They can't make um like this anymore!

Rating: 10/10 (18 October 2010)

Wow, this is about all I can say about this sensational movie that D and I finished watching last night. Of course, we both had seen it when it was first released 48 years ago but to watch it again after being somnambulated by the stuff passing themselves off as movies today brings a whole new experience to movie viewing.
I know that economics has forced movies to cut their extra's budget and again, it was refreshing to see real people filling the screen rather than computer magic. The 60s, 70s and 80s really was a period of renaissance in the film industry because they were not constrained by the need to film in a studio. However, what brought the renaissance to an end was the cost of making contemporary movies with all the extras and other assorted needs, in this case horses and camels. Now we have movies of cartoon characters, probably because it is cheaper to hire an animator than an actor.
David Lean would not exist in today's world so I recommend that movie lovers return to the modern classics. The recolouring of the films make them totally contemporary by photography standards.