Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ags From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Best/Worst Films of the 80's (Hercules w/Ferrigno) Message-ID: <510@pucc-i> Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 15:33:06 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-i.510 Posted: Mon Sep 24 15:33:06 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 19:35:11 EDT References: <1845@ucbvax.ARPA> <500@oliven.UUCP>, <518@oliven.UUCP> <99@tekchips.UUCP> <1050@orca.UUCP> <1360@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 25 > I've an additional stunningly bad moment to add to HERCULES with Lou > Ferrigno: the scene where, "maddened with grief", Hercules tosses the > carcass of the bear who killed his father (which looked familiar... I think > it was the same suit used for "Dancing Bear" on Captain Kangaroo)... into > outer space. > > Boy, top that, John Dykstra! > > "Cheese it, cheddar-breath, you can't fight America's Action Hero, see?" What is your complaint? That you don't like mythology? Where did you think "Ursa Major" came from (according to the ancients)? The Hercules legend works much better when it is told in the original way, without pictures, so that the listeners can apply their own imagination. I might add that the straits of Gibralter REALLY WERE known to the ancients as "the pillars of Hercules." If you watched the movie, then you found out why. Why criticize a movie because it retells a legend accurately? It would be more appropriate to criticize the movie because it makes the legend look silly, which it did. -- [This is my bugkiller line. It may appear to be misplaced, but it works.] Dave Seaman My hovercraft is no longer full of ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags eels (thanks to my confused cat).