Vision Quest
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Movie Reviews of Vision Quest
Movie Review: Hmm..very nice!
Summary: 5 Stars
This one is a very sweet and encouraging movie. I got the DVD free with the audio CDs I ordered. First time in my life it happened that I found the free stuff better than the one I paid money for.
The movie is a lot different than the kind of ones we see now. It has a message, something which movies made in this era lacks. Matthew Modine plays the role perfectly, so did Linda Fiorentino. I also ordered the audio soundtrack of this movie, as all the tracks in the movie are worth listening!
I have shown this movie to most of my friends and relatives, and not one of them found it not worth watching. In fact, they borrowed the DVD several times. However, the DVD has no additional features, subtitles, or menu options. Five stars from me!
Movie Review: Master OF The Rare LASERDISCS Movies.
Summary: 5 Stars
Vision Quest Starring Linda Fiorentino [ GOTCHA 1985 ] is a great Movie,I have it on LASER DISC ,A MUST SEE For Linda Fiorentino's FANS. :p
Movie Review: a winner
Summary: 4 Stars
A well-made but typical 80's "you're the greatest"-type movie (as the soundtrack makes intrusively clear), about a high school wrestler who is driven to take on a legendary champ.
There's something that's always bothered me about this movie: the lead actor, Matthew Modine, while charming, was totally miscast!
He doesn't look anything remotely like a wrestler, much less the size and caliber that would be required to best the hulking "Shoot" (himself superbly cast).
Not that Modine is a bad actor by any means, having delivered totally convincing (and even stunning) performances in "Birdie," "Full Metal Jacket," and a load of other movies.
But he is congentially spindly and undeveloped, it must be admitted. The visual "cognitive disconnect" of this movie proved, for me, a constant distraction.
The movie is also notable for featuring an extended cameo by Madonna, just on the cusp of super-stardom.
This DVD's got jack squat for extras, by the way.
Movie Review: Just a great feel good 80's movie!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Let me tell you 80's fans....this is deff. the best 80's feel good movie around. From Matthew Modine's training montages to the soundtrack, everything pumps you up in this movie. I don't like even like wrestling but Matthew Modine makes you wanna try out for a team! Matthew Modine is just a typical 18 year old high school student, young, ambitious, and confused. When he drops to a lower weight class level to beat "shoot" his team disowns him. That doesn't stop him though, he is sexually teased by Linda Fiorentino, disowned by his team and coach, and even challenged by his own health. Watching matthew Modine triumph all these challenges is worth every second in this all time classic movie....buy the movie and soundtrack....Movie Review: Great movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Louden Swain is an unlikely figure to carry a film. He's a wrestling-obsessed high school jock but rather than being super-tough or heroic he's rather unsure of himself and something of an intellectual.
I first read the book "Vision Quest" as a teenager and only realised it was a movie comparatively recently. If you can get over the fact he's too old for the part, Matthew Modine gives a convincing performance as the central character as he considers his upcoming match with the state champion and encounters a few life-lessons about love along the way.
As a whole the film is a lot softer than the book, although I enjoyed the wrestling room scenes, which were credibly depicted. Louden's relationship with his mother, who suffers from cancer in the book but refuses treatment, is absent entirely here and Linda Fiorentino is a lot more together than her flaky counterpart on the page.
Modine went on to a glittering screen career after "Vision Quest". Sadly Frank Jasper, who I liked as his hard-nut opponent Shute, doesn't seem to have had the same success.
Overall, readers of the book, wrestlers, high school movie fans and people interested in the early career of Madonna won't be disappointed by this adaptation but I'm not sure it has universal appeal.