{"id":18617,"date":"2026-05-20T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18617"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:07:36","slug":"anaconda-1997-luis-llosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18617","title":{"rendered":"Anaconda (1997, Luis Llosa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watched at the bar on mute, this appeared to be quite bad.<\/p>\n<p>The director was a real 90s Guy, starting out with Erik Estrada and David Carradine then breaking through with Tom Berenger and Billy Zane.  The editor did <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15543\">Miller&#8217;s Crossing<\/a><\/em> and the DP did <em>Jaws<\/em>, but the writers did <em>Turner &#038; Hooch<\/em> and <em>Legal Eagles<\/em>, and the lure of dodgy CG and a crazed Jon Voight as the villain dragged this down.  The entire cast would make quick recoveries (<em>Out of Sight<\/em>, <em>Three Kings<\/em>, <em>Heat Vision &#038; Jack<\/em>, <em>Mr. Jealousy<\/em>, <em>Titanic<\/em>, etc) and this movie would be forgotten, certainly not to receive a sweaty 2025 comic semi-sequel starring a bunch of comics I used to like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watched at the bar on mute, this appeared to be quite bad. The director was a real 90s Guy, starting out with Erik Estrada and David Carradine then breaking through with Tom Berenger and Billy Zane. The editor did Miller&#8217;s Crossing and the DP did Jaws, but the writers did Turner &#038; Hooch and Legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,503],"class_list":["post-18617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-snakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18625,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617\/revisions\/18625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}