Random Quest...

[fajrdrako]

Last night I watched Random Quest with commodorified and Alayne.

It's Samuel West, which is a point in its favour. It co-stars Shaun Parke, whom I adore. It's based on a story by John Wyndham, one of my favourite SF authors - though I never read the original story. So is it a good story?

It's visually terrific. Costumes and set were great.

The script... thin. The story... not exactly compelling. It's about a physicist, Colin Trafford, who by accident is slipped into a parallel world where he's a successful science fiction writer married to a doctor. His double in that world was something of a cad, and unfaithful to his wife, while our hero falls in love with her and wants to repair the damage. But he's zapped back to his original life and wants to find his world's version of the woman he loves.

I couldn't see that she had much character. But then, neither did he - neither was very developed, and the suspense wasn't very suspenseful, and since a similar story has been written and produced in various forms since it was written in the 1960s, it didn't seem fresh.

The art director deserves a medal, though.

Comments

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

I am sure Marna advanced to you the theory that Random Quest is nothing but pure unadulterated Sam porn? ;)

Also, OMGWTFSUNSPOTS.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Random Quest is nothing but pure unadulterated Sam porn? ;)

Is there any better reason to exist? And there was something about the way they handled his clothing... very visual, very sexy.

Sunspots, yeah. And stars and galaxies and nebulae and stuff. (I guess that was to make it look like science fiction.) And clear blue water in a tiled pool. Lots of white walls. It was all so... well, just so visual, with Sam in the middle of it all. With a look like that, who needs substance?