Why don't some people like the 10 Commandments?
10.06.2025 00:35
Charlton Heston was just marking time until he reached his peak in Planet of the Apes and Soylent Green.
There are several reasons.
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.
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The subtle menace of Vincent Price and John Carradine would have been better deployed in horror or suspense movies.
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.
Q: Why don't some people like the 10 Commandments?
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Yvonne De Carlo failed to project the gravitas that would serve her so well on The Munsters.
It should have been an opera.