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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 17, 2017 6:24:40 GMT
Discussion, reviews, news, etc.
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 17, 2017 15:50:50 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 17, 2017 18:54:48 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 5, 2017 22:16:27 GMT
A positive review from Vulture: Exodus: Gods and Kings is as uneven as Ridley Scott’s career; at times, it seems to be a journey through the director’s greatest strengths and weaknesses. The good news is that his strengths eventually win out; the bad news is all the awkward storytelling and botched character interactions we have to wade through to get to the good stuff. Once we do, though, Exodus is a hoot.The critic doesn't comment on the performances.
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 28, 2017 20:45:06 GMT
A.O. Scott's review, NYTimes: www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/movies/exodus-gods-and-kings-ridley-scotts-biblical-drama.html?_r=0“Exodus” is ludicrous only by accident, which isn’t much fun and is the surest sign of what we might call a New Testament sensibility at work. But the movie isn’t successfully serious, either. Not for the first time, Mr. Scott confuses excessive scale with authentic grandeur-
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Strangest of all is Christian Bale as Moses, raised in the Egyptian royal court as a brother to Ramses and blind to his true heritage. Eventually, of course, Moses discovers his Jewish roots, which means that he stops shaving, starts herding goats and, unless my ears deceive me, takes to peppering his speech with stagy old-man Yiddish inflections-
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To be fair, there is some good stuff here, too. Mr. Scott is a sinewy storyteller and a connoisseur of big effects. He turns the 10 plagues into a science-fiction apocalypse and stages the climactic pursuit of the Hebrews by the Egyptian army with the thundering precision of a cavalry battle in a John Ford western.
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That was a long time ago, and the committee-written script of “Exodus” has little room for the human dimensions of the story-
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 29, 2017 13:39:52 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 29, 2017 14:12:23 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 29, 2017 20:47:31 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 31, 2017 22:02:02 GMT
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