It's Sunday

There's just no pleasing some people. 

Noah has been in the spotlight ever since October, when Paramount studio reportedly screened the film for Christian audiences and received a negative reaction. Executives had apparently been hoping for a successor to Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, which took $611m (£367m) worldwide in 2004 after US evangelicals flocked to see it. Aronofsky's film, by contrast, views the famous flood story from an environmental perspective and features a segment showing how Darwinian evolution has transformed amoebas into apes.

Yet Aronofsky, director of the Oscar-winning psychological drama Black Swan, revealed in February that he had won a battle with Paramount to screen his own version of Noah in cinemas after around half a dozen alternate cuts also failed to find traction with evangelical Christian filmgoers. The studio reportedly had been so desperate to court Christian audiences in the US that it tested one version which opened with a montage of religious images and ended with a Christian rock song.

Paramount now appears to have given up on its efforts to market Noah to Christians, with the studio issuing a statement in February making clear that the movie is not intended as a direct translation of the bible story. The film has also been banned across large parts of the Middle East and parts of north Africa for contravening Islamic rules on the depiction of prophets.

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[Star Russell] Crowe said Aronofsky's film created vital discussion of a number of themes surrounding its core story. "You come out of this movie and you want to talk … about our stewardship of the earth, our relationship to animals, what is spirituality, who am I in this world – all these fantastic subjects for conversation," he said. "Art that can do that for people is a wonderful thing."

  Guardian

Aside from the fact that it hints at evolution (which is where the marketing aspect would naturally hit a brick wall) and the virtues of environmentalism, perhaps there wasn't enough anti-Semitism in it for Christians.

Sounds like it might be pretty good. If you like epics.

You can watch the trailer and clips here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=noah+trailer&sm=3

And if you're like me, by the time you watch trailers and clips (which usually include all the "good" parts), you feel like you've seen the movie, and in fact, you won't remember any of the rest of it anyway.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.