Congo 4K UHD (1995) coming from Vinegar Syndrome

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Originally Posted by starman15317

I have an old laserdisc of this film but I've still never seen it.

You're missing out! It's a really fun jungle adventure movie, as Ebert pointed out, with a great cast and awesome production design and creatures. Very fun post-Jurassic Park 90s blockbuster. Also has a phenomenal score.

I've seen it dozens of times and never tire of it. My friends actually rented a theater and screened it for me for my bachelor party years ago.

Story time:
I was nine when it came out, and being Jurassic Park and Michael Crichton obsessed, I bugged my parents for weeks if not months about seeing this. I read the book, lit up every time a commercial came on, etc.

Well, one Saturday afternoon my dad asked me to hop in his old Jeep Cherokee and go for a ride with him. He wouldn't say where we were going. I kept asking what was up and finally he said, "Listen, when you were born the doctors said that you had a condition. They said it might go away when you got older, but it might not. So we're going to the hospital, and they're going to do some tests and see if you're going to be okay or not."

I was stunned. I asked how long I'd be gone for. "We don't know." What's the condition? "We're not sure." Am I going to die? "We don't know."

I still remember that we were passing over a highway on an overpass when he told me this. I could tell you the exact spot.

"Anyways," he said. "Look into that bag in the back seat and make sure mom packed enough clothes for you."

I was in the front passenger seat, so I reached back and pulled down the side of a paper grocery bag. Inside was a re-usable popcorn bucket that you got cheap refills on at our nearest AMC theater.

"It's just a popcorn bucket..."

My dad laughed.

"WE'RE GOING TO SEE CONGO?!"

He confirmed that yes, we were going to see Congo. And I've never been the same but I've always had a deep love for the film. Maybe because for a brief moment at the age of nine I thought I was going to die of some rare medical condition, and I'd been granted a new lease on life and the first thing I got to do was see Congo, but the movie also has Ernie Hudson, Bruce Campbell, Tim Curry, killer apes, cool lasers, ancient diamond mines, sesame seed cake, and all sorts of stuff so who is to say.