The only Harrison Ford movie to not make a profit. And Ford is very proud of his track record in that regard. I hadn't seen this since it was on HBO in the late 80s. I barely remembered a couple of scenes. Great movie. If you haven't seen it you really should check it out. I'm going to read the book now.
Look who else is in it.
Fat Boy looms large.
>>216982178my dad used to be obsessed with this movie, rewatching over and over when he got it on vhs, still never seen it myself but Weir does make kino
>>216982231What are you waiting for? It's a great movie for thinking about your dad, as it's about a family who has to deal with a kind of crazy but brilliant patriarch. I found myself thankful my dad wasn't anything like this guy.
>>216982178the video store person warned my child self that he 'isn't indy in this one' but i was too cocky
>>216982231My dad loved this movie too. I think it's depict boomer mentality pretty well
>>216982295Every male is like this guy, retard. You are fucking mind broken by society if you don't want to live in the jungle forever.
For anyone into this I also recommend The Emerald Forest (1985) by John Boorman
>>216982426I totally identify with his hatred of consumerism in America. Him and Robert Crumb both. But the jungle is fucking disgusting. I hate heat and humidity and bugs. Who needs it? My dad did plenty of cool shit in his life. More than I ever will. But don't call me a retard. You go live in the jungle. We'll see how long you last. Jungles nearly broke Werner Herzog. I want nothing to do with them.
>>216982462Relax! He didn't mean it. You don't have to go to the jungle.
>>216982458Hell yes, I just saw that a couple months ago too. I hated Powers Booth growing up for some reason, then started liking him in Deadwood, despite Tolliver being one of the scummiest characters ever. When I was a kid I associated characters with their actors and for years wouldn't like certain ones based on something I saw them in.But Emerald Forest was really cool.
I never bought Ford in the role. Didn't believehim for a second.
>>216982513Many such cases.
Pretty similar main characterAnd honorable mention also goes to Wayne Szalinski in Honey I Shrunk the Kids
>>216982492And for the perverts here, Emerald Coast has underage naked girls in it. One of whom is some huge Brazilian superstar singer or something. So if I were a Brazilian pervert and didn't already know this information it'd be a joyous day indeed I guess.
>>216982513Odd. I thought he did a good job. Who do you think should have done it? Nicholson wanted more money.
>>216982178>not naming it “Mansquito” like a shitty SiFi flickThis is whyThose cheap ass movies always make a profit and one of the biggest reasons is the naming conventions they employ
Watch the remake series if you feel like hating the modern world.
>>216982853Not a thing in 1986 though.
I remember it being way too whimsical. Ford's character seems like a pipe dream retard from the start and the whole plan idiotic. Then as they depart it gets this weird fable-like quality like they all died halfway there and the rest is a dream, and then it just loses momentum and everyone gets disillusioned.All hat no cattle movie.
Anyone here understand computers? So The Mosquito Coast is 8gb and I tried to move it onto a flash drive so I could free up more hard drive space (and to add to my permanent digital collection on a huge drive) but it's telling me it's too large for the stick. Same thing happened with One Battle After Another. I can move 10gb+ folders in there no problem and it's got nearly 100gb of room left. WTF?I guess I could re-download smaller versions of the movies, or simply plug the big drive into the computer and move it directly, but this seems like a silly issue for which there must be some solution or at LEAST an explanation.
>>216982924That didn't happen in the movie though. You remember it wrong, as I did. I remembered both the ice melting before the natives saw it and them making a second trip where they all touched the ice and marveled at its magic. I guess my child brain just concocted that somewhere along the way because it's what was supposed to happen.Very strange how memory works (or fails to work properly). Sad thing is some young schizos might read this and start in with that 'mandela effect' shit. >There WAS a version of the movie where this happened. Trust your memory and assume the timelines and dimensions have shifted!No. I catch myself misremembering all the time. It's fascinating, but it's nothing more than our faulty organic storage system.
