sadistic and depressing film

i take it you dont watch TV...there is more death on gi joe cartoons than this movie.. which showed a fairly acurat portrayal of aditudes about animals back then.

i watched it when i was 4, and its an awesome film. by 15 you should have known , that people die, as do animals in the jungle. panthers eat monkeys and not at KFC.

That's life in the jungle. Death is always near. The death in this film that made me upset was the Earl's rather silly death from sliding down his staircase.

I agree with the original poster that this was a depressing film. It depressed me anyway. But it presented a depressing truth and I cannot condemn it for that.

As to sadism - well, the original poster should try watching any wildlife documentary. It's kill or be killed, in the jungle or - frequently - in the street. All major species - not just apes - are heading for extinction. And humans are the cause. Within 50 years there probably won't be a single ape left in the wild. And the `wild' will probably have been ploughed-up to serve an agrarian economy or excavated in pursuit of minerals.

Depressing? Sadistic? You ain't seen nothin' yet. Wait till the ice-caps melt.

Go watch some cartoons maybe you will feel better. And don't forget to leave the light on when you go to bed, you never know when Tarzan may come out from the darkness and eat you.

I am confused. I don't mean any disrespect but have you not read the original source material? Every one of the Tarzan novels featured animals killing each other and men killing each other. Burroughs was trying to convey what he felt was an approximation of life in the jungle. And, if you have ever seen a nature documentary you should understand that this is indeed the way it is in the animal (and sometimes the Human) world.

Depressing...maybe...sadistic...does your cat think it's sadistic to eat a mouse? Probably not.

It's a more realistic, less Hollywood romanticized version of the story. Tarzan is a feral child, which sadly are very real.


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The scenes with Tarzan in the jungle were hard to watch. When he force fed Ian Holm (sorry don't know the character's name) maggots, I thought I was going to be sick. The best scenes were when Lord Greystoke went to England to see his grandfather. Sir Ralph Richardson was the only reason I watched this.