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This is rated higher than the Richard Chamberlain version!?

posted 16 years ago by FCA1975
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Not that it was the greatest movie ever made, but Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold is a classic film in it's own right, and one I enjoyed.

This movie (I used that term lightly) was a pile! I mean I physically had to keep myself from trying to turn it off. The acting....awful. The action....terrible. The dialogue....atrocious. The special effects...unforgivable. Worst of all, Natalie Stone (playing Lady Anna) face looked terrible. Who did her makeup for this film? She looked like Mrs. Potato Head. She is a pretty girl in other films, but her she looked busted. This is definitely in the top 5 bottom of Asylums work (which 90% of those as a whole are in or near the bottom 100 of all time).

Watch at your own risk!

[–] lemner 16 years ago

Haven't seen this movie, but I just watched the Richard Chamberlain one, and it was appaullingly bad, in spite of 3 household-name actors. The dialog was stiff, the acting unconvincing where it wasn't campy, the special effects and action lame and implausible. The sets looked ridiculously plain and modern, all the plants dieds and they didn't bother to spray paint them green as is commonly done. The treasure was uninteresting.

Semper Contendere Propter Amoram et Formam

[–] FCA1975 16 years ago

Well it was ages ago when I saw it, I guess I will have to watch it again an re-evaulate it. Things are not noticed when you are a kid vs when you are an adult. But even still, that old movie was better than this new pile.

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