Gods of Egypt Review - The Mythology Guy 

The Percy Jackson tv show pilot when it comes

What about the ragnarok netflix series?

One of those really trashy _Thor_ movies, those cheap ones not the Marvel ones.

age of mythology

Clash of the Titans and Wrath of the Titans

"Fear not! We have come to educate you in our ways and take your cultural artifacts! Pleade fo not resist!😃" -Some British archeologist

Geoffrey Rush, despite his British accent, is actually Australian

And white

Dude, if they cant take care of their own Myths and make them into "blockbuster" movies. Then of course the British will have to do it for them.

@@darryljack6612 not sure if /s but it better be /s

For real tho

@@TheMythologyGuy1 You are absolutely right. That girl should have aimed for the ribs or heart. Had she stabbed Set right there, the movie ends & all are happy. But noooooo! She had to continue holding the knife aimlessly. Set: “All women love me.” 😏

I think he wants a thousand years of war

"AND THEN ALONG CAME ZEUS"

“WHAT WILL YOU HAVE IN 1000 YEARS?!?!”

Truly, Andrew is the calmest man in the world!

This was the best part of the video!!

F-word aside, I kind of agree.

@@godzillakingofthemonsters54 Can’t handle a swear word?

@@Plumpus3545 That's beside the point

That is good

That’d make sense.

Such an easy fix too, honestly I'm shocked that ISN'T in the actual movie

​@@PixelHeroViish I wonder what would have happened if they said his heart belonged to Horus or something.

@@sodiumvalproate3936 Now THAT would've been interesting 🥴

And now these people get paid...

It's like they didn't even care! 😅

Wow that is, like the movie banner, a bunch of oxymorons

@@godnyx117Directors: Now we play the waiting game.

@@godnyx117 The only people who should be getting paid is the people who actually act well in this film

If they had actually given it some solid... acting and choreography, it might have at least been a bit more than Some Guys of Egypt.

Yeah that seems about right

@@FelisImpurrator For a second I thought you wrote "Amongus of Egypt"!😂

@@davidkoudelka10 They are all imposters...

Yea they even try to imitate the ‘epic climax with the big monster’ but it fails badly on that front

Omg chill dude no one reading all that, maybe

That sounds like it would have been a way cooler movie, pair that with actual Northern African/ Mediterranean/Semitic/Arab actors and would have had the potential 😊 Guess, I'm gonna stick with the Papyrus cartoon, I loved that as a kid ❤❤❤

@@tvifjtb4880 I read it all, I don’t regret it, but now I wish that the producers had went along with that script. But you’re right, most people would not read that entire thing.

​@@tvifjtb4880i read

How do I find this on Google? What should I type?

Rami malek doesn’t play Tutankhamen he plays ahkmenrah

as a guy who loved Night of the Museum, I'd love if that were to happen

It’s a matter of creativity vs. trivia.

I like this idea. It’s most likely true, and as a booksmart/nerd person I definitely cant do riddles and face a sphinx.

It’s Spelled Thoth

Choice* Sorry don't know why but it bothers me.

The difference between Inteligence and Wisdom

Now that's a good Motto

​​@@lorddarthkairos01Better to ask for forgiveness than be denied permission?

the worst part is that it could have been a actually fun personality trait if they had handled it correctly

Anubis. The only God they spent time researching.

the Anubis fans are so silly

@@HomellAlcautor Probably the only Egyptian god they knew about prior to this movie.

@@abobakrhassan2731 Dude. We are crazy enought to love a dog-man so being called silly it's a compliment.

Director: “who’s a good boy?” Anubis: “I am?” 🥹

His job would just be to follow the directors, producers and writers around with a stick. And whenever one of them would go: "Wouldn't it be cool if-", he hits them on the head.

I'm pretty sure they did something like this for shows like The Big Bang Theory, where they have a specialist within a certain topic come on set to make sure all that is said or done is accurate.

