Noah's Not Dead...yet

  If you listen to Glenn Beck, you know he despised the movie Noah. In fact, Beck was "treated" to a special screening where people laughed at the movie and started checking their cell phones halfway through the rock people's (ENTs for those of you who are Lord of the Rings' fans/Nephilim for biblical scholars) laments about being locked into stone for eternity.
  There are many interesting articles about the movie Noah and all its flaws. A few of my friends have seen it and the consensus seems to be that it's really, really bad. 
  And not just because it is so fanciful regarding biblical "artistic license" but because it's just a downright bad movie. 
  What gets into these Hollywood types, that they think they can pretty much ignore what the people really want and produce films that are downright offensive, movie after movie?
  I thought I'd check out the Rotten Tomatoes chart on who likes what; it's very interesting.
  For example, the film God's Not Dead produced by Pure Flix Entertainment, was in the top 5 of movies last weekend. No money was spent on advertising on Facebook and "relatively little" on overall advertising. The low budget film cost under $2 million to make.
  Over at Rotten Tomatoes, 20% of critics like God's Not Dead, contrasted with 87% of the people who've seen it. You know, the regular schlubs. From the Christian Science Monitor:

Even more startling, say observers, is the fact that the movie, aimed toward Evangelical Christians, was shown in only 780 theaters – far fewer than those ahead of it, each of which were showing on more than 3,000 screens. Featuring cameos by “Duck Dynasty” stars Willie and Korie Robertson, “God’s Not Dead” beat nearly every other movie this weekend on an earnings-per-screen basis.

  The dark fantasy Noah, otoh, has a critics' rating of 76% positive, while only 48% of the poor schlubs who've seen actually liked it. One friend who saw it described it as "absolutely hideous," that the "acting was bad" a "waste of time," "corny love exchanges" "corny" "corny" "corny" not to mention that "Noah is depicted as a crazed hippie guy." Let's not even mention the environmental lobby, along with the vegan freaks who had their influence on the script.
  Noah scored a $43 million weekend; though the New York Times crowed that despite complaints, Noah scores no. 1, the film cost $125 - $160 million to make, not counting advertising. This means to make a profit, there's a long way to go, especially considering that several countries have banned it.
  And again, the movie Son of God scores a 22% with critics but a 78% with actual viewers.
  What we can gather from this is, of course, that the shallow Hals in charge of movie making don't know what the heck they're talking about.
  If you want to see another great Christian film available on Netflix, check out The Book of Daniel. Excellent. The Prince of Egypt is also excellent, as the movie industry had the rational courtesy to consult with Christian scholar & apologist Ravi Zacharias concerning its authenticity.
  A discussion of religious films can be found here.
  A discussion of the God's Not Dead film can be found here.