The Quest (Giro film)

afx237vi
afx237vi Posts: 12,630
edited May 2008 in Pro race
Watched this today for the first time and was a little disappointed. May as well have just watched a highlights DVD of the 2003 Giro - that's what most of it was really, with some (pretty dull) interviews in between. And Phil Liggett's narration was AWFUL.

Is there any point in getting the Quest II (the one with Saunier Duval)?

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  • donrhummy
    donrhummy Posts: 2,329
    Yeah, I was pretty dissapointed too. I noticed that all the Giro DVDs i've watched are all too much highlight films. The TDF DVDs are much better, you really get a feel for the whole race.

    I think the reason you didn't like the Ligget narration is that they mixed his real narration with in-the-studio fake comments and it came out pretty poorly.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    donrhummy wrote:
    Yeah, I was pretty dissapointed too. I noticed that all the Giro DVDs i've watched are all too much highlight films. The TDF DVDs are much better, you really get a feel for the whole race.

    I think the reason you didn't like the Ligget narration is that they mixed his real narration with in-the-studio fake comments and it came out pretty poorly.

    Yeah it was really jarring and obvious. One second he's talking normally, THE NEXT SECOND HE'S EXCITED, then he's back to talking normally again - all in the same paragraph!

    It didn't really give a good account of what it must be like to be in a grand tour and you didn't even see that much behind-the-scenes stuff. I could watch Hell on Wheels over and over again - but this lost my attention halfway thrugh the first viewing.

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