I love this movie because I grew up watching it every year as a kid. The story is okay, but it's the visual feast that I love about this movie. Those sets! Those costumes! That jewelry! Those crowds!
This is an epic, all right. It is so gorgeous to watch. They don't make 'em like this anymore.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
It really is visually stunning
shareIt looks fantastic in HD. Good movie too.
shareThis is exactly why I keep re-watching this movie. (Well, that and Heston and Bryner without shirts on.)
I find the acting in this stilted and somewhat pompous, but I think that was a deliberate choice on De Mille's part, as being appropriate to the subject matter. The storyline is a strictly traditional, middle-of-the-road dramatization, meant to attract and satisfy the largest audience it could.
But I just LOVE the great scenes - too many to list here! I'd pay money to see it on the big screen again.
BTW, I think the movie could be sub-titled "Moses, Moses" because they never say Moses's name just once - it's always twice. (And before any of you go back and start counting, this is hyperbole.)
BTW, I think the movie could be subtitled "Moses, Moses" because they never say Moses's name just once - it's always twice.
Yeah, I'd love to see this, Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia on the big screen in a triple bill. I'd be there the entire day, of course, but that wouldn't be so bad.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.