Fox News Priest: Noah Producers ‘Missed the Mark’ and Will ‘Pay for It Dearly’
Fox News’ resident Catholic priest/religious analyst in not impressed with the new Bible-based film Noah, despite its early success at the box office this weekend. Father Jonathan Morris told Fox & Friends Sunday that the Darren Aronofsky-directed film “missed the mark” by not telling the story from the point of view of faith and will “pay dearly for it,” though he did not specify whether that meant in the eyes on the Lord or at the hands of consumers.
“You know, it’s a classic case of the book is much better than the movie,” Morris said Sunday morning, saying he was “disappointed” in the film because it could have been so “awesome.” Fox’s Anna Kooiman noted that Christians have been “up in arms” over the movie while “environmentalists are excited about it.”
According to Morris, God, who is only referred to as “the creator” in the film, comes off as an “impersonal force that tells you to do crazy things,” while Noah seems “borderline schizophrenic.” And as for the initial box office numbers, he said Noah’s $40 million weekend “pales in comparison” to the opening weekend of The Passion of the Christ, which holds the record for the best-ever winter number of $83.8 million.
“Great actors, and a great director, but just wrong starting point,” Morris concluded. “Didn’t start from the point of view of faith.”
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