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Re: The Greatest Adventure Movies List
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Tue, 2 Nov 1999 17:22:03 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Mark Lindsey writes:
Alright guys this has spawned an awesome ZERO responses!  Surely someone has
an opinion.

Mark L

Don't I always?




In lugnet.adventurers, Mark Lindsey writes:
Here it is fellow Adventurers:


Top Adventure Movies
-criteria- Classic adventure movies set roughly in the 1900 to 1945 era, but
not absolutely so.  We are thinking LEGO set compatibility here.
1. The Man Who Would Be King
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. The African Queen
5. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
6. King of the Khyber Rifles
7. The Mummy
8. The Phantom
9. The Rocketeer
10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
11. Jorney to the Center of the Earth
12. The Deceivers
13. Zulu
14. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
15. The Mask of Zorro
16. The Tarzan movies (esp. the first four)
17. The Jungle Jim movies
18. The Shadow
19. Mystery Island
20. The Young Indiana Jones series

I'm not going to quibble over a moving them up or down a space or two.  Temple
of Doom was the weakest of the Indiana Jones movies and should switch places
with Lost Crusade.  Is that the Boris Karloff Mummy or the current version?
I'd move The Phantom down to the bottom of the list near The Shadow.  Mystery
Island or Mysterious Island?  If the latter, I'd move it up 10-12 spaces.



Adventure movies that fit into another motif, sometimes coinciding more with
the LEGO Pirate or Time Twisters themes and sometimes too modern or mythic
Cutthroat Island
Time Bandits
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Goonies
Romancing the Stone
Purple Rose of Cairo
Joe vs. the Volcano
Cabin Boy
The Sinbad movies
Clash of the Titans
King Kong (1933)
The Lost World (1925)
The Valley of Gwangi
The Land That Time Forgot
The Sea Hawk
Captain Blood
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Black Swan
Captain from Castille
El Cid
The Princess Bride
Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)

One film of note that is absolutely spectacular and a great period piece that
I highly recommend is 1900, starring DeNiro and Depardeau.  Thanks Craig, for
recommending it.


The Great Train Robbery - Sean Connery and Lesly Ann whatever from Sphinx, from
Michael Crichton's book.


The worst three movies for the category with #1 being worst are:
3. King Solomon's Mines
2. The Lost City of Gold
1. Sphynx


Get out the gas masks!  Air out the house afterward!  These stinkers are
lethal.  Sanitize your tape player - God forbid they are DVDs or Laserdisks.
See it with friends, have lots of beer, and soft objects that they can throw at
the TV and make rude comments.

Bruce



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(...) I won't touch your Indiana comment until you qualify your statement. The Mummy I was referring to was the current version. Why didn't you like the Phantom? Sorry that was Mysterious Island, and it probably should be moved up. (...) from (...) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)

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Alright guys this has spawned an awesome ZERO responses! Surely someone has an opinion. Mark L (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)

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