Horrible Movie

I agree with WhyNow.

Eli Lapp: You never had your hands on a teat before.
John Book: Not one this big.

Yes it is and I do agree! It's a GREAT movie and absolutely unique. Not the usual Hollywood *beep* and not that predictable. The book by Paul Theroux is one of my favorite and (he is so often wrong but) I can relate to Allie that he has a big problem with missionaries!!!

Just because he's generally unlikeable doesn't mean the movie is no good. It's a wonderful portrait of a special type of madness.

I wish Harrison still had the cojones to take on such interesting characters.

Watch Random Hearts and you will change your mind.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2604794/

I love this movie, it's amazing how many meanings and feelings in it! and I very much like the relation between River and Harrison Ford. River himself said this movie was very important to him as an actor. You can see that, even when he does not have a line, he would still be very present in the action, his eyes very witty.
"Mosquito Coast" is a really good movie and I believe I understood it better the second time I saw it.

Halloweeen 3 is classic.

So what if Michael Myers wasn't in it. I do think the title is misleading though.

4,5,6 -- ya they're crap

3 tried something different -- and it gets flack for it all the time.

Good Carpenter score, Tom Atkins was the man in it.

Same with 'Rocky 5' -- though i think less people will be with me on this one.

So what Rocky didn't go in the ring, the music was bad late 80's Hammer rap. Mickey's presence in the film makes up for it. The story went in an interesting direction -- and if Rocky 5 didn't exisit -- Rocky Balboa wouldn't have worked nearly as good as it did.

Enough at all that though.

Jaws 3 and 4... Friday (especially) 5 are dog sh!t.

This film is NOT in the same league as the above. There's plenty of 'one of the worse movies i've ever seen' threads on this site (only natural of course -- to each their own) but those threads SHOULD belong to these terrible remakes emerging and the more "unoringinal" pictures we seem to be plagued with now more than ever.

The Ford character is SUPPOSED to be detestable.

He is not Indiana Jones here people, he's a selfish miserable idealist that has moments of brilliance and monstrosity.

To me, the movies impact comes after the credits, when you are left to worry about and hope for Charlie. He has a real shot at redemption with the death of his father and to heal the family.

If your watching this for Ford, you're missing the whole point of the movie.

To all those who didn't like this movie "Opinions are like a##holes, everybody has one!! If you can't appreciate this film or better yet character studies then you are unfeeling losers anyway

To point out that Harrison Fords character is unsympathetic is like saying Howard The Duck is a classic

So go watch the new Underdog film, because obviously its more your speed

*spoiler alert*

This was a superb adaptation of a book, and I actually feel the way Allie's death was done in the movie was much better than how it was portrayed in the book. In the book his death seemed really overblown - scavengers tearing his tongue out - hey that's the tongue he was always talking with and now he can't talk, yes, I get it. In the movie he had more humanity in death, which was better, he was not reduced to being an operatic supervillain. The movie death emphasized he was a disturbed egocentric human who had probably been sane once, and that part of his love for his family was genuine; which made it more genuinely affecting and meaningful.