| On Nov 21, 10:23 am, moviePig wrote: Quote:On Nov 21, 10:13 am, Calvin wrote: On Nov 21, 9:58 am, moviePig wrote: On Nov 21, 12:02 am, Calvin wrote: On Nov 20, 11:37 pm, moviePig wrote: Ideally, yeah. But I remember sitting in an original Roadshow audience when BEN-HUR's beatific finale bled-out an otherwise cool-ass movie (I was young but not yet anti-religious), and, only my horror kept me from coining the phrase "Gag me with a spoon"... And you actually think those words make you look cool? They make you look like a leper. 'Cool'? Hadn't thought about it. I was trying more for 'candid' and 'interesting' (...even at the cost of 'old'). But, while we're speaking of words, don't confuse 'different from you' with 'leprous'... Not 'different from me', different from the millions of people who appreciated Ben-Hur to the fullest, from beginning to end, and who would never think of disrespecting it with such a low phrase a 'gag me with a spoon.' Aha. I didn't realize BEN-HUR was a liturgy rather than a movie. Regardless, the reaction I described was that of a young person... whose reactions are, whatever else, notoriously uncensored... Nobody's advocating censorship here. Objecting to what someone says is far different from advocating censorship. As I've quoted before, "though I may abhor what you say, I will defend to the death your right to say it." Your cult of youth seems to extend even your own youth. I was 19 and in college when I first saw the movie, also in a roadshow presentation (thanks to the locarion of the university). Probably you were a few years younger, if you thought it was a 'cool ass' movie. If so, one might expect you to have been bored with most of the movie, except for the naval battle and the chariot race. I hardly think the review of such a callow teenager or pre-teen need be taken as a serious yardstick for appreciation of this classic movie. |