Ben-Hur, the 1959 cinematic epic, is widely regarded as one
of the greatest films ever made. It is also three-and-a-half hours long, so
between my disliking of overlong cinema and general attention span issues in
general, I haven’t gotten around to watching it yet and I’m not even sure if I
will. Yeah, I may do my background research where I can, but even I have
limits. Not to say that I haven’t seen bits of it over time, just never in its
entirety. As such, I’ll be going into this as most young filmgoers of today
would and take this as its own work. So, now that it doesn’t exactly have a
pre-existing impression of the story to live up to, how is it?
