Gods of Egypt

[Irish]

Directed by Alex Proyas (Dark City, The Crow, I Robot)

Written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless (Dracula Untold, The Last Witch Hunter)

Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Gerard Butler, Elodie Yung, Brenton Thwaites, Chadwick Boseman, and Courtney Eaton

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This looks like a perfect storm of awful and despite wanting to laugh at it, I feel bad for Proyas.

[Skitch]

Proyas has such an interesting filmography. I like him despite his lows.

[Dukefrukem]

This looks better than Exodus: Gods and Kings.

I kinda wish this was directed by Stephen Sommers.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless (Dracula Untold, The Last Witch Hunter)

::sigh::

[Henry Gale]

It just looks gloriously terrible. Like, I'm actually excited to see it despite knowing it'll likely be worthless.

I'd rather see a dozen remarkable, audacious potential failures like this every year instead of the bland, personality-less ones we seemingly get weekly.

[Grouchy]

Hell, I'd watch this.

[Dead & Messed Up]

It just looks gloriously terrible. Like, I'm actually excited to see it despite knowing it'll likely be worthless.

I'd rather see a dozen remarkable, audacious potential failures like this every year instead of the bland, personality-less ones we seemingly get weekly.

You know, I look at this, and I maybe - maybe - see something on the level of Tarsem's Immortals, but I am just bored to fucking tears of studios pulling public domain crap onto the screen, gentrifying it, and stuffing it full of war spectacle.

[Skitch]

I'd rather see a dozen remarkable, audacious potential failures like this every year instead of the bland, personality-less ones we seemingly get weekly.

Completely agree. If you're gonna swing, swing for the fences.

[Ivan Drago]

I'd rather see a dozen remarkable, audacious potential failures like this every year instead of the bland, personality-less ones we seemingly get weekly.

Agreed. Black Mass and The Walk come to mind.

Watching this trailer was like staring into CGI Hell.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Rewatching it, I'm having trouble seeing the originality or go-for-brokeness. This looks like someone stuffed Percy Jackson and The Hobbit in a pyramid and forced them to mate. And seriously, those writers.

Some of the creature effects look fun.

[Winston*]

Exodus: Gods and Kings and now this. Egyptians are having a tough couple of years.

[Irish]

"From the visionary director of I, Robot ... "

The more they show, the worse it looks.

[Wryan]

"Bitch, you like the god of the impossible or something, you know that?"

Bam, I'm a better writer than them. Mark it down.

[EvilShoe]

Why does it look like that? How much did it cost?

[Irish]

How much did it cost?

From Wikipedia:

While the film's production budget was $140 million, the parent company Lionsgate's financial exposure was less than $10 million due to tax incentives and pre-sales.

Wow.

(this was filmed in Australia, which hands out tax rebates like candy. they just cut the budget for their own film national film organization so they could fund more tax rebates for foreign productions)

[EvilShoe]

WTF.

[Milky Joe]

this looks fun. Proyas is underrated IMO

[D_Davis]

I like Dark City, The Crow, and I, Robot quite a bit.

[Milky Joe]

I'm a big fan of Knowing.

[Skitch]

I like all those movies and Garage Days is a total gem in the rough.

Gods of Egypt looks wacky as all hell though.