Watched Exodus last night, out of sheer boredom. I figured if I got through 20 minutes of it it would have been good but to my amazement, I finished it. It is a version of the whole Moses story and let's face it, Cecil B. DeMille and a cast of 50,000 just own that flick, not to mention Charlton Heston does not play Moses, he defines Moses! That whole movie is just a classic, even a cornerstone- corny, overacted to a nuclear degree, strange casting here and there and that old, pastel- colored look and feel. But it is also untouchable IMO and just cannot be remade by anyone else.
And Exodus started off on a bad foot: Christian Bale as Moses? Really? Jesse Pinkman as Joshua, double- really (just when was he going to call someone 'Bitch!' in that story?). But first of all, it was not a remake of The Ten Commandments but a different movie entirely (same basic plot but a very different presentation); God was 'in charge' and directing things, and Moses stumbled a bit and served so he did not have to be Charlton Heston in the first place. A nice twist on the whole burning bush thingy, with God being a very cranky and very Old Testament 10 year old Brit. (seriously but it mostly worked).
Anyway, not a great movie but very watchable considering I thought it was going to be downright awful.
Brian
