Man he was just so dam good in 300. Tbh he's been pretty average since but he was that good he is still riding that 300 good will years later. EVERY man after watching 300 wanted to be Leonidis. What a character. It also got me into the history of that era.
You should also do a WTF Happened to I Robot, which Proyas also directed. He said something like how shooting was a problem with executives or whoever standing in his way, and he was going to write about his experiences but was told not to because he would never work in Hollywood again if he did
I have a feeling Proyas didn't have his heart in "I Robot" & was doing it more for the check. One of the reasons I really like "Gods of Egypt"is because he invented an entirely original universe (as he did in "Dark City") & made it feel real for me. I think GOE just became one of those "hey, let's all beat up on this film" movies (Beatty's "Dick Tracy" also got that kind of reception) far beyond its actual weaknesses.
Whether you’re the writer, director, or producer, you just want the movie you envision in your head to be the same movie that translates on to the screen.
Know what the sad part is? When watching this "behind the scenes" footage the slower parts of the movie is what looks best. The costumes, the props, the actors and even extras. the sets had heart. Its the action, the monsters and the "Gods" SFX that couldnt be made good enough for the budget they had. The humans needed a larger part, the gods needed a smaller part. It needed to be more Egyptian LOTR and less Egyptian Transformers. The "diversity" issue was unfair media mob behavior from the start. Remember the ancient Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt was greek while the version of Egypt the media mob referred to was created when the armies of Islam took over northern Africa circa year 600 several hundred years later. The media mob did the same crap against another movie complaining about Israeli actress Gal Gadot playing Cleopatra despite her being born next door to where the real Cleopatra lived. This demonstrates it was never about "whitewashing" anything. It was about erasing the Greek-Roman parts of Egyptian history.
Cleopatra, Ptolemy dynasty, from the Eordaea Kingdom, western Macedonia. Thracian with Greek admixture, thus dark red / dark blonde hair with blue / green eyes and white/marble pale skin. Even Gal Gadot is not "white" enough to play Cleopatra ... Just kidding, Gal Gadot is perfect for that role ! (with blue / green contact lenses)
I love this movie. The love story between Horus and Hathor with Zaya and Bek talks about how our pasts may haunts us, of hidden obligations and hopeful promises for the future dashed. And that through sincere sacrifice, in small parts by all actors of the drama, brings fulfillment to life.
Honestly, this movie’s casting is the least of its concerns. Its biggest problem is the plot overall. It suffers from a plot that keeps resetting its momentum, making up new MacGuffins and plotpoints on the fly without proper set ups from before. And the mortal plot line of Bek feels really awkwardly tacked on, wedged in between the plot of Horus’ growth and development. It also doesn’t help that Horus is supposed to be born AFTER Set decided to murder his dad Osiris for shagging with Set’s wife leading to the birth Horus’ older half brother, Anubis. They could easily tiptoe around the problem altogether by centering the plot focus on Horus’ growth and his relationship with his brother Anubis as they fight to depose Set from the throne and all of them are animated based on how the Egyptian portrayed the gods in hieroglyphs and wall paintings. Simple plot, straight forward goal, but rooms for setting up all the Chekhov’s Guns from the get go.
Personally I quiet like this movie, it has an 70’s/ 80’s fantasy movie vibe to it, and it stands out as a bizarre big budget misfire and is a lot more original than the never ending cycle of superhero movies that continue till this day.
This movie was a misfire, but it had a lot of interesting stuff in it. There have been worse movies that critics haven’t crushed this way or even defended like 2016 Ghostbusters, The Last Jedi or The New Mutants.
It was certainly visually stunning and at least as good as the Clash of the Titans remakes. Although it does lack the style and charm of something like 300.
Me too (and Jupiter Acsending). The only thing that bugged me was the way the dialogue seemed to have been very obviously redubbed in that it all sounded like it was in a recording booth with an up close mic rather than in the environments. I wondered originally if they just did not have enough time to naturalise the dialogue recordings but now I wonder if they had originally tried some Egyptian accents then decided to redub it at the last minute.
It's a shame because not only is Proyas a fascinating, visionary director, but the historical epic genre is all but extinct in today's austere climate of IP and legacy franchise domination (to me it's criminal that The Northman wasn't a box office success). There is so much material to mine from Egyptian history and mythology, but I think it's unlikely that's we'll get the Egyptian epic of our dreams any time soon (if ever). Also, I'm convinced that there are better cut of Exodus: Gods and Kings and Noah out there.
@ImOnIt4272 I mean honestly, sometimes it's just that. Or rather just bad marketing I rewatched the trifecta of failed disney blockbusters (Lone Ranger, John Carter and Tomorrowland) and look, I know for a fact my taste in movies is not very good, but those are very fun good blockbusters. Lone Ranger is at least as good as the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie imo. And because of various marketing misfires (the whole Johnny Depp isn't native america, John Carter shitty trailers and whatnot) those movies bombed and bombed hard.
I knew how awful MORBIUS was gonna be when I saw that the writers were the same from GODS OF EGYPT And THE LAST WITCH HUNTER If that's not bad enough, they're also behind MADAME WEB
@@blackamerican40 It's a meme surrounding Morbius, the movie he's talking about. Since its release in April, it's been an endlessly mocked meme, due to its extremely poor reception, leading many to refer to it as "one of the movies of all time", or "certainly a movie".
That's not D&D of 2016. That's D&D of 2006, a great dumb-movie that captivates the feel of D&D: It has a sequel that was good called Wrath of the Dragon God in 2005 which was good as well. AND A GOD AWFUL MURDERHOBO MOVIE CALLED BOOK OF SHADOWS IN 2012 MY GOD IT'S FUCKING SHIT
The biggest mistake was apologizing to a non-audience faction which wasn’t ever going to accept any apology since it already has its narrative and was committed to milking it for all it was worth.
“White Washing” is just an excuse. Even if you take the “white washing” out of the picture and still made the same movie with POC, the movie would STILL have failed. It was… lame. I don’t know how else to put it. Just… MEH.
