The movies you loved as a kid sometimes turn out to be
classics (i.e. Back to the Future and
Star Wars) while others, it turns
out, were really just not very good. Ah, the undiscerning view from a child’s
perspective. When you’re a kid, a movie is good or not because it has
excitement, adventures, romance, and comedy. For some adults I guess that never
changes. Before Robert Zemeckis directed Back
to the Future, he had a big commercial success in Romancing the Stone, a sort of Raiders
of the Lost Ark knock-off starring Kathleen Turner as a dowdy romance
novelist and Michael Douglas as a roughneck who saves her in the jungles of
Colombia.
