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I re-watched "Solar Crisis" (1990) with Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston and Corin Nemec this weekend, just for the hell of it, and I have to say, the dialogue and directing of TN is stellar in comparison. Mind you, "Solar Crisis" was headed by the venerable Alan Smithee, but I want to think that TN has a set story arc playing out, and we're just seeing the first of it.
I don't have a habit of putting money down on a lame horse, I feel the lead actor pulls his weight (being more nasty and frothing against his wife's suitors than Noah Wyle could ever muster), and Lang provides that heavy, unstable Gowron-quality to it. And the jungle feels more jungly than the LOST-island.
I'm still confused, do Queensland forests actually look like that, or is the foliage CGI? The scenes at the river crossings don't look CGI'd, and they're very jurassic-looking.
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