*This is one of my favorite 'comfort movies' that I put on if I have had a rough day.* It's fun, has a great cast and fantastic PACING, there's never a dull moment. There is something old fashioned about it, it reminds me of the old Sinbad films, full of adventure. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend making some popcorn and giving it a chance.
Yeah true, it is similar in style to them and the origin Clash Of The Titans. Never really got the hate for this movie. It's not great, but it's a fun time.
Big dumb fun but after watching lots of Ancient Aliens it has a new dimension of Zeppteppi, or THE FIRST TIME, when the gods were said to have ruled Egypt, comes to life in this film ! Chadwick Boseman was excellent and Gerard Butler as a villain was refreshing. Justin was a great actor in GOT and he is great here too ! And what about Geoffrey Rush ? MAGNIFICENT. An undervalued cult classic, like Dark City, that will one day prove the critics wrong !!!
You know what, Alex Proyas' previous work "Knowing (2009)" is one of the very few movies that still freak me out. Anyway, since your channel is not afraid to make deep cuts, what do you think of the idea of revisting "Into the Blue (2005)"?
This WTF episode was better constructed than the movie itself. I actually feel bad for the actors in this movie as many of them did not recover after this.
@@tammy6610 well apparently drugs and drinking on set was quite frequent so in sense he could be blamed for the type of environment/atmosphere Brandon Lee lost his life in
@@jordinometry1589 No it's not. It was not his job to check the guns. The guy in charge of the guns is responsible. If he did his job Brandon Lee would still be here.
I legit was just watching a random ass video about this movie yesterday. This channel always has a knack for doing videos I was just watching or watching something about. Wild
@@FragginWagon76 I was more talking about it being a coincidence that this video was released today in general - and not the fact that it was recommended to me. I often watch content from these guys so whatever video they released today was going to be suggested to me anyway. The coincidence came in that today's video just so happened to be all about a random movie that was mentioned in brief passing during another video from another creator that I watched yesterday.
I like the movie, is fun to watch with it's spectacle scenes and what not, idk why the US people so fussy and harsh about it , there wasn't much pure Egyptian actors/actress anymore, they are mixed with Arabs, ancient Greeks and Romans, why still matters so much? the story is fictional loosely base on the Egyptian mythology, where are these people when that hallmark merlin show cast an African woman to play Guinevere in the Arthurian Tales? weren't she supposed to be white? so much bias
I do think that the complaints about casting came purely from American identity politics. There are plenty of good American cultural exports, but that's not one of them.
I don't know about the controversy stuff with this movie. I've heard stuff that ancient Egyptians weren't actually black but a different shade. I don't know. All I can comment on is that: I like this movie because it's a dumb-good movie. It's not that amazing, but it's just a movie that's good sometimes when you don't wanna overthink everything. Like Battleships, sometimes you just want something dumb.
@@museyamwa Moor comes from Mauritania, the name the Romans called the land of the Berber tribes. Berbers are not black. The Numides are not black. Egyptians would have some diversity depending on the region but as a whole they were not black. Sudan was the Aethiopia of ancient Greeks. It means land of the burnt faces.
So many bad movies out there...but this one hurt me. It really did. Because I WANTED a movie that dealt with all the cool stuff in Egyptian mythology...and we got this crap. But you know something? I DO have to give it credit for one thing: Anubis wasn't an a-hole. Everything that American media gets their hands on is always: "Oh, god of death? You must be an evil god wanting to supplant all other gods then!" I'm so sick of that crap. They do Hades dirty all the time.
Matt and Burt are Hollywood hecks their writing is subpar at best yet they keep getting the jobs. I also think this movie was a way for the studios to launder money.
I went to see this movie in theaters front row. I was always fascinated by Egypt & it's history but not till this past year i revisited the movie cuz of spiritual findings & it's a gem.
I liked this movie. It had the right amount eye candy. The film's title misleads into thinking a documentary instead of a fantasy-genre. This movie made me appreciate gold as I usually hate the color, moreover I think it would've made it even better if they gave more historically accuracies to the traditional myths blended smoothly with modern originatilaty. I like the thief making a deal with a god in-exchange to revive the mortal's lover; even Horus admitted that its impossible against the rules. Whitewashing is annoying accusation. We can do whatever to fictional characters, making Thor black doesn't do anything, because despite skin color he would still talk and behave of the Norse culture. Superman as a blackman would still be adopted by farmer parents and talk similar to them. Being born with skin color genetics doesn't automatically make you speak in a certain way. 'certain way' is technique, techniques are taught and/or learnt. You're not born with techniques, you're born with instincts that leads to learning techniques.
I agree with you. While it is not the perfect film, rhe heart that went into this movie just looking at the clips here shows the people involved were doing their best in what they love. And that to me is art.
You could have saved YOUR editor a ton of effort by NOT having all those insert clips from movies OTHER than the subject one. I felt that they were jarring and unnecessary.
Hi Ryan, editor here. Actually those inserts were my idea. They weren't in the script. Thanks for your observation. I've seen other people complaining about the punchlines on this video particulary. I will work harder to nail it in the next one. And thanks for watching JoBlo videos. Have an awesome day Ryan :D
I'm sure an Egyptian film company would cast an all Egyptian group of actors, but this is an American film. Just as I'd imagine an African made movie set in England during the Civil War would also be made up of primarily African actors. All this virtue signalling diversity talk is in itself racist. Why do people watch a movie and think that some sort of quota has to be filled. Did you know that the Oscar winning film Parasite had only one white extra in the whole movie? Did you care?
Egypt is and always has been in Africa. 99% of it's history was named Kemit. The religion it portrays is adopted from Cush. You're confusing modern Egypt (different race) with ancient Egypt where there was no Greece. Just learn the non white washed history. Then form an opinion.
@@spel215 So over thousands of years races and cultures change in geographic locations? Thanks for that Captain Obvious. Although I'm not sure what your historical rant has to do with the actors in a 21st century fantasy movie.
@@mrhed0nist Your ignorance to cultural appropriation is why non white folks who see the bigger picture feel negative feelings towards people LIKE YOU!