@@MuskyMan137 would it hurt the people behind mythology movies to do this?

@@yusheitslv100 Nope.

Idk why but your comment reminded me of Peter Griffin’s version of The Passion of the Christ😂😂 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b36TUGzVXok.html Just going “No, no…stop it” when he’s being flailed, just like Mythology Guy feels seeing bad adaptations of myths😂😂😂

But...most modern Egyptians aren't.

@@jeffreygao3956 I love how you wrote "modern Egyptians" without the slightest irony.

I swear some might think we black people would get offended at that joke because a white guy made it, but like thise people don't understand us at all, that shit made me bust out laughing. Especially since it's so true XD.

@@playfulpanthress I honestly think he meant the people currently living in Egypt. Only 17 percent of Egyptians are Arabs, while 68 percent of the indigenous population is from North Africa, four percent are from Jewish ancestry, three percent are of East African origins, another three percent from Asia Minor and three percent are South European. But, centuries ago they were more Black.

@@jeffreygao3956 Neither were ancient Egyptians, point being?

Oh dear

@@TheMythologyGuy1 if anything it proves even a basic plot lives and dies on the quality behind it, right?

@@mobiusfrost Oh for sure. Execution can make all the difference.

@Raymond Kenney That's the point. They have the same general narrative structure, but Moana was done quite well.

Moana came out 8 months after Gods of Egypt. Pretty sure the whole plot for Moana would have already been decided before Gods of Egypt was released.

The people who okayed this movie should be sentenced to fight apophis forever with RA, let them do all the work

@Vishal where did this comparison even come from

And his award is: to suffer even more reviewing even worse mythology movies.

And give this man more likes

He showed us scenes from the movie we still suffer

The only justice they did, is by making Anubis *doing his job*

@@muhamaddanial5376 yes

@@ernesielta i mean, atleast they got that right🤌

@BruceTheFuckinfGoose Yes

​​@BruceTheFuckinfGoose they did the undead judge puppy right

I feel like the riddle could have been used as a nod to the God's immortality and how the passage of time is something they never think about. Even Thoth, especially since hes always cooped up in his library, needs to take a couple moments to be like "oh, of course, how foolish of me. Obviously it's tomorrow." They'd of course have to establish that was their intent of course. Maybe have Aladin tease him about struggling with the answer afterwards and Thoth explaining why it didn't instantly come to mind.

I really wish we had gotten a more obvious nod to how God's can't conceptualise time. To a God "tomorrow" isn't an accurate assessment of the passage of time, it's not measured in days or even years. But just having him be confused was lazy

You know what they should had done? Go to the Sphinx first, then after trying and escape out alive, they go to Thoth and he should say, "Have you tried tomorrow?" And make the characters think that he's saying "Try the Riddle tomorrow" But what he meant was to try that as the answer to the Riddle. Then Bek or Aladdin or whatever you spell it would feel comfortable and think that's a good idea amd reply "ok, we'll answer it tomorrow," than Thoth would say "No, have you tried tomorrow as your answer?" Then Bek would say, "oh,...tomorrow." and we either let Thoth or Bek go back to the Sphinx, repeat the Riddle and say "You are tomorrow" and the Sphinx would let them pass and do the whole plan. It might sound inaccurate for the Sphinx but hey, one inaccuracy wouldn' hurt. Why the hell was I not part of the cast? That would make rhe movie even better!

But Bek did mention something along that line. That the riddle was meant for mortal, so Thoth should try thinking like mortal, in which Thoth at first responded with 'that will be the day I stopped thinking', owing to his own established characteristic in this movie. It was only by the end of that section that Thoth took that advice and gave the right answer. That said, the section of the movie was so busy and fast paced that the intent might not be as obvious.

@@spearsage my thoughts exactly

A deinosuchus with the head of a cobra and the wings of a bird? That sounds like Lagriacrus from Monster Hunter, and... To be honest, I'd love to see that. That'd be awesome.

