I really want to like what I'm seeing from Darren Aronofsky's hugely ambitious epic, Noah, but everything I've seen just fills me with doubt. The guy doesn't have a great track record with effects-heavy features (The Fountain was critically divisive and a box office dud), and this is a film considerably larger in both scope and budget than anything he's made before: isn't he just a director who seems a lot more comfortable with about $20 million in his pocket rather than $130 million? Though the game cast is hard to argue with, and some of the individual shots, lensed by Aronofsky's longtime cinematographer Matthew Libatique, look pretty fantastic, the requirement for a visual effects overload just might be the film's undoing. Can't make sense of the above picture? Me neither, and it looks even worse when things are moving: it's just an awkward mesh of blurry entities flying around, but then I am at the same time slightly grateful that Aronofsky didn't at least go for the 3D option.
Stay at home dad who spends as much time teaching his kids the merits of Martin Scorsese as possible (against the missus' wishes).
General video game, TV and film nut. Occasional sports fan. Full time loon.
