woody@dsd.UUCP (04/10/84)
This movie is no intellectual masterpiece, but it's been a long time since
I've enjoyed myself so much in a theater! Obviously the rest of the
audience felt the same, since there was wholesale applause at the
conclusion. You'll need to suspend disbelief in a few instances
("few," hah!) and overlook some silliness and inconsistencies in both
plot and characterizations--but really, it was FUN!
By the way, those reviews that say this is a "spinoff" of the "Raiders
of the Lost Ark" are wrong, unless they mean simply that it's an
all-out action/adventure movie with good guys vs. bad guys and little
relationship to reality. The story is quite different, as are the
characters, location and situations. Well--they do both have a bit of
jungle in them. And a Minister of Antiquities. And of course The Good
Guy and The Girl fall in love (or whatever).
My tastes aren't universal enough for me to assign ratings, but
I'd say it's a great movie for entertainment, some evening when your
skies are looking particularly grey.
Does anyone know why they turned "romance" into a verb in the title
(what's wrong with "Romance of the Stone")?
Janet Hallock
aka ...fortune!dsd!woodyralph@inuxc.UUCP (Ralph Keyser) (04/11/84)
This movie is so much fun, it is probably illegal in some states. A marvelous, rollicking film with action, adventure, humor, and romance in just the right mixture. Escapist entertainment at its best. Take someone you like and go to relax, become involved, and enjoy yourself! On our scale of 1 to 10, I give this movie a 9. I'm Ralph Keyser, for Entertainment Lastnight....
jbf@ccieng5.UUCP (Jens Bernhard Fiederer) (04/12/84)
>Does anyone know why they turned "romance" into a verb in the title >(what's wrong with "Romance of the Stone")? > > Janet Hallock > aka ...fortune!dsd!woody It comes from a phrase the cab driver used when stealing the stone. He told the lady at least he was stealing it openly, rather than "romancing the stone" like Our Hero. Azhrarn -- Reachable as ....allegra![rayssd,rlgvax]!ccieng5!jbf
hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) (04/12/84)
<lights-camera-reaction> The title comes, according to a Danny DeVito interview, from the process of preparing a raw gemstone for cutting. It's called, for poetic artistic type reasons, "romancing" the stone. Hutch
jmike@uokvax.UUCP (04/17/84)
#R:dsd:-29200:uokvax:3900023:000:168 uokvax!jmike Apr 16 19:33:00 1984 . also i think that `Romancing the Stone' is a lot catchier (Gad was that spelled right?) than `Romance of the Stone'! mike stanley ...!ctvax!uokvax!jmike
scc@mgweed.UUCP (Steve Collins) (04/23/84)
I agree with several of the reviews that it was a good movie. I do have some hesitations though. I feel it is pretty bad when the movie script writters (or whoever) have to damn God so often. Is that really necessary???
ss@wivax.UUCP (Sid Shapiro) (04/27/84)
Greetings,
I saw RtS last night - good movie - not a GREAT movie, but a good
movie. I couple of things did seem a bit strange to me, though -
to wit:
1) Was Angelina the heroine of Wilder's books? Was she a con-
tinuing character? If not then who was she? Was she the woman
at the beginning of the movie? If she was, and was not a con-
tinuing character, then how did Douglas know about her? (Whew!)
2) If Wilder was such a MAJOR writer of romance novels, wouldn't
she have likely as been wealthy enough to just simply buy a damn
boat for her and Douglas?
3) If someone lost his hand as Zolos(?) did, wouldn't he likely
be in shock such that he coulnd't function like Zolos did when he
attacked Wilder?
Aside from these questions, I did enjoy the movie a lot.
Recommended.
Sid Shapiro -- Wang Institute of Graduate Studies
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(617)649-9731barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) (04/28/84)
Responses to Sid Shapiro:
1) Was Angelina the heroine of Wilder's books? Was she a con-
tinuing character? If not then who was she? Was she the woman
at the beginning of the movie? If she was, and was not a con-
tinuing character, then how did Douglas know about her? (Whew!)
Angelina was the continuing heroine of Wilder's books, and Jesse is the
continuing hero. The woman in the opening sequence was Angelina, and
the man who saved her was Jesse.
2) If Wilder was such a MAJOR writer of romance novels, wouldn't
she have likely as been wealthy enough to just simply buy a damn
boat for her and Douglas?
I haven't heard of too many writers who have become filthy rich just by
writing. Perhaps if you produce many best-sellers you will come close.
She is very successful as romance novelists go, but that is not saying
much. That was a pretty expensive boat.
3) If someone lost his hand as Zolos(?) did, wouldn't he likely
be in shock such that he coulnd't function like Zolos did when he
attacked Wilder?
Oh, come one. This is an adventure movie. Where would adventure movies
be if the bad guys didn't keep coming at you after they got shot or had
their hands bitten off. It's called "suspension of disbelief", and you
had to do it an awful lot during this movie.
--
Barry Margolin
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