deadbyday
Joined Aug 2002
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I have vague recollections of this...and until the new film version came out I had all but forgotten it.
It was a bbc children's program and the acting was not too bad. ( from the usual child actors that sometimes ( as is with most bbc serials)....you just wanted to slap for being so well spoken and polite)
but the star was the sand fairy, the puppet was amazing and captured all his indignity and self pride.
all in all i would say 8.5 /10
ps
the sight of the wee sand fairy as he granted wishes...........was a thing that NOBODY should miss seeing. hard to explain but best way to describe it would be "a bad case of constipation"
It was a bbc children's program and the acting was not too bad. ( from the usual child actors that sometimes ( as is with most bbc serials)....you just wanted to slap for being so well spoken and polite)
but the star was the sand fairy, the puppet was amazing and captured all his indignity and self pride.
all in all i would say 8.5 /10
ps
the sight of the wee sand fairy as he granted wishes...........was a thing that NOBODY should miss seeing. hard to explain but best way to describe it would be "a bad case of constipation"
After hearing so much about this film (the problems on location etc etc), and the bad reviews of it. I have something rather shocking to say
ITS NOT THAT BAD!!!!!
There I have said it!!!! True its never going to win prizes for its dialogue, but the characters are at least interesting ( compared to the usual same old jaded generic character types we see nowadays)and the action scenes are filled with explotions and thills. The reviewer above mentions blue velvet....this is an action picture, there is no need for the kind of depth in to human nature, that is found in that lynchian masterpiece.
ITS BASED ON A COMIC BOOK !!!!!( and a very good one too I might add) so I dident expect the different types of literature each character was a tradition of. ( and if u really think that this film was every going to be like that then shame on you)
Sean plays his part of Quatermain with his usual sardonic style, his charasmatic presence bringing the character to life. He might be getting on in years but he can still move when he needs to get into the action (course I am sure a few scenes where stunt doubles).
The sets as well are very good esp. at the start and end of the movie, with that "lived in" faux victorian gothic look..( it is set in 1899 remember)
Basically its an enjoyable film, a no brainer...you dont need your brain to understand the complexities of the main players...just sit down, drink your little drink, eat your little hot dog..and enjoy the action
(and i would recomend you read the comic...O'Neills art work is always eye candy...VARK!)
ITS NOT THAT BAD!!!!!
There I have said it!!!! True its never going to win prizes for its dialogue, but the characters are at least interesting ( compared to the usual same old jaded generic character types we see nowadays)and the action scenes are filled with explotions and thills. The reviewer above mentions blue velvet....this is an action picture, there is no need for the kind of depth in to human nature, that is found in that lynchian masterpiece.
ITS BASED ON A COMIC BOOK !!!!!( and a very good one too I might add) so I dident expect the different types of literature each character was a tradition of. ( and if u really think that this film was every going to be like that then shame on you)
Sean plays his part of Quatermain with his usual sardonic style, his charasmatic presence bringing the character to life. He might be getting on in years but he can still move when he needs to get into the action (course I am sure a few scenes where stunt doubles).
The sets as well are very good esp. at the start and end of the movie, with that "lived in" faux victorian gothic look..( it is set in 1899 remember)
Basically its an enjoyable film, a no brainer...you dont need your brain to understand the complexities of the main players...just sit down, drink your little drink, eat your little hot dog..and enjoy the action
(and i would recomend you read the comic...O'Neills art work is always eye candy...VARK!)
*this is the REAL pilot not the 15 min promo with female cat*
After watching this pile of drivel I was one step from cracking the VCD in my hand so that i could symbolically kill at least one of the copies of it.
The acting is at best ... questionable. And at worse...? well there was more life in a "dawn of the dead" zombie.
The script is almost identical to "the end" with a few changes for the american market (baseball cards etc)... but somehow it dont seem ...right. the canned laughter as well makes it a chore to watch.
Still Robert Llewellyn is (and always will be) a gem to watch.....and Jane Leeves makes a fine holly (all be it her British accent sometimes...just sometimes comes through ..making u think u are back watching the UK series).
Havent seen the promo 15 mins that was made after this...but have seen pictures of Terri Farrell in a cat suit..so its not a complete loss I would think...
(acctually on reflection it would be bad....Red dwarf was mostly about a man..who has lost his only true love 3 million years ago and will never see female company again..so to have a female character would be pointless)
After watching this pile of drivel I was one step from cracking the VCD in my hand so that i could symbolically kill at least one of the copies of it.
The acting is at best ... questionable. And at worse...? well there was more life in a "dawn of the dead" zombie.
The script is almost identical to "the end" with a few changes for the american market (baseball cards etc)... but somehow it dont seem ...right. the canned laughter as well makes it a chore to watch.
Still Robert Llewellyn is (and always will be) a gem to watch.....and Jane Leeves makes a fine holly (all be it her British accent sometimes...just sometimes comes through ..making u think u are back watching the UK series).
Havent seen the promo 15 mins that was made after this...but have seen pictures of Terri Farrell in a cat suit..so its not a complete loss I would think...
(acctually on reflection it would be bad....Red dwarf was mostly about a man..who has lost his only true love 3 million years ago and will never see female company again..so to have a female character would be pointless)