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BIBLICAL PIX ~ Which do you enjoy?  Which don't you?  

KING OF KINGS (1961 ~ aka I WAS A TEENAGE JESUS) was always a major treat to watch around Easter time.  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFh5k0ffl9k&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHdBFK3qi0c  

Here's a peek at THE SILVER CHALICE (1954) which is a must-see not for the fact that it's PAUL NEWMAN's first film-but because it's so bad, it's good... stagey, forced, bizarre junk, this clip is the highlight of the film, JACK PALANCE, wearing Riddler tights, "flies"...  :wink: :bluesad: :bouncegiggle: :twirl:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_bPowYHnfE&feature=related  

These segments are long, but it's the very end when PAUL NEWMAN is leaving on the boat... and Peter or whoever he is gives him "The Speech" which booms across the water... starting about 5:45 minutes into the clip...  :lookingup:  "...the little cup will look very lonely..."   :hatred:   :bouncegiggle:  :twirl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d8XZMfRUC0&feature=related  

AHD, I like KING OF KINGS, too ... but I still get a kick out of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.  It's so very long and so very Hollywood! :teddyr:

I dont care for them at all.  I put them in the same boring category as any sword and sandal flick that doesn't have any monsters.

I'm a big fan of George Stevens' THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, possibly the most outrageous of the 60's biblical epics. What makes it particularly fun to watch is spotting all the celebrities in leading and cameo roles, including:

Max von Sydow ...  Jesus
Carroll Baker ...  Veronica
Victor Buono ...  Sorak
José Ferrer ...  Herod Antipas
Van Heflin ...  Bar Amand
Charlton Heston ...  John the Baptist
Martin Landau ...  Caiaphas
Angela Lansbury ...  Claudia
Pat Boone ...  Angel at the Tomb
David McCallum ...  Judas Iscariot
Roddy McDowall ...  Matthew
Dorothy McGuire ...  The Virgin Mary
Sal Mineo ...  Uriah
Nehemiah Persoff ...  Shemiah
Donald Pleasence ...  The Dark Hermit - Satan
Sidney Poitier ...  Simon of Cyrene
Claude Rains ...  King Herod
Telly Savalas ...  Pontius Pilate
Shelley Winters ...  Woman who is healed
Ed Wynn ...  Old Aram
Robert Blake ...  Simon the Zealot
John Considine ...  John
Jamie Farr ...  Thaddaeus
David Hedison ...  Philip
Russell Johnson ...  Scribe
Mark Lenard ...  Balthazar
Robert Loggia ...  Joseph

And best of all:
John Wayne ...  Centurion at crucifixion

There are somethings you are missing...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdX_WyOtCOk  

JOHN WAYNE: "He truly is... the son of God."    :lookingup:  I was saying that line to myself today, adding, "li'l sister" or "pilgrim"!!   :bouncegiggle: Seriously.  
SHELLEY WINTERS says: "I'm cured...?  I'm cured...!!"  (...and I always think to myself, "No, you're not; you're still SHELLEY WINTERS...")
And that one has the great MAX moment: "Lazarus...? Lazarus!  Come forth...!!"    
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ws7GFobxNM

I saw most of the older ones when I was a kid; the only one of them I still like is THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.  I loved the novel "The Robe" and enjoyed the movie as a kid, but when I re-watched it a few years ago, it was so over-acted and cheesy that I just couldn't enjoy it.

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST was a bloody (in the literal sense of the word) masterpiece.  I cried for an hour after the first time I watched it.

I also loved PRINCE OF EGYPT.  The music is thrilling, especially in the confrontation between Moses and Pharaoh.

A very interesting Jesus movie that I have reviewed on here somewhere is THE PERFECT STRANGER.  (NOT the Bruce Willis movie by that title!!!)  It imagines how a dinner conversation between a modern agnostic and the real Jesus of Nazareth might go.  It is very conventionally Christian in its perspective, but she does ask some pretty tough questions.

I  like this as an Easter topic!

I do like the Ten Commandments as well.  I'm not sure if I've seen the whole movie, but I also recall thinking the Prince of Egypts was pretty good.

This is a subject fraught with peril.

I thought The Passion of the Christ was a very poor retelling of the passion play.

I am not these days Christian at all, but I grew up in the church, so I hope you don't discount my observations.

The story of the passion of Christ is a very powerful one. I thought Gibson's movie focused on the torture to the exclusivity of all else. I know that's an important piece of the story, I just don't think that movie did it well. I found his film sensationalistic.

The movie I am going to defend is Scorcese's "Last Temptation of Christ." There's a big blast of heresy right in the middle of that film, but it was heartfully meant by somebody trying to explore their faith. When Jesus proclaims at the end "It is accomplished!" I thought I was in the hands of somebody who was honestly trying to explore the true meanings of their belief.

I did not get that with Gibson's Passion. In comparison, it was crass.

James Collier's JONI (based on the life of artist / singer / writer / activist Joni Eareckson-Tada ) has always been a great inspirationak film to me.  :smile:

Jesus Christ vampire hunter.

I have loved Ben Hur - if that qualifies? - since I was small.  It is a very emotional attachment - I do not expect to be able to explain it.  And The Ten Commandments.  As Silverlady said: so very Hollywood.  The whole 'spectacle' atmosphere really suits.

