Leezy's Movie Reviews

Welcome everyone. This blog mainly exists as a way of tracking all the movies I've been watching and some of the initial thoughts and general feelings I've had about them.

Rating System

5/5 - Fantastic movies; movies which need to be seen and enjoyed by everyone.

4/5 - Movies which are very good but don’t have that spark which compels you to make others watch them as well.

3/5 - Average movies; watchable and enjoyable, but nothing which elevates them higher. The baseline all movies are given before watching.

2/5 - Can be watched but really bland and forgettable.

1/5 - Minimal to no reason to watch these films. It may have some redeeming factors e.g. it’s so bad it’s good or there’s one character that’s awesome enough to make it not a total waste of time.

0/5- Total waste of time. Nothing redeemable about these films.

As with every review blog/site, this is all my own personal opinion so feel free to take everything with a grain of salt.

Also I'm Scottish so all reviews will be in UK English. Get used to theatre, colour and words ending in -ised.

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#392/#109 The Ten Commandments Cecil B DeMille’s epic; recounting the bible story of Moses (Charlton Heston) as he freed the Hebrew slaves of Egypt from under the bondage of Rameses II (Yul Brynner). This is a long ass movie with a 3 1/2 hour run time and probably not one you’re going to sit down to unless dedicated to seeing it through. While obviously dated now, the sheer scale of the whole endeavour is worth praising the film for alone. There must have been thousands of extras working on this film and dozens of different sets and locations. On top of this the effects, although easily understandable now, must have blown people’s minds at the time. There is a reason these older types of grandiose film are known as epics. There were good performances all throughout this film but the standouts were definitely Heston as Moses, Brynner as Ramases and Anne Baxter as Nefertari. Heston was just made for these sorts of films and his earnest, exaggerated style of acting really works well here as both the proud Prince of Egypt and later as the Prophet Moses. Equally Brynner has a presence about him which made him ideal as the arrogant Pharaoh. His scheming and later stubbornness work really well when combined with Baxter’s sneering and villainous Queen. Her loving scenes with Moses worked well enough but by far she was at her best when displaying her loathing towards her husband Rameses. The major flaw of this film however, is easily seen when comparing with how much more compact modern films have become. There are a lot of hanging pauses and dead space in this movie where they could have tightened it up, or edited it better, or just cut it down in places. It doesn’t need to be as bloated as it is and as such it’s a major viewing turn off seeing how long it is. I know I certainly won’t be sitting down again anytime soon to rewatch the whole thing. I remember being thrilled by parts of it as a child, and as an adult I can see the effort and scale they went to to make it so grand, but it has been out performed by those that have followed it. Still enjoyable for what it is but no longer the King it once was 3.5/5

#392/#109 The Ten Commandments

Cecil B DeMille’s epic; recounting the bible story of Moses (Charlton Heston) as he freed the Hebrew slaves of Egypt from under the bondage of Rameses II (Yul Brynner).

This is a long ass movie with a 3 1/2 hour run time and probably not one you’re going to sit down to unless dedicated to seeing it through. While obviously dated now, the sheer scale of the whole endeavour is worth praising the film for alone. There must have been thousands of extras working on this film and dozens of different sets and locations. On top of this the effects, although easily understandable now, must have blown people’s minds at the time. There is a reason these older types of grandiose film are known as epics.

There were good performances all throughout this film but the standouts were definitely Heston as Moses, Brynner as Ramases and Anne Baxter as Nefertari. Heston was just made for these sorts of films and his earnest, exaggerated style of acting really works well here as both the proud Prince of Egypt and later as the Prophet Moses. Equally Brynner has a presence about him which made him ideal as the arrogant Pharaoh. His scheming and later stubbornness work really well when combined with Baxter’s sneering and villainous Queen. Her loving scenes with Moses worked well enough but by far she was at her best when displaying her loathing towards her husband Rameses.

The major flaw of this film however, is easily seen when comparing with how much more compact modern films have become. There are a lot of hanging pauses and dead space in this movie where they could have tightened it up, or edited it better, or just cut it down in places. It doesn’t need to be as bloated as it is and as such it’s a major viewing turn off seeing how long it is. I know I certainly won’t be sitting down again anytime soon to rewatch the whole thing.

I remember being thrilled by parts of it as a child, and as an adult I can see the effort and scale they went to to make it so grand, but it has been out performed by those that have followed it. Still enjoyable for what it is but no longer the King it once was 3.5/5

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