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Totally gripping; the story weaves between ancient myths and legends and present day reality.
There are hidden connections not only to the movies "Sukiyaki" is a remake of, but also to the ancient Japanese "Heike Monogatari" (The Tale of the Heike) and even Shakespeare's "Henry VI".
Well, we did see some familiar and spectacular ancient sites and scenery, but that was all.
"Whilst searching for ancient treasure on a lighthouse-island off the British coastline, an archaeological expedition becomes isolated from the mainland and is stalked by a monstrous assassin."
An American archaeologist thinks she has uncovered an ancient black cult involving priests and the plague victims, but she is brushed off by a British colleague, who is indifferent to her interest despite frightening revelatory evidence that she has uncovered.
The story is based on the real-life legend of Tumacacori, an ancient Spanish lost treasure of gold, and is a fun romp through the Arizona desert.
The mixture of recent, old-fashioned, and ancient weaponry fit together perfectly to give an idea of how combat flying, fire-breathing reptiles.
The ancient director managed to bring together some of the finest actors in moviedom , each speaking his own language, having the most boring , pseudo intellectual conversations the screen has ever seen, in a cacophony of English , French, Greek and Portuguese and in between some elementary school level guided tours to famous cities along the Mediterranean.
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Despite the fragmentary approach, one needs only remember the decadence of ancient Rome, the times and it's many religious practices together with it's ruler and sloven people to understand the movie.
To hear Bruce Springsteen say he first heard Chuck Berry via the music of the Stones makes me feel ancient.
What could have been a great vehicle for exploring the ancient Aztec civilization turned into a sad excuse for a film that was an attempt to push the envelope and lost.
Demonoid, Messenger of Death starts some 300 years ago in a Mexican mine where some ancient demon or other possesses the left hand of a woman, she is chained to a wall by robed religious fanatics & her left hand is cut off with an axe the disembodied hand then tries to scuttle away but a guy stabs it & places it into a silver hand shaped casket.
The local workers start bricking themselves & refuse to enter the mine due to ancient legends about the 'Devil's Hand', soon after while in the mine together on they're own Mark & Jennifer stumble across a room with the glove shaped casket in it & Mark decides to take it.
LLHP does a much better job in developing its characters than WILBY did and the mysticism in question is based on ancient Chinese culture and therefore, somehow seems less contrived and more elegant than the inexplicable technology-based type from FEAR.
I think that it's pretty sad that people discriminate based on an ancient book that was written thousands of years ago.
The subsequent investigation leads to the discovery of an ancient artifact on the island, and then a museums' expedition to the island to explore it further.
While the technology of the 20's in the forms of horse & street cars in the chases seem ancient now, they are never more skillfully employed in a film than they are in this gem.
When I was a boy I thrilled to the exploits of Steve Reeves and his cohorts with the massive pectoral muscles performing feats of strength and derring-do in ancient times, but as an adult I found it a lot slower going.
You get to see Troy and Zap uncover the ancient map room complete with leaking plumbing.
Legend of the Mummy starts in Egypt 1947, the Vally of the Sorcerer where a young John Corbeck carries out a bit of tomb robbing... Jump forward to the Present Day, Marin County California where Egyptian artifact collector Abel Trelawny (Lloyd Bochner) reads some ancient incantations from a stone tablet, he is attacked shortly after & found in a coma by his daughter Margaret (Amy Locane).
In our sad new era of ethnological destruction, where there's no place anymore for the Aborigene or any other tribal culture, this movie gives a little hope, a little reverie of seeing things turning in the right direction thanks to ancient magic.
The whole plot involves a flying, ancient rock that has a flying saucer hidden within it.
Fellini takes us on a bawdy odyssey of episodic nature where Encolpio (Martin Potter) in center, together with Ascilto (Hiram Keller), faces the incredible but impossible, world of ancient Rome; the sultry society of Romans who lives luxurious lives in self-indulgence where the nature of moral traditions is constantly pushed to the limit.
I really love Icelandic cinema and all those stories which have an inherent ancient Nordic mysticism or spiritualism about them.
One sequence ends with McElwee's filmed conversation with a woman with whom he has tried to forge a romantic involvement out of an ancient friendship; the sharpness with which they speak to each other is jolting.
The whole thing reverts back to the ancient battle between good and evil, fought out on earth.
Things go from bad to worse for McHenry as bullets start to fly & people are shot & killed, the cops show up & all hell breaks loose & Marino, his men & McHenry try to escape en-route stopping off at an art gallery where Marino takes a fancy to an ancient Indian tribal lance on display & decides to steal it shooting Goerge Storm (Gary Farmer) in the process.
Otherwise, the scenic emerald green jungles teeming with predators and perils as murderous as mankind and the seamless computer-generated imagery of ancient Maya civilization provide "Apocalypto" with exotic locales rarely seen in Hollywood movies.
Alas, soon after a slow and sluggish start, we are forced to sit through at least twenty minutes of crudely interpolated, ancient stock footage before we get back to the main story.
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