But there are far more brilliant actors that are the brown & American that serve the aesthetic, representation & culture that do not distract from the story.. But that's their risk, they failed, & I'm glad Chadwick Boseman got paid for the good job your can expect from him bless up
This movie had so much potential to be the Flash Gordon of this generation. But, it failed spectacularly and wasted a cast of good actors, like Gerard Butler, Geoffrey Rush, Rufus Sewell and the late Chadwick Boseman.
It's a pity. They can complain about being sabotaged by the outrage, but they biggest issue is the script. There are plenty of movies with whitewashing that have done well. They could have saved themselves some trouble with less idiotic casting choices, but the story just wasn't interesting.
Honestly this came out at a time when everyone is tired of entirely CGI blue screen films. The lack of Egyptians in a film about Egypt didn’t help either.
Personally think its one of the beat movies i've seen in decades - Character growth - you care for the characters - reminds me very much of an old 60s film -- movie making has died recently and there are very very few movies around where i actually connected to the on screen characters..... this is great - we ned much more of this type of movie
@@BollyBBollington I cannot. Why so many losers got angry at this movie for no other reason than their racist delusions... This movie was great and the flak it got was totally undeserved. Like the "Dark universe" mopvies that was supposed to become their own thing the critics literally assassinated that.
@@Fenris77the casting was horrible, the script was horrible, Egyptian actors should play Egyptian deities. It’s not racist at all. gods of Egypt was pure trash. Cry some more
Okay, so in woke logic, it's completely okay to ignore Tolkien's (very detailled and deliberate) character descriptions etc., but a campy fantasy movie that is very vaguely based on egyptian myths, has to be as accurate as possible. Yeah, sure. ;) If diversity is such an important strength for Hollywood, then why do so many of those very diverse/woke movies (and tv shows) become huge flops? Shouldn't there be a huge audience who is hungry for more diversity? People longing for more representation for decades now? Well, at least that's what we're told. Or could it be that those woke shitstorms (like it happened with "Gods of Egypt") only represent a very small minority of frustrated morons who spend their money on OnlyFans and Twitch thots and OnlyFans rather than buying movie tickets? Just sayin. ;) Greetings from Germany!
@@kentonsam4264 Okay, I'll do that. I wasn't only talking about movies. Also TV shows, comics etc. Would you also be so kind and list 10 woke movies that were a huge success? Here's the list: 1) Ghostbusters 2016 2) Han Solo (heavily hurt by "The Last Jedi" ; Disney's first big attempt to wokify Star Wars) 3) SW: Rise of Skywalker (Probably the most expensive SW film ever and the conclusion of the Skywalker saga. Still it heavily underperformed.) 4) Charlie's Angels 2019 5) Terminator Dark Fate 6) Eternals 7) A Wrinkle in Time 8) Birds of Prey 9) Matrix Resurrections 10) West Side Story 2021 11) Men in Black: International 12) In the Heights 13) Space Jam 2 14) Flag Day 15) Lightyear 16) Cinderella 2021 17) The 355 18) Widows 19) X-Men: Dark Phoenix 20) Batgirl (completely shelved already 😂😂😂) TV-Shows 1) Y - The Last Man 2) Cowboy Bebop 3) High Fidelity 4) Woke (yeah, that's the actual name of a show 😅) 5) The Lost Symbol 6) Gentefied 7) Doctor Who (Chibnall) 8) Law & Order: For the Defense 9) All Rise 10) Good Girls 11) blackAF 12) I know what you did last Summer 2021 13) Altered Carbon 14) AJ and the Queen 15) Insatiable 16) Deputy 17) Party of Five 2020 18) The Purge 19) Batwoman (they've made the same mistake twice 😅) 20) Lovecraft Country Greetings from Germany 🙂
This recap left out director Proyas' extended, bitter engagement with critics after the movie got so viciously slammed...It culminated in his statements (NYT op-ed?) which condemned the criticism as insensitive and cruelly bullying to the individuals and teams who had put their blood, sweat and tears into the production. He felt it was unfair for many of the critics to slander people they didn't know. Further, he wondered how they could justify the potential damage they might render to the careers of these hard-working professionals (and their livelihoods and their families')...He pointed out that celebrity actors, writers, directors, producers, etc., may be financially insulated from the fallout of a box office and critical flop but almost everyone else on a production may not be. Regardless of what I felt about the movie (I liked it well enough), I was struck by Proyas' comments (whether self-serving or not, I don't care). We live in an age when it is extremely easy to provide instant feedback on just about everything. That sometimes takes on a nasty edge. That nastiness can be amplified, its distribution accelerated and its impacts magnified by the viral, networked nature of our media. What's potentially missing in all that is simple human compassion -- our sensitivity and respect for each other. It's so easy to say some snarky, malignant thing out of the sneering corner of our mouths (whether we even mean it or not). We don't have to think about it; we don't have to really care. But it sure is hard to take it back once it's out there and the damage is already done.
The biggest mistake he made was to apologize for making a freaking a movie. Its acting. You can play any part. A man can play a woman and and woman can play a man. You can do anything. Not to mention, A detailed study of the DNA of mummies has found ancient Egyptians were more closely related to Europeans
I can’t believe he passed on his passion piece The Dump, a movie based on taking a dump to do this film. After getting older, I see what he was shooting for by making a film that’s the incredibly equivalent to having a dump. That odorless masterpiece was Gods of Egypt. Thank you, sir.
@@chasehedges6775 That, and they're probably cheap. 3 flops for Lionsgate, and a Marvel mockery flop for Sony isn't the most promising, especially the latter, for Madame Web, let alone any big movie.
I really don’t get it anymore. Am i too old? Did the Zeitgeist move too fast for me to follow? Why? Why is it okay for a black actress to portray Anne Boleyn, but it’s a scandal for Gerard Butler to play an egyptian god? Can someone explain that to me?
actors are not to blame but the studios are definately to be held responsible for white washing. Because that is exactly what they did. It was a blatant disgrace to hermetic history and culture what makes this any different to playing black or yellow face? I am never going to see this film for that very reason.
