SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

ridiculous rating

Don't Believe the Hype

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The adventure part of it was great. Honest! But for people who think their kids should watch it, are underrating this "sexy" film. I would much rather if they left out certain scenes... (which aren't important anyway)and then just stuck with the adventure, so the whole family can watch it. But besides that, it's a very exiting movie with great comedy, drama, and suspense :) Anyone who wants to go to Columbia, might have second thoughts after watching this wild movie LOL.

Movies like this were awesome...huge from the Golden Age of the Silver Screen into the '90s when they started to peter out until, well, until they vanished leaving us with nothing but Super Hero films to fill the void......I have nothing against Super Hero films, but I love adventure films too.I can see where folks would not like it, especially the people that take themselves too seriously. It is stuck in a genera that is at once extremely pulp and kind of serialized. Even if it's not a sequel, you know the story.The Goonies, Nate and Hayes, Jake Speed, Firewalker, Vibes, Big Trouble in Little China, Young Sherlock Holmes...and of course the crown, the king, the Indiana Jones movies.They are all close enough to one another to really fit into the same mold. The characters change, the concepts stay the same and....we love it.Enter the Roguish hero and the damsel in distress in an exotic location to find X marking the MacGuffin, but first they have to work their way through obstacles both natural and man made in the form of a nasty antagonist and a couple of henchmen. Throw in a semi-bumbling sidekick and you have what I like to call "High Adventure." "Romancing the Stone" follows that outline and if you are the kind of individual that is still young enough at heart to love adventure films...you will inevitably like this movie.If you are the kind of man or woman that takes everything extremely seriously and refuses to play at all, not matter what it is. If you are the type that would use the word "compete" instead of "play" or "game" than you are going to hate this movie.

Romancing the stone (1984) starring Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito is an immensely entertaining film that is full of romance, action, and some comedy is even thrown in the mix for the audience to enjoy. The script is very delightful and fun. And the action scenes are thrilling, well coordinated, and well edited, hence the academy award nomination for best film editing, which was well deserved. Kathleen Turner was very delightful to watch on screen, she has great on screen chemistry with Michael Douglas, and she carries her own weight very impressively. And Michael Douglas really fits his character well, and he is very engaging in the action scenes. The movie really is just a whole lot of fun to sit down and enjoy, and the setting is great too, very fitting for the movie. Now this film is not a family movie, there is a pretty substantial amount of profanity, it's targeted towards a teen and adult demographic. 8/10 for romancing the stone.

Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) gives us a preview of one of the books she's finishing and has to get to her publisher the next day, which she wakes up late for. When she returns, her room is rifled through for a package her late brother in law mailed to her. She gets a call from her sister Elaine (Mary Ellen Trainor)to come to Columbia namely Cartagena to get the map to her as she has been kidnapped.After the bus she's on (leading here AWAY from Cartagena) crashes, enter Jack T Colton who saves her from Colonel Zolo, a corrupt cop who is also the man that murdered Joan's brother in law. We are lead through mazes of jungle, shootouts with police, Mounties, the kidnapper's cousin (Danny DeVito) all trying to get their hands on the map.The end is a spectacle and polishes the film very well. I enjoyed the rising action, the height of the action and the falling action (literary terms) that gave us the film that is Romancing the Stone The music is mostly derived from one score by film veteran Alan Silvestri and the soundtrack is great. However, it is easy to get some of the music titles mixed up If you want a great romantic dramedy adventure film, Romancing the Stone is a great one stop shop!