{"id":1995,"date":"2014-03-31T13:42:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T13:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2018-03-14T01:55:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:55:55","slug":"movie-review-noah-i-honestly-have-no-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/movie-review-noah-i-honestly-have-no-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE REVIEW: Noah &#8211; I honestly have no idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6qmj5mhDwJQ\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Is Noah a great movie? \u00a0I honestly don&#8217;t know. \u00a0For the first fifteen minutes that I could tolerate, I can honestly say it was boring and not worth my $11.50. \u00a0I dozed in and out for the first fifteen minutes, and then I finally got up, left my friends, walked to the box office to ask for my money back. \u00a0When I got there, there were three or four moviegoers that were already doing the same.<\/p>\n<p>I did read excerpts of the movies script awhile ago during production. \u00a0And from what I read, the movie was filled with heavy environmentalism, and strayed greatly from the Biblical story that I had been raised with. \u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure why Hollywood always feels the need to mess with the original. \u00a0 This just wasn&#8217;t an interpretation of the the biblical story of Noah, it was a rewrite. \u00a0 To me, rewriting the story of Noah is as sacrilegious as turning the Mandarin in Iron Man 3 into a wannabe actor. \u00a0It&#8217;s as bad as adding Jar Jar Binks into Star Wars.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who has worked in the movie industry before as a screenwriter, I can tell you that the rewrite of the story of Noah was done intentionally to mock Christians, and to mock the Bible. \u00a0Hollywood wears its anti-capitalist, secular views, and environmentalism proudly on it&#8217;s sleeves. \u00a0Criminals always have board meetings, are bankers, or their some rich guy who wants to drill for oil. \u00a0 Avatar was a hippy movie about saving trees from the &#8220;evil&#8221; Marines. \u00a0 Likewise, Hollywood&#8217;s version of Noah was about God flooding the earth because man had abused and mined it&#8217;s resources barren.<\/p>\n<p>If it sounds as though I had something against Noah before seeing it, nothing can be father from the truth. \u00a0I actually wanted to see it and enjoy it because I thought many critics who slammed the movie prior to seeing it, would be wrong. \u00a0 Well, in this case, they were right. \u00a0It was pretty boring, at least for the first fifteen minutes. \u00a0 To me that&#8217;s too long. \u00a0I did hear that it picked up in the middle. \u00a0But to me, that&#8217;s way too late. \u00a0If you can tolerate longer than fifteen minutes, there&#8217;s a slim chance you may enjoy the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Noah a great movie? \u00a0I honestly don&#8217;t know. \u00a0For the first fifteen minutes that I could tolerate, I can honestly say it was boring and not worth my $11.50. \u00a0I dozed in and out for the first fifteen minutes, and then I finally got up, left my friends, walked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}