{"id":752,"date":"2014-07-14T22:23:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T22:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkinggrid.com\/dev\/?p=752"},"modified":"2014-07-14T22:23:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T22:23:19","slug":"noah-biblical-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/noah-biblical-dude\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNoah,\u201d  Biblical  Dude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Talkinggrid Regulars,<\/p>\n<p>1 April 2014 -7 April 2014<\/p>\n<p>Here is a meditation on taste\u2026 How do you feel about the guilty pleasure of a \u201cBAD,\u201d Movie? Is a \u201cBad,\u201d movie akin to junk food, a poor substitute to authentic nutrition?<\/p>\n<p>Frau Kolb is a total snob when it comes to films. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.noahmovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Noah<\/a>,\u201d was G R E A T as a parody of dysfunctional Malibu living. The film\u2019s total lack of respect for the biblical narrative\u2019s gravitas, and the significance of LAW, authority\u2026 punishment\u2026 all foreign ideas to the Hollywood mind. The film features: two herbal medicine junky parents, on the brink of a great flood\u2026 could be menopause or a midlife crisis\u2026 regardless the two, are battling. The are &#8220;way too stressed,&#8221; by the &#8220;evil,&#8221; meat eaters. Differences in diet, from gluten-free to vegan being an \u201cAWESOME issue,\u201d in California, where this ancient flood takes place in a studio lot and computer chop-chop room, keeping a KOSHER KITCHEN versus an only ORGANIC GARDEN may be a never ending source of Empty Hollywood \u201cD R A M A!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Los Angeles, affluent people often shop at Whole foods\u2026 which\u2026 might fit in an ark\u2026 if you drugged the electronic animals\u2026 the cast of Noah dressed in anachronistic contemporary classic movie attire, over act their way from one scene to the next flood of bad\u2026 evil\u2026 greedy trashy leather and hair extensions flaunting, trendy MAD MAX rival sibling&#8230; Ruler of the damned, hitching a ride, wounded, inside the cartoon ark, adrift in the middle of a bad plot and stupid invented biblical dribble. The family of surf sipping fashion cast-aways, waiting for \u201cthe BIG wave\u2026\u201d The moral of the story: DO NOT MURDER your twin granddaughters! OK, Dude?<\/p>\n<p>Do NOT set up your father to be murdered by your blood lusting uncle. OK??? He will be Shakespearean in his on-stage twitching rage and bristling Anglo-Irish\u2026 what is that stupid\u2026 oh yeah\u2026 another movie packed with longhairs\u2026 the one about a lost Ring\u2026 cramp. Moral number 15 of the story: keep kosher or dear ol\u2019 god won\u2019t give the snakeskin blessing&#8230; wait what? This doesn\u2019t make any sense\u2026 well the Old Testament didn\u2019t make a whole lot of sense did it??? Slapped together from yarns, threads, ancient Hebrew, ancient tongues, mysterious\u2026 powerful!<\/p>\n<p>Not a JOKE. NOT FUNNY, really.<\/p>\n<p>Noah is supposed to be serious and it really shocked me that I was the only one laughing throughout this farce of a film.<\/p>\n<p>I dig the part about the groovy garden with a tempting tree and handy slithering salesman: SATAN.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/noah.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal size-medium wp-image-754 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/noah.jpg?resize=300%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"noah\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/noah.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/noah.jpg?resize=1024%2C512&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/noah.jpg?resize=740%2C370&amp;ssl=1 740w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/noah.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The NOAH story told by Hollywood, puts Russell Crow in baggy denim trousers looking the part of a frazzled Los Angeles &#8220;off-his-meds,&#8221; unstable angry husband\/DAD\u2026 an overworked father of three, a rushed and post industrial worker transported via lack of historical knowledge to an imagined past\u2026 very strange\u2026 belching stacks, polluted environment\u2026 all very LA NOW. His wife,the dashing Jennifer Connelly, wears the organic hand stitched mantel of plastic trash bags left over from the set of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Waterworld\" target=\"_blank\">Waterworld<\/a>, another underwater Hollywood disaster picture, gone way wrong\u2026 The hyper unimaginative costume designer got the LOOK of a Prius Driving power-yoga-stressed out- BEACH queen MOM, perpetually aggravated from fighting traffic, on the Pacific Coast Highway, wearing her athletic gear and lambs skin lined bulky flat surf boots, despite claim to be \u201calmost vegan\u2026\u201d yet LOVIN\u2019 Skinny Margaritas\u2026 characteristic of the \u201claid back,\u201d amazingly aggressive and self-centered inhabitants of one of the world\u2019s most exclusive enclaves of wealth\u2026 sending out the sun-kissed image of<a href=\"http:\/\/anime-arts.wikia.com\/wiki\/File:Anime_hair_style_ii_by_nyuhatter-d3kos72.