{"id":169,"date":"2016-08-22T17:12:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2017-09-10T16:13:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T22:13:46","slug":"movie-the-legend-of-tarzan-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/22\/movie-the-legend-of-tarzan-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: The Legend of Tarzan\u00ae (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/e\/e5\/The_Legend_of_Tarzan_poster.jpg\/220px-The_Legend_of_Tarzan_poster.jpg\" alt=\"The Legend of Tarzan\u00ae\" width=\"220\" height=\"326\" \/>The Legend of Tarzan<\/u><\/strong>\u00ae<br \/>\nYear: 2016<br \/>\nRating: PG-13<br \/>\nLength: 110 minutes \/ 1.83 hours<\/p>\n<p>After watching <em>The Legend of Tarzan<\/em>\u00ae, the one unanswered question I had was, \u201cWhy was this film even made?\u201d If this was to cash in on the plethora of live-action reinterpretations of Disney animated films, it might have held closer to that story. If this was to make a point about racism, it was making the wrong point. If this was because it\u2019s a recognizable name with a hunky-looking protagonist, then I think they probably hit the mark.<\/p>\n<p>While the scenery is certainly immersive in this adaptation of an Edgar Rice Burroughs character, much of this film pulled me out of the illusion of the African jungle. Right off the bat, the \u201cregistered trademark\u201d that appears after in the title reminds you that there is already plenty of media about Tarzan, and another movie probably doesn\u2019t add to it. Secondly, while a star-studded cast is a good way to get audiences into the theater, the likes of Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, and Margo Robbie didn\u2019t seem to be portraying their characters as much as they were just themselves in period-accurate clothing. Finally, the CGI of the animals fell into the \u201cuncanny valley\u201d for me, none of them seeming realistic or even interacting with the characters at all.<\/p>\n<p>Since this was not an \u201corigin story\u201d film, the flashbacks to fill in the backstory, being disjointed in nature, felt like they took away from the flow of the plot. That\u2019s not to mention that the plot (and any of its sub-plots) felt contrived and clich\u00e9. Furthermore, in a day and age filled with racial tension and strife, having a white man come in and save the day while at the same time physically beating up on Africans felt a little bit too culturally insensitive to not say anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>Another mindless summer movie with nothing new to offer, I give <em>The Legend of Tarzan\u00ae<\/em> 2.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legend of Tarzan\u00ae Year: 2016 Rating: PG-13 Length: 110 minutes \/ 1.83 hours After watching The Legend of Tarzan\u00ae, the one unanswered question I had was, \u201cWhy was this film even made?\u201d If this was to cash in on the plethora of live-action reinterpretations of Disney animated films, it might have held closer to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,2],"tags":[9,110,107,13,8,109,108,106],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-0-stars","category-movie","tag-9","tag-christoph-waltz","tag-edgar-rice-burroughs","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-samuel-l-jackson","tag-tarzan","tag-the-legend-of-tarzan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}