EASTER MOVIES !!

[Raffine]

Raffine - I dvred that. watching it later. gospel road.

Little know fact: Jesus was a 6'4" 200 lb blond Swede.

[WilliamWeird1313]

[Silverlady]

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST.

Still the most overwhelming big screen movie experience of my adult life.
I've never wept so hard at a movie.

I have tried, but I just can't get through this one. Too painful on all levels.

[indianasmith]

I watched it twice in the theater, and got the DVD for Christmas that year.  Have never put it in the machine.  Someday . . .

[Allhallowsday]

Raffine - I dvred that. watching it later. gospel road.

Little know fact: Jesus was a 6'4" 200 lb blond Swede.

I guess you saw this was coming on this afternoon... I just turned on TCM and right at the best part of THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD (where Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead.)  Goosebumps!  Witnesses: DAVID McCALLUM, SAL MINEO, ED WYNN, TONY BILL... and of course VAN HEFLIN who gets to run around exclaiming!!     Great stuff.  'Course at the crucifixion, we have JOHN WAYNE as a Roman soldier stating all DUKE-like and sing-song: 
"He truly is.  The son of God." 

The best is SHELLEY WINTERS, who as one of the afflicted, hurls herself at MAX VON SYDOW, bounces off, pauses and says quietly: "I'm cured..."  And then shrieks: "I'm CURED!!"  (Cured?  I always say to myself, "No you're not, you're still Shelley Winters...")

[indianasmith]

I wonder if the scene would be more credible if she was portrayed by Shirley McLaine.

[Allhallowsday]

I wonder if the scene would be more credible if she was portrayed by Shirley McLaine.

You misspelled her Mac-name, but, that's funny though...    

She's not in it, but just musing, and cheese and crackers: VICTOR BUONO, JOSE FERRER, TELLY SAVALAS, MARTIN LANDAU, DONALD PLEASANCE, JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT!!!  A character actor dart board!!  RODDY McDOWALL!  RICHARD CONTE!!

Now, I'm looking on IMDB and I can't believe it!!!    PAT BOONE?    SIDNEY POITIER... I've looked at it, but mostly in pieces and many many years since the first time... (getting back to hammy...)  Now, I can appreciate all them character actors in one movie!!  But, I missed most of it. 

[crackers]

WOW!!! i'm gonna watch those now. Amazing tag lines.

[Flick James]

It would have been interesting to see The Passion of the Christ without the subtitles as Mel Gibson originally intended. I thought it was a very well made film, although I am not a Christian. My only criticism was that it seemed to dwell almost obssessively with torture and brutality. I can only take so much of that.

[Hammock Rider]

I always try to watch the Ten Commandments and The Robe. 10C is a huge, fun spectacle with some of the best hammy performances and great/bad dialog in any film.

When I was a kid the scenes in The Robe when Richard Burton was having his "spells" used to give me the creeps. I have to give mad respect to Jay Robinson who knew how to play a great madman. He was fantastic as Caligula in The Robe, just Sneering, Slithering,  Evil personified. (And he was pretty good as Dr. Shrinker too.)

 The final scene still gives me goosebumps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZmMQFrysTU

[indianasmith]

I loved THE ROBE when I was younger.  I tried to show it to my class at school a few years ago, and I found the 1950's style of overacting fell absolutely flat with them.  It was kind of sad, really.  BTW, if you liked the movie, read the book by Lloyd C. Douglas.  It is awesome!  He also wrote a biographical novel about Simon Peter called THE BIG FISHERMAN that was excellent.

[retrorussell]

THE BEING (1983) might qualify.. its original title was EASTER SUNDAY.

[Killer Bees]

They showed 10 Commandments the other day.  It was one of my late grandad's fave movies.  I must say I have rather a soft spot for it myself, even though it's unbelieveably cheesy viewing these days 

[Trevor]

The South African television station eTV was screening The Da Vinci Code over Easter: not a really appropriate film to screen then, I think.

[Bushma]

I'm glad I found this thread before I started a new one. I'd like to add Critters 2 to the list of Easter films.