our movie guy-- eric childress is here to talk about noah. you screened the film what's your reaction? >>i think it's terrific. i think it's one of the best films i've seen all year. >>you loved it! >>i loved this movie and i think i cannot understand why paramount was trying to hide this film from critics. >>what is that about? >>they're sort of running scared. they have a really big budget film going on and for a few months they've been courting this controversy that you're referring to. trying to court the religious people and christians to get on board with this film. because of some early script leaks they say may not be quite in tune with the original noah storysome liberties have been takenthat they're sort of keeping it at a distance. they didn't decide to screen this film for a lot of the nation's film critics until just yesterday. >>the criticism was so high in antcipation of this film that paramount actually had to come out with a statementthe company says"the film was inspired by the story of noah. some artistic license has been t