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[gwynhefar]

So "Sahara" is on TV and it's turning out much better than I thought it would be. The thing I like best about it -- Steve Zahn in a role in which he's allowed to actually be competent. I love Steve Zahn, but he tends to play the bumbling comic relief. He's still the comic relief here, but damn! Ex-Navy, comfortable with weapons and machinery, pulls his own weight, saves the day, etc. He's great! And Penelope Cruz isn't too bad to look at either :)

(Oh, and on a side note, *why* must nearly every movie that includes priceless bits of history also include the *destruction* of priceless bits of history?!)

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[tewok.livejournal.com]

I thought Sahara was a lot better than it was widely given credit for.* It also had great music. McConoughey was kinda the weak point in it -- not because he did a bad job, but that he was uber-competent and a bit too smug.


* Then again, I enjoyed Ishtar.

[tewok.livejournal.com]

(Oh, and on a side note, *why* must nearly every movie that includes priceless bits of history also include the *destruction* of priceless bits of history?!)

Two reasons. First, if it wasn't destroyed, then the viewing public would wonder where the PBH's are, why can't they go see 'em in a museum. Second, filmmakers want to be iconoclasts, and this is the only way they'll really succeed.

I have no evidence to back meup, but I do think those are the reasons why it happens.