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movie review - Lake Placid

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Sydney, 2000.02.15

Another in the endless stream of who-will-survive-the-encounter-with-a-deadly-force-of-nature flicks, this one is about a buncha cops, game wardens, scientists and a crocophile who get together to fuck around with a giant crocodile that's living in a small New England lake. It's amusing and full of humour-filled chills and spills. I like both Platt and Pullman, though I never know what drives the latter to choose the movies he does. Both are aptly cast in this essentially silly affair, and I was happy.

Recommended.

rand()m quote

It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

—Wendell Berry