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helicopter or airplane, which came first?

posted 17 years ago by railyard
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At the very beginning of the movie, Tarzan lands in a helicopter. A minute later he is shown getting off a large passenger plane. This seems to be backwards or did I miss something in the 60 seconds between shots? I thought the opening credits and especialy the music were atrocious!
This was a pretty good action/adventure film, but a poor Tarzan film. Many other characters could have done what Tarzan did. Mike Henry is OK, but far from being the best. Give me Gordon Scott or Lex Barker anytime. The guy trying to shoot Tarzan in the bull ring was a lousy shot. I could have nailed Tarzan easily, but then there would have been no movie, thus the idiot plot. Don Megowan as the villain's number one henchman just looked foolish and didn't do much. Viewer's ratings of 6 is being very generous.

[–] Squonkamatic 15 years ago

I noticed that too and wondered if the reels were being shown out of order. I watched the movie a couple more times, as best I can gather Tarzan was on vacation in Mexico and we first see him landing by helicopter in Acapulco, he then apparently takes a jet plane from there to Mexico City, which is where the bullfighting arena is. I know they were going for a James Bond kind of feel, my best guess is that they booked the helicopter for a week or so, probably finished a day or two early with it and decided to get an extra shot of it landing at the resort in Acapulco to get their money's worth and tagged it onto the beginning to give the movie more of an international flavor.

[–] flan99 12 years ago

It seemed to me that the first 'Tarzan' on the helicopter was a hit man/lookalike brought in to kill the real chauffer and replace him with a bad-guy lookalike chauffer who brought Tarzan to the bull ring.

If not, Tarzan would have murdered the chauffer who came to meet him when he got off the plane.

Weird and awkward either way.

[–] litmustest-648-564237 10 years ago

I thought the action scene in the bullfighting ring was great - death by Coke.