John-Rhys-Davies Movie Reviews

This is a super show. I feel sorry for Piglet, because he is so scared of Halloween night. I first taped this off of the TV years ago. I just watched it for the first time in years a few days ago. I just love it. I just wish that Paul Winchell did the voice of Tigger. Although, Jim Cummings did a great job at doing the voice of Tigger.

This video is simply delightful! My family has enjoyed it immensely. The artwork is stunning and the story is just wonderful. This is definitely a great addition to your collection, and something you'll be watching year-round (not just at Halloween!)

i've always loved winnie the pooh...since the beginning of 4th grade to my college years. i would highly recommend this movie to anyone. its a great time to get closer with the ones you love or your friends. =)

It's so good, it's hard to believe Disney made it. The story is actually much to deep for children to comprehend & is popular with teens & adults. The style is more anime like (then again, it was animated in Japanese studios)The characters & storylines are complex & its important to watch the stories in order because they all end up connecting.

The quality of the animation is fabulous, heavy shading, not fast & jerky, very undisney-like. The voices match the characters perfectly, not corny in the least! Not irritating singing!

If you love fantasy, complex stories, inter-racial romance, & Shakespear, you'll LOVE this series^o^

I suggest you buy this video if you enjoy action and good animation. Gargoyles is a great series. Watch and enjoy.

This is not the cartoon version that all the other reviews are indicating. This is a live video produced around 1978. The acting is superb. The movie does a very sensitive portrayal of Mary and Joseph leading up to the birth of Jesus. It is in my opinion the most spiritual of all Hollywood productions about the birth of Christ. I have looked for and waited several years for this to become available. For years I have checked all the TV listings at Christmas time to watch this show. I am so thrilled to have this in my video library.

All roads lead to Bethlehem as God fulfills a prophecy and a promise to mankind and a child is born in a stable beneath a shining star. On a sure-footed donkey, Mary and Joseph make the difficult journey from Nazareth, where Mary will give birth to her son. The Three Magi ride their camels out of distant lands to worship the newborn king. From Jerusalem, mad king Herod sends his Roman legionnaires, mounted on fine horses, to find the Child he fears. And at the bidding of the Angel of the Lord humble shepherds make their way on foot from their fields and flocks to pay homage to The Christ Child.

This is not the cartoon version that all the other reviews are indicating. This is a live video produced around 1978. The acting is superb. The movie does a very sensitive portrayal of Mary and Joseph leading up to the birth of Jesus. It is in my opinion the most spiritual of all Hollywood productions about the birth of Christ. I have looked for and waited several years for this to become available. For years I have checked all the TV listings at Christmas time to watch this show. I am so thrilled to have this in my video library.

All roads lead to Bethlehem as God fulfills a prophecy and a promise to mankind and a child is born in a stable beneath a shining star. On a sure-footed donkey, Mary and Joseph make the difficult journey from Nazareth, where Mary will give birth to her son. The Three Magi ride their camels out of distant lands to worship the newborn king. From Jerusalem, mad king Herod sends his Roman legionnaires, mounted on fine horses, to find the Child he fears. And at the bidding of the Angel of the Lord humble shepherds make their way on foot from their fields and flocks to pay homage to The Christ Child.

This is not the cartoon version that all the other reviews are indicating. This is a live video produced around 1978. The acting is superb. The movie does a very sensitive portrayal of Mary and Joseph leading up to the birth of Jesus. It is in my opinion the most spiritual of all Hollywood productions about the birth of Christ. I have looked for and waited several years for this to become available. For years I have checked all the TV listings at Christmas time to watch this show. I am so thrilled to have this in my video library.

All roads lead to Bethlehem as God fulfills a prophecy and a promise to mankind and a child is born in a stable beneath a shining star. On a sure-footed donkey, Mary and Joseph make the difficult journey from Nazareth, where Mary will give birth to her son. The Three Magi ride their camels out of distant lands to worship the newborn king. From Jerusalem, mad king Herod sends his Roman legionnaires, mounted on fine horses, to find the Child he fears. And at the bidding of the Angel of the Lord humble shepherds make their way on foot from their fields and flocks to pay homage to The Christ Child.

This is not the cartoon version that all the other reviews are indicating. This is a live video produced around 1978. The acting is superb. The movie does a very sensitive portrayal of Mary and Joseph leading up to the birth of Jesus. It is in my opinion the most spiritual of all Hollywood productions about the birth of Christ. I have looked for and waited several years for this to become available. For years I have checked all the TV listings at Christmas time to watch this show. I am so thrilled to have this in my video library.

All roads lead to Bethlehem as God fulfills a prophecy and a promise to mankind and a child is born in a stable beneath a shining star. On a sure-footed donkey, Mary and Joseph make the difficult journey from Nazareth, where Mary will give birth to her son. The Three Magi ride their camels out of distant lands to worship the newborn king. From Jerusalem, mad king Herod sends his Roman legionnaires, mounted on fine horses, to find the Child he fears. And at the bidding of the Angel of the Lord humble shepherds make their way on foot from their fields and flocks to pay homage to The Christ Child.

I think this a great film. I don't think its only for kids but for adults as well. It has a lot of metaphors of shakespear and human elements, that engagas your mind.

