Anyone Know Of Any Great Unexplained Ancient History Movies? Like on Easter Island or Naza Lines? My Other Question Is What Is So Spectacular about Macchu Picchu? please respond Thank You Very Much!!

macchu picchu isnt spectacular, it was just undiscovered.

Yes. Research Ebay and type in these words: Ancient Mysteries. What will come up will astond you! Many people sell the Ancient Mysteries series narrated by Leonard Nimoy. I bought several tapes myself.

the film 'lost horizon' is a film about shangri-la, is that any good?

Atlantis The Lost Continent
TROY (released in May 2004)
Clash of the Titans (Greek lore)
Macchu Pichu (Easter Island)
Jason and the Argonauts (Greek lore)

nice.. ok thank you all i will check it out!

Also check out Pompeii -- The Last Day. It's a documentary movie.

I saw the one on Pompeii, it was excellent. There's also an axcellent historical novel called "Pompeii" that I read last year.

Discovery UK has a new series called "Paranormal" that started last week. I saw the first 2, on spontaneous combustion and hauntings. It was O.K., no new research or brave new theories.

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I know quite a few unexplained ancient history movies
i just don't know any great ones
i don't think that category exists yet
at least until hollywood buys my screenplay

I heard a rumour they're in talks to remark Atlantis: The Lost Continent.

Im not sure if this is what you are looking for, but there are a bunch of Jules Verne movies, some of which are very good.

There is a remake of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea 1997, starring Micheal Caine (Jaws III). It was a 4 hr TV movie. I thought it was a great movie, but very inaccurant according to the book.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118248/

I like the older movies, from the 60s and 70s, much cooler than the new ones

Here is a list I found of Jules Verne movies up to 1999

http://www.julesverne.ca/jvmovie.html

Oops, forgot the 50s, good movies made back then, lot of crap too though

Micheal Caine (Jaws III). ???
in the jaws movies i watched Michael Caine was in Jaws 4 "the revenge"
not Jaws 3 "in3D". number 3 is where the shark attacks seaworld and number 4 is where a 30ft long great white shark gets mario van peebles in its mouth but fails to even scratch him.
damn those test screenings
It's also the one in which Michael Caine (ugly pilot) tries to get his leg over Ellen Brody (wrinkly wife).
Jaws 2 is the best one. That girl that screams "sssshhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaarrrrrrrrk"...very convincing

All the Jaws movies are good entertainment, specially for the laugh value, I like all of them, but number 4 the least as it doesnt really fit in with the first three.

Fine. Jaws The Revenge. But that's not important.

lets see now ?
1) all feature huge ferocious great white sharks in excess of 25 ft
2) all the sharks terrorise a resort community
3) at some point someone always says "theres no shark like that in these waters"
4) none of the films resembles the original Peter Benchley novels much
5) all the sharks are killed by a member of the brody family

so far i've got the score dad brody 2, biggest kid brody 1, mummy brody 1,

I'm not surprised it didn't try to eat Michael Caine when he crashed his little plane
I wouldn't

anyone like the mummy 1/2?
any thoughts?
i thought they were OK

ardeth bay rocked

hes a cool guy

the original movies the time machine and war of the worlds were awesome movies too.the day the earth stood still is great too.

Nah they both sucked man
what are you smoking tonight
what happened to the life of brian and Young "give him the sedagive " Frankenstein"
huh
huh
Putting on the ritz
Blessed are the cheesemakers

Except for When The World Stood Still, I second that! I thought they were great, however they did fall short of their novelizations. A novel is always better than the movie. It gives more detail and dives deeper into the characters that a movie lacks. Tho, the movie gives vision to the writer, in the end it's the imagination that gives life to a story. I found the remake of the Time Machine satisfactory, and I'm weavy of little Tommy Cruise playing the protagnist in the WOTW remake.

Loves the older movies has all of them OMGosh
did you all see Final Countdown ?

Rapa Nui is about Easter Island's earliest civilization (the ones who created the monoliths). Just a theory, though.

Good movie.

Wait....there will be one.

One of these days.....lol

One what
you on about the second coming again.
he came
you were out
he asked me to take a message
but i ran out of loo roll and had to improvise

sorry

as long as hollywood doesnt turn more ancient history based novels to movies.....

I would love to see the story of Ramese II on the big screen w/o all that religious, biblical crap! Just Egyptian lore.

