"Fueled by disparate desires, long-distance runners Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson) and Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) face off in a quest to bring Olympic glory to Great Britain. Liddell -- a staunch Christian -- seeks victory as a tribute to God, while Jewish student Abrahams views winning as a repudiation of anti-Semitism. A riveting drama based on a true story, Chariots of Fire won the 1981 Academy Award for Best Picture."
Maybe I wasn't in the right mood, maybe I should have watched it on a bigger screen, or maybe this was just a really boring movie. The story that it is based on sounds "riveting" but the film was not. I didn't care about the characters, I didn't understand their relationships, and the impassioned pursuit for victory for their different causes were lost on me. I didn't care. And the song that I once thought was a classic now gets on my nerves.
Rating: * *
p.s. the British accents didn't even help!
7 comments:
Hmmm, if your rating for this one has anything to do with Waking Ned Devine, I out to pick a copy up.
Suit yourself. It is your wasted two hours. BUT don't say I didn't warn you!
Hey, I hear ya, I mean, Deerhunter got Best Picture one year and that film is terrible.
But I like slow British films so I have a feeling I may dig it. Plus, I'm all gung ho for that human spirit kinda stuff.
dun dun dun dun dun dunttttta
dun dun dun dun dun
dun dun dun dun dun da da dun da da dun
dun dun dun dun dun
Nice. I considered singing the beat in words, but I didn't know if it would translate. Well done Ed.
And Adam, I can like those ones too, but this one was just hard to connect to. I will be interested to see what you think.
It put me to sleep, I concur with Kendall.
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