Romancing the Stone
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Movie Reviews of Romancing the Stone
Movie Review: A good 'un
Summary: 4 Stars
Not much of a fan of either Douglas or Turner, but the "suits" could not have made better choices in their stars. As usual, Danny DeVito takes his part and, as usual, makes the most of it.
Much better than the sequel, it's worth seeing and owning.
Movie Review: Jewls For Romance
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the story of a romance writer, who needs a romance. It's a silly story but fun none the less. It's a chick flick I guess but it's fun.Movie Review: Romancing the Stone
Summary: 4 Stars
Old but excellent adventure movie with hilarious situations and top notch acting by Douglas, Turner and DeVito.Movie Review: A well-made hommage to Hayao Miyazaki's film.
Summary: 3 Stars
If you like this movie, I strongly recommend you watch the animation movie, "The Castle of Cagliostro" (1979) by Hayao Miyazaki, who is also famous with the 2002 Oscar awarded "Spirited Away".
Zemeckis's film, "The Romancing Stone" (1984), looks like a patchwork quilt sewn with a series of episodes taken from Miyazaki's animation. You'll find many funny or exciting scenes in Zemeckis' film in the Castle of Cagliostro too.
In 1980's, a Japanese animation has not yet gained any market outside of Japan. Robert Zemeckis was a one of the great influencers in Hollywood to introduce Japanese masterpieces (maybe next to George Lucas). However, in that period, directors shared videos with their friends only and didn't think it's neccessary to mention to public which Japanese film he based for the plot of his movie.
Movie Review: Fox cheaps out on DVD conversion
Summary: 3 Stars
I will not argue about the story,the stars and the production. this is a great all around movie. But it deserved a far better DVD transfer then Fox gave it. They chose to cheap out on a very good soundtrack and pass on a DD 5.1 upgrade, leaving the original (VHS) Dolby 2.0. The film transfer is at times grainy and no better than VHS, in fact we compared it to the tape and found it about the same.The film was transferred to a 2.35 wide screen format. The only "extra" was the original trailer. Fox was certainly after the quick buck on this conversion. We give the film 5 stars for its entertainment value, but 0 for it's DVD technical merits. I guess that makes it a 3 overall. Michael Douglas/Robert Zemekis how could you let Fox do this to your film.