Watched the remake of Ben - Hur last night.
Was OK. The chariot race was good.
I really donât know whether I want to watch that. Iâve been reading recently about that particular period of English history, and while the 3 principal women did exist, and there was a power struggle between Lady Sarah Hill and Abigail Hill (Masham), the film is otherwise complete fiction. Maybe itâs not in the same league as Abraham Lincoln Vampire Slayer, but Iâm not sure that I could put my outrage on hold for long enough to enjoy it on its own terms.
The language is pretty colourful. I wonder if they dropped four letter worlds so frequently. (royals)
Costumes are great though.
Meh, Tobey Maguire was not a good Peter Parker, and most of the fights reminded me of Power Ranger episodes.
And having Willem Defoe as the Green Goblin was good, but for someone with the most expressive face in film, hey lets cover his face up!
Just pretty average, 2 was better 1
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And someone gets it!!
agree totally!
I thought it was so - so. Inevitably it will always suffer in comparison to the Heston/Wyler epic. That film had two classic scenes, one in each half, the mighty sea battle and the chariot race. In this version you certainly get a better idea of life on the galleys, you can almost smell the salt spray in the creaking hold, but then they short change. In the Wyler version you get a greater sense of impending doom as you can see a pirate ship about to ram, and watch the panic building.
The chariot race in this new version was WOTT. The Heston original was the real thing. Heston did his own stunt work and broke his arm filming this scene. This new version took the end of the rave to a ridiculous extreme, trying to top the original. A plain case of more is less, an exercise in excess.
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Yep the sea battle was done very well. Gave a sense of how terrifying it would have been.
Thanks for the info re Heston, I wasnât aware he did his own stunt work.
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Olivia Colman got Best Actress Comedy, AND dropped the f-bomb in her acceptance speech.
There is a great line in the movie she delivers about Emma Stoneâs character and where she likes her tongue.
Bohemian Rhapsody gets the best picture and actor. yay to them
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That stuff really gives me the sh!ts. Like De Niro saying Fark Donald Trump at some ceremony. They think theyâre being so smart. And they duly get their shocked audience reaction.
Pathetic stunt. I would have expected better of Olivia Colman. Sheâs a great actress and doesnât need to pull that sort of stuff.
Iâm not sure she was making a point. It seemed to slip out in normal speech.
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Shelton doesnât seem to realise that âbeing a great actressâ means you actually need to have a soul, ⌠and that in so having inherently means youâre compelled to speak out against evil racist misogynist sexual assaulting criminal Nazi prickz.
Weird.
You mean to say that you donât say es haitch (exclamation mark) tee?
I watched the first one. I thought it was well produced, directed, and passably acted, but ultimately awful.
Someone had talked it up to me and I hadnât realised it was written for 12 year olds. To me, it shows.
Assuming thatâs so, just how do you get from there to using what Noonan calls the F bomb? Are you saying itâs impossible for an intelligent, articulate woman to make a statement with passion and not use it?
I think youâre seriously underrating her if you are.
Got attention didnât it? Youâre right, ⌠she is intelligent, ⌠mission accomplished.
I think itâs you thatâs doing the underrating.
Actors or actresses who speak out for a political cause (usually against a particular politician) donât realise theyâre being completely counterproductive.
What the heck is going on here?
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