Romancing the Stone
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Movie Reviews of Romancing the Stone
Movie Review: Indy-lite
Summary: 3 Stars
I didn't purchase this from amazon (or anywhere, in fact). I received it as a redemption prize, probably from Kellogg's. It appears to be the relatively bare-bones 1999 release.
It's not Indiana Jones but it's not bad, either. Actually it has a lot of the same people behind it as Back to the Future. A little cheezy but nothing that will turn your stomach. But nor is it as imminently re-watchable as Raiders.
Movie Review: Indiana Jones Lite
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is enjoyable, but pretty shallow compared with the Indiana Jones adventures. The biggest problem is the cheesy soundtrack. This movie is only 15 years old, but the background music sounds like a low-budget 70's movie. They should have used an orchestrated score like Raiders of the Lost Ark. The result is an adventure that is showing its age.Movie Review: Toooooooo Bad!!
Summary: 3 Stars
It is too bad and a crying shame that the transfer to dvd of this great movie has been cheapened. It is no better than the vhs version so i see no reason to upgrade. sorry to see the video is not even anamorphic and the dolby dig transfer is no better than the vhs audio!! what a shame!Movie Review: Extras needed please.
Summary: 3 Stars
These movies need extras(interviews,TV spots,soundtrack,documentary etc.)otherwise I may as well just rent the video.Movie Review: Lost in Columbia
Summary: 2 Stars
Kathleen Turner plays romance novelist Joan Wilder, who ironically isn't too lucky in the world of love and romance. She writes about faraway places and times, but for the most part she's cooped up in her apartment with her cat Romeo. It's a lonely life, until one day she discovers her sister has been kidnapped and is being held hostage in Columbia. Joan rushes over there, and in the midst of the confusion and culture shock she meets Jack T. Colten (Michael Douglas), who agrees to get her out safely in exchange for several hundred dollars worth of her travellers checks. Will Joan be able to save her sister? Will she have an adventure worthy of her novels, and more importantly, will she have a romance as worthy?
I first heard about "Romancing the Stone" when I was browsing through the special features of the DVD of "The Librarian: Quest For The Spear". They mentioned "Romancing the Stone", saying it was a film similar to Indiana Jones. It sounded like the sort of film I would like. It had adventure, I love adventure films, it was set in South America, I love South America. It had a treasure to be found, it had crocodiles it had romance. Yes, it definitely sounded like a film I would enjoy.
And I really wanted to like it too, I really did. It seemed like my type of film and I gave it every chance I could. Even though the imaginary wild western start put me off, I kept watching, hoping it would get better. Even though I didn't feel for the heroine, or the rough and tumble adventuring hero, I kept watching, hoping I might soon, maybe in a few minutes, a few scenes, maybe. Even when I was totally bored with it and wanted to turn it off I kept watching. But no, I could hardly get into this film at all. By the last forty minutes of it, I could only watch five minutes at a time, pause it, go and do something else and come back, forcing myself to finish watching. That's how much of a chance I gave it. The only thing I liked about it, pretty much, was the very beautiful scenery and color (which is why it gets two stars instead of one from me). Everything else was dull and hard to follow.
With the cheesy dialogue and so so plot, there were some points in the film where I thought perhaps "Romancing the Film" was trying to imitate a certain style of B-grade cult cinema of the past, a homage or something to somthing I'd never seen that I just wasn't understanding. I saw lots of action, but for some reason it didn't grab me. I saw Danny DeVito as a crook but it didn't make me laugh (and I usually always laugh at Danny DeVito's antics). I really felt left out of the joke here. Looking at some of the glowing reviews here, I am even more confused. Did I get the same DVD as everyone else? I got the one with the crashed aeroplane full of marijuana, the devils fork, the green gemstone, and the Spanish speaking romance fans gushing praises to Joan in a usually mean village. I don't normally criticize films so heavily in reviews like this, but I really, really, really didn't get it at all. It's directed by Robert Zemeckis and everything! I mean, I love the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Forrest Gump... but this?
On this edition of the DVD there's not much in the way of special features apart from an original 1984 trailer.
I'd say to give this one a miss.