Post by Dracula on Jun 26, 2022 17:05:11 GMT -5
The Lost City(6/16/2022)
As the credits roll on the film The Lost City a song called “Big Energy” by Latto starts playing over the soundtrack. Lyrically that song is a misunderstanding of the phrase/meme “big dick energy” and musically it’s almost entirely dependent on the Tom Tom Club’s "Genius of Love," which was already famously sampled on Mariah Carey's "Fantasy." This to me is emblematic of the film that proceeded these credits: it’s a shameless copy of a copy that tries to be “modern” enough to justify its existence in some of the corniest ways possible. The film is plainly trying to be a modern riff on Romancing the Stone in that it’s a film set in the present but trying to invoke classic serial adventure, and with a focus on an “opposites attract” romance between the leads. The leads here are a writer of romance novels (Sandra Bullock) and her cover model (Channing Tatum), who appears to be a parody of Fabio… a person who has not been relevant to popular culture in decades. All of that would be fine if the adventure here was any good or if the romance here was interesting but that’s really not the case with either. There aren’t really any major action set-pieces here and the ones that are here are so deflated of any stakes as to be meaningless and the romance is between two people who are such opposites that you don’t really come to root for their eventual pairing and just kind of don’t think they belong together. Beyond that it’s just so devoid of original ideas that it has no real identity of its own and I don’t anticipate it being very widely remembered.
** out of Five
As the credits roll on the film The Lost City a song called “Big Energy” by Latto starts playing over the soundtrack. Lyrically that song is a misunderstanding of the phrase/meme “big dick energy” and musically it’s almost entirely dependent on the Tom Tom Club’s "Genius of Love," which was already famously sampled on Mariah Carey's "Fantasy." This to me is emblematic of the film that proceeded these credits: it’s a shameless copy of a copy that tries to be “modern” enough to justify its existence in some of the corniest ways possible. The film is plainly trying to be a modern riff on Romancing the Stone in that it’s a film set in the present but trying to invoke classic serial adventure, and with a focus on an “opposites attract” romance between the leads. The leads here are a writer of romance novels (Sandra Bullock) and her cover model (Channing Tatum), who appears to be a parody of Fabio… a person who has not been relevant to popular culture in decades. All of that would be fine if the adventure here was any good or if the romance here was interesting but that’s really not the case with either. There aren’t really any major action set-pieces here and the ones that are here are so deflated of any stakes as to be meaningless and the romance is between two people who are such opposites that you don’t really come to root for their eventual pairing and just kind of don’t think they belong together. Beyond that it’s just so devoid of original ideas that it has no real identity of its own and I don’t anticipate it being very widely remembered.
** out of Five
