@bulbafett5001 "Adventure Treasure hunt Romantic Comedy" genres are rare breeds in the history of cinema!! Wish Hollywood made more such movies in 80's 90's & even now 😒 Old is gold 👌
Jewel was a cash grab on the formula that had good intentions but lacked heart. It's not the best written film but it wasn't terrible. At the least, its various tie-in's brought us the Billy Ocean classic "When the Going Gets Tough" and the accompanying video with the cast.
♥️ The natural sexual chemistry between Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner was just edible, just yummy. Just a brilliantly casted film. With charismatic actors. Danny DeVito especially phenomenal. This is one of my favourite films of all time. Just sheer perfect storytelling, entertainment.
I was born in 1983, but this was a film that I watched many times on VHS growing up; still one of my favorites, as are most of the big films from '84. What a year.
As a product of 1980 myself, this was a movie I saw as many times as Raiders and Empire, etc… VHS’ed from HBO… you just watched what you could. Loved this.
I forgot the name of this movie was a kid but I remember being traumatized by the alligator bite scene. It came on TV the other week and I realized it was that movie and... THEY CENSORED THE GORY ALLIGATOR BITE SCENE!!!
I'm still LoL'ing at having just heard that on the set of 'Jr.', DeVito stuffed some ganja inside Schwarzenegger's stogie. When they yelled "ACTION!" Arnold was completely blank. But he noticed DeVito and director Reitman chuckling on the sides and figured something was up. 😂😂😂
A beautifully made film which I watched countless times as a child. I think, along with Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars, it embodies the swashbuckling spirit of those 1940s adventure serials and pulp comics. This is a vastly underrated film which I hope garners more fans and recognition with the passing of time.
I was a kid in the 80s, some how my dad got a Beta copy of this movie. Back in the day you did not have a movie collection so my brother and I would play this every day until we momorized the movie. The place at the end with the crocodiles is an ancient spanish fort called "San Juan de Ulua" which is my home town Veracruz. To watch the streets and places of your hometown in a holywood movie was sureal for us.
My dad was an extra in this movie while shooting took place in Veracruz, Mex. This is my favorite movie ever made in my hometown (Veracruz). I’ve watched this movie so many times, it’s so amazing, I also love to spot the scenes that were shot here where I live! 🫶🏼
This was one of the first movies we rented when we got our first VCR. When Colton complains that he could have been a plastic surgeon, "Up to my neck in tits and ass" my mother kept pausing and rewinding because she couldn't understand what Douglas was saying. Barely a teen I got it immediately and finally just yelled, "Please move on, Mom!"
Nothing wrong with Jewel in the Nile. It works well as a sequel to Romancing the Stone. It came out at a time when cinema was full of options and people would go for a family outing, not to go and watch movies for movies sakes.
Romancing the Stone and When Harry Met Sally are my spirit movies. ❤️ Romancing the Stone is one of my all time favorite films of all time! Their suffering was not for nothing. ❤️🎬👏
It's sad that Diane Thomas, the screenwriter, died in a car accident before she could write anymore screenplays, including the third Indiana Jones movie. Who knows what else she could have accomplished?
One of Alan Silvestris best scores. At a time when movies would spend time in theatres to earn its budget rather than studios hoping would be a mega weekend to earn back. Raiders trilogy, Romancing and The Mummy you got a great night of adventure films
I was ten when I saw it on HBO in 1985. I loved it! It was also one of the goriest movies I had seen up to that point when Zolo gets his hand bitten off by the alligator. My whole family were screaming at that and I’m laughing my butt off!
It was no Romancing the Stone but I enjoyed Forbidden City. Both Bullock and Tatum start out as the hated character tropes we see so often today the weak emasculated male and the don't need no man girl boss. But I think they did a good job with their character arcs with him eventually becoming the 80s macho man and Sandra letting her guard down a little and realizing this man she's disrespected isn't the heartless dummy she assumed he was. And being a widower myself I appreciated her reasons for being the way she was. Underrated for sure.
"The Lost City" is its actual name in English although I don't know how it got translated elsewhere. I agree with you, though. I don't understand people on here dissing that movie. If you like both, or dislike both - that I understand.
Loved seeing this movie in the theater with my then fiancé the week it was released. To bad they weren't able to capitalize on it with decent follow up films...
I got on here to leave a comment explaining my admiration for Michael Douglas and his great ability to act but now after watching your video all I can think is what's wrong with Cannonball Run 2
Please cover "Jewel of the Nile" or "War of the Roses", other projects which teamed Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner together, if you haven't already.
Probably because not many people remembered it, also it wasn't his best song. Billy Ocean's song for Jewel in the Nile, The Going Gets Tough is more fondly remembered.
Whats with these video titles 'WHAT HAPPENED TO...an existing Movie". I'll tell you what happened it was written shot and edited, and exists as reels of film or on several tape based hard drives in vaults somewhere.
@thedys70 And the fact that they've started making modern knock offs like Argyle or that other thing with Sandra Bullock and Changing Tatum, which could have been called Romancing The Bone-Head. I'm sorry,..you might be someone who likes that movie, no offense intended.
@@timothymathetes I hear you bro; Romancing The Bone-Head was perhaps more of a love letter to that genre, very watchable, didn't disgrace itself, but doubt i'll bother sitting through it again. It's what I term a "watch-oncer", and I label most modern movies as such.
I love “Romancing”, a great script and amazing chemistry between the leads. I also enjoy the sequel, though it is not in the same league. “The Lost City”, on the other hand was lazy, nonsensical, and “chemistryless”. It played like a script written by a committee of Hollywood bros that love fart jokes.
