Pretenders to the Fedora

Pretenders to the Fedora Jan 30, 2018 17:52:24 GMT detour likes this

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Post by Salzmank on Jan 30, 2018 17:52:24 GMT

Jan 30, 2018 17:40:50 GMT Rey Kahuka said:

Oct 17, 2017 16:43:45 GMT Salzmank said:

Some great picks, I enjoyed these movies as well. Congo is definitely a forgotten gem in my book. Another movie I'd count as at least a cousin to Indy is League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Yet another flick featuring Quatermain who dresses like Indy (and they even got Indy's dad to play him!) and is essentially the same character. Very different from the comics of course, and some serious pacing/editing problems but I've always considered it to be great fun.

Thanks! Nice to see another Congo fan, too: we’ve got you, me, Roger Ebert, and a few guys on this board, and—uh—is that it?

I think it’s just great, but people nowadays don’t really seem to understand that something can be both of a genre and parodical of that genre. (Another favorite of mine that many critics didn’t understand, Mamet’s The Edge, also counts—oh, and so does Mamet’s The Spanish Prisoner! Happens a lot with Mamet.) As Ebert put it, “False sophisticates will scorn it. Real sophisticates will relish it.”

I have seen League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and all I can say is that I wish it were better done. I would have loved a Connery Quatermain movie a bit earlier—Quatermain’s supposed to be in his 50s in King Solomon’s Mines (and, as I understand it, in the League comic books too)—so maybe some time around The Hunt for Red October? Anyhoo, I didn’t hate the movie, but its over-reliance on special effects did hurt it, in my opinion. Still, yes, there are definitely segments that are good goofy fun.