Tag: Edgar Rice Burroughs

  • At the Earth’s Core (1976, Kevin Connor), the digest version

    Take one bad movie–At the Earth's Core–running eighty-nine minutes and take one inept editor and tell him or her (the editor is uncredited) to cut it down to fourteen minutes. It's a lousy movie anyway, so what are you going to lose…. Well, some bad things. Definitely some bad things. Like most of Peter Cushing's…

  • The Land That Time Forgot (2009, C. Thomas Howell)

    It’s a Christian movie? Really? Okay…. I guess the dinosaurs confused that point. And I think there’s some gravity in there. Being a fan of the seventies adaptation, I thought I’d see this one too. It’s not the worst thing I’ve ever sat through. It’s relatively harmless, with far better acting than I was expecting.…

  • Tarzan the Ape Man (1932, W.S. Van Dyke)

    It’s hard to believe a movie called Tarzan the Ape Man is going to be boring, but this one drags on and on. After a solid opening twenty minutes, the movie stumbles and never regains its footing. The problem is with Tarzan. Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan obviously doesn’t speak English but he also doesn’t communicate. He…