8/2/2023 0 Comments Anaconda movie cast jon voightThe only lesson that Anaconda gives you is the inspiring one that you can work with fools and not be a fool yourself. The snake has no symbolic force it's not there to punish the cast for tampering with matters they should have nothing to do with. And it's hardly the river primeval either Anaconda looks like it was filmed in Jungleland you can see some smog over the horizon in the lagoon with the waterfall. There's no theme to Anaconda besides "don't play with giant serpents." The cast putters around on the river doing nothing for much of the movie. Unfortunately, the snake doesn't have a plot to hiss in. The computer-generated serpent-occasionally juiced by such props as a bottle labeled "reptile tranquilizer" and a pail of monkey blood-is the prize in this laughably empty package. Among all snakes, it is known for throwing up one meal just to eat another-the pig. The anaconda, as a title card informs us, is sometimes worshipped by jungle tribes. Along the way, they pick up a shipwrecked weirdo (Voight) who pretends that he isn't looking for the dread anaconda, while secretly hoping to bring it back in chains to civilization. Somewhere in Brazil, a group of filmmakers and their girlfriends (including Jennifer Lopez of Selena) have boated upstream to photograph a shy tribe of natives. Thanks, guys! Ice Cube's stolid cool as the crew's cameraman is a perfect reaction to a computer-animated snake. Eric Stoltz (as a khaki-clad anthropologist) threatens to subvert the expedition by manfully paying little heed to a leg that was, he explains, gnawed on during "a small attack of piranha." Shortly thereafter, he drops out of the picture to nurse a tracheotomy-given to him on camera. The rest of the characters in the jungle-boat ride hang back, 110 percent serious. The movie is shamefaced, certainly a character making a documentary delivers the line "This film was supposed to be my big break it's turning out to be a disaster." Director Luis Llosa figured correctly that Jon Voight, as a Paraguyan Judas Priest, was enough ham for one movie. SERIOUS BULLSHIT THAT IT IS, Anaconda at least does the audience the favor of recognizing the inherent nonsense of its premise without underscoring the point with gags, as Congo did. The Snaked Truth: Jennifer Lopez (armed) and the mother of all anacondas (coiled) get into a tussle as Ice Cube (flailing) loses his cool.īoat-bound Amazon thriller leaves the title snake without a plot to hiss in
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