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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-24 (Monday)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:48:21 -0700
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On 6/25/24 2:00 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>> On 6/25/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>
>> The Canyon (Tubi) - 2009 flick starring Yvonne Stra-hotski, and Eion
>> Bailey (with special appearance from Will Patton!).
>>     I actually am pretty sure I've seen this flick, or at least part of
>> it, before.
> 
> Me too
> 
>>     Stra-hotski and Bailey play newlyweds - he wants to take her on a
>> mule ride tour of the Grand Canyon for the honeymoon. But he didn't book
>> in advance, so he's screwed! Until old salt guide Will Patton shows up,
>> and offers to take them (likely on the D.L.!).
>>     Of course, you know this is going to end in disaster, and it does
>> when Patton is bitten by rattlesnakes
> 
> If only it had been Patton Oswalt

Patton Oswalt would have ruined this film.

>> and the mules run off.
>>     So they're far away from civilization, get lost, make horrible and
>> dumb mistakes, and are menaced by wolves most of the time.
>>     The ending is straight out of "The Mist" (which predates this film
>> by two years), which I wasn't really expecting. In fact, I would have
>> liked a more definitive ending, period.
>>     This apparently was poorly received critically, but sports a
>> 5.8/1000 on IMDb which generally indicates a pretty solidly entertaining
>> film.
> 
> I think it simply indicates that Strahotsky was still in her Yvonne can do
> no wrong phase.

She looks pretty good here, yeah. And that's factoring in that she's 
supposed to look like crap in the film's second half!

>>     This would have been a lot better if it were based on some true
>> story though...
> 
> What it would have benefited most by is naked showering under the
> waterfalls sequences. Think Tanya Roberts in Sheena.

Well, I can tell you "Devil's Prey" (2001) absolutely would have 
benefited from scenes like that!!  ;)