I could only make it through the first 12 minutes of this WTF misfire of a film. The only good things I can say about Gods of Egypt is that Elodie Yung looks drop dead gorgeous and very elegant and while Chadwick Boseman stole the few scenes that he appears in.
I loved this Movie....Still do. ANYTHING to do with Egypt has me going. I think as well, that people have been more and more nitpick about casting, and what nationality people are. There was no stereotypes here. Not every movie needs to bee mixed cast. This one was, and they still complained....Sad
not every movie needs to be but when your movie is called gods of egypt it needs to be. its like making a movie about vikings and making the main characters majority black you wouldn't like that would you?
People can make movies about what they like starring who they like. because this is mythology it's not as relevant but They get so much wrong in historical Movies skin color and accents are minor issues. If Bollywood made movies about Rome I wouldn't expect to see Italians speaking Latin but if they got the costumes and characters right a passable set and at least respected the history I'd watch it. I think miss representing a person's Character and actions in such dramatic and deliberate ways is worse than getting there visual appearance wrong
Same here. For me, since The Crow and even more so since Dark City. He’s brilliant, IMHO. And again, filmmaker like him, their “failures” are more interesting than most people’s “successes” (especially these days, where so many of the “successes” are cookie cutter woke POS).
Sometimes I think Gerard Butler literally turned into King Leonidas after 300, and the actor never came back
THIS! IS! MEDIOCRITY!!!
He had a few good movies but should've went a different route..Action and drama ...but serious.. He's also very likable in romantic comedies
Man he was just so dam good in 300. Tbh he's been pretty average since but he was that good he is still riding that 300 good will years later. EVERY man after watching 300 wanted to be Leonidis. What a character. It also got me into the history of that era.
Hold on. King Leonidas starred other movies?
@@cadillacdeville5828 Gerard Butler is fantastic as the a-hole in "The Ugly Truth". However no way in hell that movie would be made today :D
You should also do a WTF Happened to I Robot, which Proyas also directed. He said something like how shooting was a problem with executives or whoever standing in his way, and he was going to write about his experiences but was told not to because he would never work in Hollywood again if he did
Yikes, definitely can make for a video!
I love I, Robot. I think, that is a great sci-fi detective movie.
I have a feeling Proyas didn't have his heart in "I Robot" & was doing it more for the check. One of the reasons I really like "Gods of Egypt"is because he invented an entirely original universe (as he did in "Dark City") & made it feel real for me. I think GOE just became one of those "hey, let's all beat up on this film" movies (Beatty's "Dick Tracy" also got that kind of reception) far beyond its actual weaknesses.
Whether you’re the writer, director, or producer, you just want the movie you envision in your head to be the same movie that translates on to the screen.
💯💯💯.
These writers should NEEEEEEVER be allowed to work in Hollywood, ever again
I'd like to see an all black cast of Vikings and see if no one has a problem with that.
IKR
Oh, they, will. They get upset about fictional characters in disney movies being played by blacks.
@@A_Rando_Vlogger I am upsed about both GoE and Disney
Know what the sad part is? When watching this "behind the scenes" footage the slower parts of the movie is what looks best. The costumes, the props, the actors and even extras. the sets had heart. Its the action, the monsters and the "Gods" SFX that couldnt be made good enough for the budget they had. The humans needed a larger part, the gods needed a smaller part. It needed to be more Egyptian LOTR and less Egyptian Transformers.
The "diversity" issue was unfair media mob behavior from the start. Remember the ancient Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt was greek while the version of Egypt the media mob referred to was created when the armies of Islam took over northern Africa circa year 600 several hundred years later. The media mob did the same crap against another movie complaining about Israeli actress Gal Gadot playing Cleopatra despite her being born next door to where the real Cleopatra lived.
This demonstrates it was never about "whitewashing" anything. It was about erasing the Greek-Roman parts of Egyptian history.
Cleopatra, Ptolemy dynasty, from the Eordaea Kingdom, western Macedonia.
Thracian with Greek admixture, thus dark red / dark blonde hair with blue / green eyes and white/marble pale skin.
Even Gal Gadot is not "white" enough to play Cleopatra ...
Just kidding, Gal Gadot is perfect for that role !
(with blue / green contact lenses)
I love this movie. The love story between Horus and Hathor with Zaya and Bek talks about how our pasts may haunts us, of hidden obligations and hopeful promises for the future dashed. And that through sincere sacrifice, in small parts by all actors of the drama, brings fulfillment to life.
Well… This was a hilarious and welcome surprise. Thank you for the great content! Instant sub.
I thought I recognized that cocaine sniffing goblin.
The goblin overlord! We're not worthy!
I got that reference !
Honestly, this movie’s casting is the least of its concerns. Its biggest problem is the plot overall. It suffers from a plot that keeps resetting its momentum, making up new MacGuffins and plotpoints on the fly without proper set ups from before. And the mortal plot line of Bek feels really awkwardly tacked on, wedged in between the plot of Horus’ growth and development. It also doesn’t help that Horus is supposed to be born AFTER Set decided to murder his dad Osiris for shagging with Set’s wife leading to the birth Horus’ older half brother, Anubis.
They could easily tiptoe around the problem altogether by centering the plot focus on Horus’ growth and his relationship with his brother Anubis as they fight to depose Set from the throne and all of them are animated based on how the Egyptian portrayed the gods in hieroglyphs and wall paintings. Simple plot, straight forward goal, but rooms for setting up all the Chekhov’s Guns from the get go.
Personally I quiet like this movie, it has an 70’s/ 80’s fantasy movie vibe to it, and it stands out as a bizarre big budget misfire and is a lot more original than the never ending cycle of superhero movies that continue till this day.
Its also dogshite trash
It's the equivalent of having an all black cast for a film about nazi germany
This movie was a misfire, but it had a lot of interesting stuff in it. There have been worse movies that critics haven’t crushed this way or even defended like 2016 Ghostbusters, The Last Jedi or The New Mutants.
I personally liked the film, and Marco Beltrami's score was excellent.
