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Azriel
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08-01-2000
| Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 6:55 pm
I went and saw Sahara yesterday. It's a great movie and I recommend it. It was full of action and comedy. There wasn't any sex or bad language. I'm sure it won't win any Oscars, but it was just good fun to watch. Matthew McConaughey was SEXY and funny in his role and I'm not even a big McConaughey fan. Steve Zahn was hilarious as his sidekick. Penelope Cruz did a really good job as the token female. I was pretty much dragged along to see it, but I'm really glad I went. I'll wait till more people have had a chance to see it before I talk too much about it.
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Neko
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08-03-2001
| Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 7:19 pm
Thanks for the imput Az!! Seeing you mentioned being "dragged along" chances are you didn't read the book, so I guess I'll have to wait a bit longer. Cause I don't want to go to it if it ruins the feeling of the book. Not that I believe it will, since Clive Cussler had a large part in this film, unlike "Raise the Titanic."
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Readonly
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04-16-2003
| Monday, April 11, 2005 - 7:55 am
We went to see it yesterday too. I thought it was enjoyable, but not as good as the book (as is always the case). Having read all the Dirk Pitt books, I have very distinct pictures in my mind of what Dirk, Al Giordino, Rudy Gunn, and Admiral Sandecker look like. They were OK, but Dirk did not have piercing green eyes that are always commented on in the books. All in all, though, it was pretty good. (A little off topic: I'm a white-knuckle flyer, and I always pretend that Dirk and Al are at the controls of the airplane (sometimes with McGyver as a backup!!). It always helps.)
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Jan
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08-01-2000
| Monday, April 11, 2005 - 12:45 pm
Neko, I understand that Clive is furious over the results of this movie as he had script approval but did not get to approve. I read just today that he is suing. This is the short blurb I saw at IMDb: Huge Lawsuit Takes Shape Over 'Sahara' As Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz's Sahara raced into cinemas Friday, the author whose book inspired the film hatched plans to sue bosses for as much as $90 million. Bestselling author Clive Cussler has been waging a very public war against film-makers for almost a year, accusing them of breaching agreements made on the project. His attorney Bert Fields says, "They promised Mr. Cussler approval of the script. He wanted to protect his book. They departed fundamentally from the screenplays that he approved." Fields filed a breach of contract suit on Cussler's behalf, prompting the film's producers to counter-sue claiming sabotage. Cussler and Fields flirted with the possibility of trying to legally block the film's release, but decided against it, opting to battle it out in court instead. Fields, who anticipates the case will go to trial in November, tells American TV show Celebrity Justice, "We intend to take the matter to trial and fully litigate it. I wanna get these people in front of a jury." But director Breck Eisner remains hopeful that Cussler will approve of the finished product, stating, "I think he's gonna love it, I really do. We stayed true to the spirit of the books. I really can't wait for him to see it." The monetary sum Cussler sues for will depend on the film's box office performance.
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Azriel
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08-01-2000
| Monday, April 11, 2005 - 5:29 pm
There was one part in the movie where the camera stayed on his eyes for so long that I thought, "Ok move on that's enough of that." Now, I see it was for the benefit of the book readers. His eyes were green and they were piercing! Well, I feel for the book reader's pain, but having not read the book, I thought it was a great movie. It was like an Indiana Jones movie with adventure, comedy and no blood and gore. It was very enjoyable.
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Neko
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08-03-2001
| Monday, April 11, 2005 - 7:31 pm
Well then, I hadn't heard that Cussler filed for "breach of contract." That's too bad that he's having problems with books to film again..
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