I feel like I saw slices of this when I was a kid, which is definitely not a good thing for a kid to see contextless slices of.
Actually, I think context maybe makes it worse. That said, uh, wog’s just another n-word here in the old UK. Quickly google “wog doll” and you’ll see why. Peace x
Dr. Grant was played by Sam Neill, who is not in this movie. I believe you are thinking of John Hammond, played by Richard Attenborough, who eas “Oxford Coach” in this movie
with respect to Swaim, I have to strongly disagree with John Lennon being the best Beatle. Given the choice I’d much rather hang out with Ringo than Lennon, and not just because of what happened after my last unauthourised exhumation
A high school teacher showed my class this movie for some reason. I remember being excited when I heard who was in it, but it really was just as terrible as described here.
It was just so incompetent and a lot of that came from treating the audience like dummies. Setups for jokes dragged on an on, as if people needed their hands held. And then the punchlines were repeated as if everyone was too dumb to get it the first time.
The whole “we know best” attitude fed a ton of self indulgence, and it meant the people involved were also against cutting and tightening scenes, which added to the slackness and weird pacing. It was just painful to watch.
I genuinely love this goofy-ass movie. When I first saw it in high school the big reveal with Yul Brynner in drag blew my mind. The best thing about watching it now is that it’s a pretty amazing ensemble cast.
I recently read the novel it’s based on, curious to see if the novel could cause the movie to make any more sense. It did not, though it does open, rather than close, with the shit pit.
‘Wog’ is a racist term for a black person in the UK. I assume it comes from Gollywog, the minstrel type dolls that the worst kind of people keep in their houses on display CoS iTs PaRt Of OuR HeRiTaGe
I remember reading a reference to this movie in the (excellent) Grant Morrison comic “The Invisibles”–“Racquel Welch and Ringo in the slave galley”– and thinking it was some kind of British joke I didn’t get. I had no idea it was a real movie.
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I feel like I saw slices of this when I was a kid, which is definitely not a good thing for a kid to see contextless slices of.
Actually, I think context maybe makes it worse. That said, uh, wog’s just another n-word here in the old UK. Quickly google “wog doll” and you’ll see why. Peace x
Dr. Grant was played by Sam Neill, who is not in this movie. I believe you are thinking of John Hammond, played by Richard Attenborough, who eas “Oxford Coach” in this movie
with respect to Swaim, I have to strongly disagree with John Lennon being the best Beatle. Given the choice I’d much rather hang out with Ringo than Lennon, and not just because of what happened after my last unauthourised exhumation
A high school teacher showed my class this movie for some reason. I remember being excited when I heard who was in it, but it really was just as terrible as described here.
It was just so incompetent and a lot of that came from treating the audience like dummies. Setups for jokes dragged on an on, as if people needed their hands held. And then the punchlines were repeated as if everyone was too dumb to get it the first time.
The whole “we know best” attitude fed a ton of self indulgence, and it meant the people involved were also against cutting and tightening scenes, which added to the slackness and weird pacing. It was just painful to watch.
I genuinely love this goofy-ass movie. When I first saw it in high school the big reveal with Yul Brynner in drag blew my mind. The best thing about watching it now is that it’s a pretty amazing ensemble cast.
I recently read the novel it’s based on, curious to see if the novel could cause the movie to make any more sense. It did not, though it does open, rather than close, with the shit pit.
‘Wog’ is a racist term for a black person in the UK. I assume it comes from Gollywog, the minstrel type dolls that the worst kind of people keep in their houses on display CoS iTs PaRt Of OuR HeRiTaGe
I remember reading a reference to this movie in the (excellent) Grant Morrison comic “The Invisibles”–“Racquel Welch and Ringo in the slave galley”– and thinking it was some kind of British joke I didn’t get. I had no idea it was a real movie.