Sorry but I have to vent somewhere. I just watched this movie, and it is a total Indy ripp off. I read a post saying Lucas stole from this one but please. Music sound the same, they have germans, a screaming annoying lady, the hat, crazy stunts (although low budget), and on and on.
KSM was fun to watch on a lazy afternoon with nothing else on TV. And my mom is a Richard Chamberlain fan, but it is a lesser version of Indiana Jones.
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George Lucas has said one of the earliest movies that made a big impression on him was the 1950 version of King Solomon's Mines, the one with Stewart Grainger and Deborah Kerr. Indiana Jones is modeled after Alan Quatermain more specifically from the books. I doubt Lucas "stole" from anything.
"The value of an idea has nothing to do with the honesty of the man expressing it."--Oscar Wilde
Well, "King Solomon's Mines" was a book, but this is not really an adaption of it. This movie has little in common with the book, and much more in common with "Raiders of the Lost Ark". That said, I find it more of a spoof that a ripoff. And it is pretty funny. As for the music, that is composed by Jerry Goldsmith, one of the greatest composers of all time, and it is just as good as the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" score.
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@hbenthow,
Exactly. Can't people tell the difference any more between a spoof of the genre using a well established story and something trying to be serious.
Come on, who could watch this movie and even think they were trying to be serious?
I liked the movie. I thought Chamberlain and Stone both played their parts extermely well.
Spoof or not, this movie is TERRIBLE!!!!
shareIf anyone has ever watched the first half of Last Action hero and not enjoyed it, they will not like this movie. If you enjoy movies which make fun of themselves, like the begining of Last Action Hero (" Louie LeFart will pass gas one more time") then you understand the context which this movie was meant to be watched.
"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."
This movie is 25 years old and you're just NOW going "HEY! Indy ripoff!"
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"Love means never having to say you're ugly." - the Abominable Dr. Phibes
haha thats exactly what i thought. thank u. that guys a dweeb. and he is a bigget doozer 4 not realizing this is a spoof and not a rip-off. dweeb city
H.W.
Yeah, he should've totally vented on IMDb 27 years ago.
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