I keep seeing Martha Plympton in stuff. She and River Phoenix were both in 'Running On Empty' too, which I finally saw last month. Tried to make a thread but no one bit.Plympton is looking her age for sure now though. As was on display in HBO's 'Task'. She's been in a lot of cool movies over the years. Her family has a place a few miles up the Oregon Coast from us, but I've never run into her.
>>216982940fat32 has a 4gb filesize limityou would have to reformat the drive to a newer filesystem
>>216983546Hey, thanks! That makes sense I guess. You know what's weird? I was getting some groceries on the walmart website and this ad pops up for 2TB flash drives on sale for like $22. I figure I will just get them on Amazon because they're probably cheaper anyway. They're all over $100 on Amazon. I can't find anything like this so I ordered a couple of them. What's the deal with this deal? Is it super new technology somehow? I don't see how one place is offering it so cheaply.It feels like some kind of aliexpress too-good-to-be-true deal, but I figure it's worth the money to find out. On top of the big external drives I have that are 500GB and need to be plugged in, these little fuckers will solve my storage problems forever I'm thinking.
>>216983797L M A OMAO
>>216982560Never even heard of Tucker.
>>216983806Why is this funny to you?
>>216983880A fool and his money are soon parted
>>216983839It's badass. I loved it as a kid because there's a jeep thing he makes with a gunner turret on it.Really great story about a rich guy fucked over by richer guys. A real visionary who made the best quality shit that he believed in. And I think they got all the actual remaining Tuckers to make the movie, which would be way harder to do now. I need to see that again.Jeff Bridges is just such a versatile actor. I really buy him in everything and sometimes forget that he has such a deep body of work. Starman, The Fisher King, and going back to the 70s or maybe even 60s. And he's still going strong. That show The Old Man is bad ass.
>>216983960Oh, so you assume that the 2 terabyte flash drives are a scam of some sort. I guess I'll have to go to the huge hassle of returning them for my $45 if that's the case. Doesn't make me a fool.
First time I see this movie brought up here and it's right after I watched it WTF. It keeps happening.Anyways I sure felt that the movie was based on a book. It's one of those adaptations where you get a collection of key moments from the book because there is not enough runtime to fully develop the characters and tell the story. I thought it was crazy how the wife just went along with everything with 0 conflict. Just abandon your house and move to one of the poorest countries in the middle of nowhere with a totally different climate and everything. I don't know anything about the country it's set in but it doesn't feel believable a guy could just arrive in a small village and treat it and the villagers like a city builder game. I kept thinking about all the animals, insects and diseases you have to deal with in the jungle. But then again I am not a self-sustained king like he was. Also crazy how he had 0 security and got bullied by 3 guys. I found it odd how he just abandoned the village after fucking it up and the villagers just let him leave.I hated the zoomed-in cinematography. Also felt like everyone looked a bit too clean and happy for living in the jungle with a guy who hated modern conveniences.Just saw they made it into a tv series. That sounds like a better idea for the material than a movie but I assume it sucks like everything new.
>>216984358Guys like that, people will follow them anywhere. I wasn't surprised the wife did. But they'd all had enough by the end. She was set on leaving him after he burned the church. The village he built on though, Jeronimo, he'd bought from the drunk German guy. It was his. And he gave the people a life until the preacher took them away with his fear tactics. The whole point was that he wasn't prepared. The dudes with the guns immediately took over and would've raped his wife and killed them all probably at some point. And who would be there to keep him from leaving? He built the place, he owned the land. And they saw him as someone not to be fucked with as he built an enormous fire-breathing building that magically produced blocks of ice. They also looked plenty filthy at times. If you somehow haven't seen Fitzcarraldo, you definitely need to. And the documentary about the making of it too.If anyone has any other 'surviving the jungle' suggestions please post them. That Darien Gap stuff on Pluribus was pretty cool too and I wish there was more.
