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Exodus: Gods and Kings (A Movie Review)

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***This review will contain SPOILERS ...you have been warned lol*** Now, before I get started, I would like to preface this blog with this - this review is my own personal opinion. I am in no way a professional film critique. Please don't take it as more than what it is. Exodus: Gods and Kings Directed By: Scott Ridley Rating: PG-13 Run Time: 2 hours and 30 minutes Genre: Action|Adventure|Drama Tag line: Once Brothers, Now Enemies. Plot Summary: The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses,  setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape and its terrifying cycle of plagues. (As found on IMDB.com) Overall I would rate this movie a B-/C.  It is probably not a movie I would pay to go see, or see more than once. While it wasn't a horrible disaster, it wasn't a great movie either. It is very graphic so if you don't do well with that sort of stuff I would suggest steering clear. There are several scenes of brutal family hangings,

Tis The Season....For An Adventure Of Epic Proportions

Alright everyone this post is going to be a long one, but I encourage you to read through to the end. Consider this making up for the long spans f nothing when I fail at updating. Here goes... So recently I have been seeing so many of my friends making healthier choices in their lives, and I am so excited for them! Keep it up guys! They are the inspiration for this small glimpse into my own journey. I decided January 1, 2014 to give up all processed sugars from my diet for a month. This wasn't sparked by anything I did or realized. A bunch of people I work with approached me about it saying they were all going in together to try it for the month of January.  I figured okay why not it's just one month. Looking back I see myself a lot like Frodo who had been told he only had to get the ring to Bree, and then he could return to his life in the Shire as though nothing had happened. I didn't realize it then, but there was no way the life I had before would ever return to wh