Preview from the San Jose Mercury News (registration required):
• “The Librarian: Quest for the Spear” (8 p.m. Sunday, TNT) clearly is meant to be a send-up of the adventure film genre. But it’s not nearly clever enough or produced with enough camp to avoid coming off as a second-rate “Romancing the Stone” or a third-rate (maybe even fourth-rate) version of an Indiana Jones film.
Still, this tale of a nerd who finds himself responsible for the protection of the world’s legendary artifacts has one thing going for it: the chemistry and charm of its star, Noah Wyle, who plays librarian Flynn Carsen.
librarian adventurer – tomeraider?
I’d read about this in the NY Times, I believe…had meant to take a look to see if it was truly as bad as it seemed it would be, but it completely slipped my mind!
Did anyone see it – even for a few minutes? I’d love to hear that it wasn’t too terrible and that it might inspire millions…
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it’s NEXT Sunday — December 5 at 8 pm. You’ll still get a chance to see how bad/good it is…
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Oh….goodie, perhaps you can remind me since it appears I can’t read or remember.
Re:librarian adventurer – tomeraider? …what is it I’m supposed to remember?
oh boy, I’ll do my best, but
From Doctor to Librarian
I can’t wait to see this flick – B-rated or less – just because Noah Wylie (sp?) has gone from “ER extraordinaire” to a librarian! I’m not knocking the profession by any means. It’s just a little odd…but maybe not so much now that I think about it…afterall, there were several lawyers in my MS courses who were career-shifters. It just seems a little analogous to what…
“Captain Kirk driving a cop car…you know…he used to command a starship!” (quoted or slightly mis-quoted from Kevin Pollack)
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-I wonder if we will see anything resembling real librarianship in this film, or the fact the guy is a librarian is merely a plot device. The way the advertisments look to me, the guy could of been a history professor or an old renaissance fair actor.
-It would be interesting if the hero turned out to be a person that is not the stereotypical librarian (will he say “shush” repeatedly throughout the film????).