{"id":15,"date":"2014-06-16T21:54:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T21:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:24:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:24:59","slug":"review-noah-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Noah-2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Noah-2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Darren Aronofsky<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70295061.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1419\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70295061-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70295061\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70295061-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70295061.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed June 16, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Learning that Darren Aronofsky, a very dark director (Black Swan-2011, Requiem for a Dream-2000, and The Wrestler-2008), would be tackling a religious film piqued my curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>Those expecting an uplifting, happy film about &#8220;god&#8221; will be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>This film is generating controversy from the religious folks, which I find interesting, but nobody wants me to go off on a tangent.<\/p>\n<p>The film tells the tale of the biblical figure, Noah, and his quest to do God&#8217;s will through the signs he is given.<\/p>\n<p>It takes incredible talent to make a film like this not seem silly and Aronofsky, Russell Crowe, and Jennifer Connelly succeed.<\/p>\n<p>The film is quite dark and at times Noah comes off as more of a madman than a savior.<\/p>\n<p>The visual effects and the musical score are wonderfully effective.<\/p>\n<p>Noah (2014) has a few plot holes but is a nice fantasy\/apocalypse-type film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noah-2014 Director Darren Aronofsky Starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly Scott&#8217;s Review #3 Reviewed June 16, 2014 Grade: B+ Learning that Darren Aronofsky, a very dark director (Black Swan-2011, Requiem for a Dream-2000, and The Wrestler-2008), would be tackling a religious film piqued my curiosity. Those expecting an uplifting, happy film about &#8220;god&#8221; will be disappointed. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=15\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Noah-2014<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,205,1746,2155,6426,192,3600,194,4593,887,2154,7405,10726,6169,2672,4880,398,1943],"tags":[78,259,1749,2158,6427,193,3604,195,4597,889,2157,7407,10730,6171,2679,4881,399,1945],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2014-films","category-adventure-films","category-anthony-hopkins","category-darren-aronofsky","category-douglas-booth","category-dramas","category-emma-watson","category-epics","category-finn-wittrock","category-frank-langella","category-jennifer-connelly","category-kevin-durand","category-mark-margolis","category-marton-csokas","category-nick-nolte","category-ray-winstone","category-religious-films","category-russell-crowe","tag-2014-movie-reviews","tag-adventure-films","tag-anthony-hopkins","tag-darren-aronofsky","tag-douglas-booth","tag-dramas-2","tag-emma-watson","tag-epics-2","tag-finn-wittrock","tag-frank-langella","tag-jennifer-connelly","tag-kevin-durand","tag-mark-margolis","tag-marton-csokas","tag-nick-nolte","tag-ray-winstone","tag-religious-films","tag-russell-crowe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20327,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/20327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}