Re: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

On 8 Jun 2024 17:06:44 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
wrote:

In article <86v86jl3g0k760hmv3ak1gc4ij54iea90f@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:29:29 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:
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Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:

On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 09:29:15 +0100, Robert Carnegie

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I don't think I ever said it was a big film. It was a film about a
young man who leaves his small town for the big city and eventually
saves the town from dying of thirst. It has some action, but the story
is, how should I say this?, rather ordinary.=20
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When the second reboot Bond film (/Qantum of Solace/) come out, it was
roundly ridiculed for treater water as a vital resource.

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Cite?

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After all these years? Probably Ebert. I was a big fan of Ebert.
Maltin ducks the issue by saying "prized natural resource" without
revealing what the resource is.

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IIRC, they were kind of stuck with a script that needed another pass
because of a writers' strike.

Scott Dorsey identified it
<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804529/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_6_nm_1_q_Sleep%2520Dealer>.

I don't recall thinking it did (unlike, say, the animated /Beowulf/
[probably
<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0442933/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_Beowulf>]);
I found it watchable and the near-future interesting, but not
exceptional.

Not exceptional just as most movies are. If I only watched exceptional
films, I wouldn't see very many.
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