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* "Director Alex Proyas understands that there’s a silly pulp quality to the whole thing, and he sometimes veers towards Flash Gordon territory as he camps it up. But the genius of the film is that Proyas never lets us see his tongue in his cheek, the movie never winks at the audience. Maybe that’s disorienting - maybe audiences and critics need the film to assure them that it knows that it’s being silly" <ref>https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/09/19/it-turns-out-gods-of-egypt-was-awesome</ref> | * "Director Alex Proyas understands that there’s a silly pulp quality to the whole thing, and he sometimes veers towards Flash Gordon territory as he camps it up. But the genius of the film is that Proyas never lets us see his tongue in his cheek, the movie never winks at the audience. Maybe that’s disorienting - maybe audiences and critics need the film to assure them that it knows that it’s being silly" <ref>https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/09/19/it-turns-out-gods-of-egypt-was-awesome</ref> | ||
* "But it’s instructive that even as this movie teases you with its absurdity, it also offers you moments of beauty that shimmer like the outstretched wings of a goddess and moments of wit that surface in a hideaway wittily populated by duplicates of the same god, who’s having a ball talking to himself and himself and himself…." <ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/movies/gods-of-egypt-review.html?auth=login-google%23commentsContainer</ref> | * "But it’s instructive that even as this movie teases you with its absurdity, it also offers you moments of beauty that shimmer like the outstretched wings of a goddess and moments of wit that surface in a hideaway wittily populated by duplicates of the same god, who’s having a ball talking to himself and himself and himself…." <ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/movies/gods-of-egypt-review.html?auth=login-google%23commentsContainer</ref> | ||
| + | * "Alex Proyas (Dark City, The Crow) is giving us the ancient Egypt we never knew we wanted to see: one reimagined as a fantastical bloodbath in Las Vegas."<ref>http://www.mtv.com/news/2746077/gods-of-egypt-review/</ref> | ||
| + | * "The newly enslaved populace build an enormous tower, Set’s gift to his grandfather Ra. Set makes love to Hathor (Elodie Yung), the goddess of love, and flings open the curtains to regard the massive granite manifestation of his own masculinity." <ref>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/27/gods-of-egypt-review-ridiculous-offensive-and-tremendously-fun?CMP=twt_a-film_b-gdnfilm</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:14, 28 March 2020
- "Director Alex Proyas understands that there’s a silly pulp quality to the whole thing, and he sometimes veers towards Flash Gordon territory as he camps it up. But the genius of the film is that Proyas never lets us see his tongue in his cheek, the movie never winks at the audience. Maybe that’s disorienting - maybe audiences and critics need the film to assure them that it knows that it’s being silly" [1]
- "But it’s instructive that even as this movie teases you with its absurdity, it also offers you moments of beauty that shimmer like the outstretched wings of a goddess and moments of wit that surface in a hideaway wittily populated by duplicates of the same god, who’s having a ball talking to himself and himself and himself…." [2]
- "Alex Proyas (Dark City, The Crow) is giving us the ancient Egypt we never knew we wanted to see: one reimagined as a fantastical bloodbath in Las Vegas."[3]
- "The newly enslaved populace build an enormous tower, Set’s gift to his grandfather Ra. Set makes love to Hathor (Elodie Yung), the goddess of love, and flings open the curtains to regard the massive granite manifestation of his own masculinity." [4]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/09/19/it-turns-out-gods-of-egypt-was-awesome
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/movies/gods-of-egypt-review.html?auth=login-google%23commentsContainer
- ↑ http://www.mtv.com/news/2746077/gods-of-egypt-review/
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/27/gods-of-egypt-review-ridiculous-offensive-and-tremendously-fun?CMP=twt_a-film_b-gdnfilm
