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Entropy on Labor Day — Davids rule the summer, Goliaths crash and burn
Labor Day weekend 2016 was bad. If you discount last summer’s holiday weekend that saw War Room take the weekend crown, you have to go all the way back to 2005 to find a Labor Day weekend that did worse than this … Continue reading
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Ben-Hur doesn’t go big, so just stay home
Rhiannon Saegert @missmusetta Ben-Hur is a frustrating sit. It didn’t have to be, but the movie makes an infuriating habit of taking whatever interesting ideas it has and running them directly into the ground like an unconvincing CGI chariot. The … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #ghostbusters, #morgan freeman, #toby kebbell, #tom hiddleston, Ben-Hur, Ben-Hur cost way too much money, Ben-Hur is a disaster, Ben-Hur's chariot race is awful, Chariot races, Charlton Heston, Jack Huston, Jesus Christ, Legend of Tarzan, The Bible, Timur Bekmambetov, Why did they remake Ben-Hur
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A less chaotic state: 1959’s Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur holds a unique place in cinematic history for a wide variety of reasons. It’s a movie you’ve definitely heard of, but it’s only on the fringe of what I’d call an enduring classic. It’s highly emblematic of the time it was … Continue reading
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Tagged #fury road, #lord of the rings, #mad max, #star wars, #the force awakens, #the revenant, 70mm, Ben-Hur, Charlton Heston, Fury Road was the best thing ever, the Ben-Hur remake is going to be a disaster, the chariot race, Titanic, ye uninitiated heathens
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