Ben Hur

[den]

Today I bought the DVD of Ben Hur, and sat down to watch the Chariot Race. As you do! Why else would you buy Ben Hur?

The 14 year-old son of a friend wandered in, watched it for 30 seconds, and said:

"That's just a rip-off of the pod race in Phantom Menace."

I laughed at him, long and hard. He still doesn't get it.


(this marks a return to my innocuous and empty journalling style.)

Comments

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

You didn't enlighten the idiot child that the movie you were watching is decades older than Episode I? I'd have taken great pleasure in pointing out a number of obvious ways to tell that the movie was older, myself.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I did! I told him it was made in the 60s and the special effects he was seeing were not computer generated. He was somewhat impressed but more embarrassed at being wrong.