Noah

I saw the movie, Noah, last Saturday with a friend. I was looking forward to seeing it because it was supposedly an epic retelling of the biblical tale, and also because it had Emma Watson. I thought that it was great, although there were a few plot holes.
 The movie focused on a man named Noah(obviously), his wife, Naameh, their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their adoptive daughter, Ila. After being siblings for ten or so years, Shem and Ila fall in love, but Ila is barren from being stabbed as a child and doesn't want Shem to settle for her if they can't have kids. However, after Noah's grandfather, Methuselah, blesses her, she is healed and gets pregnant. Noah is very upset with this because he thinks that mankind has to end, so if the child is a girl, he will kill her to prevent her from repopulating the earth, and if it is a boy, it will become the last man. Ila ends up giving birth to twin girls, but Noah decides not to kill them because he loves them too much, and decides that his family will repopulate the world after all. By the end of the movie, I was thinking to myself, "Did everybody just agree that Ham and Japheth are going to have sex with their nieces?" It was one thing for Shem and Ila to be together, because they weren't actually related, but if Ham and Japheth have children with their children, then their children will have to have children with their cousins, if that makes any sense. I know that people say that everybody on Earth is related, but I still find that degree of incest unsettling.
Another flaw I found, which was not so much a flaw as a possible intentional directorial decision, was that all of the characters were dressed in these postmodernistic, bohemian, earth-toned, clothes. When I think of biblical times, I always think of both men and women wearing, for lack of a better word, dresses, with their heads covered. In the end scene, Naameh is wearing pants, Ham wore something that looked like a hoodie during the majority of the movie, and they all seemed to wear rubber-soled boots. These clothes seemed like they would be worn by a fashion-backward hipster, or perhaps a homeless person, not a family who lived thousands of years ago.
Despite these flaws, I did think that Noah was a great film. Both the graphics and the symbolic metaphors were beautiful, and overall, it made me want to go to church.