Ironic how someone who doesn't do their research's favorite god was Thoth

We can't make a movie where Rami Malek plays every character

@@TupocalypseShakur why not? I’d watch the shit out of that!

@@TwoCatsInLondon I agree I wouldn’t mind seeing Rami Malek falling in love with Rami Malek Rami then dies and Rami gets revenge on Rami for killing Rami

@@TupocalypseShakur I bet making a movie where Rami plays every character would be super easy, barely an inconvenience!

@@TupocalypseShakur that's exactly my problem with the whitewashing claims , there arn't enough hollywood big name actors to cast , egyptian cinema is pretty decent but i doubt that casting egyptian actors would bring in enough people to the cinemas

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lol in what part of the video did he say he didn’t? He speaks about why and how Set did it in the actual myth. His problem was the presentation. We never see any of the hatred he has. The first scene we see him starts with him showing like he’s in good standing with his family and then immediately turns it around. That would be fine if we actually got to see that hate before that scene. Like no one is questioning why Set wanted to kill his brother like the video literally says he wanted to do it.

I am autistic too!

Me too

@@wolfonthezoon Same as well, I've always had a soft spot for mythology my whole life, I've just not been able to express it well.

Hello me.

Me too I am Autistic.

Stargate SG1 exists. It had better imagery for a show where it was just aliens depicting themselves as gods.

They could have at least executed Ra to the same level of perfection. Ra is pretty well-known, especially after Yu-Gi-Oh, with the Egyptian God Cards.

I feel like the real reason is because Anubis is the only god the director actually liked.

Depends on how big of a Stargate SG-1 fan you are, lol.

Except we were never black. So he’s just as ignorant.

Most Egyptians aren't.

@@jeffreygao3956 It actually depends on which era you look at, but even when there weren't any white people, I'm pretty sure that they weren't black, more brown.

​@@yosefzanerva806Um most black people are actually the color brown are you blind? even darkskin black people are actually brown. Look up Queen Tiye who is clearly black or akenaten who is also clearly black. There are black egyptians today. The nubians around abu simbel they are true indigenous egyptians. The southwen part of egypt is filled wifh black egyptians and southern egypt is where egyptian civilization actually started

Huh the more you know

That sure explains the "have we ever not satisfied you?" line.

@@AzureRoxe ok that *quote* changed the meaning completely

And a even good executive/producers team that understands the writers and provides the funds instead of wanting to making some quick buck.

How is one or two events supposed to make an epic story!? And there was no Civil war , there were stupid competitions between Horus and Set, such as boat racing and the struggle of hippos

@@abobakrhassan2731 so the Olympics but with magic

That's a cool and creative idea No wonder it wasn't in this movie

the webtoon ennead does a good example of this, their headpieces represent the animal they represent, like horus, seth, and anubis

I nearly had an aneurysm when Set said this

Well, Set is a god of, among other things, war, so it kind of makes sense that he wouldn't see it as much of an accomplishment.

@@everlastingdragon4520 Didn't think of that. Interesting take on it.

And to think I enjoyed this movie the first time I saw it

Tied with both Percy Jackson movies

The Externals would like to have a word.

Social Network: Hey!

lmaoooo

@@GojiraTheGoat Part 2: how to hide the body

@@Dinner_likes_DInnerstep one walk up to the body step 2 pick it up step 3 hide it

@danielwright1785 Part 3: How to run away from the cops that found the body

Yea

I’m a egyptian mythology lover too

cmon , the movie wasn't that bad, he's just like that lady in misery

It's one of the only movies that got complete silence during the ride home with my family.

@@unnamedvisitor1649 god of egypt is the worst movie ever

About the as much to make the conclusion that Hades is Satan and Zeus is the best god ever.

