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ben hur..... the remake........ (a movie review)...
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ben hur..... the remake........ (a movie review)...
aleshanee > 08-23-2016, 02:24 AM
how do you remake a classic like 1959s ben-hur?... .. why would someone even try?...... i went to see the movie
this morning..... and.... well .... i am still wondering what the answer to those questions could be.....
(2016 version of pat 2 of the chariot race below .. )...
not one aspect of this movie ..except maybe the galley sea battle scene....even came close to living up to the original...
...much less surpassing it, which is what i am sure the producers hoped for...... and even the galley battle scene while
being visually more stunning than the 1959 version.. thanks to cg technology... failed to deliver the dramatic impact that
the older film even with less technology available, brought to the screen.......
i must admit .... even though i went there not expecting the movie to be anywhere near as good as the 1959 version.....
i nonetheless went there hoping to be pleasantly surprised... even hoping they might just pull it off.... ... i was not only
not surprised... . .... i left the theater so traumatized over the song they played at the end..... which did not in any way
fit this movie at all....... that i am not even wishing i had waited for the dvd...
.... i am wishing i had ignored this movie altogether.......
.. .....oh well........ at least i have the charlton heston version on dvd and can watch it tonight to get the images of this atrocious
remake out of my mind........
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RE: ben hur..... the remake........ (a movie review)...
The Rogue Tomato > 08-23-2016, 12:56 PM
I read some reviews, and now that I've read yours, I'm not even sure I'll rent it or watch it on Netflix. The consensus is pretty much just what you said. -
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praise_yeshua > 08-23-2016, 01:48 PM
I've heard it was terrible. I can tell you from the scenes I've seen, I'm not interested in seeing it myself. Some of it has to do with character selection.
Thanks for the review!! -
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Vincent Massi > 08-23-2016, 11:12 PM
My wife is dragging me out to see it.
Decades ago, I actually read the book. The chariot race was dynamite! -
RE: ben hur..... the remake........ (a movie review)...
DeepSix > 08-24-2016, 12:42 AM
In all fairness the movie does have a few redeeming moments,
After we saw it I was thinking that if I had never seen the 1959 version, and had never read the book, Or if I had no idea what Jerusalem was supposed to look like, and had never seen a movie made with first rate actors... I might have come away thinking it wasn't a terrible movie,
I wouldn't call it good by any means. And I agree with Aleshanee - that song at the end just before the credits rolled, did this movie no favors at all. It actually destroyed whatever chance the audience had to walk away feeling like they had at least seen a noble effort to remake Ben-Hur, if not something they could take away good memories of.
Maybe the producers at Paramount were encouraged by the success the Cohen Brothers had remaking True Grit, against the odds, - and somehow thought they could do the same? I don't know. But judging from how it is doing at the box office I bet they will be asking themselves why they attempted this too... for a long time to come. -
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praise_yeshua > 08-24-2016, 02:05 PM
I've tried to like Toby Kebbell but I just can't seem to like him as an actor.
The movies just doesn't have anyone acting that makes me want to go see the movie. I do like Morgan Freeman but that about it.... -
RE: ben hur..... the remake........ (a movie review)...
aleshanee > 08-25-2016, 04:31 AM
(08-24-2016, 02:05 PM)praise_yeshua Wrote: I've tried to like Toby Kebbell but I just can't seem to like him as an actor.
The movies just doesn't have anyone acting that makes me want to go see the movie. I do like Morgan Freeman but that about it....
morgan freeman is a good actor.... and he has a voice that commands attention whether he is speaking lines or even narrating a movie ...like he does a couple of time in this one......... but even the driver of miss daisy could;t save this movie....at least no in my opinion... ..... the chariot race in the 1959 version has always been known as the greatest 10 minutes of movie making history...... .. and the chariot race in the new version is actually more violent... mostly thanks to cg technology...... but it;s a gratuitous violence with nothing behind it....... just blood and bodies getting crunched for the sake of seeing blood and crunched bodies.....
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i hate to say things that make people not want to see it at all.... for all i know someone else might actually like it or see some merit in it that we missed...... but for me the best part of watching this movie was the popcorn with mochi crunch and a barqs root beer.....
and by the way.... i don;t know how others feel..... but extreme facial closeups in movies just don;t do it for me.... . in fact even moderate close ups on people faces in a movie turn me off... ... i go to moives to enjoy the images i see on the screen..... ...staring up an actors nostrils or being so close to their face you can almost imagine smelling their bad breath has made me walk out of a few movies before.... . didn;t walk out of this one... ..but can;t say i enjoyed it all either......
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RE: ben hur..... the remake........ (a movie review)...
aleshanee > 08-27-2016, 04:48 AM
compare this footage from 1959 shot of the 2 actors actually driving real chariots with the one in the op of the
2 actors surrounded by cg technology.... and there is no comparison..... the real thing is always better than the
digital make believe..... ...or at least it is in my opinion...... ......the 1959 ben hur still reigns as the king of movies.......
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RE: ben hur..... the remake........ (a movie review)...
Vincent Massi > 08-27-2016, 03:57 PM
My wifey-poo went with friends to see it. They all agreed that the 1957 version is better. -
RE: ben hur..... the remake........ (a movie review)...
aleshanee > 08-30-2016, 12:14 AM
even the gif animations of the 1959 ben-hur are more exciting than
anything in the new movie.....
(theatrical trailer of the 1959 version below.....)..
i wish they would bring this back to the big screen one more time....
...it would be awesome...... i would go see it every day until i ran out of
movie and popcorn money.....