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"> Wind-Whipped Anime hair<\/a>\u2026 too much.<\/p>\n<p>Laughter erupting at the illogical slap-dash raft of a bloated &#8220;electronically mastered,\u201d logic challenged, folly\u2026 perfect for those that love their entertainment ABSURDLY all Caucasian and without a touch of truth\u2026 those that crave twisted, computer animated nonsense\u2026 I mean, what is with the talking rocks??? Why do all Hollywood brain busters have to have a giant robot folding over upon itself, a computerized Character, which is sent in to save a floundering script and pointless flick from sinking. Noah, a movie made for those that image prehistory in terms of a simpler time; when wives were, animals, children, and all else were to be subject to a very macho and temperamental LORD; white DUDE.<\/p>\n<p>Happy April FOOL\u2019s Month, to those that, join me in celebrating Hollywood\u2019s power to draw in audiences out of their, presumably, cozy homes to the public view situation of the Movie Palace or Theater\u2026 How do they manage to get humans to give up hard earned dollars to see pretty European California pampered brand name faces perform empty renditions of what might be our most sacred religious documents?<\/p>\n<p>Imagine: a BIG WAVE wipes Malibu off the earth and then there is NO MORE TRAFFIC.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Noah did not have a surfboard strapped to the top of the ark&#8230; It would have added extra\u2013\u2013spice\u2013\u2013to the already hyped-up Hollywood version\u2026 after all, they took so many liberties with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Genesis+5:32-10:1\" target=\"_blank\">established biblical narrative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An alternate title for the film; \u201cNoah Does Malibu,\u201d and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000316\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mel Brooks<\/a> really must make his own version of this hilarious jazzy Hollywood spun cheap and flashy pimp of biblical electric neon impossibly pretty Douglas Booth\u2026 fruity, really\u2026 and unbearable acting from the biblical British sounding princess, Emma Watson, with \u201chealing wisdom,\u201d from Wholefoods on Lincoln blvd, this version of Noah is loosely spun upon the biblical patchwork of polyester and acrylic twine costumes.<\/p>\n<p>Humans: we love retelling an old myth&#8230; making it resonate with a new audience which doesn\u2019t care that denim did not exist until the late 1800\u2019s and that it is a uniquely American fashion choice. The people of the ancient Greco-Roman world told many versions of the same stories about their mythological heroes.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that denim has become a possible toga for today\u2019s international male, around the world, is testament to the imperialist nature of this nuclear family, we could-all-be-cousins, one family and its adopted sister\u2026 and their twin daughters\u2026 weird. Yet\u2026 perhaps\u2026 the film is but a mere joke, a comedy\u2026 destined to be erased when the digital libraries fail after the upcoming END of THE World!! ! IF you find yourself laughing at the silly slapstick rendition of the prehistoric manifestation of the miraculous, know that Frau Kolb is not laughing at you, rather with you, in this tenuous case.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the \u201cShadows on the Cave Wall!\u201d and please pass the fake butter flavor on salty GMO pop-corn.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<\/p>\n<p>Frau Kolb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Talkinggrid Regulars, 1 April 2014 -7 April 2014 Here is a meditation on taste\u2026 How do you feel about the guilty pleasure of a \u201cBAD,\u201d Movie? Is a \u201cBad,\u201d movie akin to junk food, a poor substitute to authentic nutrition? 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