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by TerranEmpire  - Top 1000, Nov 17 '00
Pros: One of the Best Movies Ever Made!
Cons: None - this movie has it all!
REVIEW: BEN-HUR
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I can sum up this movie in one word - FANTASTIC! I have watched this movie several times over the past 20 years and I see something new or realize something different about the movie each time. I would...
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by Lonster99 , Jan 13 '00
Pros: Everything
Cons: slightly long
Simply the Best motion picture in modern dramatic film making. Winner of 11 Academy Awards, it is still as impressive today as it was in 1959. Even if you are not a fan of films with a religious overtone, this film combines all the elements necessary...
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by nathantyree - Top 1000, Apr 25 '01
Pros: Great acting, great direction, great music
Cons: religious propoganda
General Lew Wallace's novel Ben-Hur: a Tale of the Christ was first filmed in 1907 as a silent short. In 1925 in was made into a full-length silent feature, the most expensive movie made up to that point.
In 1959 William Wyler (The...
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by dolphinboy , Apr 08 '08
Pros: Almost everything. See review.
Cons: Long, to some. Gruesome at times.
This 1959 epic film is the third film version of Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. It won eleven Academy Awards, an achievement that has not yet been surpassed, and has been equaled but twice: Titanic and ...
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by Tharp , Jan 16 '00
Pros: Fantastic acting, excellent plot
Cons: none
This has got to be one of the best movies ever made!
Of course about anything with Charlton Heston is well worth watching, But
he out does himself in this. He is an excellent actor, and gets a chance to shine in this movie.
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by ayamoh , Dec 22 '01
Pros: The classiest movie of all times
Cons: Somewhat patrician
'Ben Hur' is the life-story of Juda Ben-Hur,a jewish leader in biblical times.The film directed by William Wyler won 11 academy awards.
The story is about what constitutes life.Is it about sublime things like affection and bonding.Or,is it the...
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by artbyjude - Top 500, Jul 06 '01
Pros: One of a kind epic, Heston without his rifles, the chariot race, Griffith
Cons: At times, a little over the top emoting. EXTREMELY long
Forgive me for reducing this legendary movie to such a banal thought, but whenever there are men in miniskirts, I have to wonder. Elizabeth Haffenden (the costume designer) is not available for comment, and I wouldn't go near Heston even with a long...
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by George_Chabot  in Movies, - Top 50, Dec 17 '00
Pros: Heston, Boyd, Hawkins, Photography, Score, Direction, Story
Cons: None
Ben-Hur
This is a story of how friends fall out. Judah Ben-Hur is a Jewish prince living in Roman occupied Judea in the first century AD. His boyhood friend Messala, a Roman, is now a tribune in the Roman Army. Messala...
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by bnlcrazee , Feb 10 '01
Pros: The acting, the film's production, the plot-- too many to name in 15 words
Cons: None
Maybe.
The first time I saw Ben Hur I was about 12 -- and since then I've never ceased to be fascinated by this wonderful story. It is a movie that, once you've gotten into it (which should take fifteen minutes, if that), you won't want...
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by edmaidel , Nov 28 '04
Pros: Great story, impressive sets and costumes, intelligent dialog and that chariot race.
Cons: The sea battle, and some 50's film making conventions.
I suspect those reading this come from two distinct camps: one, comprised of viewers 40 and older who've seen Ben-Hur at least once in the theatre (though not likely in its intended "Camera 65" presentation), as well as a couple of times on ...
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by updateghost - Top 1000, Dec 19 '04
Pros: It's great...
Cons: ...but there's too much greatness.
It is hard for me to describe why Ben-Hur (1959) is not one of my favorite movies. It is a great movie, no doubt. But when I think of "Ben-Hur", and I think of why it is not one of my favorite movies, the thought that usually comes to my head is, ...
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by Sapphire13 , Jul 06 '00
Pros: Everything you would want in a movie is here
Cons: none
Ben-Hur is a spectacular film starring Charlton Heston in the lead and Stephen Boyd as Massala, Ben-Hur's childhood friend who eventually becomes his bitter enemy.
Massala returns to his boyhood home of Judea as a Roman centurion....
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by jeffs320 - Top 500, Oct 18 '00
Pros: Charlton Heston, good story, very well done for the time it was filmed
Cons: a little long...don't drink too much soda!
Way back in the good old days, I remember going to the chariot races with my Daddy and watching the men race around in circles. I always wondered if they knew they weren't getting anywhere...they were just going around in circles. Then one day I heard...
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by cmashby , Nov 10 '99
Pros: classic
Cons: none
Ben-Hur
Year of Release: 1959
Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Haya Harareet, Martha Scott,
Sam Jaffe
Director: William Wyler
Writer: Karl Tunberg
Running Time: 212 Minutes (3 hours, 32...
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by tanweer , Oct 02 '00
Pros: opinion contains minor details about the movie
Cons: stephen boyd and charlton heston at their best
When I first watched Ben Hur, I was 14 (Now I am 20). The effect the movie had on me was magical. With its superb performances, touching background music,memorable action scenes specially famous chariot race sequence, and delicacy of handling religious...
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