But who cares? What is a classic other than someone's idea of what a classic is. Good acting it is not, but I would rather watch it than THE WILD ONE which is alleged to have good acting (from roughly the same period, I can name a hundred other examples if you wish!)
K. On Jun 28, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Franc wrote: > 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 >> our 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.
