r/moviecritic • u/TheShadowOperator007 • 14h ago
Happy heavenly birthday to Charlton Heston! What’s your favorite movie he was in?
Mine is The Ten Commandments. I used to watch it twice when I was younger. The parting of the Red Sea remains the best part.
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u/Quick-Blackberry-681 14h ago
Bowling for Columbine
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u/Pleasant_Cicada9528 13h ago
Once I found out how Michael Moore manipulated facts in that movie I knew he wasn't trustworthy as a documentary filmmaker. I wish he had stuck to comedies. Canadian Bacon was really great.
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u/Skywren7 12h ago
Which facts did he manipulate? I heard he did this.
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u/Pleasant_Cicada9528 11h ago
There's a famous sequence where a bank was giving away hunting rifles with new accounts. In the film it appears like he walks into the bank, signs up for an account, and walks out the front door with the rifle.
In reality the bank was giving away vouchers which the customer would then take to a local gun store where they would do the customary federal background check before receiving their rifle. Moore pressured the bank staff to let him get this all done ahead of time and have the rifle waiting for him at the bank so he could get the visuals he wanted for his movie, which they eventually agreed to.
It just seems dishonest to me.
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u/Oncemor-intothebeach 7h ago
Not an American, but even the fact that he was able to do this is pretty bad optics for the bank
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u/Pleasant_Cicada9528 6h ago
Not where that bank was at; it was apparently a very popular promotion. In many places hunting is a way of life that a lot of people use to feed their families. Getting a free hunting rifle could be very beneficial to a lot of people.
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u/IndependentSun9995 13h ago
The Ten Commandments is obviously his best.
But I will give an honorable mention to "The Omega Man".
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u/Pleasant_Cicada9528 13h ago
Ben-Hur is tough to beat. The chariot race is really something special.
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u/EfficiencyItchy1156 14h ago
Ben Hur, Soylent Green, Omega Man, Planet of the Apes, The Three Musketeers
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u/Chickenshit_outfit 14h ago
Planet of the Apes and special shout out to Waynes World 2
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u/Traditional_Cat_60 13h ago
This scene taught my teenage self that there is a big difference between regular actors and the legit good ones.
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u/FactorFirst6947 13h ago
I loved it when he guest starred on Saturday Night Live.
Funniest episode ever.
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u/johnicester 11h ago
Mmm “ these cigarettes are good I could smoke two or three a day”. 🤣
Soylent
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u/gogozombie2 6h ago
Such a great film until the end. Therr is no way Chuck Connors is losing a fist fight to Charleton Heston!
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u/Mommy444444 13h ago edited 13h ago
Planet of the Apes 1968. I am 71. It was amazing to me as a teen to watch that movie in Page AZ/Utah I can’t remember. We traditionally camped in Utah/AZ from LA in the 50/60s. We kids wore tap shoes on the sandstone at Lake Powell/Moab/Lake Mead while we camped using my WW2 dad’s army-green canvas tent.
It was a safe movie to see for three teenagers and their parents. It had a shocking ending.
I hate how Michael Moore created a mockery fake meme of old guy Charlton Heston.
ETA: the movie was filmed at Lake Powell so that’s why I added my comment about camping in the sandstone.
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u/CalagaxT 13h ago
Where he is the lead, Soylent Green. Where he is part of an excellent cast, The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers.
I even like The Greatest Show on Earth even if it is a bit awful.
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u/ghostcatzero 5h ago
Politics aside (it's not hard to do when viewing a movies fuck maga btw) but he was a great actor. Personal favorite is Planet of the Apes
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u/Ok-Imagination-494 2h ago
Planet of the Apes (the 2001 version)
Playing an ape, a few meta references to his previous role and a gun
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u/snortingajax 14h ago
The one with those DAMNED DIRTY APES