Gods of Egypt Movie Blurb by Shale February 26, 2016 I could almost tell by the trailers that this was not going to be a good movie, especially to the critics. Well, the aggregate critics on Rotten Tomatoes gave it only a 10% fresh and I can understand that and it was for things other than the poor casting choices. This movie has nothing remotely to do with the real Ancient Egypt except they used the names of the gods that are familiar to most of us. There was a lot of CGI and not all up to expectations of today's movies. There were monstrous mythical creatures, beasts and serpents as well as the gods themselves that would transform into large versions of the mythological art we know of the real Egypt. The story centers around two young lovers, Bek (Brenton Thwaites) a young thief and his girl Zaya (Courtney Eaton), who unlike her BF, believes in the god Horus. Zaya & Bek Everyone is excited for the coronation of the god Horus and much festivity. Horus All is going smoothely until Horus' Uncle the god Set shows up and starts a brawl to take the kingdom for himself, killing his brother Osiris (Bryan Brown) and taking the eyes of Horus. Set Look, I'm really skimming over this synopsis because it was quite convoluted and confusing thruout as they made up one quest after another with a new set of monsters to overcome but Bek needs Horus help to get his GF back and manages to steal back one of his eyes for him from Set. On their quest they are joined by Thoth (Chadwick Boseman) to help with a riddle for the Sphinx (CGI). Toth All thru the movie there are battles between the gods with poor mortal Bek managing not to get killed as he helps Horus. The setting even leaves Egypt and goes out into space where Ra (Geoffrey Rush) father to Set and grandfather to Horus is battling some dark demon that keeps encroaching on the light. Well that's about all I care to retell this tale. If you grew up on these kinds of epic fantasies with Ray Harryhausen special effects, this one sort of reminded me of them at times. The effects by today's standards were not as convincing as the stop action effects were back then and this movie is mostly CGI work.
Gods of Egypt Casting Controversy Significant to this movie is the controversy about casting mostly white ppl to play Egyptians. According to Wikipedia, both Lionsgate and director Alex Proyas have apologized for that and it was pointed out that there were reasons out of their control that contributed to this. Director Proyas said his film was fantasy and not intended to be history. This of course is a valid point and self-explanatory with all the CGI monsters and oversized gods. Even the Egypt in this movie was not laid out like the ruins today. Not Egypt Proyas also cited "creative license and artistic freedom of expression" to cast the actors he found to fit the roles. He said "white-washing" was a justified concern but for his fantasy film, "To exclude any one race in service of a hypothetical theory of historical accuracy... would have been biased." Proyas said that films "need more people of color and a greater cultural diversity" but that Gods of Egypt "is not the best one to soap-box issues of diversity with". He argued that the lack of English-speaking Egyptian actors, production practicalities, the studio's requirement for box office draws, and Australia having guidelines limiting "imported" actors were all factors in casting for the film. So, there you have valid excuses for an inexcusable casting in this movie. The one black character played by Chadwick Boseman was cloned repeatedly as Thoth so maybe that made up for some of it. Perhaps Robert Downey Jr. was not available for any roles in this movie. Now we know the historical Egypt, being in Africa had a mixture of white and black ppl but the population was not entirely the African beauty of Tutankhamen. King Tut We also have the bust of Queen Nefertiti which not only has white features but was painted with a light skin tone. Queen Nefertiti There are other historical inaccuracies in movies that annoy me, such as covering the breasts of Egyptian women due to modern prudishness when we see from the statues and papyrus that they were as bare breasted as the men. But that would have made this an R-Rated movie. At least the female Egyptian statues in this movie were bare breasted if the actors weren't. So for all those who were wanting to boycott this movie, don't even bother. There are more flaws with it than the errors in casting. It probably will be gone soon.
Its just like any of the Marvel comics movies ( Superman,Batman,Spiderman etc...) except in some fantasy Egyptian garb :bigcry:
I guess this movie is for fantasy lovers who are most fond of spectacular action and effects, and not (as it might seem at first) in particular for movie lovers of mythology and/or history. I don't understand how they can make a profit on a movie like this if I go just by what I find a good movie. But I guess this one was just not made for people like me I could not rate or review this accurately as I shit on these kind of movies. It doesn't really sounds like OP's thing neither, so good job giving it a fairly honest review
Thanks for the warning I’ll try to avoid the movie, although it might be a bit difficult since a friend gave me two ‘Gods of Egypt’ t-shirts which I intend on wearing this summer because they really look cool. Hotwater
^ Oh yeah, people will call you a poser if they find out you didn't watch the movie that's on your shirt!
I'm so so tired of movies that are just CGI and ultra violent, movies that are made for 13 year old boys. I want movies made for adults with adult characters that don't shy away from nudity and sex. I won't go to any more movies based on comic books.
Definite negative marks for disemboweling the noble Anciet Egyptian Mythology. I was a little caught of guard, and none to impressed with the metallic nature of the "Beast forms" of the gods. But the dialogue was engaging, the acting splendid, and the overall story line kept my interest. 6/10 on a personal scale.
