A poor mans Indiana Jones but all in all not as bad as some of Nic Cages films.
I just couldn’t get my head around how easy it was for him to sneak into Brendas inner sanctum, have a nose around the furniture and then sod off.
Oh, I never realised kidnapping the US prez was as easy as that :dubious:
I found my attention wandering. Here’s this super-secret, nobody has ever seen it, you die if you find out about it book. “But it’s my father’s good name at stake.” “Oh, okay, I’ll tell you where it is, and take two of your friends with you.”
The history was ridiculously sloppy, too. Not in a “we didn’t fact-check with a specialist in Olmec culture” way but in a “we didn’t fact-check Wikipedia” way.
It wasn’t a bad movie, but given its emphasis on history, the writers needed to be more diligent in their research. For example, the Olmecs pretty much stayed in what is now Mexico; they never made it as far north as the Dakotas. I might be willing to accept that some later explorer transported artifacts north, but that is never offered as an explanation. Even if that were the case, the crew that carved Mount Rushmore would have had to be pretty damn brain-dead not to figure out that there were 2500-year-old antiquities hidden in the mountain they were blasting.
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We just watched it last night; I didn’t expect much from it other than a passibly-good time, and I wasn’t really disappointed. I will say that I was amused by Helen Mirren being in it (I hadn’t heard), appearing AFTER the scene in the Queen’s study - which was featured prominently in The Queen. (I love a good in-joke.)
The only part that annoyed Himself and I was the VERY sudden turnaround of Ed Harris’s character. It didn’t make any sense to us at all, in that it was WAY too sudden. WTF?
Over all, though, not a total waste of a couple hours.
I would just like to add that the offices of professors at the University of Maryland-College Park are not as they are portrayed in the movie.
It was a silly movie overall, and, of course, had nothing to do with history. What really got to me, however, were the logistics of building that underground city. Would a civilization even begin to build such a complex structure, and how could the hide it so completely?
It was just too much. The Indiana Jones deathtraps were at least slightly possible (a giant rock held in place by a weight on a scale, a blade that cut off your head, a tromp d’oeil bridge*). This was a massive, overbuilt series of traps (and, after centuries, why hadn’t the wood that held back the water rotted away?) designed to give maximum problems to this small expedition.
It was fun, but it could have been much better with only a little more work.
*Well, a little outlandish, since that knowledge of perspective was never shown in any primitive art, but if you accepted that, it was possible.
Dame Helen Mirren’s best work ever.
While I enjoyed her in this film, I think that’s a stretch. Her role as the alcoholic cop in Prime Suspect was far better.
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It was a silly movie overall, and, of course, had nothing to do with history.
You mean Queen Vic never sent that letter?.
Well I’ll be… 