It's unfair that Proyas' career has taken such a low tide since then...
It was certainly visually stunning and at least as good as the Clash of the Titans remakes. Although it does lack the style and charm of something like 300.
I’m a fan of this film as well. A very fun fantasy adventure film like what Ray Harryhausen used to make.
I enjoyed this BUT I am a fan of anything Egypt - centric. I haven't seen Tom cruises Mummy movie though
Me too (and Jupiter Acsending). The only thing that bugged me was the way the dialogue seemed to have been very obviously redubbed in that it all sounded like it was in a recording booth with an up close mic rather than in the environments. I wondered originally if they just did not have enough time to naturalise the dialogue recordings but now I wonder if they had originally tried some Egyptian accents then decided to redub it at the last minute.
I enjoy it but can say its still a pretty bad story
It's a shame because not only is Proyas a fascinating, visionary director, but the historical epic genre is all but extinct in today's austere climate of IP and legacy franchise domination (to me it's criminal that The Northman wasn't a box office success). There is so much material to mine from Egyptian history and mythology, but I think it's unlikely that's we'll get the Egyptian epic of our dreams any time soon (if ever).
Also, I'm convinced that there are better cut of Exodus: Gods and Kings and Noah out there.
@ImOnIt4272 I mean honestly, sometimes it's just that. Or rather just bad marketing
I rewatched the trifecta of failed disney blockbusters (Lone Ranger, John Carter and Tomorrowland) and look, I know for a fact my taste in movies is not very good, but those are very fun good blockbusters. Lone Ranger is at least as good as the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie imo. And because of various marketing misfires (the whole Johnny Depp isn't native america, John Carter shitty trailers and whatnot) those movies bombed and bombed hard.
The Whitewashing-Debate about this Movie is SOO STUPID !
I knew how awful MORBIUS was gonna be when I saw that the writers were the same from GODS OF EGYPT
And THE LAST WITCH HUNTER
If that's not bad enough, they're also behind MADAME WEB
This is gonna suck
Wow, that's a helluva bad track record because Morbius was trash in celluloid... smh
@@FoundationalAmericanBadass Indeed
You just keep hitting the homeruns, Sony.
@@michaelstrong5383 In all the wrong ways
When the legendary director of the crow teams up with the writers who would end up writing one of the movies of all time
💯💯
And Dark City
You’re doing a job. Keep up the work.
Is there a word missing between the and movies?
@@blackamerican40 It's a meme surrounding Morbius, the movie he's talking about. Since its release in April, it's been an endlessly mocked meme, due to its extremely poor reception, leading many to refer to it as "one of the movies of all time", or "certainly a movie".
This movie is the Dungeons and Dragons of 2016.
All that is missing is Jeremy Irons and his hamminess
LET THEIR BLOOD RAIIIN FROM THE SKY!
That's not D&D of 2016.
That's D&D of 2006, a great dumb-movie that captivates the feel of D&D:
It has a sequel that was good called Wrath of the Dragon God in 2005 which was good as well.
AND A GOD AWFUL MURDERHOBO MOVIE CALLED BOOK OF SHADOWS IN 2012 MY GOD IT'S FUCKING SHIT
1. Actors were not Egyptian. 2. the script for this movie was written by 5 years old. That is what happened.
The biggest mistake was apologizing to a non-audience faction which wasn’t ever going to accept any apology since it already has its narrative and was committed to milking it for all it was worth.
exactly ...
Thankfully, Chadwick Boseman would bounce back from this movie the very same year.
RIP
And then DIED. Which seems even more cruel a fate given he did bounce back.
I don’t think his role would’ve effected his career
Ah, man! Seeing Chadwick Boseman in this makes me sad…
@@MrJoker3571 Same
“White Washing” is just an excuse. Even if you take the “white washing” out of the picture and still made the same movie with POC, the movie would STILL have failed. It was… lame. I don’t know how else to put it. Just… MEH.
We have seen what happens when you hire actors based on skin color/gender and not talent.
They all fail with flying colors.
Hollywood: We need white actors so our movie doesn't flop!
*movie flops*
Hollywood: Our movie flopped because minorities complained!
*This is one of my favorite 'comfort movies' that I put on if I have had a rough day.*
It's fun, has a great cast and fantastic PACING, there's never a dull moment. There is something old fashioned about it, it reminds me of the old Sinbad films, full of adventure. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend making some popcorn and giving it a chance.
Yeah true, it is similar in style to them and the origin Clash Of The Titans. Never really got the hate for this movie. It's not great, but it's a fun time.
@@shannonbayley3684 Never got the hate huh?
@@LegendNoel73 That's right. It's called an opinion.
Big dumb fun but after watching lots of Ancient Aliens it has a new dimension of Zeppteppi, or THE FIRST TIME, when the gods were said to have ruled Egypt, comes to life in this film ! Chadwick Boseman was excellent and Gerard Butler as a villain was refreshing. Justin was a great actor in GOT and he is great here too ! And what about Geoffrey Rush ? MAGNIFICENT. An undervalued cult classic, like Dark City, that will one day prove the critics wrong !!!
@@shannonbayley3684 Again, you NEVER got the hate huh...??
You know what, Alex Proyas' previous work "Knowing (2009)" is one of the very few movies that still freak me out. Anyway, since your channel is not afraid to make deep cuts, what do you think of the idea of revisting "Into the Blue (2005)"?
Knowing(2009) is a pretty good/decent film
Love that flick, it had a great Outer Limits/Twilight Zone feel to it. The ending is overwhelming, and the final shot is one of my personal favorites.
@@Axolotl_Mischief 💯💯
This WTF episode was better constructed than the movie itself. I actually feel bad for the actors in this movie as many of them did not recover after this.
THANK GOD, been waiting for this video for a few years already.
I wonder if the death of Brandon Lee still haunts Alex Proyas
Probably even though it wasn't his fault. The guy who handles the guns fault.
@@tammy6610 well apparently drugs and drinking on set was quite frequent so in sense he could be blamed for the type of environment/atmosphere Brandon Lee lost his life in
@@jordinometry1589 No it's not. It was not his job to check the guns. The guy in charge of the guns is responsible. If he did his job Brandon Lee would still be here.
