Roy Chapman Andrews

[Phil Robinson]

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

[Operator5]

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.

[Svennn]

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

[Ignatieff]

His books are superb, well worth a peruse

Ignatieff

[Overlord]

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

[Plynkes]

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.

[Overlord]

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

[Phil Robinson]

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

[Orctrader]

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:

[twrchtrwyth]

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

[Prof.Witchheimer]

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.