I used to love the Ten Commandments as a kid and even today I take a certain amount of pleasure in it but a classic it is not. It's really high camp in some spots, the dialogue and the level of the acting (apart from Heston and Brynner) is not to be believed. Consider the discovery of Moses in the basket for instance. You can't watch it without howling! FRANC
-----Original Message----- From: Kirby McDaniel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 2:58 PM To: Franc Cc: [email protected] Subject: De Mille My respect for DeMille has increased since I have been reading Scott Eyman's great bio, EMPIRE OF DREAMS. DeMille gets too little credit, I think. As far THE TEN COMMANDMENTS goes, how can anyone not like it! Moses, Moses! 1.Thou shalt not watch too many Lubitsch movies 2. Thou shalt not watch THE HANGOVER and that kind of tripe more than once 3. Thou shalt buy only Criterion DVDs. 4. Thou shalt get thy ass a Blu-Ray player 5. Thou shalt hook up thy Netflix streaming 6. Thy Queen Cleopatra is a Taylor-made Queen; thou shalt have no other Queens before me. 7. Honor 70mm to keep it Holy. 8. Thou shalt collect movie posters 9. Thou shalt buy them from MovieArt 10. Thou shalt slag others and their snotty opinions when they trample on thy Sacred Cows like STAR WARS and that shit. So let it be written. So let it be DONE. Kirby McDaniel www.movieart.net On Jun 28, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Franc wrote: When I was in college, Mae West and W.C. Fields and The Marx Broethers had a revival among students my age. I remember seeing some of these movies for the first time at revival houses and loved them. Seeing some of these now (not all), I realize that they certainly have their moments but are hardly classic and some are not even good films. I feel that way also about Cecil B. DeMille's second version of The Ten Commandments which I probably saw about five times when I was ten. On the other hand, everytime I re-watch Sunset Boulevard, Citizen Kane or Wizard Of Oz, they get better and better. FRANC -----Original Message----- From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Hershenson Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 8:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MOPO] A possible conversation starter MoPo has been quiet of late, so I thought I would ask a question that has been on my mind of late, as I have been re-watching some classic and not so classic movies. I find some of them are about as great as I remembered them, but others seem to have changed drastically (or maybe it is I who have changed) because some are barely watchable at all! So my question is, are there movies you once thought classic that you later re-watched and found they are not nearly as good as you had once thought? -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site <http://www.emovieposter.com/> our <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html> auctions Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
