10 Great Films You Can't Admit You Love (And Why)
9. Noah
Noah is a deeply weird film, but that's what makes it so special. It's one of the most "Darren Aronofsky" films the great man has directed since 2006's The Fountain. While other directors like Ridley Scott have scrambled to depict biblical epics on-screen (in the case of Scott the story of Moses in Exodus: Gods And Kings) with pomp and grandeur, Aronofsky chose to embrace the sheer strangeness of many of the stories within the bible. I mean, it features freakin' angelic rock monsters!
For all there is to love about the film, admitting that love is a bad idea. For a start, films with a religious subject matter tend to be scoffed at by many people who aren't religious, and scoffed at even more by people who are for completely misrepresenting the subject matter.
To the vast majority, then, stating "I love the film Noah" is tantamount to saying either "I'm religious, therefore I have to like this film" or "I'm not religious, but I don't know what a good film is". In reality, Noah is a film so bonkers it's incredibly difficult not to enjoy it. And that enjoyment is given immense sincerity by Clint Mansell's accompanying score.