Darren
Aronofsky has lost his touch! After two consecutively excellent movies, The Wrestler (2008) and Black Swan
(2010) we have gone back to the ridiculousness of his confusing romantic drama The Fountain (2006). His latest is
deemed a ‘biblical blockbuster’ and is allegedly said to be based on the story
of Noah’s Ark found in Genesis chapters 6-9 in which God is said to have saved
Noah, his wife, children and a male and female animal of each species from a great
flood by instructing him to build a giant ark.
Filmed in Southern
Island, Noah (2014) stars Russell Crowe who mopes his way through the
role of Noah. You remember Crowe he was
the one who played the all singing Inspector Javert in the dreadful movie
adaptation of Les Miserables (2012) well he’s not much better
in the role of Gods emissary on earth, barely braking out of that earnest no
nonsense look he always seems to carry around no matter what role he plays even
when he’s talking to the sky! Jennifer Connelly is Naameh, Noah’s spouse. She
has worked with Aronofsky before in Requiem
for a Dream (2000). Emma Watson, who I really enjoyed in The Bling Ring last year, plays the daughter
in law, Ila while Douglas Booth, who was Pip in the three-part BBC TV
adaptation of Charles Dickens Great
Expectations, is her husband and the eldest son of Noah. Anthony Hopkins,
who can’t seem to land a decent role lately, plays Methuselah with Hackney born
Raymond Winstone as the villain of the piece, King Tubal-Cain, who was much
better as Jack Regan in last years The Sweeney. The acting is dire, hammy and
completely non-convincing with everybody playing them selves - the blame for
which must rest firmly with the director.
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This sanctimonious
nonsense tries to teach us the meaning of life but fails miserable. Certainly
not on par with biblical epics like The
Ten Commandments (1956) or Ben Hur
(1959) although the Aronofsky’s budget was in the region of $125 million - so
there’s no real excuse. And where did the stone monsters come from, don’t
remember them at Bible study! If you’re really are feeling in need of a little
religion may I suggest Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
your find it far more fulfilling than this modern meaningless gobbledygook.
I read in the paper
this morning that Aronofsky’s film has spawned a series of novel’s including a
graphic one, correct me if I’m wrong but I thought that Noah was already based on a book?
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