You ean you'd like to see the real story
not just the one based on the judao/christian myth
I agree
watching Ramses lose battle after battle and claiming each as a great victory would be quite a hoot
similar to the recent Iraqi information minister (now deposed)

u mean
comical ali


legend IMO

Ramses II



quite a pair

If you're really interested in the ancient past, apart from what you see in movies that romantise and show more fantasy than fact, then pick up King Tut's Final Secrets from National Geographic, and Rameses: Wrath of God or Man. Both have recently been shown on the National Geographic Channel and on the Discovery Channel, here in Canada. Both are 2 hrs long and include other exciting specials and info.

what is Ramese II about?

Come on Lucid - Google is your friend!! Do you need everything spoon-fed to you?

Coming soon to a cinema near you
Ramses 2
the face of the king

Watch Ramses battle across the deserts of egypt in search of the mythical "Oil of Ulay"

Rameses:Wrath of God or Man?

Sypnosis: A Murder investigation of proportation is about to begin. The astonishing truth behind the Old Testament's Plague of the Firstborn is revealed in the landmark: Wrath of God of Man? Follow celebrated Egyptologist Kent Weeks into the Valley of the Kings where he uncovers what many be the skull of Rameses II's eldest son. As forensic scientists determine its identity and the exact cause of death, the events surrounding the young Prince's demise and the Israelities' exodus from Egypt are painstakingly recreated through a stunning combination of faithful reenactments, spectacular CGI visual effects and a breathtaking journey to the ancient sites themselves, beginning at Mount Sinai and ending at the Red Sea.

the Israelities' exodus from Egypt are painstakingly recreated through a stunning combination of faithful reenactments, spectacular CGI visual effects
uhuh
so they have new evidence that actually happened then or is it all CGI

Well, watch it and decide for yourself. You can't have everything done for you and then make a decision on presented evidence, Marduk. You have to do some digging yourself.

Thats what they call the pot calling the kettle black
trust me on this one i know.
if any factual evidence had been discovered that the jews were ever enslaved by Ramses II the first place i hear the news will not be on a commercial video
It would be top media headline all over the world

The bottom line is that the entire story could have been told in a single hour and we would have been spared the constant repetitions of the individual dramatizations. Really, how many times do we need to see a wispy cloud hovering above the pharoah's son? We counted at least 10 which is approximately nine more than would be necessary. This was the central problem with the whole program: Overdramatization and far, far too much lead-in to really rather trival points. For example, after a long and convoluted segment touching on the presumed age of the first-born son of pharoah that was killed by the Israelite God, we finally get less than a minute of Caroline Wilkinson simply showing that the cranial sutures indicate the skull in question belonged to a 30-ish year old male. That could have been cleared up in 3 minutes.

Otherwise, the program was largely about the Exodus and whether it "really happened" or not, with the Egyptian evidence as little more than background to show how it could have been true. This often followed the by-now cliché formula of changing 'coulds' to 'dids'. After a rather long segment on the battle of Kadesh (a nice topic, but rather shallowly done in this case) we are told, for instance, that what was really a military draw was presented as a grand victory at home. The implication is that if something bad happened, they wouldn't write it down as such, if at all. Thus, if we find no written evidence for the Exodus, it might be because Ramesses didn't want anyone to know about it. The narrator then describes the lack-of-Exodus-evidence as a "cover-up'. Ergo, absence of evidence becomes evidence of presence!

There were also some trivial goofs. The narrator mispronounced Amarna as 'Armana' a couple of times before getting it right

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/2004_12_01...og_archive.html

It's still all presumtion and fabled.

Goes with the territory
egyptology
Well it did up til now

special guest appearance comical ali
playing rameses royal advisor/propagander minister.....

Omar Sharriff is bound to make a cameo as somebodies grandfather as well.

"No, really, there are no Reptilians helping us with the pyramids! I see none, and they are not here, Ra be praised!"

Interesting Egyptian fact of the day:

There was a Thebes in Greece as well as Egypt, at the same time. This was due to a complete coincidence.

That'll be why Nefertiti and akhenaton moved the capitol from Thebes, where it had been for centuries, north to Tell el Amarna.
Damn greek namestealingkebabslicingparchmentwritingsandalwearingbloodyphilosophers
they even grafiti'd all over the rosetta stone

Whoa!

Language, Language!

Let's not get hasty!

Lol
I can just hear "Achilles" saying that
or Ramses, after he found the oil