Why don't some people like the 10 Commandments?

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

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.

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

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.

There are several reasons.

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

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

Why do I get bored with porn so quickly? I can watch maybe half a video (5 mins max) and then get bored and do something else. I don't watch porn often, just a teenager. 17.

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.

It should have been an opera.

Why don't some people like the 10 Commandments?

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