SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

raypdaley182 Take 1 famous actress (Sandra Bullock - Speed, Demolition Man, Miss Congeniality) and 1 semi-known actor (Craig Sheffer - Nightbreed) and give them a story about the de-nuding and deforestation of the Amazon.It looks like a made for TV movie, low production values, poor plot, poor script and poor characters - only the locations look any good. The very bad love scene between Bullock and Sheffer does not help the film at all. It was agreed in advance by Bullock what could and couldn't be seen so don't expect to see anything remotely erotic.It was quite a surprise that Bullock died at the end leaving the lesser known actor, Sheffer to tell the story of the plight of the burning and logging of the rainforest.Avoid it if you can, it's predictable and very stereo typed.

annevejb Updated at June 2008 I got this DVD because it was a Bullock and My Price. I am not disappointed with it and that is not just due to the price. First viewing it felt stylised to a point where that got in the way. Such as the flow of the burning of the house felt like junk logic. The sex did not seem appropriate or healthy. The completion date on it is 1991 and there was a long delay before they could get anyone to release it. Similar was also true of Back To The Secret Garden - 1999 and I watch my copy of that a lot. Would that these were not 4x3. Now, even more than with Me And The Mob - 1992, I find there are big chunks that I am comfortable with, and in this case that comes from having a different understanding re what this is really about. Maybe it says that such as Amazon rain forest issues are affected by wider error correction issues. I even prefer these two to In Love And War - 1996, which is a whole lot more obviously polished and is well loved by many IMDb commentators if I read them right. IE, I disagree with the other comments about Amazon that I have read here, even though many have useful detail. I feel I need to write a comment to say that I disagree and to try to say why. * In order to try to make sense of Amazon I had to go through it slowly and try to briefly describe the contents of each DVD chapter, a very individual sort of thing. My times relate to duration 1:27:17. First, I wonder if any comment writers are looking at RJ, the journalist played by Craig Sheffer, and recoiling in horror. If so I maybe should not ask why they do that but as a male to female I find RJ fascinating from the start. I find his acting impressive and a lot of the script, the product of Four Women, to be impressive too. Four speaks to me of the parts of the logic flow that make no direct logical sense and also of why RJ is portrayed as inept in some ways but not in others. It is my key. I now assume that this is a cult genre film. Alien to many but loved by some. Maybe stories like this and Tooth 2003 are believed only by appropriate 'children'. Does it matter if they seem weak to others? I personally am annoyed that the 2003 tooth fairy story is not so credible to those who are not extremely young, though it is now starting to click with me more fully. I now assume that the storyteller was trying to explore some processes that he understands can occur, in various ways, if facing pressures to transgender. That mixed with the Amazon. The Amazon region as a commonplace parallel. For me, the style used got in the way of the story, at first, but I assume that it is the storyteller Luis Llosa's decision to follow that path. I find the photography really okay, dynamic. For parallels to style and content I look to the cult Hong Kong martial arts parables I have and those are not undervalued to this extent. Parable fits. I now note that the sex is drugged. The logic flow also fits the gaffer taped nipples, maybe the reported objections by Ms Bullock too, but that is likely to be coincidence. RJ's two main local Amazon contacts being killed as he left at the end, one male one female. I read that as a comment re how he is facing the challenges in his reality. He has assertion flaws like what he has experienced from some of the JR types that he has dealt with, their ways mirrored, RJ? He has been taught to be a bull in a china shop. He does not even look to Alyssa as a manly Amazon female, not surprising that there is drugged two way dog level sex. The sex might not something to look to for good examples, but it is a real step up from Me And The Mob. He lacks some key skills and I assume that he is being deskilled. He still has a lot of basic skills left. Me And The Mob is lower. I say He as RJ appears to fly a male flag in many ways. Until we have relevant sense we have no free will. I now consider this as mature Bullock, for me one of the more immediate and accessible. * Chapters: 01 - 0:00:00 - land clearance 02 - 0:05:17 - murder and shootings 03 - 0:09:29 - the foreign journalist RJ has faced pressure before 04 - 0:14:26 - RJ's approach to digging for a story 05 - 0:21:18 - RJ threatened by gun and knife and jail 06 - 0:28:43 - two encouragements to tart - then Alyssa and the caged bird 07 - 0:36:26 - RJ with Alyssa - a house burnt down - the body of Djamori - a wedding couple 08 - 0:46:14 - facing an attack by the murderer and then an attack by the tribe 09 - 0:57:48 - the funeral then the sex scene then RJ and Alyssa are as bonded to each other 10 - 1:05:34 - the bomb 11 - 1:14:02 - murders on the escape path - Alyssa is dead 12 - 1:24:20 - end credits

ptervin With such an important topic, why does the dialogue and the acting have to be so bad. Who would waste the time to put something like this together; I'm embarrassed to have wasted the time to watch it. The actors must have been very hungry....

dustyking The male star's vocabulary consisted of "one word" The word that would get 'erased' at least fifty times if we were to think this horrible movie would ever make it to the TV screen for humans to watch.