12 Giant Plot-Holes You Didn't Notice In 2014's Biggest Movies

9. Noah Isn't Even Magic

Picking away at a religious epic is probably silly on two front: first, it's a quick way to get an awful lot of angry comments (and possibly the wrath of God, obviously), and it's folly to try and pick the logical from the fantastical in a film about giant stone golems, magical snakes and beans and people called Ham. But when the internal logic of a film is flawed, it's flawed. At the start of the film, Noah witnesses the death of his father as he's trying to complete a special rite of passage that would confirm Noah as a man, and which would have had some sort of religious/magical undercurrent, or at least a spiritual one. In those terms, it makes no sense that at the end of the film Noah takes the snakeskin talisman up to bless his own family: after all, he wasn't "blessed" in the same way, and if he is impregnating his grand-daughters with magic or Godliness or whatever it is, it's a contradiction of his own incomplete ritual. Presumably the decision to include the serpent - a Satanic symbol - went down really well with all the religious zealots out there. Also, how come Emma Watson didn't pick up the accent of her new family, despite growing up with them from the age of six?