It seems the majority of Americans have joined me in realizing what a crappy movie Noah is. Take the Bible out of it. In fact, as my friend Brian Mattson points out, Noah isn’t even based on the Biblical telling of Noah, but on a gnostic fantasy where the serpent was the hero.
Take all that out and Noah was still a pretty pathetic movie. There’s been a 61% drop off in viewership. And that disappoints me.
It disappoints me because Noah could have been one heck of a movie. In fact, there are a number of movies based on the Bible that Hollywood could tell. They’ve done it before. But in the past decade or so, Hollywood has taken the simple ideas of good and evil confronted by complex characters in moral conflict and turned the whole thing around. Now good and evil are complex and the characters are simple and flat. The characters are no longer believable, their situations often not very sympathetic, and the macguffin is no longer relatable.
More
DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
Most of the Bible is unbelievable, Science and Geology have proven it time, and time again, the bible is a collection of fables, not facts.
ReplyDelete8:01 another paragon of intellect.. somebody who can generalize and dismiss categorically--without ever mastering the subject matter.
ReplyDeleteFurther proof that American Educators routinely fail in their charge to instill Socratic questioning --instead they produce cliched drones who take the path of least resistance in almost anything in life.
8:01 is correct, just take the measurements of this so called Ark, there is no way in hell that that size ship carried all of the over 6 million known species of animals on the earth.
ReplyDeleteThe story is a life lesson, not to be taken as a real event.