Reviewing Movies

Hollywood does the Bible. The oral tradition that is the Old Testament Pentateuch was not recorded on parchment until the time of King David. Furthermore those writings were not intended as accurate historical accounts but rather as didactic truths. Every major civilization has a flood story, even here in North America.

My first thought was Russell Crowe as a Biblical Patriarch? But why not, Noah was not a saint, he was just less venal than his neighbours. After that the show enters the realm of pure fantasy. Those fallen angel rock critters? That wooden arc, could that monstrosity possibly have floated and it in no way resembles a boat. The waters under the earth spouting up as the waters above the earth rain down in godly vengeance. Biblical, but few still believe the world is flat.

True believers have prowled the Ararat Mountains for centuries looking for remains of the Arc but even if there was any veracity to the myth there's little chance that wooden remains would have survived in that environment.

The movie requires a great deal of suspension of disbelief. Does any semblance of the Biblical intent remain intact?