I was watching tennis much of the day and they kept playing this commercial for “Noah.”
I wasn’t paying attention to the visuals, so if you’d only want the visuals maybe this is the most appealing thing ever. But the voice over and the dialog just strikes me as terrible and cheesy as hell.
Is it just me?
No, it’s not.
I like pretty much all the actors shown, but geez Lou-eeze . . . blech.
You were maybe expecting something original?
I went to see some movie…all the trailers looked exactly alike, and they all looked like Noah. (One of them might even have been Noah.)
Reminds me of the trailer for the movie “The Cell”. It looked like an absolutely incredible movie, but I don’t recall seeing a single positive review.
Remember, this is Darren Aronovsky we’re talking about - director of Black Swan, the Wrestler, the Fountain, Requiem for a Dream and Pi. The film may turn out to be a failure, but it will definitely be an interesting failure.
(Although the probability of ass to ass dildo action is, unfortunately, rather low).
This movie apparently features big budget Angel fights, and not the fun peaceful Precious Moments kinds of angels, but the scary Old Testament versions of angels. That alone has me excited about this.
Oh, and it’s going to also have Nephilim in it.
I’ve always thought it would be interesting to see how Noah collected all those animals. “Ostriches, check. Let’s see now…Rhinoceros?? Oh, come on!”
When it first came on, and I heard the voiceover, I thought it was a parody.
Seems like the common pretentious movie ad to me.
Note that the trailer is thirty seconds long and it’s not till three seconds from the end that it’s possible to guess that it’s about Noah. This is a typical action-movie trailer trick - convince the viewers of the trailer that the movie will be a pure rockem-sockem action movie and then at the end finally mention the name of the film. You can do this with almost any film. I just checked YouTube for an example of a fake trailer for an old movie that’s carefully cut together to make it look like an action film. Here’s what I found:
You can recut an old movie to look like a horror movie too:
Trailers essentially tell you nothing about the movie itself. The art of making trailers is now considered more important by Hollywood than the art of making films. Ignore them. They’re just a scam to get you to see a movie despite the fact that you learn nothing about the film except what the production company wants to tell you about it.
I just watched the trailer. That looks awful.
It’ll be a real wasted opportunity if there are no dinosaurs in this movie.
But what about the unicorns ??
“Damn it, I said TWO of each kind, Ham.”
“But, father, it’s a pair-of-mecium.”
In another thread, a fellow doper says:
To which this was my commentary.
I just saw the extended trailer in the theater, and it* looks *damn good.
But- Noah?
These are both really well done
Only virgins can catch them. But, don’t worry, they can magically appear anywhere and will be just fine after the flood.
I wonder if everyone is going to be four foot tall or shorter?
Most biblical scholars agree that the story in which Noah finds that he accidentally put two female donkeys on the ark and, taking pity on the poor creatures, provided them with sex toys is most likely apocryphal, so I can understand why the director left it out.
I saw the trailer in the theater, and it wasn’t until the word “ark” was used that I realized it wasn’t a pseudo-historic action epic about Vikings. Then I was kind of disappointed, because although I probably wouldn’t have bothered to see such a movie it seems like a pretty cool idea that I’m sure a lot of people would have been excited about.