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No, you're not the only one who didn't like it. It wasn't even that it was way too Hollywood, for me, because I kind of like the old-school stuff. Anne Baxter and Yvonne de Carlo and Yul Brynner really make the movie, for me. But Charlton Heston can't act, and since he's the focus of the movie, he sort of ruins it for me.

Charlton Heston's performance was what would be considered today, overblown, but he was Moses for goodness sakes. You want him to be Superman.

Also, the entire cast was magnificent, Heston, Brenner, Robinson, Baxter, Carlo. Anyone who was important was IN that movie.

It didn't win best picture, but it was nominated. It lost to "Around the World in 80 Days."

It only won one Oscar, best Special Effects, and Brenner already got the Oscar for "The King and I" and an Actor can't be nominated for the same award for two different movies.

I liked the 10 Commandments simply because of the Epic Scale of the entire movie.

It was made well before the day of CGI, No blue screens. You wanted a marble floor, for the pharaoh's audience chamber you put in a marble floor. The scale was huge, it was a big movie and an instant classic.

So lacking subtle digital film tricks, camera techniques, or any black actors, for 1956, it's a great friggin movie.

That... and it was a remake. Cecil B. Demille did the same movie, with the same title in 1923.