Week 13-No Comparison

No comparison to Yul

No comparison to Heston

There IS no comparison to the older film.

I saw about 10 minutes of this new "Ten Commandments"movie. It took me three tries to watch that 10 minutes though. It was about what I expected, another attempt at a modern remake of a fine old film, and also, as I expected, not worth being mentioned in the same sentence as the original. Maybe the actor was just miscast, but I found myself wondering what fool would follow this cardboard Moses across the street, much less out of Egypt. "Moses" grated on me the entire 600 seconds or so that I was tuned in. I did wish I had seen a scene with Pharoah, but judging by the above picture, if that is the Pharaoah character, I'd guess that probably didn't measure up to the one played by Yul Brynner in the older film either. As I said before, three things can happen with a remake, two of them are bad, and this film would have had to do a lot just not to have been much worse than the original, instead, it was a whole lot worse. It made me remember what a gem the original was.