Anonymous
7/23/2025, 6:02:34 PM No.149519358
This is overrated. Style over substance.
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Anonymous
7/23/2025, 6:14:37 PM No.149519508
>>149519358 (OP)
When Rome was presented to me from an unfavourable angle - the Sunday-School horror of Nero and the persecution of Christians - I could never quite sympathise in the least with the teachers. I felt that one good Roman pagan was worth any six dozen of the cringing scum riff-raff who took up with a fanatical foreign belief, and was frankly sorry that the Syrian superstition was not stamped out. When it came to the repressive measures of Marcus Aurelius and Diocletianus, I was in complete sympathy with the government and had not a shred of use for the Christian herd. To try to get me to identify myself with that herd seemed in my mind ridiculous. At seven I sported the adopted name of L. Valerius Messala and tortured imaginary Christians in the amphitheatres.
-HP Lovecraft
When Rome was presented to me from an unfavourable angle - the Sunday-School horror of Nero and the persecution of Christians - I could never quite sympathise in the least with the teachers. I felt that one good Roman pagan was worth any six dozen of the cringing scum riff-raff who took up with a fanatical foreign belief, and was frankly sorry that the Syrian superstition was not stamped out. When it came to the repressive measures of Marcus Aurelius and Diocletianus, I was in complete sympathy with the government and had not a shred of use for the Christian herd. To try to get me to identify myself with that herd seemed in my mind ridiculous. At seven I sported the adopted name of L. Valerius Messala and tortured imaginary Christians in the amphitheatres.
-HP Lovecraft
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 6:33:16 PM No.149519713
It didn't do that well
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 6:58:58 PM No.149520045
MUD
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 7:59:01 PM No.149520741
>>149519358 (OP)
No it isn't! Shut up!!
No it isn't! Shut up!!
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 8:05:46 PM No.149520821
>Even though the film boasts big names for the characters' voices, the majority of the stars cast in the roles are known more for their camera appeal than their vocal dexterity. Val Kilmer's Moses, Michelle Pfeiffer's Tzipporah, and Ralph Fiennes' Rameses come off extremely flat, lending little to no emotion. Even Steve Martin and Martin Short as the Pharaohs bumbling priests of Ra are indistinguishable.
>But the film's biggest problem is its incoherent take on a book of the Bible that is already extremely well-known. In order to make the religious saga told at break-neck speed more palatable for the secular sect, the script focuses more on the relationship between Moses and Rameses, a la "Ben-Hur," as they confront their childhood love and their adult antagonism, than it does on the relationship between Moses and God. God's miraculous appearance through the burning bush, with a sultry intonation also voiced by Kilmer, never establishes any true sense of connection with Moses. Meanwhile, his wrath on the Egyptians, which finds them running around with pinkish-purple lesions and having their eldest sons slain, comes off as far more vile and tyrannical than the Pharaoh's atrocities.
>Stephen Schwartz, the former Broadway wunderkind who found his niche in the animation pantheon by penning the lyrics to several Disney features, provides some extremely blasé tunes which do little to further the plot. One song which pits the Hebrew God against the Gods of Ra, the laughable "Playing With the Big Boys," is almost blasphemous.
>The biggest disappointment of all is the lack of any type of cathartic feeling as Moses accepts his destiny and finally leads his followers to the land of milk and honey. By this time, the parting of the Red Sea, which is visually splendid, comes across simply as high-tech animation and "The Prince of Egypt" turns out to be the biggest and most expensive Sunday-school cartoon ever made.
>But the film's biggest problem is its incoherent take on a book of the Bible that is already extremely well-known. In order to make the religious saga told at break-neck speed more palatable for the secular sect, the script focuses more on the relationship between Moses and Rameses, a la "Ben-Hur," as they confront their childhood love and their adult antagonism, than it does on the relationship between Moses and God. God's miraculous appearance through the burning bush, with a sultry intonation also voiced by Kilmer, never establishes any true sense of connection with Moses. Meanwhile, his wrath on the Egyptians, which finds them running around with pinkish-purple lesions and having their eldest sons slain, comes off as far more vile and tyrannical than the Pharaoh's atrocities.
>Stephen Schwartz, the former Broadway wunderkind who found his niche in the animation pantheon by penning the lyrics to several Disney features, provides some extremely blasé tunes which do little to further the plot. One song which pits the Hebrew God against the Gods of Ra, the laughable "Playing With the Big Boys," is almost blasphemous.
>The biggest disappointment of all is the lack of any type of cathartic feeling as Moses accepts his destiny and finally leads his followers to the land of milk and honey. By this time, the parting of the Red Sea, which is visually splendid, comes across simply as high-tech animation and "The Prince of Egypt" turns out to be the biggest and most expensive Sunday-school cartoon ever made.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 9:35:49 PM No.149522042
>>149519358 (OP)
Coolest, most iconic poster ever conceived.
Coolest, most iconic poster ever conceived.