I'll tell you the stuff I didn't like. It's a longer list. Not just this movie, but maybe there should be some kind of rule that you only get to star in one movie in your life. Every time I saw Noah, I saw Russell Crow. I don't know what know what Noah looks like, but I know Russel Crow. I supposedly also saw Noah's wife, but I knew she was Jennifer Connely. His daughter-in-law was Emma Watson, the person that played Hermione Granger from Harry Potter. I kept thinking she could get rid of all that water with an Expeliarmus charm. If we had this rule, it would also increase the chances that people like you and I get to be a star in a movie some day.
They took a few liberties with the story. There were a bunch of giant rock people attacking the ark. What? There was a lot more fighting than I remember in the Biblical story. A lot of the movie looked more like Lord of the Rings. In fact, the rock people looked and sounded a lot like those talking trees in Lord of the Rings. I think the make-up department just re-did them. How many parts are there for talking trees anyway? I had heard that some people that had seen it had a problem with the fact that Noah got drunk in the end. That actually is part of the story, but even if it wasn't, how do you have a problem with that and not the talking rock people.
It somehow became a story of environmentalists vs. industrialists. Maybe they figured that a biblical story would draw in the Republican crowd, so environmentalism would be a hook for attracting Democrats.
It was a little long. I went to sleep duing part of it and it still seemed like it lasted 40 days and 40 nights. No Oscar for Best Editing.
The animals didn't get a big enough role. Granted I think I slept through the part where they got on, but still, I thought they would play a bigger part. I had heard all the animals were cgi'd. That would have been disappointing anyway, so its just as well I didn't get a good look at them.
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