Quote from: Russ on Dec 15, 2014, 04:11:52 PM
KiramidHead - when you say it was "choppy" did it feel like there was more that should have come from the scenes ... I really felt this with the second Nolan Batman - it seemed lacking and rushed in places and over drawn out in others, so I really was expecting a director's epic cut for that (it never came, sadly).
A lot of things felt skipped over, like with Turturro going from perfectly fine, to sick, and then dead within a couple scenes, everything to do with Sigourney Weaver felt random, characters were introduced suddenly and dropped just as fast, Moses having a mundane conversation with a woman and then marrying her in the next scene, etc. That sort of thing might be helped by an extended cut.
However, there's a bunch of things I don't think could be fixed. The whole backstory of the Hebrews infants being murdered on Pharaoh's order and Moses being saved from it is glossed over, and very, very quickly summarized by Ben Kingsley, and there's an annoying subplot where Moses starts to lead a slave rebellion, complete with Army of Darkness training montage, only for God to decide their moving too slowly, which leads to the plagues.
