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Miniatures Adventure => Back of Beyond => Topic started by: Phil Robinson on April 16, 2008, 11:26:29 AM

Title: Roy Chapman Andrews
Post by: Phil Robinson on April 16, 2008, 11:26:29 AM

Tonight on UK Channel 5 9pm

Indiana Jones: The True Story

Documentary revealing how the real life exploits of Roy Chapman Andrews inspired Spielberg's Indy movies.

Worth a look I think

Title: Roy Chapman Andrews
Post by: Operator5 on April 16, 2008, 11:44:16 AM

I'm reading one of his books (Across Mongolian Plains) on my way over to Amsterdam. I've already read a biography of him. Very interesting life.

Title: Roy Chapman Andrews
Post by: Svennn on April 16, 2008, 12:13:58 PM

Roy Chapman Andrews and The Temple Of Doom just doesnt have the same ring to it

Title: Roy Chapman Andrews
Post by: Ignatieff on April 16, 2008, 03:24:58 PM

His books are superb, well worth a peruse

Ignatieff

Title: Roy Chapman Andrews
Post by: Overlord on April 16, 2008, 11:54:00 PM

Don't know about anyone else, but I found it pretty poor.

Superficial at best with an awful lot of repeating the same minor pieces of information over and over. Too many clips from the Indy films too.

Very disappointing :?

Title: Roy Chapman Andrews
Post by: Plynkes on April 17, 2008, 12:01:13 AM

Yeah, typical poor show that they put out these days. So many are padded out by endlessly summing up what they've already said every ten minutes, and foreshadowing what they're going to say the rest of the time. Cut all that out and you have a twenty minute programme.

And why were they trying to "prove" that these characters were the inspiration for Indy, as if that in itself was some kind of Holy Grail Quest?

Hopelessly muddled rubbish. Why not just make a show about Chapman Andrews and a show about the German fellow? Why this desperate need to hang it all on Indy? (As if Indy is a legend from Medieval times whose origins are lost in the mists of myth, like King Arthur or Robin Hood: It's no mystery, S. Spielberg and G. Lucas invented him!) Fair enough to point out the similarity, but to labour the point so much? Mindless.

Title: Roy Chapman Andrews
Post by: Overlord on April 17, 2008, 12:07:23 AM

Next week its a similar programme on James Bond.

I expect the same level of strung out drivel, so won't bother wasting an hour of my life watching  :x

Title: Roy Chapman Andrews
Post by: Phil Robinson on April 17, 2008, 11:47:36 AM

I fell asleep twice, why are there no decent historical documentaries anymore yawn! Wished I had taped the Apprentice instead.

Title: Roy Chapman Andrews
Post by: Orctrader on April 17, 2008, 12:01:26 PM

I watched it  :) For ten minutes  :(

Foolishly, I was looking forward to it.  Why was I suckered again?  There are just so many TV programmes now that are full of repetition.  I used to think it was an insult to the viewers' intelligence, but increasingly I believe that it is merely a way of filling the available time.  Take a 30 minute program and pad it out to fill an hour.  

All was not lost though.  I went back to my painting.   :mrgreen:

Title: Roy Chapman Andrews
Post by: twrchtrwyth on April 18, 2008, 04:47:11 AM

Um, I thought it was ok. Never heard of the German chap before, so worth a watch for me.

Title: Roy Chapman Andrews
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on April 18, 2008, 06:27:26 AM

Quote from: "Plynkes"

Hopelessly muddled rubbish. Why not just make a show about Chapman Andrews and a show about the German fellow? Why this desperate need to hang it all on Indy?

because unfortunately nobody knows who Chapman Andrews is and everyone knows Indy.