidly trusted their 160 million investment into the hands of someone who painted Noah as nasty raving lunatic, with the purpose of the flood- to kill- off over population and save the environment.
The only thing correct was the names, the water and the boat.

After telling us they were making a true -to- story epic, they let it be turned into another monster fest.
They lied.

Big deal. An all-star and primarily all-American cast captured an Enigma machine from a German U-boat that in real life knew nothing of this, despite the true events having taken place with a British crew some seven months before America even entered the war; Legolas was never in The Hobbit; and Dorothy's slippers were originally written as silver. Hollywood practically never stays 100% faithful to the source material of adapted stories, mainly because the structures of the two formats impose different demands.

Not to mention that if someone was to film a totally faithful screen version of the Noah flood story, even xtians would most likely condemn it as being unutterably, ball-numbingly boring.

Is it true that Noah's ark was discovered?