Ganzlinger
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Looked lame, like direct-to-video or something from SyFy. No surprise.
To be fair, most paintings of Jesus show him as a white dude while the general consensus is he must have been darker skinned.
And I'm not defending this movie. It looks like pure garbage.
He's right you know.
Most of the people commenting in the thread or twitter haven't even watched the film and are just regurgitating what the revierews have said or thier own bias just from watching the trailers.
Sure, but art exists in the current world context. Whitewashing the hell out of this just highlights how out of touch every part of this would be, and I don't blame everyone for looking at the trailer or still images and not being able to relate to this at all. Reminded me of Mortal Kombat in its style, a movie from 1995.Anybody else see it? It's not terrible.
The "whitewash" complaints shouldn't matter because there's nothing historical about this movie. It's pure fantasy with flying gods and weird monsters with an egyptian theme, but it might as well take place on an alien planet.
I'm not saying it's great, but don't let edgy comments deter you if you want to see an over-the-top action fantasy popcorn flick. It's cheesy fun that succeeded in holding my attention throughout. It's definitely no Lord of the Rings but it's a helluva lot better than Jupiter Rising. I can give it a 5 out of 10 wait for the rental score.
But once a movie becomes a whipping boy on the internet there no stopping the criticism. Especially by those who never see it.
Bruh, you made a shitty movie that cost $140 million, own it.
Couldn't even make it look good/exciting in the trailers. It looked like a straight to DVD sequel to 'The Mummy' franchise, and it cost $140 million!
As others have said he has some points but to go full rage does him no favours.
film critics by and large do pick out particular films for a proper OTT roasting, seems this film was the unlucky 'winner' this time round.
Then what happens is people finally watch it a few months later when it's on Netflix or Amazon and say, "you know, the film was a lot better than the critics said".
Rinse and repeat.
Yeah, I'm pissed a movie about Egypt doesn't seem to have a single Egyptian or brown person in general, and has the main gods played by Gérard fucking Butler and some other white dude from Game of Thrones.He's right you know.
Most of the people commenting in the thread or twitter haven't even watched the film and are just regurgitating what the revierews have said or thier own bias just from watching the trailers.
What are these movies that "critics" all get around the camp fire to decided to roast? Sometimes a product or piece of media is just that bad.
Sorry, but I think artists are entitled to push back at their critics. Criticising stuff is easy, people do it every day on this site and the truth of the matter is that there isn't an awful lot of difference qualitatively between many "professional" reviews and those of amateurs/fans on message boards.
The Thing and Starship Troopers come to mind.
It happens.
Only the French have big enough budgets to be able to afford real Egyptian gods.
Exodus flops, Gods of Egypt flops.
I think this sends a PRETTY CLEAR message to Hollywood that maybe you should get a diverse cast if you're gonna have a movie about Egyptians!
Hollywood will never make a correct Egypt movie...
But Starship Troopers got a 63% on Rotten Tomatoes (out of 59 reviews) and The Thing got a 80% on Rotten Tomatoes (out of 50 seperate reviews).
The both reviewed ok to great. Not sure what you mean.
This is a movie I'll see listed on Netflix, laugh while going "oh right, this fucking thing. I remember that director's hissy-fit and the gross racial politics with the casting." I'll then skip to the next movie and continue to not give a fuck about Gods of Egypt beyond that.This is the type of film that is going to completely disappear and then a year from now people will see it on netflix or cable and say...
"Hey, that was some pretty good cheesy fun. Why did this completely flop?"
But Starship Troopers got a 63% on Rotten Tomatoes (out of 59 reviews) and The Thing got a 80% on Rotten Tomatoes (out of 50 seperate reviews).
The both reviewed ok to great. Not sure what you mean.
Rotten Tomatoes launched in 1998, and thus does not reflect the initial reception of any movie from before 1998.
Yup. It's kinda funny when people think Rotten Tomatoes reveals anything about history.
