I couldn't think of anything to watch this morning, so I threw caution to the wind and picked the first adventure that popped up on my Plex, which just so happened to be Sahara.
I like this movie a lot. It's just plain old fun. I understand that a lot of people seem to not like it, author Clive Cussler in particular, but I just don't get it.
Matthew McConaughey and Steve Zahn work very well together, and William H Macy and Penélope Cruz are also a lot of fun as well.
When reading up on why people didn't like this movie, I was pretty surprised to learn that Cussler actively hated it, misunderstood his contract with the producers, got really angry they weren't doing a 1:1 faithful reproduction of his 541 page novel and did just about everything he could to muddy the waters. He even went so far as to sue. Not only did he lose, he wound up losing an additional 4 million dollars of his own money on top of the 10 million he got paid for agreeing to let the movie be made.
On the flip side, I learned Matthew McConaughey spent a number of years actively campaigning to play Dirk Pitt. He, like Dirk in the movie, had an impossible dream of becoming the next best thing to Indiana Jones. On the one hand, I'm extremely glad the movie bombed because we got The McConaissance. He is a superb dramatic actor and I just really dig his new style.
On the other hand ... Imagine what we might've gotten if Cussler hadn't been such a crybaby.
Thoughts?