Lightwizard wrote:husker, the best of the lot "Quest for Fire" is at $10.15 to buy and worth adding to anyone's DVD collection:
DVD UNIVERSE: QUEST FOR FIRE.
Try the search as I could only seem to get the link to work for their home page. You might try the other titles in search as well although I could not come up with "The Name of the Rose."
Great, great picture. Although every time I watch it on TV -- Nancy moans. She thinks it is boring. She prefers Rolling Stones concerts.
There isn't much in the way of dialogue in Quest for Fire, Frank ... you can have it both ways; mute the TV and play a Stones album on the stereo for Nancy
timber, how can you say that? I loved this particular exchange:
"uuuhhh..."
"uuuuuhhh!"
Gimme the naked Italian girl from Name of the Rose any day, or Darryl Hannah in Clan of the Cave Bear, that Quest for Fire Lite flick...
Darryl may be eye candy but the movie sucks.
We once went through "Quest for Fire" and added the dialogue -- another quest in the realm of Fractured Flicks (which was the old Hans Conreid series that was part of Rocky and Bullwinkle where they added dialogue to silent movies).
Oh LW, Clan of the Cave Bear completely sucks....no argument there. I actually loved both Name of the Rose and Quest for Fire, but I can't resist dialogue jokes when it comes to the latter. Frank, is Nancy's moaning at 'Quest' a protest, a mating call, or just singing along?
Who knows?
I just take advantage of every moan.
The grunting, moaning, almost semi-song utterances are educated guesses but they do seem authentic. The atmosphere of the film and the way it actually does take one back into time has seldome been duplicated -- maybe the opening scenes of "2001: A Space Oddyssey." Some carped about that film making the marking the primates look "too human" because they were actors in costume (a silly criticism). But there's always "1M BC" with Ursula which doesn't look authentic at all. Jane Auel's books are fascinating reads but really unfilmmable. The film should have been titled "Clan of the Cave I Could Barely Sit Through."
Seeing as we have digressed into a film discussion (digression yes, but so much more pleasant than the last hijacking), I was curious, getting somewhat back on topic, of opinions on two movies, Kevin Smith's 'Dogma' and 'The Secret Lives of Altar Boys', both of which I loved.
"Priest" certainly pissed off the Catholics. And I can't see why other than its portrayal of a gay priest who was also waverying from celibacy. I suppose they also hate "The Black Narcissus."
I found Dogma particularly entertaining, containing as it did so many obvious references to the
Gospel of Mary Magdalene, and the
Thunder: Perfect Mind. I also loved "Buddy Jesus."
'Priest' was a great flick. I saw it when it was first released. 'The Boys of St. Vincent' didn't win many friends amongst Catholics either....
Religion also irked me when Pat Boone recorded an album of tunes such as Stairway to Heaven, among others. He declared that many of these type songs spoke to the human condition, making them worth examining. The religious affiliations supporting Boone on television came down on him hard. He was forced to crawl to preserve his spot among them.
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Edgar, have you noticed--I'm sure you have--how so many entertainment industry has-beens have sought to prolong their careers performing on TV evangelist shows? My God, they are a big rung below those who must resort to Hollywood Squares, who are WAY above those running for the California governorship.
Yep. Have you noticed John Boy Walton doing a show about miracles on one of the uhf channels?
And many of those has-beens also appear on t.v. ads. Kinda sad.
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Yeah, but "celebrity boxing" was the worst degradation ritual I've ever seen.
A person on that show (Celebtity Boxing) has no vestige of pride.
Hey, be nice to Tonya Harding!
Well, Tonya Harding made all the mistakes one could ever make in one's life. If she hadn't screwed up so much, she'd be a multi-millionaire enjoying the life of Riley today.
Yeah ... What a revoltin' development she was.
