Epic Films for Farmerman: the Quest for Lovable Quest films

If you were a pterodactyl would you want to be seen in public?
THey always show the damn things with "Nests" in high mountains with lots of hungry ptwerodactyl larvae. Nobody knows here they lived or how. They coulda just hung around trees like cattle egrets.

I think they were subterranean.

No. No. No. No. NOOOO! Pterodactyl are suburban! Listening to reggae, hip hop, and smoking pot. Going to the mall to hang out by the Orange Julius. Occasionally buying an overly priced Goth t-shirt from Hot Topic!

What is an orange julius?

a few of Terry Gilliam films are quest films, Jabberwocky, Time Bandits, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys

a protestant roman

Thanks for that, over here they normally go by the name of Marcus Paislius, and the shopping malls are full of them, them and their attendant goths.

Sorry, Visigoths.

A fast food vendor that sells fruit smoothies and juice at suburban and city malls. They make their smoothies with some kind of proprietary mystery substance that for a brief period in the 1990's was the butt of the mall going population's jokes.

in reality they're kind of the original smoothie place

We have something similar called Lovejuice. Yeah, I know.

I didn't have to ask about Hot Topic because I saw that on an episode of South Park. The one about the vampires per se.

Visigoth



Ostrogoth



Urban Goth

Oy.

With those criteria in mind, I'd suggest:

Lawrence of Arabia
Spartacus
Doctor Zhivago
Intolerance (still a good film after nearly a century. Birth of a Nation, on the other hand -- not so much)
Gone With the Wind

The Good the Bad and the Ugly.



OR

Once upon a time in America.

Actually, I'd say being fat was the least of her problems.

I have hesitated to suggest this because these filums don't get no respect . . . but, here goes . . .

The Pirates of the Caribbean series--The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man's Chest and At World's End all certainly qualify as quest films and as being epic. While not even having a nodding acquaintace with history, they are nonetheless historically accurate as regards dress, weapons and equipment of the 18th century. They're a little weak on actually sailing a ship, but hell, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World had people climbing the rigging like a workout at the retirement home. The stories are, of course, preposterous--but i don't know that plausibility is necessary in such motion pictures. They went to considerable expense (nearly a billion dollars on a franchise which now has four films--haven't seen the fourth), and made good money out of them--something in the neighborhood of three and three-quarters billion, which is a wonderful neighborhood to be in. Those expenses allowed them to do something which film makers rarely do any more, which is make movies about the sea.

I've always liked movies, and books, about the sea.
I remember liking "The Voyage of the Yes" as a kid.

Noggin The Nog.