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King Solomon's Mines
Feb. 12th, 2025 10:07 pmTHe other day, in desperate escape from my phone and our current deep freeze, I looked up movies on Tubi and thought King Solomon's Mines sounded interesting, if extremely campy. It looked somewhere halfway between Indiana Jones and Romancing the Stone, so I hit play.
Eeeek...I can count the number of films I've stopped watching after about 20 minutes on two hands and this is definitely one of them!
To back up, the movie is based on the 1885 novel by Sir Henry Rider Haggard and this 1985 movie is not the first or last big screen adaptation.
Featuring Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone as leads, I couldn't tell if this movie was supposed to be as bad as it was--and Wikipedia said it was supposed to be poking fun at Indiana Jones, but the bad acting, African stereotypes and out loud racial slurs just had me going Nope! Calling a racialized person a towel head is not heroic behaviour :S The acting was just bad too. Sharon Stone chewed the scenery and although there were a number of gags that should have been funny--the timing was really off.
Eeeek...I can count the number of films I've stopped watching after about 20 minutes on two hands and this is definitely one of them!
To back up, the movie is based on the 1885 novel by Sir Henry Rider Haggard and this 1985 movie is not the first or last big screen adaptation.
Featuring Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone as leads, I couldn't tell if this movie was supposed to be as bad as it was--and Wikipedia said it was supposed to be poking fun at Indiana Jones, but the bad acting, African stereotypes and out loud racial slurs just had me going Nope! Calling a racialized person a towel head is not heroic behaviour :S The acting was just bad too. Sharon Stone chewed the scenery and although there were a number of gags that should have been funny--the timing was really off.
