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Noah incorporates some extra-biblical stuff as well as putting a few twists on the setting. It's a good but not great movie. However, the visuals alone make it a fun experience.
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The craziest poo poo that's in Noah is mostly poo poo that's actually in the Torah, the Old Testament, or the Apocrypha. There is remarkably little that he just flat-out made up.
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Mar 18, 2015 21:58
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A good way of thinking about Noah is just to keep in mind that it was inevitably going to get a fairly big-budget adaptation as a disaster movie, because Hollywood is doing whatever it can to find recognizable properties or stories to justify blockbuster productions. It could've been made by a Michael Bay imitator like Peter Berg or Renny Harlin or something, and it would've been a lousy, stupid, forgettable mess like Pompeii. The fact that the movie was written and directed by someone who wanted to make it and who had some interesting, heady ideas (even if they're not all executed super well by the estimation of some), who is generally respected as an auteur, and who was able to outmuscle the studio to get his batshit cut of the movie released, is unequivocally good.
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Mar 18, 2015 21:59
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Is there a way to disable HD? I know there was one a while ago, but I can't find it and it would be handy when I'm trying to watch stuff on my lovely laptop.
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Mar 18, 2015 22:20
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Whoever wanted the most crazy poo poo must have won, because nobody could have wanted more than there already is You're on crack if you don't think the logical conclusion of the film was that Noah should kill his family and end human existence. Noah's biggest problem is that it is called "Noah". If Aronofsky had changed all the names and pretended the story was a response instead of a retelling, then I bet it would cut down on the amount of people upset because they didn't get it or didn't try to.
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Mar 18, 2015 22:23
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Chichevache posted:You're on crack if you don't think the logical conclusion of the film was that Noah should kill his family and end human existence. I dont think this is true. It's not a very good film, and that isn't because it's about Noah. It's still worth a watch, I'd say, but it isn't one most people will love.
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Mar 18, 2015 22:26
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Storywise, Noah is just kind of Ok. The things that make it good are the visuals, and Russell Crowe and really the entire cast constantly devouring the scenery. Really what got me is how bleak and beautiful the landscapes are. If this movie were a painting, I would hang it on my wall.
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Mar 18, 2015 22:57
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Gilok posted:Storywise, Noah is just kind of Ok. The things that make it good are the visuals, and Russell Crowe and really the entire cast constantly devouring the scenery. Really what got me is how bleak and beautiful the landscapes are. If this movie were a painting, I would hang it on my wall. I saw the places they used in Iceland and they were breathtaking to see, but they transfer to a screen really really well. It's worth watching just for those.
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Mar 18, 2015 22:59
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Yeah I walked around Iceland outside the airport for a few hours once, and even there it's really otherworldly. It just looks like that all the time, it's really weird.
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Mar 18, 2015 23:05
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Gilok posted:Storywise, Noah is just kind of Ok. The things that make it good are the visuals, and Russell Crowe and really the entire cast constantly devouring the scenery. Really what got me is how bleak and beautiful the landscapes are. If this movie were a painting, I would hang it on my wall.  with all this. Gorgeous loving film.
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Mar 18, 2015 23:14
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I'm really happy to hear these things about Noah, since the posters tended to show a glowery beardman on a field of brown and gray. Like the most un-Aronofsky thing possible.
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Mar 18, 2015 23:34
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stickyfngrdboy posted:I dont think this is true. It's not a very good film, and that isn't because it's about Noah. It's still worth a watch, I'd say, but it isn't one most people will love. Then what is not very good about it? Because all the complaints I have heard tend to boil down to "it was not what I expected/wanted and therefore it is bad". I'm not arguing it was a great film, by the way. I had already forgotten it even existed until this thread brought it up.
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Mar 18, 2015 23:47
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axleblaze posted:Arononofsky won after the studio tried multiple awful cuts that audiences hated even more. I haven't seen the movie but I also heard that the movie also isn't as crazy as some of the rumors indicated it might end up being. Noah is pretty cuckoo-bananas already. It's the bible with a shot of Tolkien in it.
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Mar 19, 2015 00:09
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Noah is Aronofsky's Transformers.
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Chichevache posted:Then what is not very good about it? Because all the complaints I have heard tend to boil down to "it was not what I expected/wanted and therefore it is bad". I just didn't enjoy it very much. I liked the scenery and the score, I thought it had some nice ideas, and some bad ones (the rock people for one), I thought crowe was bad but Jennifer connelly was good. Like I said I think everyone should watch it at least once but I can't see many people loving it.
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Mar 19, 2015 00:29
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stickyfngrdboy posted:I just didn't enjoy it very much. I liked the scenery and the score, I thought it had some nice ideas, and some bad ones (the rock people for one), I thought crowe was bad but Jennifer connelly was good. Like I said I think everyone should watch it at least once but I can't see many people loving it. Fair points. I just get my panties in a wad when people say "it was bad" instead of "I didn't like it".
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Mar 19, 2015 00:53
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Is there a way to disable HD? I know there was one a while ago, but I can't find it and it would be handy when I'm trying to watch stuff on my lovely laptop.
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Mar 19, 2015 02:08
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For anything that can play in HD, there should just be a button on the control bar when you're watching it that says HD. You can toggle HD on or off there, and it remains that way through other videos until you change it back.
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Mar 19, 2015 02:32
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Chichevache posted:Then what is not very good about it? Because all the complaints I have heard tend to boil down to "it was not what I expected/wanted and therefore it is bad".
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Mar 19, 2015 03:07
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Chichevache posted:I'm not interested in a documentary for tonight, but this sounds good and I will check it out in the future. Thanks. Bit late but you'd probably enjoy Zulu.
