This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Since the 13th came out on video I rented it last night. Absolutely one of the worst movies I ever saw. I can't figure out what Crichton, the director or the screenwriter were playing at anyway. What was the deal of separating out the berserkers from the Vikings, making the Vikings ride some draft cobs instead of Fjords, (I would have liked to see the Fjord and Arab horse have run offs, using plastic tarps and really riding in those boats and see who wins) put the Fjords under the strangoid made up bearmen who were actually just some kind of slam on idigiginous earth spirituality type folks, given them the the fertility goddess figures as their symbol, and then making their queen bee looks like some kind of bad early Hollywood version of Kali. (not a Goddess I would like to make fun of anyway) I can't think of anything they didn't make fun of. Norse, women, goddesses, Fjords, --maybe not the Arabs, --I guess--. That all depends on how you viewed Antonio as an Arab. Some one told me the bear fokls were supposed to be some kind of Grendel reps. Well that fell flat too. I mean, the whole thing made no sense at all, was sloppy and choppy. Even the gratuitous gore was silly.
Personally, I was left only liking the 'evil' troglodites. Maybe it's because they were riding around on cute Fjord horses and wearing stripes on their faces. Think maybe? Anyway, I would rather think The Vikings, with Tony Curtis and Ernest Borgnine---not to mention Kirk Douglous blasting around on a real cutie Fjord was a better Viking movie. By far. And as far as plot and total entertainment, best of all was Erik the Viking with Tim Robbins. There were no Fjords in it-though. At this point I was left thinking that the only reason to watch the movie was to see the Fjords, and there was darn little of that. . So there you go--a mini review--like it or not. Misha of Fjords and Stripes forever
