Lazy sunday afternoons

[troll]

Possibly the most compelling but simultaneously the most crap film ever seems to be a must for archies...just sat through it.....
"Timeline" with Billy Connolly et al. A team of student archaeologists diggin at a Medieval site in France....professor disappears into the 14th Century...... Some great lines and if anyone out there should inexplicably find themselves on the wrong end of a wormhole-archaeologists are apparently worth their weight in gold.....get to swing swords about AND get the girl in the end.Oh well, nuff dreamin for today..back to me lime kiln...

..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)

[DAZ 1900]

Hi Troll,

I agree with you it was a film that i thought was going to be good (so much so i even bought it!![:o)]) a good idea but a crap cast,National Treasure was a better film!![8D]

D

[Orkynowot]

Timeline :face-confused:

May god go with you in all the dark places you must walk.

[Cautionary Tale]

May I add Sahara to this list of dubious films. Search for the booty, destroy its context. I only have this description second hand: me and my girlfriend fell asleep 30mins in [:I]

I can recomend certain sections of National Treasure to budding conservators everywhere

Desiderate le fritture con quello?

[Curator Kid]

I thought National Treasure stank.

I've not seen Sahara. Do they destroy as much archaeology as Lara Croft does in the Tomb Raider movies?

[Cautionary Tale]

Scant regard is given to recording the American Civil War ship which contained vast amounts of gold which the cheeky chaps were after. Not even a photogramatic survey

Desiderate le fritture con quello?

[gumbo]

Did anyone see the film 'Revelation' last week (was on too late for site monkeys p'raps but suitable for office loafers)? That film got the pseudo-archaeo pulse racing... Also it was a bit like a pre Da Vinci code Christ bloodline thingy (you know the sort). Strongly recommended as a piece of entertaining s***

G

[Curator Kid]

quote:Originally posted by Barnesy

Scant regard is given to recording the American Civil War ship which contained vast amounts of gold which the cheeky chaps were after. Not even a photogramatic survey

Maybe it was only a Civil War ship of "local importance", and they did a watching brief after the treasure had been removed and it had been destroyed? [xx(]

[kevin wooldridge]

By the strangest of strange coincidences 'National Treasure' was on telly here in Norway last night. Maybe it was European heritage movie weekend.....

Still the nicest of all 'vaguely' archaeological movies has to be 'A Month in the Country' starring Colin Firth ....who is also in 'The English Patient', which has an archaeo-historical undercurrent and
also 'stars' (in extra roles) a number of Brit archaeologists who happened to be working in Tunisia when the North Africa sequence of the movie was shot there....and also stars Ralph Fiennes...whose brother is an archaeologist.

I have this idea for an action movie (apologies to the Wizard of Oz) where an archaeological site hut full of Northampton archaeologists, is lifted up in a tornado and dumped in a different county. But that's probably too far fetched to be appealing...

[wombat]

While we're on the subject, is this true?

I heard a rumour that back in the 60's an eminent archaeologist who's name eludes me went to see Zulu at the cinema. As the story goes, during a scene where Stanley Baker or someone is stood on a hill listening to the sound of the approaching Zulu army, said archaeologist spots a piece of bone in the soil, identifies it as a hominid fossil, then pops over to South Africa and digs it up.

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