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Orrex

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4. When I first saw The Gods Must Be Crazy...

Reply to Wolf Frankula (Original post)

Mon May 8, 2017, 03:24 PM

May 2017

I loved it and laughed my ass off. I was thirteen, and the faux-serious "anthropological" narrative voiceover seemed very funny to me.

I saw it again recently for the first time in about 30 years, and I could hardly stand it. The weird "noble savage" vibe creeped me out profoundly, etc.

What a difference three decades make...

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