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I'm not even religious, I just want to know.

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[โ€“] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Ten Commandments was good for it's Era. The original Ben Hur as well. These days conservative targeting films pander too hard and general audiences don't like them.

[โ€“] famousblueben@lemmy.film 10 points 1 year ago

Was coming here to basically say this, that religious epics were once a source of great filmmaking in classic Hollywood.