Noah
A curious take on the Biblical story complete with rock giants* and Methuselah with a magic sword. I expected a film to pad things out a bit, but they didn’t half take liberties. And Russell Crow’s Noah came across as a bit of a nob.
A curious watch, but a bit rubbish, I thought.
Before that I saw Grandpa’s Great Escape: a delightful story based on a children’s book by David Walliams, who also stars in a supporting role as the main protagonists amusingly boring father. It was a bit silly, in a good way, a bit sad, also in a good way. It did get a bit sentimental, but this did not ruin the film at all for me. Despite the sad part of the story (it deals with an old man suffering from altzeimers after all) it finds a lot of humour in the situation, without denigrating or mocking it, and ultimately is an uplifting tale. And spitfires are cool.
* The fallen angels are mentioned briefly in Genesis just before the Noah story, and they are named and described in more detail (this time described as ‘watchers’, where they obviously got the name for the creatures in this film) in the apocryphal Book of Enoch. They were not rock giants however, but they are mentioned as teaching humanity and are the fathers (by human women) of the nephilim who were giants, although probably not rocky.