Posted on 08/20/2016 2:47:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
This crowd would think I'd gone Nation of Islam.
I won’t watch any movie which has the racist Morgan Freeman in the cast.
Yes. The slave ship scene was amazing, and no one mentions it. Sheesh.
And we didn’t even notice the “shaky cam” in the Judah/Esther scene, so it wasn’t a distraction.
Glad he gave it a 4 !
The only scenes shipwrecks that had to do with Odysseus
Lew, a Hoosier boy. And Union Major General, and New Mexico Territory Governor.
Saw it last night on 3D and it was excellent. I would give it 5 stars and liked it better than the original. The actor who played Jesus brought out the part much like the Passion.
Pray America wakes
Lew made the keenest observation ever on New Mexico, and it still applies today...
“Every calculation based on experience elsewhere fails in New Mexico.”
Me too. ME TOO!
I have seen both the 1959 and the 2016 version. I agree with the reviewer, about the Massala character in the latest version, very weak. After many years in the Roman army, he returns home as just the same guy who seemed to not have learned anything from traveling throughout the world.
I think evil characters are stronger in movies where they can articulate their reasons for what they are doing. Massala (1959) was very clear why he did what he did to Ben-Hur. You don’t have to agree with him, but at least you could see his point. And even after losing the race, he stuck it to Ben-Hur one last time, telling him his mother and sister were lepers. There was no reconciliation.
The ‘59 version won 11 Academy Awards. Hard to top that.
Guess they didn’t have any gay scenes so that Hollyweird folks would fawn all over it saying how great the film is.
Assuming by “original” you meant the 1959 version, what was so hard to follow?
Hahahahaha! I hate Hollywood. So damned stupid.
I remember as a boy in the 1950s my Grandmother, who was in her 60s at the time, saying that Valentino and Francis X. Bushman were her favorite movie stars. She died in 1961 at age 73.
it is fortunate Hollywood folks tend not to be very scholastic, or they’d already have done 10 homosexual-themed movies based on the “Secret Gospel of Mark”
The Bushman side of the family was interesting, some of them inhabited the Bushman farm at Gettysburg. Sadie Bushman at the age of 9 kept sneaking out and helping at the field hospitals after the battle, earning he the title of the youngest nurse of the Civil War.
That's like saying Reagan was a pretty good POTUS...
The 1957 Ben-Hur was one of the greatest films ever made...
No less than top ten...
I haven’t seen the movie yet, could you elaborate on what satanic lies you saw in the latest version of Ben-Hur?
Okay. What’s the context?
How cool! I always thought he had the greatest name.
They should have made this an all-girl film to, and called it Ben-Her.
-PJ
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