Ben Hur

This movie is a classic. It is one of the most powerful and well done movies that I've ever since. I remember the first time I saw it during my Freshmen year of high school in my Religion class. I had never heard of the movie surprisingly but knew that Charleton Heston had also played Moses in the Ten Commandments, which I'd seen many times. I remember my religion teacher turning up his sound system really loud during the end where Jesus is leaving Earth and it's storming really hard and it was just so powerful it gave me chills.

Ben Hur which had the subtitle of A Tale of the Christ, was made in 1959 by director William Wyler. The movie is really long which represents the old movies where they all seemed to have intermissions but I was captivated by ever minute.

The storyline is ridiculous but in a good way. The way Ben Hur's friend betrays him and he ends up on the slave ship and then has his run in with "Jesus" and then gets out of being a slave and meets the Arab horse racer and finally makes his comeback it's all just amazing! And I love how it all revolves around the time that Jesus was on earth and then through his death.

I love old movies like Ben Hur and the Ten Commandments and Samson and Delilah because I love the way that movies were made back then and the fact that people took the time to make religious movies like that is something I really admire. They all are just so beautifully made and the ends are just so moving. Ben-Hur was a wonderful movie that if you are a movie lover especially of the classics should be high on anyone's list.

The Shawshank Redemption

This movie is another one where I did not see the ending coming at all! But even before the ending there were so many twists and things that popped up that I would never of thought would happen but it just made the movie even better. The Shawshank Redemption is a sad movie but it's also a little funny and ends very triumphant.

The tag line for this movie was "Fear Can Hold You Prisoner but Hope Can Set You Free" and that really holds true to what director Frank Darabont did when this movie that was based off a Stephen King novel. Not only was the story brilliant but so were the actors. Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins were phenomenal actors in this movie. Robbins who was convicted of killing his wife meets Freeman who is already in jail and they become great friends.

There's just so many things to the plot of this story that are so wonderful but so tragic that most of the time you think the movie is a real downer but by the end you see how it changes. These men who are in prison start to forgot what the outside world is like. The old man who gets parole but doesn't want to leave prison because that's his home and that's what he knows is heartbreaking. I also didn't expect the storyline with the young guy who gets killed and how the headmaster of the prison knows that Robbins character is innocent but wants to keep him in the prison.

The whole movie you're just like "When is this guy going to get some justice!" And then when Robbins escapes and it goes back to show you how he does it it's crazy! But he was unbelievably smart and it's awesome how he gets out and how he gets the headmaster back and your just like clapping because all the "bad" guys are getting what they deserve.

This movie is intense but another great classic that everyone should really take the time to watch.

The Usual Suspects

Ever since I first saw this movie which was years ago now I just couldn' t get enough. I am a sucker for twisted plots and this one has one of the best. I will admit that the first time I saw The Usual Suspects I was definitely a little confused and was like "Wait what's going on here?!" but by the time it got to the end it started making more sense. I love drama and suspense that keeps you guessing and leaves you wanting more and this movie really does that.

The director Bryan Singer picked a really interesting group of guys to play the five main criminals that the story revolves around. I think Gabriel Bryne is a wonderful actor and proved it once again in this movie. Kevin Spacey is also unbelievable as the cripple who everyone underestimates. Then there are the likes of Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollack, and Stephan Baldwin who together with Spacey and Bryne find themselves in a terrible mess that they think is being caused by the infamous Keyser Soze.

Bryan Singer does an unbelievable job at making this story come to life and making everyone think that this Keyser Soze person is real. You're in suspense the whole time wondering when Soze is going to finally show himself. The scene at the docks where everyone starts getting killed you're just like "Oh my god! what's going on?" because you don't expect that to happen but then when you see that fax come out of the machine and you see who Keyser Soze really is it's just like "WHAT?!" And then the cop starts putting it all together and I just thought it was all brillant!

If you haven't seen The Usual Suspects check it out because it is an awesome movie!