@@lowkeyarki7091 when in reality it's somewhat reversed where Hades is the most reasonable God and Zeus is just a dick

@@lowkeyarki7091 Seriously making Zeus a good person is straight fucked up

So I agree though there is a reason I imagine you know. It’s because they are trying to remake that success and bring in money. If they remake failures higher likelihood no one will want to actually look at it.

I fully agree that remakes of bad movies need to happen more often. I remember thinking about a Second Chance Studios to specialize on fixing them, and I had a focus on botched book adaptations.

I don't ever wanna see another Dragon Ball revolution...

why the hell a remake of Gods of Egypt? that movie is relatively recent it wasn't that bad, and you 're just too negative guys. plus go watch videos with list of good remakes

@@daegnaxqelil2733 ...who'd seriously defend Gods of Egypt?

Also RIP Chadwick Bozeman wakanda forever

I read it was supposed to be a Greek accent which is even more perfect for Zeus. Regardless, it makes a lot more sense than a British accent lol.

Ah yes, white elitism

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah Who tHe fk cARes abouT aCTUAL VoIces Of the Gods WHEN YoU Can haVe AnoTher enGLish VoiCe about EgyPtian GODS EnGland IS FANcier AnyWay

@@aquabluerose7734 🤣

He what?

Yeah, like all Gods, but it's not a question of can they do it, it's a question of how do we remember them.All greek gods can also transorm in animals, or take different forms, but we always represent them the same way, because that's how we remember them. Ra without a falcon head is just a regular dude, we have no way to see it's Ra. And the movie knows it, as they decided to represent all gods as taller than humans with that ridiculous effect, to differenciate them ^^' Also, I don't really understand your example, you can pulls a strand out of the eye of Horus and a chunnk of his head, even though he has a falcon head, falcons still have eyes ^^'

@@krankarvolund7771 There is a distinction between the representation of the gods in art and how the Egyptians really imagined the gods. The egyptian gods can be shown in art as different animals, humans and objects. And as various hybrids between man, objects and animals. In the art Ra is mostly represented with a falcon head, but that does not mean that the Egyptians believed Ra IS a god with falcon head. He has the falcon head to embody his position as a sky god. Min is depicted in art with an erected penis because he was a fertility god and not because the Egyptians believed that his member was permanently erect. The goddess Mesechenet is depicted in art as a brick with a head, but the Egyptians did not believe that Mesechenet was a actuall brick with a head. In my example Horus is in a human form and wears the lock of youth (a human hair cut), which gets torn out by Set. Gods were depicted anthropomorphically to embody their characteristics. But the pictorial representation of the gods has nothing to do with how the Egyptians imagined their gods World appear in myths and their real life. If you look at the texts and hymns, the gods are never described with having actuall animal heads. They are described with human body parts and they perform human activities and are able to transform into different animals and objects. And yes in the movie looks like crap, but the gods were described as beeing very tall.

@@kreolado5880 Yeah, but I didn't say that the human-heads was an actual representation of egyptian beliefs, I said that was what modern humans recognize and imagine when we talk about egyptian gods. Mythology evolves all the time, it's normal to adapt it to a modern public, and to a modern public, it would be more interesting to see human-head gods, that's what we expect. Ancient egyptians may believe what they want, it's been two millenias since thier religion is dead ^^

@@krankarvolund7771 But that's one of the main reasons why the movie sucks. You can tell that the film has zero interest in mythology and has not done any in-depth research. They just used stuff that people already know from main stream media without looking at actual source material. If you make a book/film/comic about Egyptian mythology, you should also do research on the mythology and treat it with respect. Egyptian mythology is what the ancient Egyptians believed in, not what foreign people found interesting a thousand years later.

@@krankarvolund7771 "who cares what ancient egyptians believed in." is not the mindset you should have, if you plan on making a movie about the beliefs of ancient egyptians

Technically Horus is the god of the sky. Ra (or Amun, he has many other names besides that) is the god of the sun. And I agree that it would’ve been awesome to see Hathor turn into Sekhmet!

