In last week's Weekly Hebdomad, I included a trailer for The Ten Commandments, a computer animated remake of the classic 1956 Charlton Heston film, which is itself an adaptation of the classic 12th - 2nd century BC novel, er, book. Here's the trailer again:
I have to admit, I don't have to much to say about this other than IT'S COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS!
What, you wonder, is just so absurd about this? Oh, I don't know. Maybe it's Christian Slater as Moses. How will he introduce himself to Ramses? "Greetings and salutations, Ramses. People will look at the ashes of Egypt and say 'Now there's a nation that self-destructed, not only because God didn't care, but because the nation had no God.' Now that's deep."
Wait, here's another one. Elliot Gould is God. Elliot Gould! Hey, you know Reuben from Ocean's Eleven? Can you imagine him as God. No? Well guess what? Elliot Gould played Reuben!
No, wait, there's more. Alfred Molina plays Ramses. I suppose Dr. Octopus is a good approximation for an unjust autocrat.
I know, I know. It's computer animated. I don't have to actually see Elliot Gould aspire to the divine. But I can't cast from my mind the thought of him in a dressing gown and ascot ordering
George Clooney to be careful. Just as I cannot forget Christian Slater in Kuffs or Alfred Molina in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
This film is asking me to go places I fear to tread.
But you know what film I would go see? This one:
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