WEEKEND MOVIE REVIEWS

(Personal opinion about a so-called “Biblical” movie.)

The wife and he settled down,

Easter weekend not in town…

Settling food

By movies viewed,

On TV–familiar ground.

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What is it with movies today,

That throw old stories away…

To make up in turn

Glories unearned,

Mislabeling must be okay!

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The 2006 version

Of “THE TEN COMMANDMENTS” our diversion…

Mislabeled as such,

It spendeth too much

Time making God the aversion.

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Moses was portrayed

As hearing god in his “hade”*…

Took no advice,

His life sacrificed,

Ignoring any offers of aid.

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(“The Ten Commandments” entitled

For them, barely minutes of fame…

Broken on the calf by this plot path,

This god said, “Don’t come up here again!”)

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So the tribes made laws by default,

With definite secular gestalt…

Majority rules

Without godly tools,

Just Moses’ wisdom and salt.

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Of course it was hard to see

With all those commercials for “free”…

Three-in-a-row

The same thing showed,

Interrupting the plot frequently!

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We watched until it was done’

A mislabeled  movie..no fun…

If I’d paid a pack

I’d want money back,

For that channel, this “inspiring” was glum.**

–Jonathan Caswell

* Poor attempt at an accent.   Some folks somewhere do pronounce “head” like “hade”…Sorry for the attempt, but I needed to rhyme there!

** “inspiring” being a general hint as to where this Biblical fiasco was shown.  Methinks they SHOULD ask for their money back…but that is just a poet’s view point…who believes more in the Bible account than apparently the producers of this movie did.