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Magestad Since: Feb, 2012
#1: Dec 1st 2015 at 6:46:18 PM

Article —> Gods of Egypt

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.

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#2: Dec 1st 2015 at 7:37:39 PM

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.

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#3: Dec 1st 2015 at 9:02:05 PM

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.

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#4: Dec 2nd 2015 at 5:54:31 AM

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.

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#5: Dec 2nd 2015 at 9:23:16 AM

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.

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#6: Dec 2nd 2015 at 10:01:03 AM

What are they supposed to be Gou'ould or something?

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theLibrarian That all you got? from his own little world Since: Jul, 2009
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#7: Dec 2nd 2015 at 10:26:12 AM

I know, right?

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TargetmasterJoe Since: May, 2013
#8: Dec 2nd 2015 at 2:59:56 PM

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...

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#9: Dec 2nd 2015 at 6:18:57 PM

It was when Sci-Fi was showing reruns of Stargate SG 1...

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GethKnight from St Charles, Missouri Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: Mu
#10: Dec 2nd 2015 at 9:29:35 PM

Aside from Set and Horus going animal-head, I don't really see any Stargate parallels here.

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#11: Dec 2nd 2015 at 9:31:59 PM

It's mainly Advanced Ancient Aliens ruling Egypt that brings up the Stargate similarities.

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#12: Dec 3rd 2015 at 10:28:23 PM

Bonus points for not making Anubis the bad guy.

edited 3rd Dec '15 10:28:38 PM by Eagal

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#13: Dec 3rd 2015 at 10:47:58 PM

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

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#14: Dec 4th 2015 at 8:06:33 AM

Anubis being heavily associated with death probably didn't help.

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#15: Dec 4th 2015 at 9:08:07 AM

Well Set was the bad guy after a while.

Originally it was Apep that snakey asshole.

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#16: Dec 4th 2015 at 5:29:13 PM

[up][up]I thought the ancient Egyptians didn't view death as that bad of a thing.

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#17: Dec 4th 2015 at 5:34:34 PM

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

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#18: Dec 4th 2015 at 5:52:13 PM

Said monster being Sobek, the giant crocodile thing and the other contender, alongside Set, for "Egyptian pantheon villain".

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#20: Dec 9th 2015 at 11:40:08 AM

[up][up]The monster was Ammut. Sobek is a god.

Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#21: Dec 9th 2015 at 11:41:25 AM

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.

dclark Since: May, 2011
#22: Jan 12th 2016 at 2:55:21 PM

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?

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#23: Jan 12th 2016 at 3:06:50 PM

I actually thought that the armor was robots at first.

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#24: Jan 13th 2016 at 4:27:56 AM

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

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#25: Jan 13th 2016 at 7:28:49 AM

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!

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