I sure wouldn't miss THAT one. :o)
Then allow me to oblige you both:
And just because I can, here's the pope in the Batmobile:
Posted on 12/19/2014 9:13:57 AM PST by millegan
1) The Dialogue
2) The Atmosphere
3) Moses as disturbed prophet
4) Moses and Ramses: Two sides of the same coin?
5) Case of the missing Hebrews
millegan is a Catholic. The chances of that, generally speaking, are low.
After all, it IS all about $$money$$.
I sure wouldn't miss THAT one. :o)
Will not bother.
I saw it. Moses protests to God like Judas does in “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Moses is presented as an atheistic skeptic of Egypt’s religions. There’s even a weird suggestion that his own religion is the result of a brain injury. I enjoy that Moses didn’t cling to religion as a superstition, but as a matter of fact. But I thought the movie tried so hard to turn him into more of a Joan of Arc-style person struggling for discernment that it threw overboard much of the central conflict: the pharoah was less an adversary of Moses and God than a victim of God. This was much bigger of a problem than casting God as a child; that almost seemed like a cottontail tactic. (The rabbit flashes a bright cottontail for the bird of prey to focus on so that the bird misses his main target.)
I very much liked Moses’ honeymoon scene, showing the spiritual intimacy of the relationship but cutting away before showing the physical intimacy, which would have been really awkward. The special effects were great, including the plagues; plainly Scott made this film so he could present a sea draining dry and then swallowing an army. Moses’ unawareness that he was Jewish seemed a vain attempt to make this into the wrong Charlton Heston bible movie (”Ben Hur”), although it provided some early drama and fun movie-making.
The biggest problem was it wasn’t good enough to be so long. I love a good, long movie, like Ben Hur, Dances with Wolves, the Ten Commandments, the Right Stuff, the various Lord of the Rings movies. But Scott doesn’t like the source material enough to make a great movie; he sees it merely as a great excuse to do great special effects.
Best reason to pound my head on a brick wall: the Egyptians were shown building ruins.
Then allow me to oblige you both:
And just because I can, here's the pope in the Batmobile:
Saw it, and it was “ok”. The main issues I had with it were things like the ambiguous provenance of some of the plagues, Moses leaving his family (I didn’t see that anywhere in the Bible), the lack of direct miracles as detailed in the Bible (staff of Aaron and its conversion to a snake; Moses directly parting the Red Sea) and other secondary issues.
I didn’t mind the “slightly-crazy” take Bale had on Moses. Frankly, I’d suspect that no matter who you were, talking directly with the overwhelming presence of I AM would unhinge your brain just a bit.
LOL!
I have yet to meet or hear of a single Christian (I am Catholic) practicing or dormant, who has not read the Old Testament, at one point or another of his life.
C.S. Lewis, perhaps the most celebrated and devout convert to Catholicism in modern times, called God the Cosmic Sadist.
Our God seems to have evolved into "Allah Light"
Putting the Mercedes 3-point star on the Lincoln Futura is a travesty!
Overpriced kraut kanz!
My son (who is 17) says it was very good. I’ll take other children to see it next week.
Holy Crap! I would not miss this movie! better than the green lantern.
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