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San Giovanni: L'Apocalisse (2002)
Nice film
I really enjoyed this film. The only problem was the lack of the whole story of Revelation. They also added in extra characters, including a romance. Which really was not necessary. There were some really great parts such as depictions of the prophecies which were really beautiful and moving. But they did not put John in a cave writing any of the prophecies. A prison it seemed...but no cave. They have him on Patmos treated as some sort of prestige person for a while, including making him sign things in an office of some sort?? (No idea what he was doing there..looked like he booked in visitors to the island?) Then he helps a man, gets kicked and thrown into prison. He does not do any labour in the film and wears the best clothes. Even though an old man was treated bad until death. Found that would confuse people. I admit I have not read Revelation completely but it seemed odd. A cave does feature at the end of the film, but he has a vision and does not write it down. It was more like an arch than cave. As no one could really hide in that. It had some good parts but surely could've been more biblical and left out all the extra nonsense.
The Exodus Decoded (2006)
Blasphemy
Total blasphemy. If you are a Christian you know these events were not "perfectly timed" events. This was put together by non Christians looking for explanations for the bible because they do not have faith. The movie also claims the blood red water was a "gas leak" and the frogs can survive it and hop out and other "scientifical explanations" for the plagues. Completely forgetting Aaron made the waters red with his staff, not a "gas leak" and that the waters already in pots BECAME blood red Exodus 7:19. The people who took out the water would've seen it as blood red then. No one knows if it was real blood or not but they still butchered the biblical miracles as being "science" as atheists often do. I suppose they even tried to make the death of the firstborn son a "scientifical event" but I stopped past the blood red "gas leak" part. It takes God completely out of the Exodus story as a watered down science story. I understand water can turn blood red and other natural events can cause the bible events to happen like what the person in the movie said about frogs, but they do not happen 'on command' for people like what Aaron and Moses did and how they were perfectly timed and lasted a certain amount of days in succession. Making Moses into some fool declaring "natural events"!! To the Pharoah! These plant seeds of doubt in a believers mind to turn away from their bibles and turn to "science" instead of God. Stay clear of atheists making these movies. They aren't working for God
Couldn't watch it anymore
The Ten Commandments (1956)
OK! Great for 60 years old
Wanted to see this as it has been on my watch list and a classic and called the best Ten Commandments/Exodus movie.
The costumes are great (thought the slave dresses were too 1950's though and glamorous for that age, not 3000 years ago type clothing), acting is great, and the effects are fine for being 60 years ago. I'm not sure what they were able to do but things could've been better such as the snake eating the other snakes and other effects but the parting of the Red Sea was amazing. I was impressed with that. When Moses comes off the mountain I love his character after that. Best Moses I've seen. Can applaud them for choosing a great actor who portrayed Moses as I imagine him. (Didn't like him before leaving Egypt but he didn't know God then so it is OK). Wonderful acting!
It takes nearly 2 1/2 hours to get into any actual plagues and only 3 of those are shown (water turned to blood, firey hail for a few seconds and the eventual first born death which was pretty good)
The first two hours of the film has Pharaoh's wife in love with Moses (and him with her before leaving Egypt to go and live in the desert) and her enticing of him. It felt so "old time 1950's Classic" as they did back then with these beautiful actresses acting in the way the Pharaoh's wife did. Manna isn't shown, striking of rock isn't shown and several other parts of the bible. Last few minutes Moses is suddenly old and even some unbiblical characters and unbiblical parts. Joshua is very prominent with unbiblical parts and even before the exodus is seen many times.....cowering on the holy mountain??and he has a girlfriend who becomes Dathan's wife she nearly is sacrificed?
So much of the film (over two hours) was spent leading up to something that seemed to become a great epic, but the rock strikingly the second lot of commandments, the dirty water becoming clean..the manna etc doesn't happen. Like the 2006 Doigray Scott version years suddenly drastically advance. The time spent in the first two hours was wasted. We didn't need to see Nephrateri kissing Moses goodbye and their love story shown..their love story isn't even biblical!!
I have seen three now including this, the 1995 version with Ben Kingsley and the other with Dougray Scott (2006). I am not sure what is the most biblically accurate of the three. Seems like all three are the same with the amount of unbiblical material and changing things. I enjoyed the 1995 version most, but I could be bias as it is the first I saw.
Certainly not bad for the time.