Not my favorite genre, but gotta give it up for de Mille's SIGN OF THE CROSS, an exploitation movie masquerading as a morally uplifting Christian film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS5-0TJ2dJA

Luis Bunuel's THE MILKY WAY... a great, strange "biblical" pic from a devoted atheist!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAn2DMkIEHg&feature=related

About Gibson's Passion film, I know Satanists and Christians alike who love that film.  I watched it with my mom last Easter and I thought that it was... okay.  Really, I wasn't disturbed by it, and, at least then, I considered myself a Christian.  I guess it could be good as a teaching tool, and maybe a scare tactic by some churches.

Mofo, is Last Temptation of the Christ worth it to watch?  I'm sorta curious to see it...

I wonder if you don't underrate THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, but I wouldn't know... I haven't seen it!!  :teddyr:  :wink: Nor do I care to.  As for MARTIN SCORSESE's THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988) yes, well worth a watch.  It gets a bit perplexing, but nonetheless engrossing, and the ending brings the point of the book, the movie, and the eternal relevance of Christ the man into perspective.   :thumbup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d8XZMfRUC0&feature=related  
PAUL NEWMAN's last line: "If only I'd been able to restore the cup to you..."  
ST. PETER's response: "It will be restored, but for years, and for 100s of years, it will lie [sic] in darkness...where I know not...when it is brought out into the light again there will be great cities...and mighty bridges, and towers higher than the tower of Baybel... it will be a world of evil... " zzzzzzzzzzzz
 :bouncegiggle:  :thumbup:  :bouncegiggle:  I have to tell you Badmovie lovers that THE SILVER CHALICE is a Mashterpiesche!! 

The one I've watched and enjoyed the most was The Ten Commandments but I also enjoyed The Greatest Story Ever Told quite a bit too. I liked on some level Sodom and Gomorrah (1962) and Abraham (1994) but think they are lesser films than many others mentioned here.

Watched much of KING OF KINGS (1961) tonight.   :thumbup:

Continuing with Peter's soliloquy from THE SILVER CHALICE:
"...and long, bitter wars... in such a world as that, the little cup will look very lonely.  But it may be, in that age, when Man holds lightening in his hands, and rides the sky as Simon the Magician strove to do, it will be needed more than it is needed now..."  :lookingup:  :drink: Happy Easter, Jeaster Crisis. 

I thought Ben-Hur was great  :thumbup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SOT0ofuscU

Yes that one  :smile: I haven't seen the older one

I thought it was great. It does take a different approach, and is quite eerie at times.

The soundtrack by Peter Gabriel is pretty classic, too.

There's trouble a'brewin' for SAMSON & (that tramp)DELILAH!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoCP9A-gLMo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnS31gOS2Nw&NR=1

And the BEST PART:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtoOsoqPC-M&feature=related

The Ten Commandments
Samson and Delilah
Ben Hur

xoxo

The Passion of the Christ is part is a well-made film, but it is part torture porn.

I saw The Last Temptation of Christ on opening night in Hollywood, standing for 45 minutes in line next to Warren Zevon while Christian groups and counter groups yelled at each other and performance artists did some rather bizarre and offensive displays. Fun times.

BARABBAS is a very interesting low-budget Italian production that yielded yet another unusual and challenging film..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44PEy7rtGlg

At the moment, these newer youtubes are working, but most of the old ones are dead ends.  

I like BIBLICAL movies at this time of year.  


I WAS A TEENAGE JESUS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t9i4qowU7o

Now, this film is looked at a bit more closely because NICHOLAS RAY directed.  I always liked it.  


Oh! Enjoy, while ye may, clips from THE SILVER CHALICE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dHzAn1vhl0
"He didn't fly."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYwsWzgGfTQ
 :lookingup:

You guys should know this movie, PAUL NEWMAN's debut, and the most wondrous biblical crap Hollywood ever made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAaRyWgStGg&feature=related

I liked The Passion Of The Christ a lot more than I expected mainly because I'm not the most religoius person in the world, but I thought it was well done. I could understand the "torture porn" comment though.

Great soundtrack on King Of Kings.

There's a lot to like about KING OF KINGS (1961)

It was banned for quite a few years in SA and when I finally saw it, I asked myself why it was banned.  :question:

My favorite religious themed film is James Collier's Joni with Joni Eareckson-Tada. Even someone who has no beliefs would be inspired by that film. :smile:

It was banned because it showed Christ having a  family. also, it was written by a Greek Communist who hated the Church. Still, A ban is better than what happened  to that cartoonist or others who even try to depict Mohammad in a movie, they end up dead.

Just a reminder to any TEN COMMANDMENTS fans.
It's on ABC this Saturday (April 7). :smile:

that movie the message is good though.

Ben-Hur (1959) is an amazing movie, simply fantastic

Which movie?

I'm going to throw The Judas Project into the mix.  It puts the story of Jesus into modern times (circa 1990).  It is just bad but I can't help but enjoy it.

I also enjoy the rapture based movies, the apocalypse series (apocalypse, revelation, tribulation and judgment) and the left behind series.

I love PRINCE OF EGYPT and BEN-HUR. 
There was a made-for-tv movie, simply called JESUS I think, came out about 10 years ago and starred Jeremy Sisto, that was pretty good.  Oddly, I haven't watched that many Biblical movies, despite having had a fairly conservative Christian upbringing.
It's been a while since I've seen it but I remember kind of hating THE 10 COMMANDMENTS, mostly because we had to watch it on ABC every single Easter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huQAExSl5os
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlzfqVtmxVA  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx4BnJ9YQoI&feature=related