If you’ve seen Anaconda you know that early on Eric Stoltz get bit by a wasp and is put to bed, only to emerge right at the end. There’s maybe a view or two of him in between but he’s not talking. (a showing of it on HBO yesterday jogged my memory, but I didn’t actually watch it again).
Anyway, I have a sneaking suspicion that a week into shooting he got a whiff of how atrocious this was going to be and said, “I ain’t acting anymore. Give my lines to someone else. Write me out of it. I’ll come back for 1 day of shooting so work fast.”
Otherwise, why the hell is he in it except to get bit by the wasp? There’s no point to his being in the movie.
Anyway, I remembered Ice Cube was in it. And I remembered Jon Voight was in it.
I’d forgotten that J. Lo and Owen Wilson were in it.
Pretty good cast, actually.
I’d really forgotten that Jon Voight’s performance was the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen. It can be described, maybe, as a Mexican Christopher Walken on drugs. Very weird.
Trunk’s theory about Eric Stoltz makes perfect sense to me, BTW. I always wondered how such a hideous waste of celluloid managed to scrounge up such a talented cast.
It doesn’t appear that the Black Orchid made the anacondas fast enough to run away from the filmmakers … nor smart enough to not appear in this turkey altogether.
One thing I always wonder about - if I’m a super-intelligent Anaconda or Shark or Crocodile or Wombat or whatever wouldn’t one of the first superintelligent thoughts to go through my head be along the lines of “Hey, I’ve got a new idea why don’t I not pick a fight with the one other species on the planet smart enough to potentially kill me? How about that?”