This movie is based on the Rudyard Kipling classic and was an all-time favorite of mine growing up. Peter O'Toole is fantastic!

I've reviewed Cornuke's book, now the video.

Narrated by "Raider's of the Lost Ark"'s John Rhys-Davies (Sallah), this impressive video takes a look at the possibility (some would argue probability) that indeed the Ark of the Coevenant does reside in a fortress church in Axum,Ethiopia.

The video is of high quality for a documentary investigation. The scenes of the stone churches of Lalibella were awesome and the trip to the remote island of Tana Kirkos made me want to find the next flight to Addis Ababa.

Don't expect to see the Ark, that's just not going to happen. The objects that were shown however would rock the world if they were found in Israel. The silver trumpets, meat forks, the gomer and stand if found today in Israel would absolutely eclipse the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Ossuaries of Caiaphas and James.

So why does the world dismiss Ethiopia as the location of the most holy sacred object ever? You'll have to answer that for yourself.

My only complaint is the video has relatively little scripture for references. I can suggest the "Seat of Mercy" ...

More digitally processed landscape shots from New Zealand. More trudging across the tundra. More story lines that resemble nothing in the books. One scale model castle. One scale model castle storming battle. The cavalry arrives in the knick of time. Color fades in and out. Aspect ratio is screwy (and this is the widescreen edition). The highlight of this snore fest are the Ents (talking, walking trees). Not worth 3 hours of my time and barely worth the $4.50 I paid to rent from block buster. You want to see a good 3 hour movie, rent the Longest Day. That was an epic movie.

I have no problem hearing a great argument for or against the quality of this DVD on this forum, so long as it is intelligent. Some of the best pieces of literature are made through winning (or losing, in some cases) debates over the quality and craftsmanship of a piece of fiction, and truly these movies should and will continue to be debated for years to come. Yet fewer of the 'against' arguments made here in this forum (and on many internet forums, for that matter) have any real substance to them, and make extremely broad statements, like 'the movie was boring' or 'it wasn't like the book'. If you are going to make such sweeping generalizations about something, you had better be willing to back them up with some really good evidence, otherwise, you only make yourself look bad. Do you really think that people will listen to what you have to say? Clearly from the audience's point of view (those who actually sift through these reviews to find out information, like myself), they do not like your lack of supporting detail. No review that is simply written to either praise or attack the movie without any helpful reasons why the reviewer gave it such a score ever gets more than two or three people saying that it was helpful. Most reviews of this nature end up with a much higher number of people saying that they do not find your reviews helpful at all.

The question this brings up then is this: Why bother writing a review, if by sheer statistics your detail-less, unsupported argument will be helpful to no one? I, like many people who bothered to scroll through the 1200+ reviews listed here, want to find out information about the DVD, and make an informed, intelligent decision about the quality of the movie based on the feedback listed in these forums and my own observations. If you are a reviewer with nothing more to say than either 'this movie sucked' or even 'WOW! supercool movie!', then shout it out loud, call up a friend, stand on a chair and tell whoever you can - but please, please, PLEASE - don't review it unless you actually have something intelligent to say. And, as a side note, use correct grammar and spelling. I speak for many people when I say that if you can barely write out a complete sentence, let alone spell any of the words in it, I just skip your review.

This brings me to my main point - that this movie is such an excellent tool for allowing the illiterate people in the world the opportunity to experience storytelling at its finest. If you are someone who found reading the 1300+ pages of the books a huge challenge, the movies are truly a gift to you, and do not require your reading of the books in order for you to enjoy the movies whatsoever. I guess the irony of all of this is that an illiterate person will see the length of this review and probably skip it to find a shorter, less 'wordy' review, but please, if you find writing or reading difficult, consider the fact that the movies are to a certain degree a visual way of allowing you the opportunity to enjoy one of the nineteenth century's greatest works of fiction. Do not be so quick to call it 'boring' or 'slow' simply because you could not understand it. Give it some time. This movie, like the books, is one of the pioneers of truly high quality fantasy filmmaking. The books were not an 'instant classic' - they were an acquired taste. Clearly, the movies have become extremely popular within weeks of hitting the screens back in 2001, but this is likely because of the years and years of build up and popularity.

Fantasy genre moviemaking has made huge leaps and bounds through these movies, and will likely continue. As our society puts less focus on reading and writing, and more on visual entertainment, the fact is that you are likely to be in the majority as a person with little to no verbal or written skills. Chances are that more films will come out within this genre that will cater to the millions of entertainment deprived, uneducated people who cannot find entertainment within their own imaginations anymore. If you are already one of these people, and like being a minority, then start reading. These movies may be the last attempt at recreating good fiction. In 40 years, who knows? You may be experiencing someone's virtual reality adaptation of Peter Jackson's 'The Lord of the Rings', and people will be saying things like 'Wow - supercool story! Did you know that it was based on a movie?'. Then you can just sit back and smile while you and the last remaining readers on the planet read to one another from real books, since visual entertainment no longer gives you the same 'fix' as your own imagination does.

Seems like heresy to actually love watching the movies but be semi-bored by the books, but that is my take. For all of you out there that are critical of the movies because they take license with the books content, then too bad. The books are very detailed and will never translate perfectly to the big screen, so let it go. These movies are the next best thing.