Stro, thanks for the Exodus review. Sounds pretty bad. Like...they tried to secularize it more (Moses only sees God after a concussion, he doesn't actually part the red sea, and he inscribed the commandments), but made it stupid in the process? Sounds like the directing/editing/cinematography were bigger issues, though.
It's full of issues. I don't understand making a bible movie and then shying away from the supernatural elements to try to make it "realistic". You can't read the bible and think, "Boy, that's so gritty and realistic!". I mean the story of Moses is a dude who is sent floating down the Nile as a baby, inexplicably raised in the pharaoh's family despite an order of first born Jews being killed, who then gets kicked out of Egypt, who God then talks to from a burning bush, who then has a staff that is able to turn into a snake and back, who is able to turn his staff into a giant snake that eats the rod/snakes of the Egyptians, who is able to call God off on the plagues 7 times, who frees 600K-2 million Jews, is able to part the Red Sea with his rod so he and the Jews can pass, heads up to the top of a mountain where God writes down some notes for him, breaks them when he gets pissed, goes back and does it again, makes water come from a rock in the desert, wanders for 40 years with up to 2 million people in the desert living off of some kind of food sent directly from God. And all this STARTED when he was 80. When it comes to a bible story, I don't think you have to make it gritty or fantastical. I think you can do both.
Plus all the clearly not giving a shit from an acting, continuity, and editing stand point. Ridley...I think he's hurt, guys. GUYS, I think, at this juncture, well, Ridley has lost whatever was left of what he once had, guys.