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Very best movie i ever watch

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

The Robe (1953) is a Historic Drama starring Richard Burton as Marcellus Gallio. Marcellus Gallio is a tribune, living in Judea in the 1st century, who is ordered to lead the group assigned to crucify Jesus of Nazareth. He leaves his love interest, promising to return, and goes to Palestine. A Greek slave tries to warn him Jesus and searched for him. After hours he is told that Jesus has been captured by the Romans. He goes to the hills and sees three men being executed to death on crosses. The Robe is a good film. I found it most entertaining. There were a few boring parts of the film, but overall it was a solid and interesting drama. It is harder, I think, to do a film based on true historic events rather than make up your own because it adds to the research needed to do. I think that The Robe did a good job with the plot, script writing, and execution. The acting was great. Marcellus is haunted by what he has done later on after a few particular events. Richard Burton is able to convey his thoughts and feelings without speech through the use of his eyes and other key facial muscles. The settings and costumes met my expectations. Some people may have got bored after a few boring parts in the middle, but overall it was interesting enough to not feel as though you are wasting your time. I would recommend this film for lovers of the classic drama genre. It is not one of the best films in the world, but it is worth the watch if you are a fan of old dramas because it has a lot of good elements and some nice scenes. There are also some cheesy moments as well that I thought could have been done better such as when Marcello and his love interest are talking together outside in the courtyard about his troubles and his guilty conscience. Overall I would give The Robe (1953) 7 out of ten stars because there are a few boring parts in the middle but it started out well and it got really good toward the end. I also liked the acting from the lead male actor, but not the lead female. Is the robe bewitched and why does Marcello begin to feel differently as soon as he receives it?

This is another biblical epic, one of many that was made in the mid-fifties and sixties. The main character is a Roman officer who witnessed the death of Jesus in the cross, winning Jesus' tunic in a dice game and feeling himself cursed afterwards. After watching, I understood why this movie doesn't have the same fame as other films of that subgenre, like "Ten Commandments" or "Quo Vadis"... it's a bad movie, as it makes a promising idea a failure. The idea of ​​making a story about Jesus' tunic was good, but the story itself was so poor, so forced, so imaginative that it became unbelievable. To make things worse, Richard Burton takes the main role in one of the most theatrical and forced interpretations of his career. Scenarios and costumes are quite reasonable and even look better than other films, such as "King of Kings", but are still far from the truly epic and realistic feel we see in the films I mentioned earlier. Despite all this, its not totally bad and entertains the audience satisfactorily. It just isn't as good as it could have been.

Without Victor Mature and Jean Simmons this movie would be a zero. These actors had the talent to give some nobility and seriousness to the nonsense. The dialog is dreadful and the whole thing looks so cheap. But what is really awful is that it moves so slowly. Some of the score is quite touching, it does the work that the director and screenplay can't. It is hard to understand in the 21st century what could have made audiences then flock to it. It had to be the Cinemascope. That isn't to say that this century hasn't offered its own bores. Biblical movies don't seem to hold the public's interest as they once did. And in spite of my not liking this movie, I think that it could be remade today if a director could pick up the pace. There is some potentially touching stuff but 1950s America was such an unimaginative time and place for movie-making that this one didn't have a chance to be well remembered.

Obviously Easter must be approaching for "The Robe" to appear on TV again, although being an atheist myself, faith and devotion won't affect my opinion of the film. It's certainly a grand spectacle, with monumental sets, large crowd scenes and faithful costumery, all helping to compensate for the more than occasional American accent which confuses the geography somewhat.I don't want to judge the movie too harshly but the story is perhaps just too fantastical to really take off. I've heard of faith moving mountains, but just couldn't believe it could affect hard-boiled Roman Tribune Marcellus (Richard Burton) the way it does here. Looking young and tousle-haired, the great man struggles to convincingly convey emotion throughout and to that end lies down with the similarly challenged Victor Mature as his Greek slave Demetrius. There are better performances from Jay Campbell as the deranged Caligula and Charlton Heston lookalike Michael Rennie as Peter but an acting showcase it isn't.A few of the scenes did resonate with me, however, especially the cleverly rendered confession by Judas Iscariot and also where Marcellus has his nightmare about Jesus being nailed to the cross, but too much of the rest is mere platitudinal talk, even as the director still throws us a love story between Burton and Jean Simmons and even a sword fight between Burton and a feisty Roman centurion to spice matters up.The final shot of the doomed lovers marching into the kingdom of heaven after they've publicly defied Emperor Caligula's will is however, pure corn (cue heavenly host of "Hallelujahs"), re-affirming my conclusion that the film, well intentioned as it is, is too sentimental and unbelievable for its own good.