10 Things I hate About the Ten Commandments

It’s the Bank Holiday in the UK and they usually show big old blockbusters on TV. I found this hilarious parody of those old 1950s biblical epics starring Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and a cast of thousands.

This mock trailer is not making fun of the Christian religion but rather the old epic films about Moses etc. It’s also a satiricial take on how we are conditioned to certain genres in movies eg you would expect a grand sweeping epic to have solemn grand music and profound dialogue. In this case, the grand epic footage is cut together in the trailer as if for a teen movie like American Pie or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and they’ve used only the shallowest bits of the dialogue.

A note of caution: the "f" word is used right at the very end.

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