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Why don't some people like the 10 Commandments?

12.06.2025 07:32

Why don't some people like the 10 Commandments?

The movie is based upon a pastiche of several books that attempted to add believable, relatable, intimate human drama to a famous legend, resulting in a movie that is epic in its perverse improbability—which is the only thing that keeps it from being epic on the merits of its perverse contrivances.

Cecil B. DeMille—never one to settle for a good ripping yarn—tarted up this good ripping yarn with every device, technique, and name-brand face he could get his hands on. If he had lived long enough, he would have inserted the Super Bowl into the Academy Award ceremonies to give them a little pizzazz. This movie has more pizzazz in its eye make-up than most movies have on premiere night.

Yvonne De Carlo failed to project the gravitas that would serve her so well on The Munsters.

Do you believe that the portrayal of smoking in films and music videos contributes to the glamorization of cigarettes in society?

It should have been an opera.

There are several reasons.

The subtle menace of Vincent Price and John Carradine would have been better deployed in horror or suspense movies.

What was the most inappropriate thing your parent caught you doing as a teen? Was in the bedroom, I thought nobody else was home. My sister and I shared that bedroom but I knew she was gone. I didn’t know my dad was home though.

Q: Why don't some people like the 10 Commandments?

Charlton Heston was just marking time until he reached his peak in Planet of the Apes and Soylent Green.