Exodus, Gods and Kings.

[Jacob(smooth)]

You'd love him in this version min. God is played be a 10 year old kid. Which kinda fits when he goes on a rant...

[Minimalist]

So. Follows the book closely then, eh?

[abaris]

So. Follows the book closely then, eh?

You think the book is that mature?

[Natachan]

I still liked it. It was big, over-the-top and fun. It took liberties with the story, it had to, the actual story in exodus is very short. DeMille was brilliant, and the film was good.

I'm wondering if it is even possible to do that kind of film today. I would say no, but Titanic was fairly recent and it was pretty good.

[Regina]

I went to see the film on a date last week hehe

Really didn't care too much about the inaccuracies, hardly a truthful story to begin with so...

The visuals and the acting were really nice. I loved the dramatic effects of the tsunami towards the end, as well as the plagues. It was visually a very pretty film.

Can I just say though, what really wore me out was Moses' wardrobe, especially early on in the film. So this is a man who, supposedly, grew up with no idea that he wasn't ethnically Egyptian, yet right from the start he was dressed completely different to all of the "other" Egyptian characters. Why? He didn't know he was Hebrew to feel a need to make a statement about it. Also as well his "Hebrew" clothes he wore, especialle near the start, were giving me very much so medieval crusader Ts, rather than ancient Hebrew. It was very off.

[JesusHChrist]

I saw the trailer for this in a theater a while back, and my GF and I were doing the eye rolls at each other.

Imagine my surprise, when the director turns out to be Ridley Scott; a director whose work I tend to like - Alien particularly.

Still not interested in seeing big screen Biblical claptrap unless there was an unusual angle - maybe Predator vs. Pharaoh, or the master alien race from Prometheus were the real Egyptians and God was some other alien critter who needed to kick their butts. The Jews later find out they are being "chosen" as food for an alien pig-like race. You see Jews don't eat pork, but the pig-aliens have no such restrictions - irony!

Something other than very, very silly Exodus story...

[h4ym4n]

I saw the trailer for this in a theater a while back, and my GF and I were doing the eye rolls at each other.

Imagine my surprise, when the director turns out to be Ridley Scott; a director whose work I tend to like - Alien particularly.

Still not interested in seeing big screen Biblical claptrap unless there was an unusual angle - maybe Predator vs. Pharaoh, or the master alien race from Prometheus were the real Egyptians and God was some other alien critter who needed to kick their butts. The Jews later find out they are being "chosen" as food for an alien pig-like race. You see Jews don't eat pork, but the pig-aliens have no such restrictions - irony!

Something other than very, very silly Exodus story...

I saw the trailer in the cinema also. Right at fade to black of the trailer someone in the upper seats said loud enough, " wonder how that ends". Quite the LOL erupted.

[robvalue]

This has probably been said already, but I heard on the radio people complaining about the "historical inaccuracies". That is about the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.

[Minimalist]

right from the start he was dressed completely different to all of the "other" Egyptian characters.

Perhaps he was gay?

[JesusHChrist]

This has probably been said already, but I heard on the radio people complaining about the "historical inaccuracies". That is about the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.

Yes, akin to complaining about the scientific inaccuracies in Star Wars.