Sorry, but I think artists are entitled to push back at their critics. Criticising stuff is easy, people do it every day on this site and the truth of the matter is that there isn't an awful lot of difference qualitatively between many "professional" reviews and those of amateurs/fans on message boards.
Honestly, I really wonder why anyone gives a shit what these people say. Let alone defend them when one of their subjects retorts.
Exodus flops, Gods of Egypt flops.
I think this sends a PRETTY CLEAR message to Hollywood that maybe you should get a diverse cast if you're gonna have a movie about Egyptians!
I don't think diversity would make me dislike this film less. And I am a major fan of NCW (Jamie Lannister).
The thing is; The film didn't look good. It looked uninspired with a ton of fake looking CGI, like the Clash of the Titans.
The acting didn't look good; Sort of like Alexander.
It looked like a half-baked epic. With a bad sub romantic plot and in a trailer that spoiled the predictable story. I've not seen the movie but watching the trailer you can taste how boring it's going to be.
There is going to be a grand score, boring random steady cams, CGI backgrounds, a couple of calculated one-liners.
Within 10 minutes the ordinary world collapses and things turn to shit, and before the hero fails, learns his morale lesson, and eventually learns, all within the quadric circular heroes journey, there is nothing left but contempt.
Watch Hateful Eight. You do not know how that movie is going to play out. There is just no fucking way you see what is coming.
Epics are hard. Ridley Scott revived the genre with Gladiator. A genre that had been dead since Cleopatra and Spartacus. That never happens. And against all odds, in post Troy, post Alexander, he manages to make a different, but important film in Kingdom of Heaven: Directors Cut.
But even his Exodus was a failure. Immortals was a failure. Clash of the Titans was a failure. Of course, NOTHING is worse than Robin Hood.
Point is.. Epic Swords'n Sandal films are hard.
Exodus flops, Gods of Egypt flops.
I think this sends a PRETTY CLEAR message to Hollywood that maybe you should get a diverse cast if you're gonna have a movie about Egyptians!
Exodus flops, Gods of Egypt flops.
I think this sends a PRETTY CLEAR message to Hollywood that maybe you should get a diverse cast if you're gonna have a movie about Egyptians!
NOTHING is worse than Robin Hood.
I thought they back filled reviews from old newspaper articles and magazines pre 1998. Thanks for the info.
Long after he lived. The Egypitians made it pretty clear how they saw both themselves and their gods but we still have people try to argue about what they "really looked like".Most depictions of Jesus were done by white dudes.
As someone of Asian descent, I would be OK with every movie with a White-washed cast getting blindly and overwhelmingly trashed by reviewers.
Maybe then Hollywood will FINALLY learn to STOP WHITE-WASHING!!!
Proyas
The Crow will always be in my top 10 films, and I really need to see Dark City someday. The whole thing is just sad.
For some reason Edge of Tomorrow flopped but I saw few complaints of whitewashing with it.
Interesting, never knew about that.It was also a video game
They're not mutually exclusive.A fantastic movie you mean.
From the man who brought you "KNOWING"
Kind of hard to whitewash an original work of fiction.
They're not mutually exclusive.
Because the adaptation isn't explicitly reliant on being Japan. No different than The Departed being an American version of Infernal Affairs.For some reason Edge of Tomorrow flopped but I saw few complaints of whitewashing with it.
It's fine to push back at critics. But there are better ways of doing it than basically saying "they are all stupid and my movie is great".Sorry, but I think artists are entitled to push back at their critics. Criticising stuff is easy, people do it every day on this site and the truth of the matter is that there isn't an awful lot of difference qualitatively between many "professional" reviews and those of amateurs/fans on message boards.
Honestly, I really wonder why anyone gives a shit what these people say. Let alone defend them when one of their subjects retorts.
Exodus flops, Gods of Egypt flops.
I think this sends a PRETTY CLEAR message to Hollywood that maybe you should get a diverse cast if you're gonna have a movie about Egyptians!