All I remember is this lake that apparently has a monster that lives in it, but it turns out the monster is some sort of old crane. If somebody can help me out on this I would be much abliged. Its been driving crazy for years.
sharethats 'the quest'
shareso weird that i came here to find that movie as well
shareOMG I thought that was a dream.. HOW STRANGE..t hat movie freaked me out as well.. I hate lakes because of that movie!
sharewow so cool that you remember that movie! that movie and also this peanut butter movie are two that i have such faint faint memories of.
shareThat's because of The Disney Channel back in the day...when it was like HBO for kids. I just came in here looking for The Quest but couldn't find it (I just found out that it's listed as Frog Dreaming on IMDB) so I looked up this one instead. I could have SWORN that Alfonso Arau was the painter guy, but was just as surprised when I found that Colonel Tigh is in it. How did I go from this to Battlestar Galactica? Hmm.
I guess the next ones on my list, fellow late 20 year olds, is The Journey of Natty Gan and Never Cry Wolf. Yeah...THANKS Disney Channel. I guess I could also throw Wolfen in there...and Outrageous Fortune (isn't that the one where Peter Coyote is chasing someone on top of these big rocks in the desert and he falls off? I think so, too).
Oh, I'm about to melt your mind: anyone remember Battle Beyond The Stars? How about the "has-nothing-to-do-with-it-except-the-reuse-of-its-special-effects, sets and music" sister movie, Space Raiders.
And who could forget the movies that I always wind up confusing and mixing together into one big, fantastic epic:
Krull (that's the one with the big spider and the black stormtroopers that come out of the quicksand), Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (the one with Michael Ironside as a Borg on a TechnoCrane), The Beastmaster (the one with the bird men who grab people with their wings and dissolve them away into mush), Runaway (the one with the little robot spiders that produce spikes out of their backs and fall on you from the ceiling), The Neverending Story (the one with the giant turtle and the scary wolf puppet that's obviously speaking German), Moontrap (watch Checkov try not to be Checkov...and Ash* is in it, too), Lifeforce (the vampires-from-space movie where Captain Picard melts or something), Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (the one with the midget who rides atop the big guy as the deadly duo Master Blaster, and the funky plane that flys through Apocolypsized Sydney, Australia), Dragonslayer (the one with the scary dragon and the guy from Ghostbusters II in it), Wolfen (killer uber wolves run amok in New York), Jaws 3D (c'mon...you know you love it) and, of course, Conan The Destroyer (the one with the unicorn cyclops, or something like that).
My 80s childhood is completely screwed up because of those movies. I didn't even realize these were all bad movies until I grew up, bought them on DVD and watched them again. I'm not even going to bother with Porky's and Revenge of The Nerds. Instead, I'll just mention One Crazy Summer and let you guys chew on that. :-D
And I totally forgot to add The Ewok Adventure in there somewhere. And The Howling. And Silver Bullet. And The Gate. Poltergeist II, Critters, Steven King's It...and the other made for TV movie, Something Is Out There. Oh, and The Explorers. And Invaders From Mars. First Blood was really good. And what what was that Vietnam War movie where the guy kills himself by standing in front of the train? Wasn't De Niro in that or am I confusing it with The Deer Hunter?
*If I really have to explain who Ash is, then you're no friend of mine. :)
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yep the American title was the quest, the Aussie (original) title was
"The Frog Dreamers"
haha, The Peanut Butter Solution and The Quest are two of the strangest, most vivid memories of movies I remember growing up. They had such a lasting impact on me, like a powerful dream.
I've been trying to figure out what these two movies were for years. Finally found The Peanut Butter Solution and now its led me to the other half, The Quest!
got one for you guys dont remember much it was a sunday night disney movie about big foot. thats all I got for ya sorry. no its not harry and the hendersons
Till that day - Joe Sarno
maybe fuzzbucket? i think is the name. some movies that stick out from my childhood is the animated movies twice upon a time and the mouse and his child, also wish i could find peter no-tail
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