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Mar 19, 2015 03:15
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Automata is a fine little film. It's a little clunky, but it functions well as ostensibly an homage to the original theatrical cut of Blade Runner. That being said, you're probs better off going to the movies and seeing Chappie, which also explicitly homages other AI movies, but instead of a sentimental fanservice, stages a vulgar sacrilege of them. Either that, or the quite great Young Ones. I know I already recommended it once, but it deserves re-mentioning. It's a great, great little film.
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Mar 19, 2015 03:54
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Take This Waltz is almost a great movie, it just has five or six scenes of clunky, overwritten dialogue anchoring down all the good performances and nice photography
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Mar 19, 2015 03:59
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uPen posted:Bit late but you'd probably enjoy Zulu. I enjoyed the hell out of it when I was a little kid. I didn't know the name, but I still remember a significant amount of the movie. Thanks for bringing my attention to it. I had been wanting to revisit it.
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Mar 19, 2015 04:07
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Wings is awesome. Its so far removed from modern day and so creatively shot and well framed its like watching a fantasy movie. Its about a love triangle formed around two men fighting over a woman while they fight in WW1 as ace pilots. The transfer to HD did this film many favors. Give it a shot.
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Mar 19, 2015 05:35
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Chichevache posted:I enjoyed the hell out of it when I was a little kid. I didn't know the name, but I still remember a significant amount of the movie. Thanks for bringing my attention to it. I had been wanting to revisit it. One of the greatest war movies of all time. Holds up exceptionally well for being over 40 years old.
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Mar 19, 2015 06:30
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Well I'll be damned if Snowpiercer wasn't an entertaining film, way more than I anticipated.
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bollig posted:Well I'll be damned if Snowpiercer wasn't an entertaining film, way more than I anticipated. There were some very fun scenes, but it ran overlong. Felt like an hour special on The Outer Limits gone out of control.
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morestuff posted:Take This Waltz is almost a great movie, it just has five or six scenes of clunky, overwritten dialogue anchoring down all the good performances and nice photography Wayyy too ponderous and shoegazey for me (hipster fanservice?) but somehow I've watched it 3 times.
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Mar 19, 2015 15:58
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I thought the telling of the genesis creation story was well done and beautiful in Noah.
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Here's something you shouldn't watch, unless you're into the whole Ancient Aliens schtick: America Unearthed. I could only make it to halfway in the second episode before I just couldn't take all the made up bullshit. Basically, the first episode was a bunch of made up bullshit and supposition without any evidence to support it and I was like 'eh, whatever'. The premise was that the Mayans emigrated to northern loving Georgia. He based it on the fact that there are earth mounds in Georgia. Also, there was art found in the area that resembled Maya. Also, there were stones carved with circles on them, just like the Mayans used to do! Also, the mounds may have been used to track stars or seasons! Second episode took that sort of horseshit and went completely off the loving rails. Dude finds a stone with rune-like carvings in it and the loving dipshit thinks that people from Great Britain emigrated in the middle of an Arizonan loving desert in the twelfth loving century. His evidence? Some dude named Mike, esteemed person whom we have no credentials of- but he's an expert on runes! Doctor Butts fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Mar 19, 2015 |
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Just watched Frank on Netflix Canada. Watch this if you want to see Michael Fassbender play a musician who wears a giant fake head at all times (you do).
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Mar 19, 2015 18:55
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Doctor Butts posted:Here's something you shouldn't watch, unless you're into the whole Ancient Aliens schtick: These shows need a disclaimer. They kinda cropped up hardcore when Xfiles was waning and Dan Aykroid or Jonathan Frakes or I dont loving remember did a show called something like "True or False" and it would show two stories one true and one false. It would be like one was an alien abduction the other a child performing a bank robbery and at the end of the show the fat nerd host would say the child robber story was the false one and then say nothing about the alien.
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Doctor Butts posted:Here's something you shouldn't watch, unless you're into the whole Ancient Aliens schtick: Im definitely going to watch this asap
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America Unearthed makes Ancient Aliens look like a Herzog documentary.
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Mar 19, 2015 19:42
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Just watched The Rabbi's Cat. Really liked it and was just what I needed after getting my world crushed by "It's a beautiful Day."
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Mar 19, 2015 19:56
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Just watched "The History of Future Folk". Kind of a fun, quirky flick. If you like movies like "Safety Not Guaranteed", you'd probably enjoy this.
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Mar 19, 2015 20:02
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Gerdalti posted:Just watched "The History of Future Folk". Kind of a fun, quirky flick. If you like movies like "Safety Not Guaranteed", you'd probably enjoy this. Good to know, I will definitely not watch "Safety Not Guaranteed" then.
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Mar 19, 2015 20:29
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Good to know, I will definitely not watch "Safety Not Guaranteed" then. for what it's worth, Safety Not Guaranteed was a movie i thought i would loving hate but it was actually very solid.
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Mar 19, 2015 20:34
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Having seen both The History of Future Folk and Safety Not Guaranteed, I remember the former being way more cheesy/dopey than the latter. They're both fantastical, but one worked and the other didn't.
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LogisticEarth posted:Having seen both The History of Future Folk and Safety Not Guaranteed, I remember the former being way more cheesy/dopey than the latter. They're both fantastical, but one worked and the other didn't. Yeah I kind of enjoyed both, but The History of Future Folk is basically just as excuse to play blues grass, while Safety Not Guaranteed is an actual movie. History is cool if you have an interest in the music, Safety is an actually decent movie. (decent, not great or anything).
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