When I was watching the “Mummy Returns” and seeing all those scenes with thousands of fighters (CGI) UI started to think of the “spectaculars” of the 1950s and 1950s where they used thousands of extras. That, of course, quickly became too expensive and faded away.
So I turned on the blue ray of Ben-Hur, complete with 10 minutes of introduction and intermission music. I hadn’t seen this movie in 40 years, and NEVER on a big screen, just a small regular TV. Now that I understand that Boyd was given certain instructions on how to play his part, as a rejected gay potential lover, parts of the movie make better sense. He was told this by the director, Heston was not.
The movie is a bit corny if you are NOT religiously compelled by it and was interesting to watch. The Chariot race, made before CGI, is still great, but loses some impact because, frankly, we can visually do better these days. It was easy to see the blue screen parts and such, but it was fun.
The picture was fine but the sound is not great compared to the next two movies I saw.
The Life of Pi: A better movie than I expect, it is about a boy who survives a shipwreck and is left 277 in a lifeboat.
The 3D was some of the bet I ever saw and the surround sound was just incredible. I often say that good movies are always too short and bad ones were alays too long. But this was a good movie that could have been 15 shorter for me. I enjoyed the Rashomen and it was a good experience.

I fully reviewed Iron Man III at
Barry's Pearls of Comic Book Wisdom: Iron Man III: A Review and a Look back at the Comic, the Commies and the Mandarin
On second viewing, The movie is fine until last half hour where common sense leaves and CGI takes over. But a fun ride nevertheless.