This movie definitely exists in its own reality so to speak, some of the characters were just strange and I don’t mean the deranged father.
1.Are there really passenger boats that you can just board and ride to central America as passengers? Gotta love the immigration control too wherever they landed(Yes me and my whole family has come here penniless to stay permanently, we plan to go deep into the wilderness and build a giant ice maker…ok I will wait for your supervisor). What are the chances a poor family like that would keep passports handy for like six people including small children so they could just run out the door?
2.One crazy parent I could see, two crazy parents is too much. The mother only ever voices concern about her husband’s insane idea of going into the jungle with no money or supplies near the end of the movie.:smack: Nice mothering there.
3.Where are the supplies coming from? They didn’t bring one rifle? Why do the guys with the boat go and live with them in the wilderness? Is the father promising these people a payout eventually or something? They meet locals who just up and follow them into the wilderness with no food or supplies and seem happy about it.
4.So the missionary is living in that luxurious jungle outpost that seemed to inspire the Others village in LOST off what?..the donations from villagers in the jungle, does that pay well? The church that has no visible or audible generator but does have a giant TV to show preaching on in the middle of the jungle to the zombie like flock.
I’m beginning to wonder if this movie might not be intentionally surreal and possibly a bit allegorical…I mean it.
Yep-I didn’t like the movie-and the book was pretty bad. How about the part where Harrison Ford presents the puzzled indian with a chunk of ice-was was that all about? I also like the part where they fing an old outboard motor buried in the sand-a few sparkplugs and its good as new.
A real turd.
It’s an odd movie, but it’s got a quote I drag out every now and then (most recently this weekend).
The family arrives at this dismal, impoverished village in the middle of absolutely fucking nowhere. The rest of the family is looking around in complete dismay and the father says "We can live here! Everything we need is right here!"
It’s the best National Lampoon’s Vacation movie ever made. Seriously, Ford is Clark Griswold *just *a shade darker and driven.
I really have a soft spot for this film because I see some of myself in it, and it serves as something of a warning for any pater familias who’s prone to flinging the family into overly ambitious ideas and ideals. For instance, I’m building a solo canoe currently, and I have plans for a 20 foot three-seat canoe in the works that’s light, fast, and stable. I immediately pitched plans to my wife about paddling the entire length of the Mississippi over a summer. In my defense, this is something people do, and it’s done every summer. Just not by many.
You think missionaries are paid by the people that have to endure their pontificating? The Missionaries situation is actually the most believable thing about this movie.
I stayed with a Baptist preacher for a few days in Sarajevo, if I believed in god missionary work would be a sweet gig to get into.
