August 9, 2016
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We went to see the new Tarzan movie today - There were too many impossibilities that ended up making it kind of dumb. The best part was where they used ant heads to stitch up a wound and then snacked on the bugs from the thorax on down. Jane is certainly a trooper. After the stampede when they are reunited, she gives him muchos smooches, ants and all. I guess I will stick with George of the Jungle. Internet synopsis is as follows.
John Clayton following his parents' death in Africa would be raised by an ape and would be known by the name Tarzan, would leave Africa and go to his parents's home in England along with woman he fell in love with and married, Jane Porter. He would be asked by Belgian King Leopold to go to Africa to see what he has done there to help the country. Initially he refuses. But an American, George Washington Williams wants him to accept so he can accompany him. He says that Leopold might be committing all sorts of atrocities to achieve his goal like slavery. He needs to prove it. Clayton agrees and his wife insists that she accompany him because she misses Africa. They go and when they arrive a man named Rom who works for Leopold attacks the village they are at and captures Tarzan and Jane. With Washington's help he escapes and sets out to rescue Jane by going across the jungle and Washington joins him despite being told that he might not make it.
Mike W. said he liked the movie, and I told him that the original Tarzan story was move believable, and was graced with an Ape-English dictionary. Mike pointed out the unbelievable nature of that particular appendix, and I had to agree.
