'Shindig'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I watched Indiana Jones last night. It took me a while to get into it but I did. However I think it took a weird turn (going to white font this just in case the theme I talk about spoils something) into The Mummy and The Mummy Returns land then staggering (perhaps drunkenly) into Hellboy territory and then finally getting back on course.
However I liked Shia LeBouf (or however his name is spelt) and the character of Mutt much more than I thought I would.
I loved Indiana Jones because I have always loved Indy with a love that never dies. I recognize that the movie is deeply flawed and I choose to ignore it.
We're going to see Indiana Jones in a few. I'm not expecting greatness; just fun. Not even 10 tons of fun; just yay Indy.
From everything I've read of reviews, it's better than Temple of Doom, so that's all I need. I don't expect it to be as good as Raiders.
The movie was a lot fun, it didn't take me a bit to get into it, but it was a lot of fun.
I loved all the little references to prior films.
God, I love Viggo: [link]
Second the Viggo love.
Went and saw Ironman, today. I have one thing to say, RDJ has eminently lickable arms. Oh, and it was a cracking good film.
In how many ways does Tropic Thunder seem wrong?
RDJ as a black man. This I have to see. (and hopefully Jack Black and Ben Stiller don't suck)
A black (sounding) guy behind me at Iron Man said, "I don't know about that " after the Tropic Thunder trailer.
I can't check youtube at work but if Juliebird didn't link to the red band trailer there are copious more levels of wrongness to be had in Tropic Thunder . I get the feeling that wrongness is the point of the film. Robert Downey Jr is playing an Australian actor and I think the point of him playing a black character is that the Ozzies have already played every other kind of person so black is simply the next logical step.