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From: woody@dsd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Romancing the Stone
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Date: Mon, 9-Apr-84 19:05:25 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  9 19:05:25 1984
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This movie is no intellectual masterpiece, but it's been a long time since
I've enjoyed myself so much in a theater!  Obviously the rest of the
audience felt the same, since there was wholesale applause at the
conclusion.  You'll need to suspend disbelief in a few instances
("few," hah!) and overlook some silliness and inconsistencies in both
plot and characterizations--but really, it was FUN!

By the way, those reviews that say this is a "spinoff" of the "Raiders
of the Lost Ark" are wrong, unless they mean simply that it's an
all-out action/adventure movie with good guys vs. bad guys and little
relationship to reality.  The story is quite different, as are the
characters, location and situations.  Well--they do both have a bit of
jungle in them.  And a Minister of Antiquities.  And of course The Good
Guy and The Girl fall in love (or whatever).

My tastes aren't universal enough for me to assign ratings, but
I'd say it's a great movie for entertainment, some evening when your
skies are looking particularly grey.

Does anyone know why they turned "romance" into a verb in the title
(what's wrong with "Romance of the Stone")?

				Janet Hallock
				aka ...fortune!dsd!woody