@@katnisskern828 actually hes god of the sky, sun and war (tho, he probably only added sun god to his itinerary once his eyes became the sun and moon). Right? Dont get me wrong, Hathor being tied to the underworld and those scenes of her being dragged to the underworld are cool but it really wouldve been cooler if her charm was keeping her from turning into the bloodthirsty Sekhmet. Hell, imagine Set using Sekhmet as a weapon when Hathor became his hostage/wife, that wouldve been both awesome and tragic

It is a travesty that we didn't see Bast/Bastet come one cats were important to ancient Egypt. Also no Sobek :(

@@BlackLotus30 I would have loved to see Bast and Sobek in this movie! This movie didn't do a good job of how important these deities were. Even if they weren't necessarily important to the telling of the Osiris story, they could still have been put in. And they would've looked so cool if they made them anthropomorphic.

Petition to taser Zeus.

Finally someone remembers this Iconic Cartoon network show

Secret Saturdays is one of my favorite shows of all time and CN couldn’t even be bothered to put it on HBO Max. I remember wanting a Secret Saturdays and Wild Thornberry cross over as a kid

Secret Saturdays is definitely an underrated show, and it was good globe trotting fun that had a lot of different local flavors of adventure.

@@nathangrey6236 who doesn't?

@@vullord666was there one?

Thank you! And yeah, there’s nothing wrong with liking the movie. It’s enjoyable in its own way

Gross

@@TheMythologyGuy1you sound really uneducated & uncultured. You’re just as ignorant as the movie. We were never black and aren’t. Thinking Africa = black is the most smooth brained thing to ever think. So Indians and Syrians aren’t Asians for example? What kind of education system do you guys have? It’s absolutely disgusting that this blackwashing, history/mythology stealing and cultural appropriation continues to this day by Afrocentric African American Nazi-like simpletons and you never call them out just like you call out the whitewashing. Both are trash but you give one a pass. We have scientifically never been black, nor were our ancestors or mythologies.

@@TheMythologyGuy1you need to reply to this now. You’re literally aiding in the erasure of my people. This is a worldwide cancerous epidemic that nobody seems to know or care about and when they do they support racist black supremacist Afrocentrics to seem like they’re “tolerant allies” when in fact they’re doing it at our expense and by supporting the oppression, appropriation, erasure, silence and theft of my people’s history, identity and culture. If it was the other way around all hell would break loose and the world would be in uproar. Absolutely f*ckin disgusting, disgraceful & hypocritical

At least Nzinga is safe from controversy because she was black in real life. Blackwashed Cleopatra VII is offensive to Egyptian people.

LMAO!!! And the director got angry cause they pointed out their BULLSHIT!!!

@@godnyx117 Wait, really?

@@Micah.Lau.navi. I mean, he did talked about it in the beginning of the video.

​@@godnyx117 nice pfp

@@superk9letsplays419 Nice taste brother! ;)

lol yea sekhmet going insane would be soo cool

Because love is universal all being feel it at some point.? Just like Life and Death gods/goddesses are powerful.

@@BlackLotus30 It's a universal lie, lol!

@@godnyx117 Calm down, edgelord. Just because someone recently broke your heart doesn't mean you have to bring down the mood for everyone.

That’s the Power of Love

@@KumaoftheForest Cringe

Laughs in Scottish independence

Let’s pretend that’s not true so I don’t have to face the fact that it’s too late for me to correct that

No it's NOT

Honestly I do wish we got some random northern Irish accents just chucked in whike not british it is in the UK and can be quite unique in the crowd

@@TheMythologyGuy1 That was an error? I thought it was part of the joke! Hollywood casting not knowing anything about the rest of the world :D

I've only grown in respect for Riordan's mythological adaptions to the modern world as I've learned more of the stories he reworked.

The only way how I think Percy Jackson will come back is if they do a TV Series.

@@cameronfield7313 and that's what they do.

