[Tax-chick]

My son saw it. He said the problems were the story, the cast, and the direction.

[Salvation]

Pimping your blog again?

[MeganC]

I won’t bother wasting my time on this one. Ever.

[DoodleDawg]

Only five? I’ve heard the movie is awful.

[ansel12]

Wow, this guy really is a blog pimp.

He just signed up for that reason, spams us with his blog, and never responds, ever, zero.

Post and run blog pimp.

[mlo]

"...if not a little ambiguous about the goodness of God."

Have you read the Old Testament?

[Steve_Seattle]

I don’t recall anything in the Bible about Moses being a general or a top advisor to Pharaoh, or saving the life of Rameses, only that he was raised in Pharaoh’s household. And where does the story of Moses depict God sending an army of giant crocodiles/alligators against the Egyptian ships?

[IronJack]

1) Ridley Scott
2) Hollywood
3) Christian Bale
4) Ridley Scott, Hollywood, and Christian Bale
5) Christian Bale, Hollywood, and Ridley Scott

[dware]

I’d say the first problem is in the title, where it says “GodS”

[Bratch]

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

[cloudmountain]

DARK or GRAY movies are MUCH, much, much cheaper to produce. They cut back tremendously on the detailing of scenes. So, prepare to see half the movie where you can't see beyond two feet of the actors.

After all, it IS all about $$money$$.

[Biggirl]

Will not bother.

[dangus]

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.

[Little Pig]

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.

[publius911]

(SPOILERS AHEAD… for anyone who isn’t familiar with the Book of Exodus):

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.