Noah Movie Test Screenings Reveal Christian Audiences Upset With 'Darkness' of "Noah"

[Habbit Animal]

Noah Movie Test Screenings Reveal Christian Audiences Upset With 'Darkness' of Russell Crowe's Character

I'll watch this movie and decide for myself. After all, a man who along with his family was chosen by God to survive God's drowning every living thing on earth can't have been someone committed to the philosophy of Ahimsa. :o

 

[andy b]

looking forward to watching noah the darker the better.What was the audience expecting with the desolation of mankind Mary poppins

 

[CounselorForChrist]

Not sure why christians are surprised its dark. Its not a cheery story.

 

[Fangtastic]

Have no interest in it as number one I don't care for Bible related films that make up their own stories and Russell Crow is not NOAH nor is he anything like what was needed for this role. I've heard so much from others about this film there would be no need now to see it......

 

[phydaux]

Have no interest in it as number one I don't care for Bible related films that make up their own stories and Russell Crow is not NOAH nor is he anything like what was needed for this role. I've heard so much from others about this film there would be no need now to see it......

The thing is, though, for a lot of the "pew warmers" in American churches the closet they will ever get to reading Genesis is watching this Russel Crow movie.

I have no desire to see it, but at the same time I feel like I need to if only to correct the errors that will inevitably arise later.

Same for the new Exodus movie. Which is notable for the absence of threads on it.

 

[Thunder Peel]

My wife and I watched it a few weeks ago out of morbid curiosity. Not only was it completely unfaithful to the biblical account but it was just a bad movie in general. No tension, no gripping characters and over-the-top effects that were shoehorned in with little effect. You're not missing anything by avoiding it.

 

[voltran]

The movie was completely brilliant. The problem is the people likely to see a darren aronofsky are the last people who would see a movie called Noah and the people likely to see Noah are the last people who would see a darren aronofsky movie.

 

[RDKirk]

I'm as interested, if not more, in what Jews think of those movies.

Jews liked the animated "Joseph King of Dreams" and "Prince of Egypt."

 

[NothingIsImpossible]

I refuse to see it. There are MANY things in it that are made to hollywoodize it. Even the atheist director of it says its not a christian movie. Its just a fictional story for him to use as a semi-basis for a good action movie. In his words of course. Theres a point where Noah I think slams a flaming word into the ground and creates a shockwave of fire.

Then near the start they talk about how the "creator" created rock creatures (golems sort of) to out of fallen angels. And if I recall from scenes I seen online they help Noah at one point. Thats not the bible story I know.

 

[stellalunaCW]

I'm as interested, if not more, in what Jews think of those movies.

Jews liked the animated "Joseph King of Dreams" and "Prince of Egypt."

Darren Aronofsky's Noah tells the story by the book | Movie Review | Chicago Reader

"...Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel based their screenplay not only on the story of Noah and the Flood as it appears in the Torah, but on the many tales and scholarly interpretations it has inspired throughout Jewish history (they also consulted with rabbis and scholars from multiple Judaic denominations). Collectively these exegeses, created by Jewish sages to explain ambiguous passages in the Torah, are referred to as midrash, originally a Hebrew word meaning "to seek out." Written over thousands of years, midrashic texts have filled dozens of books, which makes this body of literature many times larger than the Torah itself. And you thought Peter Jackson had his hands full with Lord of the Rings.

Many details in Noah that seem like straight-up Hollywood storytelling were taken directly from midrash or apocryphal texts..."

Movie Review | Noah: A Very Jewish Retelling

"In general, I’m not much of a Bible movie guy. But I was excited for Noah because I think it’s a story that is rich with complex questions that leave a ton of room for exploring old and new ideas. In this respect, Noah excelled. It did explore old and new ideas. Some of it was odd and very far afield, but it all makes sense in the context of the story. That’s why I say Noah is a very Jewish movie."