San Paolo (2000)
50/50 whether I liked it or not
Didn't expect much from this because I had heard it had some extra biblical content. I wasn't too bothered about that as all the other bible series movies had their extra scenes. It certainly wasn't terrible there was some pretty decent parts. It was well filmed and had great music. Acting was great.
I found they portrayed Saul/Paul as quite nice before he snapped. Suddenly he just went evil when not long before had not wanted to stone Stephen...I didn't like that as it just didn't make sense. Stephen's vision of heaven was erased completely!!! Also, no tongues when the Holy Spirit came to the apostles either! Paul does wrestle which I knew was in this by others reviews. Pretty stupid but none of these bible collection films (by Lube?) have been perfect.
Several characters not in the bible were in this and others were left out. That was disappointing. They focused heavily on this "Reuben" character set out to kill Paul. And his Christian wife named "Dinah" these two aren't even in the bible. I was wondering what happened to John as he vanished not too long into the film? It really wasn't necessary to show a woman's bare breasts to depict a sex scene. Disgusting having this in a biblical film Christians are going to see!!
Some parts were nice. I liked Peter a whole lot. He had this gentleman stubbornness and seemed so like PETER to me. I think the Damascus road scene was OK but he went blind, he didn't see people in a photoshop filter. I liked the journey scenes and most of the scenes after Paul received his sight.
I gave it a 6 as it could've been worse but I did like it to an extent.
Jesus (1999)
Cringeworthy
Couldn't watch more like about ten minutes of this. Jesus walks by Mary (Martha's sister) and she eyes him and obviously has a crush on him and he gives her a suave look. Latter someone asks Jesus to marry Mary. Then Mary eyes him again and Jesus looks but tries to avoid looking at her. It was just insane. Then Jesus makes a joke about Joseph not helping him... Too humanistic. Jesus was like a model off a catwalk! Yes Jesus was human but he was also our LORD and saviour and the Son Of GOD. Not a man from 1999 from America. The bible series did a much better job with their other films. It's a shame this so bad. I understand they wanted a "human Jesus" but they made him far too human from what I saw. This is not the nature of GOD. The 'Gospel of John" with Selva Rasalingham and Robert Powell's "Jesus of Nazareth" (not seen this fully yet) are more my cup of tea. The more "human" Jesus i felt was portrayed better in "Gospel of John" with Henry Ian Cusack. I loved that film! He was not portrayed as a joker or giving the "Oh yeah I have the life" type of vibe Made me feel sick. Total blasphemy.
The Ten Commandments (2005)
Weird...
Unusual version but bought it was "decent". Great filming, music and scenery. Still disappointed the trailer made it seem better than it was.
Some parts are left out from the bible. The biggest disappointment was the absence of lifting of the bronze serpent. I don't understand why they leave this out of versions?
Acting was great. They did choose great actors. I did not like the casting of Moses however. No "warmth" or tenderness to him. Pharaoh was superb casting.
Parts seem drastically "rushed"...suddenly Moses was old in the last...minute. Nothing leading to that really at all. Nothing done to him to make him look old apart from a terrible wig. Some others have mentioned the rushing. I agree also with others, that they depicted Moses as lack of faith, and that God wasn't around. The fiery pillar was seen only briefly too. Seemed to be leading into something then died in story.
Some weird things are in it. The manna from heaven suddenly appears as weird circles on the ground. What was that about? There was also no quails! That I saw anyway?? Then Joshua seems to be doing yoga refusing to battle. That was weird. Oh and a nuclear explosion vision?! What?!
Moses is depicted as being an angry screaming person. No love. Got into a fight and near strangled Joshua. WHAT THE?!
"Golden calf" looked like a school art project. Wasn't even completely gold. And no they didn't break it up into pieces. Ark of the covenant was a straw box thing.
Some parts were well done such as the fiery pillar and the parting of the Red Sea was great. I can tell they spent a lot of time with the fight scenes. Too bloody for me...they should've spent more time with the plagues those were blink and you miss it and other scenes. More time spent on fights and war most of the time.
Apparently the company that made this made the terrible "noah's ark" (1999 with Jon Voight) movie I saw briefly a year or so ago..which was so awful and total mockery and blasphemy I stopped within about ten minutes. It was made into a totally new story. The Ten Commandments wasn't near as bad as that but worth mentioning,
I thought the 1995 version (Ben Kingsley) was more memorable despite that being not 100% accurate and erasing stuff (and adding stuff).
Was a disappointment so rating it a 6.