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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 92280" data-attributes="member: 57984">Interesting that BECKET got so few votes.I have to admit that despite my generally unchanging tastes from toddlerhood until now, my view of BECKET has shifted a great deal. When I first saw it in my teens, and tried to watch it again years later, it didn&#039;t work for me -- I found it drab and dry and boring, so I dismissed the gushing reviews as one of those &#039;60s things where pretentious cinema often got the plaudits.And while I can understand why it hit me that way then, boy, it doesn&#039;t now. A few years ago, I gave it another go -- perhaps because it&#039;s a prequel of sorts to LION IN WINTER (which I&#039;d always loved), and to my surprise, I suddenly thought BECKET was great.As I said, my tastes and viewpoints about movies rarely change much at all -- my opinion at, say, age 12 is usually pretty consistent with my opinion today at, ummmm, post-12. But something finally clicked and I &quot;got&quot; the ice cold, cinematic incantation it offers. So now I watch it probably a couple of times a year.<img src="http://blog.familytheater.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/becket-1964-peter-otoole-richard-burton-ffb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.oscarchamps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/1964-Becket-09.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 92280, member: 57984"] Interesting that BECKET got so few votes. I have to admit that despite my generally unchanging tastes from toddlerhood until now, my view of BECKET has shifted a great deal. When I first saw it in my teens, and tried to watch it again years later, it didn't work for me -- I found it drab and dry and boring, so I dismissed the gushing reviews as one of those '60s things where pretentious cinema often got the plaudits. And while I can understand why it hit me that way then, boy, it doesn't now. A few years ago, I gave it another go -- perhaps because it's a prequel of sorts to LION IN WINTER (which I'd always loved), and to my surprise, I suddenly thought BECKET was great. As I said, my tastes and viewpoints about movies rarely change much at all -- my opinion at, say, age 12 is usually pretty consistent with my opinion today at, ummmm, post-12. But something finally clicked and I "got" the ice cold, cinematic incantation it offers. So now I watch it probably a couple of times a year. [IMG]http://blog.familytheater.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/becket-1964-peter-otoole-richard-burton-ffb.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.oscarchamps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/1964-Becket-09.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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