 "MY FAVORITE" | 2009-10-15 |
| - Reviewed By User: AVXRKCCABQ21A |
| I HAVEN'T OPENED IT YET BECAUSE I AM WAITING TO GET THE FAMILY ALL TOGETHER TO WATCH IT.THIS IS A MOVIE I ALWAYS WANTED TO OWN, BECAUSE OF THE STORY BEHIND IT. IT ALSO SIGNALS FOR ME THE HOLIDAYS. |
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 "Greater than divine, plain human" | 2009-09-12 |
| - Reviewed By wuivre_eternelle |
You have to be nostalgic to go back to such a long and typical film of 1956. And yet the film has kept an intense charm. The special effects are of course old but they are believable: you cannot see the zipper in the back of the monstrous pharaoh. The charm though does not come from that brilliant set, the great costumes, the perfect acting, for this distant period at least. The actors speak the way actors used to speak on a sound stage because it was filmed on a sound stage. So the language is unnatural, artificial, over-dramatic, staged in one word. The charm comes from the story itself. You do not need to believe in it to appreciate it. It is a beautiful and magical story of love and struggle, of slavery and freedom. That is this very human charm that still attracts us. Those who believe in the divine nature of the story are just adding something else to it but they are not changing this story: a humane and deeply emotional story about a few human beings who are suddenly confronted with a fundamental choice: do I help myself and remain happy in my corner or do I help those I consider as my people to get free and happy in their turn? That's the choice of Moses and he goes the right way. But in 1956, when McCarthyism and the vast repression against the Communists were raging, before Rosa Parks refused to stand up and yield her seat to a white passenger on a bus, Hollywood had found a way to remain on the side of those who suffered. They produced films like this one that was punctuated all along by this simple sentence that had accompanied and would accompany the long struggle for civil rights: Let my people go. That is in no way Christian or Buddhist, Moslem or Hindu. It is just human and eternal because there will always be some freedom to conquer for everyone or just for one group of people. Freedom is not natural: it is a human creation and invention.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
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| "It's great" | 2009-09-03 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3OYR7P8SUGJXU |
| Thank you for the CD, it was shipped to me fast and looked new. Thanks again... |
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| "Detailed razer sharp image" | 2009-08-11 |
| - Reviewed By User: A38UONZ5JPG6SO |
| Its interesting to note that dvd transfers from origional master copies to dts and or hd dvds digitally remastered that a movie like this, that is 53 years old, could be remastered into an astonishing clear, sharp image and outstanding deep, luscious colors and yet newer movies that are digitally remastered are a huge dissappointment and there is absolutely no reason for the poor copies done in this age of technology.One does not realize this until a movie is purchased that it is grainy, fuzzy and poor color saturation.I have hd dvds that arent as sharp as reg dvds and i have a thirteen foot diagonal wall screen with a ceiling projector so i especially need a really good remastered dvd which unfortunately is hard to come by.Even if you dont care for this type of movie, " The Ten Commandments", produced in 1956, you should buy it as its not only a great epic but so beautifully remastered in every way---it shows that the companies that remaster five, ten, twenty etc year old movies have no excuse for such poor quality when compaired to a fifty three year old movie so beautifully remastered.My digitally remastered, collectors edition of "Ben Hur" is terrible--poor color, lacks crispness, etc, is just not there.I have an old VHS copy of " Ben Hur" that puts the remastered one to shame--very big dissappointment---we all need to contact the diff companies to get with the program and start producing the quality of the extremely poor, sub grade digitally remastered joke of the lack of quality we are subjected to when we wait with baited breath to receive our treasured copy of our favourite movies only to be submitted to such disasters of the so-called re-remastered junk on the market today. |
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| "Widescreen v.s. Full Screen" | 2009-08-10 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2HWXC92ZG498P |
| This movie did not have the sharpest picture that I usually expect in a high definition movie but it did have a comparably full screen picture for being billed as "Wide Screen". But, I don't see on the cover any reference to what the aspect ratio is and it is my complaint that, why is it that all movies can't be reproduced in "full screen" with an aspect ratio of 185:1 or less. I do not like to rent or buy any movie that is in the Widescreen or Litterbox format. |
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| "A classic film that will never die" | 2009-07-06 |
| - Reviewed By User: A17QU8EGWRHQPO |
| Not only did I enjoy seeing The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston but I enjoyed seeing the original Silnet Movie version. So much acting had to go into those era films so the audience would be able to tell what the actor was feeling without the dialog. |
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