>>216982178Probably because ford loved working with peter weir on the witness But the witness was a love story and this movie is about a white guy trashing capitalistic woke worldOf course it flopped
>>216982178>I barely remembered a couple of scenes.Which one did you remember?
>>216982178I would watch it out of respect for you, boomer anon, but Harrison Ford just doesn't do it for me
>>216985266Peter Weir only made kino, even when the films didn't perform.
>>216982178>only Harrison Ford movie to not make a profitnewest captain shartmerica
>>216985340The carrying of the ice.
>watching Mosquito Coast with my dad>the scene where the preacher's daughter tells River Phoenix she thinks about him when she goes to the bathroom comes on>dad changes the channel>don't find out what happens in the movie after that until I'm an adultHeh
>>216982178schizo kino, what avatar wished it could be
>>216987565Avatar has no cultural impact but somehow you feel the need to talk about it in a thread about a movie from 1986
>>216983839>Never even heard of Tucker.its a George Lucas picture!
>>216982178Ah, the film that broke Ford. It was after this bomb that he started not giving a shit anymore.
>>216987706He's spoken of it as one of his favorite roles though
>>216982192>I'm going on vacation, Jerry >Where are you going?>It's a tropical getaway >Where?>The Mosquito Coast >Mosquito Coast?>Mosquito Coast!
>>216982178when I was a kid my dad saw this and then wanted to take our family and live on a house boats in the ocean and it terrified me
>>216987738Which is why he has been perpetually ass mad critics never liked it.
>>216983839>Never even heard of Tucker.https://youtu.be/5Af_ivwYGG8?si=OWTa-6YnZNm3m7Er&t=10
>>216982458cameron made the cast of Avatar watch this and Emerald Forest
>>216987783Is there supposed to be something funny here?
>>216986811Weird. I can see an overbearing mom doing that but not a dad.
>>216988275My dad calls kissing scenes "pornographic", he was raised ultra-religious in some tiny town in the boons
>>216987580>Avatar and cultural impactThis is a really inorganic idea that you guys keep pushing. What does "cultural impact" mean and why are you concerned with whether or not Avatar has it? You make multiple threads with the exact phrasing that "Avatar does NOT have cultural impact. Got it?"lol, what is this? Who are you people and why are you interested in this non-subject?It's like the Streisand Effect, you make ten threads a day about Avatar not having cultural impact, you just create cultural impact. You're impacting /tv/ culture by hyping it so hard.>Hey, that thing that's so popular, it actually isn't! So let's spread the word!Ironic and stupid.
>>216987814I think this movie is why my dad considered moving us to Alaska for a teaching position there. Once he found out how much the cost of living was he wasn't so interested. He was inspired for some sort of adventure.
>>216988341Wait, so he's still like that? You're an adult and you escaped it and he still lives like that? LOL
>>216988408Back in 2018 he told me that it makes him sad to think I'll go to Hell but promised to spit on me from Heaven to ease the pain of my burning.It do be like that sometimes.
>>216988453I have no words. I was so fortunate to have the parents I did. When I was a teen and my dad was about 60 we rented Clerks when it came out and I was a little shocked at some of the stuff he laughed at. What a legend he was.
>>216982178wtf, i was just reading something about peter weir then came to /tv/ and this is the first thread i see we're in a simulation niggers
>>216984091cheap knockoff hardware really isn't the best place to be storing anything long term as it has a very high failure rate. it's just meant to work long enough to outlast the return window.
i can never stand ford i oddly found him compelling in this movie. great quotes in it too.
>>216985365And Dial of Destiny
>>216988453that's a really fucking cool line for someone to say to their archnemesis after defeating them in some 1v1 battle, but something to say to their son? goddamn
>>216988341Based dad. Kissing in movies is fucking gay.
we watched this in school and my friends and I became obsessed with the whole "ice is civilization" thing
>>216988390this movie really affected dads for some reason
>>216982178It's a good movie.
