Gods of Egypt

Reminds me of The Nostalgia Critic's reaction to Stargate. XD

Woolie from Two Best Friends Play actually had a little rant about this about how stupid the concept of Ancient Aliens was xD

Evidence schmevidence. Obviously the Ancient Aliens planted that to obscure their activities.

To be completely fair, nobody has any idea what the ancient Egyptians might have looked like. There are guesses, and the fact that many migrations and other factors came into it doesn't help.

Not white people though.

So was it aliens or was the woolly mammoths? Or was it woolly mammoth aliens?

Wait, there's evidence? Last time I saw the Pyramids discussed/argued over, no one saw anything pointing to how they were made yet.

Wasn't it just hauling giant stone slabs into place?

It was dragging them up dirt slopes, I think. Unless there's new information that's come out.

There's a new theory that comes up in the news every so often. Most recent non-alien/magic/etc one I recall was that they built it in a spiral, so that the pyramid themselves acted as the ramp while it was under construction. Because even just a dirt ramp would be a massive structure itself given the size of the pyramid. Though, far as I can tell most of the attention and fancy theories in news and fiction goes to the Giza pyramids, not the numerous smaller ones.

The trailer doesn't look like it'll have a sci fi twist. It appears to be straight fantasy like Clash Of The Titans. Even if it did, passing the whites off as aliens doesn't help considering they're aliens that look exactly the same as white people. And the guy who looks like cookie cutter loser protagonist is very white without being a god.

The thing I never got about Ancient Aliens is just why? Why would an alien culture travel light years only to assist a primitive culture to build giant structures with no apparent use?

edited 17th Jan '16 1:42:17 AM by washington213

Giggles or having some sort of use for us. Or possibly benevolence like the Protheans or Ancients.

Well, we only know an infinitesimal amount of the Galaxy. It's possible the aliens didn't travel all that far for us. Just a side trip on a bigger one whose evidence we haven't found yet.

Now, I'm not defending those fraudulent hacks who make up shitty evidence and have History run with it (Von Danniken has already been caught doing this shit. His crew should never have gotten a show) just saying we really don't know enough to say one way or another what's going on. I do like that spiral theory, since last I'd heard there was no evidence whatsoever of a ramp.

The spiral theory passes the basic tests. Does it make sense, was it possible at the time, and does the archaeological evidence support it? It's a yes for all three. (Okay, the third one is more that there's no evidence opposing it, but the first two make a strong case.)

I did like the Futurama joke where the alien Egypt-like planet was visited by ancient Egyptians who taught the aliens how to make pyramids.

edited 18th Jan '16 8:53:32 AM by Zendervai

I do kinda like the visual style at least. It reminds me of Clash of the Titans with how shiny the gods are and such.

Well, the reviews are in, and they're about what I expected.

Not surprising. Like i thought it would be, just a lot of flashy special effects with no substance.

Plus white people in ancient Egypt.

And now the whitewashing will be the only thing anyone remembers the film for.

Let's just hope that a tremendous flop on the part of this movie doesn't result in people blaming the setting and not making actual movies about Egypt for a while.

Hopefully this doesn't become Harsher in Hindsight

Yeah, Egyptian mythology is actually pretty cool.

All the same this may be a movie I watch solely for the special effects and action scenes.

Not in theaters though, maybe as like a rental or something.

I was hoping that this movie would be decent barring the whitewashing, but from the reviews I've seen that's not case. Can we have a good movie based on Egyptian Mythology please?!

I'm glad if the film sucks. If it were a decent film that just happened to be whitewashed, it'd send the message that unnecessarily whitewashing films based on nonwhite cultures can still work out okay.

Everyone should read io9's review of Gods of Egypt. It is glorious:

edited 26th Feb '16 8:55:34 AM by alliterator

My local theater only has four showings, while deadpool still has like twenty.

All these Ancient Alien movies, including, sadly, Stargate, which I loved at the time, are fundamentally and bleakly racist at their very core. "Because no horrible brown person could have built those Pyramids, or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, or the Pharos of Alexandria - no, it had to be some ubermensch alien, and yah, he or she was white, natch."

This is just another one, and I'm not surprised its Rotten Tomatoes score is low. I'm just surprised it isn't lower.