Cinema-Report #14 - Noah
I'm so far behind with this, I have to start at the beginning - in this case at the time of the Flood.
Hm, I just realize that there is no special word for this in English, basically this could be any flood. In German it's known as "Sintflut". Unless "Deluge" is really used, which I've never heard before.
Anyway, the way that film started reminded me a bit of that odd Tarzan animation-film I watched not long ago. No, there wasn't any strange meteorite, it was just the way that the creation of the world was told in fast motion.
Now and then there were also scenes where I wondered if this was an End Time story or if we really were rather at the beginning of all stories. I mean, there were odd animals that apparently have died out during the Flood, and the clothes of the people looked more like Waterworld (haha) or Mad Max than the Bible.
I freely admit, I'm not religious or know the Bible well enough to tell how close this film was to the original story. There were, however, certain things that I definitely remembered differently. For example, I'm rather sure that Noah's children all had their own family already to bring along and save with the Ark, so that there originally was no need for a jealously plot. It was also news to me that there were people who literally wanted to board the Ark like pirates.
Oh, and I don't have to read the Bible again to just know that there were no petrified fallen angels, although they were actually sort of cool and made some sense.
Russell Crowe definitely gave us a very scary Noah. His children were either annoying or boring, however, and if Emma Watson thought she could shed her image of Hermione with this movie, she didn't succeed (at least not in my case). And Anthony Hopkins seemed a lot like (a fragile) Odin here, too.
But aside from Noah, people aren't the main attraction of a film like this - the special effects are and they were quite good. It was rather clever that they didn't show too much of the animals and the fallen angels (Watchers) looked great, albeit a bit scary, too.
I can't help myself, somehow the Bible films of old seemed better all in all.
Hm, I just realize that there is no special word for this in English, basically this could be any flood. In German it's known as "Sintflut". Unless "Deluge" is really used, which I've never heard before.
Anyway, the way that film started reminded me a bit of that odd Tarzan animation-film I watched not long ago. No, there wasn't any strange meteorite, it was just the way that the creation of the world was told in fast motion.
Now and then there were also scenes where I wondered if this was an End Time story or if we really were rather at the beginning of all stories. I mean, there were odd animals that apparently have died out during the Flood, and the clothes of the people looked more like Waterworld (haha) or Mad Max than the Bible.
I freely admit, I'm not religious or know the Bible well enough to tell how close this film was to the original story. There were, however, certain things that I definitely remembered differently. For example, I'm rather sure that Noah's children all had their own family already to bring along and save with the Ark, so that there originally was no need for a jealously plot. It was also news to me that there were people who literally wanted to board the Ark like pirates.
Oh, and I don't have to read the Bible again to just know that there were no petrified fallen angels, although they were actually sort of cool and made some sense.
Russell Crowe definitely gave us a very scary Noah. His children were either annoying or boring, however, and if Emma Watson thought she could shed her image of Hermione with this movie, she didn't succeed (at least not in my case). And Anthony Hopkins seemed a lot like (a fragile) Odin here, too.
But aside from Noah, people aren't the main attraction of a film like this - the special effects are and they were quite good. It was rather clever that they didn't show too much of the animals and the fallen angels (Watchers) looked great, albeit a bit scary, too.
I can't help myself, somehow the Bible films of old seemed better all in all.