When did Hollywood decide that all globe-trotting adventures have to be extremely stupid?
In the 1980s, “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Romancing the Stone” …
When did Hollywood decide that all globe-trotting adventures have to be extremely stupid? In the 1980s, “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Romancing the Stone” weren’t chicken soup for the moron’s soul. Neither was the much more recent “National Treasure,” starring Nicolas Cage. However, the dumb new movie “The Lost City” joins “ Uncharted,” “ Jungle Cruise ” and “ Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw ” in the discouraging trend of demeaning a once-great genre with nauseating humor, no thrills or grandeur and an over-reliance on star power. The wasted celeb here is Sandra Bullock, who plays a widowed romance novelist not unlike her abrasive, pseudo-feminist character from “Miss Congeniality.” Named Loretta Sage, she doesn’t concern herself with men anymore, wants to stay out of the spotlight and would rather be drinking chardonnay in the tub.
