[PenultimateManStanding]

Has to be when, in The Quest For Fire, the main character sees how the more advanced tribe is able to create fire using sticks. The emotions expressed by the actor seem so convincing, a mixture of elation, awe, tears, anguish. The latter because they had gone to such lengths to preserve fire and never dreamed they could create it themselves. Makes you appreciate the myth of Prometheus.

[PenultimateManStanding]

How to shed tears when neccessary is an interesting actor topic. My son took acting lessons from none other than Robert Duval. The subject of how to shed tears was brought up (when Duval wasn't talking about the actresses he's kissed on camera). Seems you have to think of something terrible. So the stories went around of terrible things that can help to produce tears. One kid told of how he was mountain biking with a friend when the friend went over a cliff and screamed on his way down to death in the rocks. Pretty gruesome, good tear fodder. Maybe actors can think about life after oil to get tears going.

[Lokutus]

The best final scene award has to go to the war flick The Beast. The last surviving Russian soldier is rescued by an army helicopter. Rather than attempting to land in the rugged hills and get shot at by the mujahadeen, it lowers a harness thingie down to him. He slips it under his arm pits and the helicopter lifts off taking him with it. Then as the credits continue to roll, you watch the big lumbering gunship flying slowly over the hills with the soldier gently swaying and swinging in the wind about fifty feet below while clutching the antique rifle given to him as a present by one of the mujahs.

Beautiful.

Another good closing scene is in Platoon. Charlie Sheen boards a chopper to start the long journey home. The camera is in the chopper looking down at the men who remain. Anthony Quinn's son (whose name I can't recall) looks up at Charlie and gives him that symbolic salute that fighting men have used since the dawn of history. It's the one where you hold your rifle (spear, sword) in one hand, tap your chest with it, and and then raise it above your head.

You can't beat those two.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Hey, thanks Loki. I just put The Beast on my Blockbuster Online list. (BTW, I think that the Star Trek writers took Loki from Norse Mythology and gave him a Latinized version name for when Picard became a Borg)

[Lokutus]

If you like war flicks, you'll love The Beast. It's a thinking man's war movie.

One side relies exclusively on technology to win; the other side has nothing more than a burning desire to expel the invader.

Guess who ultimately wins.

[PenultimateManStanding]

The Quest For Fire has a very elegiac and wistful ending. The prehistoric couple is looking up at the full Moon and the female is pregnant and they love each other. It was the girl who had to show them how to make fire. Do you ever get the feeling that we weren't born in the best of times? Yeah sure, when has humanity ever had so much power? But it's ending soon. I would have rather been born 80,000 years ago.

[Lokutus]

You know, the funny thing is that I finally got around to seeing Quest for Fire last fall and really enjoyed it. I'd like to see Hollowood make a few more movies about that period in history.

I don't recommend Ten Million Years BC, unless you just want to ogle a very young and scantily clad Raquel Welch.

On second thought, I might mosey over to Netflix and see if they have a copy.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', '
')I don't recommend Ten Million Years BC, unless you just want to ogle a very young and scantily clad Raquel Welch.

[Lokutus]

Tomorrow I am sneaking out early to see a matinee showing of The New World.

I've been waiting for it over a year now. Hopefully, it will be far better than Thin Red Line which IMHO was a complete bust.

[Lokutus]

Tell me what you think of the accuracy here: http://www.colorgenics.com/sps/index.cfm

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[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', 'T')ell me what you think of the accuracy here: http://www.colorgenics.com/sps/index.cfm

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[Lokutus]

Hmmm...maybe it's dead.

It had 6 or 7 spinning cubes each of a different color. You'd click on each cube starting in order of your color preference. When you clicked a cube it would vanish, then you'd click on your next favorite color.

After you had finished, you'd get an assessment of your current emotional state.

It was quite accurate.

[The_Toecutter]

Kick er in the guts Barry. She's the last of the V-8's. You can shut the gate on this one Max E, its the duck's guts. Yeah, she's the last of the V-8's. She suck's nitro, Phase Four Heads, twin overhead cam, 600 horsepower through the wheels... Tell him about the BLOWER! ITS A BLOWER! THE BLOWER MAN!

[Free]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', ' ')My son took acting lessons from none other than Robert Duval.

[Daryl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', 'Y')ou know, the funny thing is that I finally got around to seeing Quest for Fire last fall and really enjoyed it. I'd like to see Hollowood make a few more movies about that period in history.

I don't recommend Ten Million Years BC, unless you just want to ogle a very young and scantily clad Raquel Welch.

On second thought, I might mosey over to Netflix and see if they have a copy.

[PrairieMule]

Hands down best battle scene was Akira Kurosawa's Ran. I saw it at the theaters in Dolby(It was 1987). The sheer number of extras added so much. The swordplay on that scale was magic. The battle was just larger than life. Speilberg acknowledged that scene had influenced his D-Day scene in Saving Private Ryan and Lucas based much of the Jedi lore off of his old samurai films when they both presented Kurosawa with the lifetime award.