...rate this movie anything less than an 8/10? This movie is at 6.5/10 on IMDB. This movie is at least 8/10 good.
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The current rating (6.5) is a *beep* joke.
This movie is one of the best movies of all-time, and it should be in the top 250.
'Nuff said.
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Michael Douglas acting drops it a couple of points in my book. Merely including the character he portrays was enough to drive down its stock with me. I think the true story and the characters are strong enough that fabricating silly characters did nothing to help the film, actually harming its overall quality.
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Very true statement. Douglas's character and his acting were very-very poor and were detremental to the whole film.
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Douglas was a producer on this film and wrote himself into the script. In the real life events on which it's based there is no such character and Paterson was British not Irish. It's a typical case of anglophobic Hollywood having to do one better.
I love this film , but Doughlas spoiled it for me with his unecessary presence ,the story didn't need him at all.
know where you are coming from. i know whom you wanted--- DANIEL DAY LEWIS!
he would have got it 9 and also few oscars( the photo of pattenson with thick musch reminds of some semblance to him)
I love Michael Douglas, but I agree he didn't really fit in very well in this movie. His acting is too over the top though he's usually great.
It didn't really spoil the movie for me, I still love it, but he could have toned things down a bit.
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Some people think it's racist, because it depicts the Africans as relatively helpless in the face of natural, regional threats, while the whites need to swoop in and save them.
A stupid view, I think, in view of the fact that whites did indeed have superior technology that allowed them to achieve precisely the deeds depicted in the movie.
How is it racist when it really happened (even if some characters were made up) ?, any one who thinks that is being foolish.
shareYeah, I don't get it either. Two of the most famous hunters of man-eaters were Kenneth Anderson and Jim Corbett, both of whom were from India but were born to families from Great Britain. Between them they killed some of the most infamous tigers and leopards in history, some of which had killed dozens or perhaps hundreds of people before being stopped. You would think the locals would be able to kill the mean-eaters on their own, but they didn't. It ended up being the foreigners with guns and hunting experience who saved the day.
shareUmmm....I cannot say much about Kenneth Anderson but Jim corbett was more Indian than an average Indian...He was born and reared in India and LOVED the country more than anything else in the world.He went to England for a visit and returned back in the next few days-Couldn't survive among them.
After wards when he shifted to Kenya in the last days of his life(Queen Elizabeth became the queen at his residence)he still longed to see India one last time.
It is my dream to visit his grave.
Man eating Leopard of Rudraprayag was the most infamous animal in the history of man-kind and it was a thrill reading the book,so are his other books which are equally exhilarating.His last book was simply titled "MY INDIA".
You would think the locals would be able to kill the mean-eaters on their own, but they didn't.
Michael Douglas acting drops it a couple of points in my book. Merely including the character he portrays was enough to drive down its stock with me. I think the true story and the characters are strong enough that fabricating silly characters did nothing to help the film, actually harming its overall quality.
the movie was crap.
period.
Yep, my brother and I were watching it the other day and we both commented on how when Michael Douglas entered the pictured the whole tone of the film changed from like Adventure/Horror to like Adventure/Buddy Movie. Still a very entertaining movie but he was just a tad difficult to buy as the "badass white hunter."
shareI don't get it either. Goldman's script is (as usual) superb; the acting is top notch; the photography wonderful. This was my favorite movie of 1998.
sharethe acting is top notchLol. The acting was atrocious. The dialog was pathetic. The story was a joke. You even had characters trying to understand how you couldn't hit a caged lion at 15ft. An owl knocking him off the platform? LMAO. It's a typical over-dramatized piece of crap. Watch the documentary, it's much more believable and better entertainment.
lol agreed...just watched this on Netflix and am kinda pissed off I did. I chose it cuz Michael Douglas was in it and I have an interest in African history. The ratings were fairly high (not a 3 at least) so I figured it was halfway decent.
I've seen worse acting but the writing was terrible. I just couldn't buy Douglas in the role. Seemed too cheesy and fake. Lots of people are saying the role should have been cast differently but I don't think that would have helped overall.
I highly doubt white people were so buddy-buddy with the natives either. Only in a perfect world would everyone have gotten along so well. As for the lions, halfway through I was like "shoot the damn thing already..." No, they just stand there in horror as their guns predictably don't work. ugh I was hoping his wife would come visit and they'd use the baby as bait.
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yeah i haven't seen it in a while but i decided to look it up on IMDB becuase i was expecting it to be rated at about an 8.0.
i can't believe so many people don't like this movie. i absolutely love it. kilmer, douglas, the baboons, everything.
that scene where his wife arrives was as nervous as a movie has ever made me
yeah i haven't seen it in a while but i decided to look it up on IMDB becuase i was expecting it to be rated at about an 8.0.
i can't believe so many people don't like this movie. i absolutely love it. kilmer, douglas, the baboons, everything.
that scene where his wife arrives was as nervous as a movie has ever made me
I just saw the ratings and I agree this movie should be an 8/10.
shareI'd rate it at least that. Fabulous movie.
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