With all my recent excitement over rafting I decided I needed to watch The River Wild again. I had some fond memories from the first time I saw it (I remember watching it on video at home, I figure I was in High School.) It turns out it really isn't all that good. This is a total formula movie, but I can handle that, I was mostly watching because I wanted to see the river. But most of the good river scenes weren't filmed the way I wanted them to be filmed. There were very few wide angle shots where I got to see what was going on, it was mostly just shots of the boat hitting a wave and lots of water coming over the side. And the big suspense stuff didn't work either, why do they have to run the big, deadly rapid when it seems like they could have portaged around it. Granted, it would be a hard portage - but that seems better then something they all feel is likely to kill them. Though I will give it credit for having some good feminist, strong woman, spirit.

Speaking of feminist, strong woman, spirit; Survivor last night had that in spades (yes, Survivor is one of my two TV guilty pleasures, along with Real World/Road Rules series.) It was great, the tribes merged and the guy that got voted out had no clue his support had just vaporized under him. It was almost as good as last season when they got down to five people and the woman that got voted out (with four votes!) thought there were going to be four votes for someone else. Although this tends to be where I stop paying attention to the show. For me the most interesting parts are when they have two teams competing against eachother. Once it drops down to the individual competetion and they've figured out how to live in the new, harsh environment I lose interest.

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