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Absolutely the worst movie.

I "won" this double DVD on X-Mas lottery, so I shouldn't complain. I thought. So why not bridge the hours 'til the Golden Globes at 2AM CET with some trashy 3-hour Halmi-Vision. Robert Halmi's Hallmark is always good for lots of cheap laughs, gasping, drinking games, and senseless NO sex, but violence. After watching the first half hour stunned, how actors with reputation like Jon Voight and Mary Steenburgen can appear in this piece of crap, I began to realize: they're having a party! The second part, being even more ridiculous, proved Hallmark provides a playground for big names who don't care about their reputation. I'll drink to that -- it helps watching the picture.

A local video store was closing last week and I bought this DVD thinking it must be half decent with Jon Voight as Noah. Just finished watching it (although that is probably too strong a word, I ended up fast forwarding much of it as it was so awfully appalling and embarrassing). It has to be perhaps the worst movie I have ever seen. It certainly was not the story of Noah. The disclaimer of "poetic license taken" was laughable, it would be like entitling a movie "Jack the Ripper" and having Christie of Rillington Place as a major character and claiming poetic license. (Don't know why I've chosen serial killers as my example, perhaps I'm feeling murderous at such a shocking waste of time and life!) I just can't understand how it has managed to have a 4 star rating, did the director get all his kith and kin to write in with favorable comments? I do hope the soon to be released Russel Crowe version at least lives up to its title.

Chromium 5 review says it all. What was the writer thinking, I suspect he was on something illegal ! Modern songs and phrase's in a period set thousands of years ago. Not to speak of the Director and Producer.Studio heads must have been on vacation for this to slip passed them. The actors must be at the stage in their career's when the pay cheque means more than their good name and reputation. utter garbage, this certainly was a figment of somebody's imagination. When I think of Voight's abilities such as the Odessa File, Midnight Cowboy, Mission Impossible etc. I shake my head. the movie should carry a Comedy sticker at the very least. Remember to avoid this movie at all costs.

It's become popular over the years to consider this a bad film, yet many don't seem to realize the producer's intentions. This film was created as a comedy or light drama. There are many aspects deliberately included for the purpose of humour. However, many of the jokes just don't come across properly and when taken seriously make the film seem bad.There are many aspects of it that differ from the actual Bible story, however one must realize that the Bible story is only about a paragraph long. So trying to do the story as written would make it difficult to do even a half-hour story.This film is best enjoyed if you just take it as a creative retelling and don't take it seriously. And it's obvious that it never was meant to be taken seriously. Those elements pointed out as bad writing, such as the pirates, were deliberately added with a tongue-in-cheek approach. If anything is bad about it, it's that the comedy doesn't come across as well as it's suppose to.When buying this film one has to be careful of the version they get. There are many versions in which scenes have been deleted such as the incident with the pirates. Some versions run 140 minutes while others are 160 minutes for multiple parts. 178 minutes is listed as the full running time, but the mini-series when aired was presented in two parts. Some releases have it in three parts, including end credits. The TV version shortened the end credits and ran about 173-174 minutes long (without ads). So it's hard to tell if the 178 minute version is counting the end credits twice. But it would seem that the full version is 178 minutes long. (I don't have the different versions to compare.)