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From: spencer@oberon.UUCP (Randy Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Clan of the Cave Bear (a shorty)
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 20:19:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 29 20:19:10 1986
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It just ended at such a point of "...yeah, and the point is...?"
I was fascinated by the things that the actors (well, not the actors)
had come up with to communicate with.  To a 20th century man watching
a subtitled movie in downtown LA it seemed like the hand signs were
very authentic (of course, who knows).  I just saw Iceman on cable
and I didn't really get that much more out of this show.  The real
deep interest and conflict never got started.

The book is very thick and I guess they never had the time to really
dig into the scenes.  The opening scene is a young Daryl Hanna walking
through the woods and before you can say anything there is an earth-
quake and Daryl's mom is sucked into the ground, and we never got to
see her before she is almost dead.  The majority of the opening of the
film seemed to me to be just fragments that were included so they could
later be refered to, then as soon as they had been on long enough to 
register, off they went, "we have to get through this in 2 hours!".

I was really looking forward to this since my sister seemed so taken
by the book, and since I have been so impressed by Daryl Hanna since
I saw her in Blade Runner (back when), and since they have plastered
LA with that great photo of her on huge 12 foot posters everywhere.
Alas, I wish I had seen it on cable.

Life goes on...

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