To me this just seems like one of those kinds of movies that relies entirely on its special effects and very little on its plot and story.
That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is playing Horus and Gerard Butler's evil, so I'm interested. And really, from the looks of the trailer, it looks like a "Turn-your-brain-off" movie.
I'm just surprised people care that much when a) this obviously doesn't look anything like ancient Egypt so accuracy obviously isn't concerning the filmmakers and b) the movie doesn't look that great to begin with. Why not complain about a better movie?
That being said if I don't have anywhere to be or anything else to see I'll watch it. I enjoyed Seventh Son last year, and Jupiter Ascending was terrible in a campy kind of way.
People probably care because the aliens that apparently took over people's bodies to rule Egypt decided to take over the bodies of white people, rather than someone that might be a native Egyptian. Otherwise this would just be another box office bomb in the making because it's a terrible plot masked by cool-looking CGI.
That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.What are they supposed to be Gou'ould or something?
"War without fire is like sausages without mustard." - Jean Juvénal des UrsinsI know, right?
That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.A sword and sandal fantasy movie that explores the possibility that the Egyptian gods were Ancient Aliens?
That's not something you see every day...
Aside from Set and Horus going animal-head, I don't really see any Stargate parallels here.
(V)(;,,;)(V)It's mainly Advanced Ancient Aliens ruling Egypt that brings up the Stargate similarities.
That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.Bonus points for not making Anubis the bad guy.
edited 3rd Dec '15 10:28:38 PM by Eagal
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!Yeah, I've known for a while that Set is the bad guy in Egyptian mythology, Anubis probably just got confused with him because they're both jackal-headed dudes.
edited 3rd Dec '15 10:48:50 PM by theLibrarian
That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.Anubis being heavily associated with death probably didn't help.
Well Set was the bad guy after a while.
Originally it was Apep that snakey asshole.
"War without fire is like sausages without mustard." - Jean Juvénal des UrsinsI thought the ancient Egyptians didn't view death as that bad of a thing.
Heaven is a tropical rainforest.They didn't, for the most part, though there was a ton of dangers that you had to undertake to get to the afterlife (hence the Book of the Dead), and I've seen at least one interpretation in a book where you would go to an endless reed field and spend all of eternity simply working. *shrug* Your soul was also weighed on scales and if you were found wanting your heart would be eaten by a monster.
edited 4th Dec '15 5:35:02 PM by theLibrarian
That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.Said monster being Sobek, the giant crocodile thing and the other contender, alongside Set, for "Egyptian pantheon villain".
"All you Fascists bound to lose."The monster was Ammut. Sobek is a god.
Yeah. My understanding (been a while since I've read any Egyptian Mythology) was that Sobek was rather benevolent. I recall a couple of historical fiction books (as well as the Discworld god Offler) making a point of his being an example of Face of a Thug.
I know I'm late to the topic here, but did anyone else have trouble believing it wasn't a Hawkman movie? Ancient Egyptian Magi Tech, winged golden armor, etc?
I actually thought that the armor was robots at first.
That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.Yeah, it reminds me of Stargate, that was probably inspired by this conspiracy theories that ancient gods are aliens and they constrcuted the pyramids.
edited 13th Jan '16 4:28:48 AM by MeetTheNewBoss
You claim that God is opressing us, but I see you opressing others without needing a God.Even though there's evidence of how the Egyptians did it but nooooo, obviously they couldn't have built something like this, it had to be aliens!
That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.
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I just find it funny that everyone's complaining about the Race Lift but they seem to overlook that the "gods" are most probably Ancient Aliens. Heck the studio's even apologized for it already... but in this case it's irrelevant.
Well, mostly. The human kid and his love interest (YA protagonist mold) could've been cast with non-white actors. But the gods? They're not even meant to be real Egyptians.