Easter movies! I'm a freak!
Apr. 17th, 2006 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxmonkeyBecause I'm a freak, my favorite holiday movies are the ones shown around Easter, Biblical movies. ::boggles:: Yes! Christmas is my favorite holiday, but man, I love me some Biblical epics. When I was little (before cable!) I seem to remember watching tons of Easter-themed pagentry on TV. Those weird Rankin-Bass animated specials, all the cool movies... ::le sigh:: You'd think that having 340 channels 24/7 would mean an absolute orgy of Biblical epics this time of year, right? Wrong.
When I paged through the channel guide I couldn't believe what I saw. The only things I saw listed - besides History channel specials on the saints, which don't count - were King of Kings and The Ten Commandments. What happened to The Robe? The Greatest Story Ever Told? The Bible? I DVR'd both Kings and Commandments, but I'm still lamenting. By the way, around the foxmonkey household, King of Kings is known as "the one with the good-looking Jesus." Because, yowza! Jeffrey Hunter, baby. Smokin'. And laugh if you want to, but Yul Brenner was teh hotness in Ten Commandments. BABY! He's got one of the sexiest walks ever. The fact that he was strutting around in a glorified mini-skirt and not much else *certainly* didn't hurt. ::purr::
I'm currently watching Jesus of Nazareth, and MY GOD, the thing's like, 112 hours long. I bought it on the way home this evening, determined that if TV wasn't going to cater to me, then I'd do my own catering. Apparently, it was a miniseries in 1977, which explains why it's 112 hours long. It's also a bit boring which is unfortunate, because Robert Powell (the father in the film version of the Who's Tommy), makes a damn fine Jesus. Great Jesus, boring movie. I'll give it another chance though, because it's a Biblical epic!
They also had The Greatest Story Ever Told but I didn't buy it on principal because the movies weren't individually priced, they just had a sign over the bin that said: "From 9.99 to 19.99." Bastiges. But I think I'll go ahead and get it tomorrow because it's a Biblical epic! Nuff said.
Edited to add: Feenie reminded me that Passion of Christ was on too, but YEEBUS! I've seen that once, and it's more than enough. Methinks Mel Gibson has an issue or two that he needs to work on.
The Silver Chalice, Spartacus, Ben Hur and Barrabas are a few more movies I'd expected to see in the Easter rotation. I've got Hur and Barrabas on DVD though, so I'm covered there. Last Temptation of Christ! Even The Inquiry.
Crap. I think the History channel aired a 'life of Judas' special or something like that...the gospel of Judas, maybe? I meant to catch it and totally forgot. ;-p
When I paged through the channel guide I couldn't believe what I saw. The only things I saw listed - besides History channel specials on the saints, which don't count - were King of Kings and The Ten Commandments. What happened to The Robe? The Greatest Story Ever Told? The Bible? I DVR'd both Kings and Commandments, but I'm still lamenting. By the way, around the foxmonkey household, King of Kings is known as "the one with the good-looking Jesus." Because, yowza! Jeffrey Hunter, baby. Smokin'. And laugh if you want to, but Yul Brenner was teh hotness in Ten Commandments. BABY! He's got one of the sexiest walks ever. The fact that he was strutting around in a glorified mini-skirt and not much else *certainly* didn't hurt. ::purr::
I'm currently watching Jesus of Nazareth, and MY GOD, the thing's like, 112 hours long. I bought it on the way home this evening, determined that if TV wasn't going to cater to me, then I'd do my own catering. Apparently, it was a miniseries in 1977, which explains why it's 112 hours long. It's also a bit boring which is unfortunate, because Robert Powell (the father in the film version of the Who's Tommy), makes a damn fine Jesus. Great Jesus, boring movie. I'll give it another chance though, because it's a Biblical epic!
They also had The Greatest Story Ever Told but I didn't buy it on principal because the movies weren't individually priced, they just had a sign over the bin that said: "From 9.99 to 19.99." Bastiges. But I think I'll go ahead and get it tomorrow because it's a Biblical epic! Nuff said.
Edited to add: Feenie reminded me that Passion of Christ was on too, but YEEBUS! I've seen that once, and it's more than enough. Methinks Mel Gibson has an issue or two that he needs to work on.
The Silver Chalice, Spartacus, Ben Hur and Barrabas are a few more movies I'd expected to see in the Easter rotation. I've got Hur and Barrabas on DVD though, so I'm covered there. Last Temptation of Christ! Even The Inquiry.
Crap. I think the History channel aired a 'life of Judas' special or something like that...the gospel of Judas, maybe? I meant to catch it and totally forgot. ;-p