I would've added Bastet as one of the lead heroines as Horus's half sister the daughter of Ra the feline goddess of the sun, the moon, fertility/motherhood, perfumes, healing, and protection would've been perfect to be the one who helps Horus and Bek eventually find an understanding since her duties protecting innocent mortals due to protection being one of her aspects has made it to where she genuinely cares about innocent humans meaning after Set took over she has actually been protecting innocent humans from Set's minions with Set getting frustrated at why his minions and monsters can't defeat and kill as he puts it "A pathetic female cat who should be easy to defeat" not realizing due to ego that his niece is one of Ra's chief guardians during his trips to the underworld at night and the one who constantly battles and slays Ra's eternal nemesis Apophis/Apep she and has a scene where she calls Horus out on his selfishness prior to his exile, and his refusal to help protect mortals due to him acting like a pouting brat after being sent to exile basically this scene... Bastet: "And where were you brother when our uncle was harming, and murdering innocent humans, and ruining their lives oh I know doing nothing because you were sulking and pouting like a spoiled brat simply because you're no longer living in the life of luxury and excess getting to act like some vain, glory-seeking prissy chick." Horus: "Calling me a spoiled brat oh that's rich coming from you Bastet since you're the daughter of Ra and here you are lecturing me like you're all high and mighty." Bastet: "Excuse me Horus cause unlike you I wasn't some spoiled, prissy kitten who spent her days with her perfumes focusing only on her looks, and getting a husband day and night I was actually out in the fields healing, and protecting innocent humans from various illnesses, and threats, along with constantly protecting my father from various threats on his life including multiple times Apophis his arch-enemy during his night-time voyages through the underworld." Also Set underestimating Bastet would've been great foreshadowing to how much of a badass fighter she is like if they had Sobek in as a villainous god trying to stop them and we get a scene where Bastet tries to ask Sobek to stand down and let them past and he refuses and does what Set is doing aka underestimating her and proclaiming the water is his turf and as long as he is in the water he's undefeatable Bastet then uses the pyrokinetic half of her power-set to essentially start boiling the water with intent on cooking Sobek alive if he doesn't back down giving him the ultimatum let them pass or become a cooked crocodile his call and he relents knowing what would happen if he didn't let them pass, and during the final fight against Set Bastet does damage to her wicked uncle using her whole arsenal and abilities aka using her feline speed, and agility to do damage to Set rapid rate via her claws, and twin daggers, using smoke bombs made out of various perfume recipes to disorient Set and weaken him with other conditions, and just frying him, and freezing him with her pyrokinetic powers and cryokinetic powers even mixing the two for some fire/ice combinations.

Wouldn't it make sense to only recast half the Egyptian gods with black actors as only half of the Egyptian gods where Black and native Egyptians where and still are Black and or white and half the Egyptian god where described as being "wheat skinned"

​@@dylanadkins-wk6mlseems you don't get it,they are in the camp of people who believe "Egypt is in Africa so they wwre black so black people should have been casted not actual north Africans or middle eastern" note:they were actual black Egyptians

Funny you say that cause I made a series that was inspired by them

No argument there

@@TheMythologyGuy1 honestly not a massive achievement

Personally, I don't consider stories from the Bible mythology. I'm one of those people who believes that they all actually happened, whereas a myth is something that we know did not happen.

@@legoking6165 Technically, mythology can also mean a collection of stories. And stories can be true. So, it isn't inherently calling Christian history false or anything like that. People definitely do use it that way at times though.

@@sirnetflix7162 so by that logic prince of egypt is the abest mythology movie Edit: from my point of view

There isn't really much about Egyptian mythology in this video. It's more just a scathing movie review.

@@Resimaster Well true in some part I still think this is a great review.

@@josephmaller592 yeah, but it's not really meant to be a movie review. People watch this guy to learn about accuracies with the source material, not just to see a critique of the film.

@@Resimaster either way I do really like this video.