@@tammy6610 that depends if everyone shot the guns when they had time to kill and some drunk dumb fuck mixed up the ammo.
This is literally one of my favorite movies
I legit was just watching a random ass video about this movie yesterday. This channel always has a knack for doing videos I was just watching or watching something about. Wild
Almost as if there’s some sort of… algorithm… at play.
@@FragginWagon76 I was more talking about it being a coincidence that this video was released today in general - and not the fact that it was recommended to me. I often watch content from these guys so whatever video they released today was going to be suggested to me anyway. The coincidence came in that today's video just so happened to be all about a random movie that was mentioned in brief passing during another video from another creator that I watched yesterday.
this movie is what hitler wanted to be ancient Egypt
I like the movie, is fun to watch with it's spectacle scenes and what not, idk why the US people so fussy and harsh about it , there wasn't much pure Egyptian actors/actress anymore, they are mixed with Arabs, ancient Greeks and Romans, why still matters so much? the story is fictional loosely base on the Egyptian mythology, where are these people when that hallmark merlin show cast an African woman to play Guinevere in the Arthurian Tales? weren't she supposed to be white? so much bias
so you know, I'm "US people" and I liked the film ...definitely a fun watch
I do think that the complaints about casting came purely from American identity politics. There are plenty of good American cultural exports, but that's not one of them.
I don't know about the controversy stuff with this movie.
I've heard stuff that ancient Egyptians weren't actually black but a different shade. I don't know.
All I can comment on is that: I like this movie because it's a dumb-good movie.
It's not that amazing, but it's just a movie that's good sometimes when you don't wanna overthink everything.
Like Battleships, sometimes you just want something dumb.
@@museyamwa Bullshit.
@@museyamwa Moor comes from Mauritania, the name the Romans called the land of the Berber tribes. Berbers are not black. The Numides are not black. Egyptians would have some diversity depending on the region but as a whole they were not black. Sudan was the Aethiopia of ancient Greeks. It means land of the burnt faces.
Interesting stuff. I did not know that.
Egypt is in Africa and i don't know what a different shade mean but i doubt they look white
@@kitten82d31 Egypt is in Northern Africa and the majority of the population from Gibraltar to Suez look basically Mediterranean.
I never saw this movie, but even from the trailers I knew it didn’t look good
Same. The trailer did a very good job displaying what kind of movie you were gonna get
So many bad movies out there...but this one hurt me. It really did. Because I WANTED a movie that dealt with all the cool stuff in Egyptian mythology...and we got this crap.
But you know something? I DO have to give it credit for one thing: Anubis wasn't an a-hole. Everything that American media gets their hands on is always: "Oh, god of death? You must be an evil god wanting to supplant all other gods then!" I'm so sick of that crap. They do Hades dirty all the time.
OMG yes! Hades is a sweetheart compared to that bunghole Zeus.
“Paperback fiction”
Shots fired!
The volume spikes are ridiculous please level the audio better ♥️🙏🏼
Matt and Burt are Hollywood hecks their writing is subpar at best yet they keep getting the jobs.
I also think this movie was a way for the studios to launder money.
loved this movie watched it 3 times 1 year
Same here.
Despite the obvious flaws (NOT the skin colour) it is really a fun movie to watch.
King Tut had red hair
I actually like this movie. It is very entertaining and It has some good concepts and touching moments.
Even though it’s not a great movie it’s very entertaining and extremely rewatchable!!
I would watch (and watch) many times this movie and many others like it instead of the garbage that floods theaters today.
Yes, this and Immortals with Hanry Cavil are my favorites of this genre.
Too bad movies of that kind will never be made again.
I tried watching it my first time and couldn't make it past 20 minutes.
@JeanPiFresita this would be in the same category of garbage movies today
I went to see this movie in theaters front row. I was always fascinated by Egypt & it's history but not till this past year i revisited the movie cuz of spiritual findings & it's a gem.
There have been worse movies, I wouldn't call it a good movie but not a waste of time to watch it once.
I liked this movie. It had the right amount eye candy. The film's title misleads into thinking a documentary instead of a fantasy-genre. This movie made me appreciate gold as I usually hate the color, moreover I think it would've made it even better if they gave more historically accuracies to the traditional myths blended smoothly with modern originatilaty. I like the thief making a deal with a god in-exchange to revive the mortal's lover; even Horus admitted that its impossible against the rules. Whitewashing is annoying accusation. We can do whatever to fictional characters, making Thor black doesn't do anything, because despite skin color he would still talk and behave of the Norse culture. Superman as a blackman would still be adopted by farmer parents and talk similar to them. Being born with skin color genetics doesn't automatically make you speak in a certain way. 'certain way' is technique, techniques are taught and/or learnt. You're not born with techniques, you're born with instincts that leads to learning techniques.
I agree with you. While it is not the perfect film, rhe heart that went into this movie just looking at the clips here shows the people involved were doing their best in what they love. And that to me is art.
Ppl in the comments saying, "I loved this movie", "it was entertaining", "it was a good movie", must have never seen an actual good movie before.
_"Why are they white?"_
_"What?"_
_"They're Egyptian, right? Why are they white?"_
_"Why would you choose to focus on that?"_
- Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged
You could have saved YOUR editor a ton of effort by NOT having all those insert clips from movies OTHER than the subject one. I felt that they were jarring and unnecessary.
Hi Ryan, editor here. Actually those inserts were my idea. They weren't in the script. Thanks for your observation. I've seen other people complaining about the punchlines on this video particulary. I will work harder to nail it in the next one.
And thanks for watching JoBlo videos. Have an awesome day Ryan :D
Let’s be honest. If “Clash of the Titans was a predominantly all black cast people would’ve been in an uproar!
I'm sure an Egyptian film company would cast an all Egyptian group of actors, but this is an American film. Just as I'd imagine an African made movie set in England during the Civil War would also be made up of primarily African actors.
