Congo Theatrical Trailer

Theatrical trailer for Congo, from the DVD. Yes, I know the audio is slightly out of sync, I can't get it to sync exactly.

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[quiconjinn]

The congo movie was not a flop, and stop comparing the movies to their novels. And i enjoyed it, but then again im a movie fan, i enjoy movies for what they are. made to make us feel good and entertain us, not to ask us what we hate most about it.

[Draknfyre]

It was a flop. And it was a movie based on a book, of course it will be compared.

I like the movie, too, despite it's flaws, and it's less-than-good translation of the book. But just because you like a movie doesn't mean it wasn't a flop, or doesn't have flaws.

[Genotypewriter]

$50M budget but made $152M worldwide... the book fans can shut up. This is a good movie as is. In fact, it's better... movie -> date opportunity, book -> the book _is_ your date. No one cares about what you think about how the book compares to the movie. Everything has its place.

[Draknfyre]

It was a massive flop. It was riding on the popularity of Jurassic Park. As many of the commercials stated, "By the author of Jurassic Park."

The producers hoped it would be just as big of a hit. It wasn't. Hell, the merchandise was even so pathetically ignored that years later you could still find the figures, discounted.

And if you compare a movie's quality against a book and consider it greater simply because you can take a date to it, I don't think you have a sense of taste.

[Thag20]

They changed or omitted the majority of the important parts of the book, shit on the story, and ruined the reputation of a good MC story. Amy hated the jungle and was a much more in depth character instead of acting like a toddler. Ross was cold and grumpy. All the other characters (except for munro) are added. They add bad characters, completely change the goals of Ross, and leave out the major aspects of the consortium, the intelligence of the white apes, and the tribals. Shame they ruined it

[indielovesunicorns]

I saw this when I was little and was terrified of the apes. Then I looked back on it in later years and was like "This sucks." My sister convinced me to read the book and it was amazing. That was actually the first Michael Crichton book I ever read, and I've been a huge fan of his ever since. I'm so sad that he died.

[414MrMilwaukee]

STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE!!!

[demoskunk]

This movie was a huge pile of shit. Why the hell did the filmmakers feel the need to change so much of the novel? What a bunch of arrogant assholes to think they could tell the story better than Crichton.

Tim Curry's accent was ridiculous, btw.

[prehistoric28]

I thought Congo was okay. The book is way better. Right now I'm reading THE ICE GORILLA, an action adventure book similar to Congo in many ways.

[94MICK19]

My biggest problem: THEY KILLED BRUCE CAMPBELL!!! No good ever comes of that (Cars 2 being another example).

[j3lias]

pretty bad adaptation of the book, which i'd argue is one of crichton's best (along with Sphere, which was another "meh" adaptation).

while it's hard to have movies live up to great books, this one could have been a lot better. the screenwriting was very cliche and predictable, and in turn made the whole movie seem extremely cheesy and over-the-top. They added characters and dialog that simply came off childish and "hollywood".

[rydag11]

The Green Mile does a pretty good job

[RETROGEMS]

I remember the merchandising and publicity for this movie REALLY well. They were pushing it HARD but it never ignited the kind of interest Jurassic Park did. I was eight years old, but curiously, never asked my parents to take me to see it. As for 'Jurassic Park', I was six when it came out & my parents thought it was way too scary so wouldn't let me watch it. I finally saw it when I was eight or nine and LOVED it! "Congo" looks like a cheesy rip-off though...a bad adaptation of Crichton's book.

[bigdaddyww1]

I love it its so bad it's good. Amy good gorilla Amy good lmao