Talk:Romancing the Stone

Plot
My plot summary is a bit longish and gives away way too many details about the movie. Feel free to take a stab at trimming it. :-) &mdash;Frecklefoot 17:01, Apr 5, 2004 (UTC)


 * The summary is fairly long but more of a problem is that it doesn;'t provide a quick summary of the film. There should be a paragraph or something which summarize the plot quickly for someone who knows nothing about it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pennyjw (talk • contribs) 01:47, 25 February 2007 (UTC).

Eddie Grant
I would hardly call the song a hit, since it's heard for all of a few seconds in the film and barely made a blip on the charts -- #52 in the UK (from Eddie Grant's Wikipedia page) and "a respectable berth just outside the Top 25" (http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/grant_eddy/bio.jhtml). DailyRich 03:16, 1 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Agreed, removed. &mdash; Frecklefoot | Talk 15:03, 1 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Was only Grant's song released (I have the 45 of it, so I know that at least was released) or did they do a soundtrack album as well?Ttenchantr (talk) 20:41, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Store
There's a store called Romancing the Stone (which is aka Earthbound Trading Co.) Perhaps something can be said about that, maybe even just a link to here:http://www.earthboundtrading.com/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.247.64.179 (talk) 05:51, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Zolo and his Henchmen - FARC faction?????
Could Colonel Zolo and his "private army", could be a faction of the FARC? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnlongbond (talk • contribs) 07:33, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

If you look at the patches on shoulder sleeves of their uniforms, you can see its the logo of the FARC-EP.Johnlongbond (talk) 05:59, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

How “successful” was it…?
I think it should be stated that the film was really only a success in the U.S. According to Box Office Mojo, it made some $76m of the $86m in the U.S. and thus a relatively small balance for the rest of the world. As it stands just now, it reads like it was a global hit, when it really wasn’t. In an un-scientific anecdotal aside, as an 18-25 yearold action-cinema goer at the time, living in a large city in walking distance of at least five cinemas it completely failed to even register on my radar in the U.K. at all, until “Jewel of the Nile” trumpeted that it was the sequel to the “hit” “Romancing the Stone” - a marketing ploy I feel to boost the video of the first film in regions it hadn’t done well in on release. Jock123 (talk) 13:23, 17 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Box office Mojo stats for international boxoffice are somewhat shakey and incomplete before the late 90s and not always reliable after that. If you check the figures for the international box office on 'Mojo it merely gives the rather arbitrary figure of $10,000,000 (honestly, what are the odds?) BOM is OK for anything past 2000 but before that I'd take anything with a pinch of salt. For instance I managed to make a reasonably well known filmmaker look rather foolish when he used 'Mojo figures on a 2009 UK release of a feature film to make a point, figures that were demonstrably inaccurate  when compared with other sources. the-numbers.com has the international box office as $40m (though again a suspiciously whole number) http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Romancing-the-Stone#tab=summary which makes the total world wide at about $115m ($30m more that 'Mojo's figure). That's a sizable figure for a $10m movie. Verlaine76 (talk) 21:32, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Gossip.
Two sections contain unsupported gossip.One is the rather salacious section on the writer's death. It seems speculation and inappropriate for an encyclopaedia, leave that stuff tom TMZ, even if it was supported by sources, which it isn't. The other is that the script was re-written by numerous script doctors. The link referenced here makes no such claim. I'm removing both comments. Verlaine76 (talk) 21:36, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

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Diane Thomas worked on other projects
The article (second paragraph) says that "Thomas wrote the screenplay in 1979, as the only one in her lifetime", though actually Diane Thomas was involved in other film projects. She co-wrote another film with Spielberg, she was hired for & completed a screenplay for an Indiana Jones film (that didn't get made for various reasons), and she also wrote other screenplays, in her lifetime.

So, respectfully, that sentence in the article is ironically a sort of neat, Hollywood version of the truth. Charliepenandink (talk) 13:40, 10 September 2023 (UTC)