All this virtue signalling diversity talk is in itself racist. Why do people watch a movie and think that some sort of quota has to be filled. Did you know that the Oscar winning film Parasite had only one white extra in the whole movie? Did you care?
Egypt is and always has been in Africa. 99% of it's history was named Kemit. The religion it portrays is adopted from Cush. You're confusing modern Egypt (different race) with ancient Egypt where there was no Greece. Just learn the non white washed history. Then form an opinion.
@@spel215 So over thousands of years races and cultures change in geographic locations? Thanks for that Captain Obvious.
Although I'm not sure what your historical rant has to do with the actors in a 21st century fantasy movie.
@@mrhed0nist Your ignorance to cultural appropriation is why non white folks who see the bigger picture feel negative feelings towards people LIKE YOU!
But there are far more brilliant actors that are the brown & American that serve the aesthetic, representation & culture that do not distract from the story.. But that's their risk, they failed, & I'm glad Chadwick Boseman got paid for the good job your can expect from him bless up
@@spel215modern Egyptians are the descendants of ancient Egyptians
This movie had so much potential to be the Flash Gordon of this generation. But, it failed spectacularly and wasted a cast of good actors, like Gerard Butler, Geoffrey Rush, Rufus Sewell and the late Chadwick Boseman.
It's a pity. They can complain about being sabotaged by the outrage, but they biggest issue is the script. There are plenty of movies with whitewashing that have done well. They could have saved themselves some trouble with less idiotic casting choices, but the story just wasn't interesting.
Not seeing enough people talking shyt about the casting of this movie is quite concerning
Was so looking forward to seeing this
I was like...WHAT? Chadwick Boseman was in this?
So thease two writers are responsible for some of the worst movies in decades 🤔 🙄 SMH
At least Marco Beltrami gave us a great score, which is the reason why I watched Gods Of Egypt in the first place
I would make the same argument for Rings of Power.
2 minutes in and I already know 90% of the problem was the writers
If Green Knight was OK, then so was the casting choice for this rubbish.
Never saw Green Knight but it’s actually a good movie, from what I gathered from the trailer
And while the casting does matter, the performance does
@@chasehedges6775
The Green Knight was an excellent movie. A few minutes into the movie, I completely forgot about the casting.
At least there was 2 things in this movie that kept my attention
Courtney Eaton?
Gerard Butler playing an Egyptian god is bad but Gerard Butler playing an ancient Greek hero like King Leonidas of Sparta is OK.
that is because greeks are caucasian
This movie was so bad, I kept falling asleep during the action scenes
Honestly this came out at a time when everyone is tired of entirely CGI blue screen films. The lack of Egyptians in a film about Egypt didn’t help either.
Gerald Butler next role is Mensa Musa lol
😂😂😂
Personally think its one of the beat movies i've seen in decades - Character growth - you care for the characters - reminds me very much of an old 60s film -- movie making has died recently and there are very very few movies around where i actually connected to the on screen characters..... this is great - we ned much more of this type of movie
You need to see more movies.
Oh they apologised?! Did Disney ever apologise for the destruction of Star Wars?
bro, you have GOT to get over that lmao. tlj came out like 7 years ago.
@@BollyBBollington I cannot.
Why so many losers got angry at this movie for no other reason than their racist delusions...
This movie was great and the flak it got was totally undeserved. Like the "Dark universe" mopvies that was supposed to become their own thing the critics literally assassinated that.
@@Fenris77it’s not racist to point out the fact ancient Egyptians weren’t white, gods of Egypt was absolute garbage
@@Fenris77the casting was horrible, the script was horrible, Egyptian actors should play Egyptian deities. It’s not racist at all. gods of Egypt was pure trash. Cry some more
Okay, so in woke logic, it's completely okay to ignore Tolkien's (very detailled and deliberate) character descriptions etc., but a campy fantasy movie that is very vaguely based on egyptian myths, has to be as accurate as possible. Yeah, sure. ;)
If diversity is such an important strength for Hollywood, then why do so many of those very diverse/woke movies (and tv shows) become huge flops? Shouldn't there be a huge audience who is hungry for more diversity? People longing for more representation for decades now? Well, at least that's what we're told.
Or could it be that those woke shitstorms (like it happened with "Gods of Egypt") only represent a very small minority of frustrated morons who spend their money on OnlyFans and Twitch thots and OnlyFans rather than buying movie tickets? Just sayin. ;)
Greetings from Germany!
Can you name 10 "woke" movies that flopped. Go woke, go broke isn't newtonian.
@@kentonsam4264
Okay, I'll do that. I wasn't only talking about movies. Also TV shows, comics etc.
Would you also be so kind and list 10 woke movies that were a huge success?
Here's the list:
1) Ghostbusters 2016
2) Han Solo (heavily hurt by "The Last Jedi" ; Disney's first big attempt to wokify Star Wars)
3) SW: Rise of Skywalker (Probably the most expensive SW film ever and the conclusion of the Skywalker saga. Still it heavily underperformed.)
4) Charlie's Angels 2019
5) Terminator Dark Fate
6) Eternals
7) A Wrinkle in Time
8) Birds of Prey
9) Matrix Resurrections
10) West Side Story 2021
11) Men in Black: International
12) In the Heights
13) Space Jam 2
14) Flag Day
15) Lightyear
16) Cinderella 2021
17) The 355
18) Widows
19) X-Men: Dark Phoenix
20) Batgirl (completely shelved already 😂😂😂)
TV-Shows
1) Y - The Last Man
2) Cowboy Bebop
3) High Fidelity
4) Woke (yeah, that's the actual name of a show 😅)
5) The Lost Symbol
6) Gentefied
7) Doctor Who (Chibnall)
8) Law & Order: For the Defense
9) All Rise
10) Good Girls
11) blackAF
12) I know what you did last Summer 2021
13) Altered Carbon
14) AJ and the Queen
15) Insatiable
16) Deputy
17) Party of Five 2020
18) The Purge
19) Batwoman (they've made the same mistake twice 😅)
20) Lovecraft Country
Greetings from Germany 🙂
Most actors do their best acting in the press junkets, nobody believes the absolute nonsense they come up with. Imagine if they worked in sales.
