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Slight knockoff of Humphrey Bogart's African Queen?

posted 3 years ago by TriumphReq (1857)
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Yay or neigh?

[–] 42xX (1) 3 years ago

Kinda. The ride is based off of African Queen so the movie is as well.

[–] TriumphReq (1857) 3 years ago

You mean the Disney ride? Is it? How so? Interesting if so but it doesn't seem to resemble it at all.

[–] elcamino (15540) 3 years ago

It wasn't in Africa but I think the next movie will be.

[–] beauq81 (1018) 3 years ago

Only in the looks. A bigger, scene by scene copy of The Mummy

[–] TandyMan (10434) 3 years ago

Not as much as it should have been. Not using the boat to take out the nazi sub in the end seems a terrible oversight.

[–] TriumphReq (1857) 3 years ago

Hmm yeah. I haven't seen the movie yet.

[–] TearofLys (2400) 3 years ago

Even bigger knockoff of Pirates of the Caribbean

[–] TriumphReq (1857) 3 years ago

Well not really. I wouldn't even say Black Sails is a knockoff of PotC, more like a takeover.

[–] AtomicReturns (1252) 3 years ago

Very loose resemblance but the Rock and Emily Blunt did mention that movie as an influence, as well as Romancing the Stone.

Like The African Queen, there's a spirited sister and her brother (although the brother dies right at the beginning of African Queen), and the unkempt boat skipper. And some Germans as opposition.

[–] TriumphReq (1857) 3 years ago

So then it is kinda a knockoff of AQ in more ways than I even guessed. That's ok. It's bound to be a bit of fun.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16300) 3 years ago

That was my first impression when I saw the trailer. Like that crossed with the Mummy films.