Just Resting

[Sweder]

Just realised I have no clue how to start a new thread in this place. Ah well, no matter.
So then, Exodus: Gods and Kings, the latest decree from the High Priest of Cinema, Sir Riddles. A re-telling if the story of Moses, Ramses II, God, Plagues, Commandments and a neat low-tide trick that will be reacreated on my next visit to Dorset.

The Big Scenes are BIG, and plenty dazzling. The plagues are beautifully rendered, piling up like ever more serious parking tickets on the Pharoh's cracking windsheild.

Casting, a cause of much pre-match jibber-jabber, seems more cliquey than racist. There was no need for Sigourney Weaver to spend days in make-up for 45 seconds on screen in Linebacker eye-liner, and the appearance of Breaking Bad's Jesse was distracting. 

Run time felt longer than Interstellar (it's not), but I reckon everyone had a lot fun making it, quite possibly more than I had watching it. Like Moses, I was left feeling a fair bit older than when I started. Perhaps not so enlightened, but, in a sense, glad it was all over and it hadn't totally sucked.
A story well told, just not Ridley's finest.

Technical: 3D was well (softly) executed, used sparingly. Soundtrack suitably Biblical in the right places. An over-blown, perpetually uplifting score proved a major flaw in Prometheus but seemed appropriate here.