@JoBlo you should do a WTF Happened to this Movie about Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time In America
Clearly the directors ego drove him to insanity
This recap left out director Proyas' extended, bitter engagement with critics after the movie got so viciously slammed...It culminated in his statements (NYT op-ed?) which condemned the criticism as insensitive and cruelly bullying to the individuals and teams who had put their blood, sweat and tears into the production.
He felt it was unfair for many of the critics to slander people they didn't know. Further, he wondered how they could justify the potential damage they might render to the careers of these hard-working professionals (and their livelihoods and their families')...He pointed out that celebrity actors, writers, directors, producers, etc., may be financially insulated from the fallout of a box office and critical flop but almost everyone else on a production may not be.
Regardless of what I felt about the movie (I liked it well enough), I was struck by Proyas' comments (whether self-serving or not, I don't care).
We live in an age when it is extremely easy to provide instant feedback on just about everything. That sometimes takes on a nasty edge. That nastiness can be amplified, its distribution accelerated and its impacts magnified by the viral, networked nature of our media.
What's potentially missing in all that is simple human compassion -- our sensitivity and respect for each other.
It's so easy to say some snarky, malignant thing out of the sneering corner of our mouths (whether we even mean it or not). We don't have to think about it; we don't have to really care. But it sure is hard to take it back once it's out there and the damage is already done.
Knew it was trash from just the trailer
It's pretty bad when a studio has to boast about their tax breaks on a project to save face.
The biggest mistake he made was to apologize for making a freaking a movie. Its acting. You can play any part. A man can play a woman and and woman can play a man. You can do anything. Not to mention, A detailed study of the DNA of mummies has found ancient Egyptians were more closely related to Europeans
You have to do exodus gods and kings because there are literally no videos covering it!
Would you guys discuss that Clash of the Titans remake and the sequel?
I can’t believe he passed on his passion piece The Dump, a movie based on taking a dump to do this film. After getting older, I see what he was shooting for by making a film that’s the incredibly equivalent to having a dump. That odorless masterpiece was Gods of Egypt. Thank you, sir.
Lol
How do those writers keep finding work?
I have no idea but they must have really good connections or something
@@chasehedges6775 That, and they're probably cheap. 3 flops for Lionsgate, and a Marvel mockery flop for Sony isn't the most promising, especially the latter, for Madame Web, let alone any big movie.
They must know someone from Sony. That's the only plausible explanation I can think of.
@@miraculousismyguiltypleasu9372 💯
@@michaelstrong5383 Same. Again, really good connections
I really don’t get it anymore. Am i too old? Did the Zeitgeist move too fast for me to follow? Why? Why is it okay for a black actress to portray Anne Boleyn, but it’s a scandal for Gerard Butler to play an egyptian god? Can someone explain that to me?
This movie would've been hot garbage regardless of the cast
This movie has it's problems but I like this movie. I actually think this is one of Chadwick Boseman's best roles.
Question: WTF happened to Gods of Egypt?
Answer: Really bad tanning spray!
The fact that studios have to apologize for “white washing” casting is just ridiculous. They’re actors. They’re playing a role.
Bs......💩
actors are not to blame but the studios are definately to be held responsible for white washing. Because that is exactly what they did. It was a blatant disgrace to hermetic history and culture what makes this any different to playing black or yellow face? I am never going to see this film for that very reason.
ZULU KING: starring Tom Cruise as Shaka Zulu
It’s their job to be accurate
Because Egyptians aren’t white
The whole film was an astronomic mistake. Glad it got backlash 🎉🎉🎉
The movie is a fun adventure film that feels like a live action anime, and i wish i had watched it when it was released rather than later.
So this movie existed...huh neat.
Gods of Egypt, a movie that exists
@@chasehedges6775 The Ridley Scott movie was worse!!!
I could only make it through the first 12 minutes of this WTF misfire of a film. The only good things I can say about Gods of Egypt is that Elodie Yung looks drop dead gorgeous and very elegant and while Chadwick Boseman stole the few scenes that he appears in.
I remember for a few years there was talk of an I, Robot 2. Wonder whatever happened to that.
3:48 I think you mean last installment in 2015. The first Hunger Games released in 2012.
Hey, that's Daniel Greene y'all
I loved this Movie....Still do. ANYTHING to do with Egypt has me going. I think as well, that people have been more and more nitpick about casting, and what nationality people are. There was no stereotypes here. Not every movie needs to bee mixed cast. This one was, and they still complained....Sad
not every movie needs to be but when your movie is called gods of egypt it needs to be. its like making a movie about vikings and making the main characters majority black you wouldn't like that would you?
Yh but they still added whi tes into it lol.
Gods of Egypt - One of the worst and so bad, it’s good films of 2016.
really? This is the only film i've walked out from the theater out of boredom in my life.
People can make movies about what they like starring who they like. because this is mythology it's not as relevant but They get so much wrong in historical Movies skin color and accents are minor issues. If Bollywood made movies about Rome I wouldn't expect to see Italians speaking Latin but if they got the costumes and characters right a passable set and at least respected the history I'd watch it. I think miss representing a person's Character and actions in such dramatic and deliberate ways is worse than getting there visual appearance wrong
I wanted this movie to be good so bad. I wanted to like it. But how it's this movie was even released it's beyond me.
A movie about fictional gods
I like Proyas' work in this movie regardless if the cast were whitewashed or not. But I think, this would have worked if animated
It was wtf.... I was so confused who was the main character in this movie.
WTF Happened to Immortals (2011)?
Wtf happened to joblo
Good analysis, but dude those cutaway gags are unbearable
can you do wtf happened to the spiderwick chronicles (2008)?
I went to see this movie because of Alex Proyas
I'm a fan of his work since I, ROBOT
Same here. For me, since The Crow and even more so since Dark City. He’s brilliant, IMHO. And again, filmmaker like him, their “failures” are more interesting than most people’s “successes” (especially these days, where so many of the “successes” are cookie cutter woke POS).