This is adorable. I was expecting Proyas to clam up, but it seems like he actually believes this movie is hot shit.Holy shit Alex Proyas is an asshole.
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Gods of Egypt |OT| Only Whores Can Save Us Feat. White People
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Don't Disney fanboys and tumblr nerds defend Maleficent though?
This'll have reddit fans that go to see it to defy the people that complained about white washing.
Can already see it there where they are reacting to Proyas' meltdown a lot different than here.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Maleficent could of been a great film, but the pacing and script were a huge turn-off for me.
Can't comment on Gods of Egypt yet though as I haven't seen it yet, will do so Tuesday.
$140,000,000
You could feed all the hungry, or save an endangered species, or help Flint Michigan rebuild it's water infrasctructure.
Nope, we have to have a mediocre interpretation of "Beast Wars: Egyptian God Transformers, put on your shades cuz it's going to be the biggest white wash you've in your life, and for some fucking reason everyone has Brittish accents."
ONE-HUNDRED AND FORTY-MILLION DOLLARS
You could feed all the hungry, or save an endangered species, or help Flint Michigan rebuild it's water infrasctructure.
Nope, we have to have a mediocre interpretation of "Beast Wars: Egyptian God Transformers, put on your shades cuz it's going to be the biggest white wash you've in your life, and for some fucking reason everyone has Brittish accents."
ONE-HUNDRED AND FORTY-MILLION DOLLARS
Laughing Banana
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Of course he gave Ebert some love. Ebert was the only critic willing to give Knowing a full four stars, hahah.
Tell them to support Gods of Egypt as this film will feature the most black people on screen than all other Hollywood films combined in 2016! Do your part.
Sincerely,
Lionsgate Marketing Team
im dying !!!!! lmao!!
Why y'all gotta be insulting Beast Wars by comparing it to Gods of Egypt
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
I have finally watched the film, it was a train wreck, though at times visually compelling, the editing, awkward camera work and lack of polished script detracts from the viewing experience.
The world is beautiful and there is a lot to build on, but man except seeing the beautiful Brenton Thwaites on the big screen, I suggest a Netflix viewing for those interested.
On a side note, I do hope we see more of this world (China will save it!) as the material is there, just needs to be better executed.
The world is beautiful and there is a lot to build on, but man except seeing the beautiful Brenton Thwaites on the big screen, I suggest a Netflix viewing for those interested.
On a side note, I do hope we see more of this world (China will save it!) as the material is there, just needs to be better executed.
Not too good I think. Was trying to check how it did over here, and from what I gathered, after getting a delayed premiere in Sweden (1st of April), it got completely pulled from all theaters. Not sure it was even shown once.
Yeezus H. Christ
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Still have yet to watch this movie, I really want to.
Haven't seen many say this about this movie
Bumping this thread because the film is released in the UK today. Mark Kermode did a blog about it. He didn't like it very much...
YesNOnoNOYes
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I saw this a while ago. It wasn't that bad, I mean, it was terrible, hamfisted, cringeworthy acting but it was also hilarious :>
Freeza Under The Shower
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I would even go as far as to call it 'fine' with some great schlock in this otherwise almost '80s adventure movie. It's a shame that Royas got baited into responding to white washing instead of calming down and explaining that it's not supposed to be real Egypt to begin with. More like Annunaki myth (which I suspect few people are familiar with) mixed with Egyptian lore turned into adventure / love story. Which means you don't need ethnic actors at all, because (western culture style) fairy tale.
You would almost think Lionsgate wanted this movie to fail on account of a tax scheme or something. I mean, you don't pay ten million to put a trailer at the superbowl and put up an incompetently cut trailer. Don't get me wrong, we're talking about a movie written by the guys who wrote Dracula Untold and The Last Witch Hunter, both epic failures of their own, so it was never going to be 'good'. But at some point I started to 'get' what at least Royas had wanted to get out of it (using the afterlife as a way to create the man vs god plot, which could have been genuinely interesting), and it became fun for me to watch, in a 'great schlock clusterfuck' kind of way.
And by that I mean that I was wondering while watching it if this could be the true heir to Battlefield Earth. Sadly, the movie had at least some competent character moments and lacked a friendly bartender. It does have some really obnoxious editing though, that draws attention to itself in all the wrong ways. Still better scene order editing than Batman v. Superman though.YES! I found something nice to say about this movie, ha!
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As fun as that vicious remark about vultures from Kermode is, I subscribe more to James King's review on it.
That ending bit about vultures was savage. Hilarious.
Yeah. It's terrible in almost every way, but in a way that manages to make it kind of fun. It helped that it wasn't dark a brooding constantly. It's got color, characters who laugh, attempts at jokes, and just enough hints at self-awareness to forgive some of the more absurd excesses.
Not so bad it's good territory, but more, so bad it's entertaining.
old manatee
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I would never try to defend any aspect of God's of Egypt, but I loved it. It's an enormous, silly fiasco.
The visuals of Ra and Apophis battling over the world were great. Any time humans were on screen and it felt like The Scorpion King.
I did like how the evil architect wasn't the stereotypical sniveling suck-up henchman. He was smart, wasn't afraid to get his hand dirty and actually had some depth.
YesNOnoNOYes
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agree with all y'all <3
i really enjoyed it for what it was. the jokes were throwback to older, 80s type of humour and the dialog between the characters was coy and corny and nostalgic
the only drawback i didn't quite gel with was Bek and Zaya, the rest of the movie was actually enjoyable hilarity :>
agree with all y'all <3
i really enjoyed it for what it was. the jokes were throwback to older, 80s type of humour and the dialog between the characters was coy and corny and nostalgic
the only drawback i didn't quite gel with was Bek and Zaya, the rest of the movie was actually enjoyable hilarity :>
lightskintwin
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I'm not gon lie, i thought the same thing about it being an Anime while watching it . Holy Shit is it wild, it's so out there I'm shocked he was given 140 million dollars to make this come true.
The Egyptian setting was inconsequential, and could've been set anywhere to avoid controversy. It appears it was only used for cool aesthetic purposes from the iconography to architecture.
That's the reason I watched it. Haven't heard the episode yet. The movie was really really fun. Everyone I was with had a blast!
freenudemacusers
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watching this now... whatever effect they did to make the dudes look like giants just ain't working for me. it's odd and creepy looking.
sf2fanatic
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I also just watched this for the first time the other day,. I agree Butler was great. I wished I saw this in 3D. Nice effects
ronaldthump
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its was entertaining in the shut off your brain sort of way but really forgettable. Better an the mummy 3 ... sorta maybe
TyphoonStruggle
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Just watched it via HBO. It was dumb but it was fun.
Lots of controversy over nothing. Congrats internet.
Lots of controversy over nothing. Congrats internet.
No.
Congratulations to you on being tone deaf and blind to White washing and resulting problems associated with it.
MickeyPhree
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Watched 15 minutes of it and shut it off.
Warm Machine
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I just discovered Anthony Quinn was actually Irish Mexican.
Claude Augario
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By "lots of controversy" you mean ridicule and almost no controversy over a shit movie that came and went so fast that it was a little over a year from your bump that anyone gave enough of a shit about it to let a thought slip out in textual form, yes?
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