We just got back from Indy. It was fun, even if it did take so much suspension of disbelief in some sections that even *I* felt a strain. But still, it was pretty much what I wanted in an Indiana Jones movie. And Mutt was darling.
Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.
'Out Of Gas'
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Atropa - May 26, 2008 8:16:41 pm PDT #5957 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
P.M. Marc - May 26, 2008 8:36:37 pm PDT #5958 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Jilli, Jilli, Jilli.
You don't SUSPEND your disbelief for it. You leave it in the car, outside the theatre, and if it happens to come looking for you, you pretend you've never met it.
Which I'd have told you, but I fear the more time passes since the curtains closed, the rosier the view through my glasses grows.
Atropa - May 26, 2008 8:41:18 pm PDT #5959 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
You don't SUSPEND your disbelief for it. You leave it in the car, outside the theatre, and if it happens to come looking for you, you pretend you've never met it.
Oh, I shooed my disbelief away whenever it sneaked up and started making grumbly noises, but even so! He survived a nuclear blast in a refrigerator?! Even I made skeptical noises at that.
Oh, and I felt cheated about the lack of "the living dead" that were supposed to be guarding the city. Zombies, dammit! They implied zombies and didn't deliver.
Laga - May 26, 2008 8:56:31 pm PDT #5960 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
hesurvived a nuclear blast in a refrigerator
holy cow, both me and D had completely blocked that out. Yeah that was completely out of hand.
but but... it was lead lined !
Lee - May 26, 2008 9:04:43 pm PDT #5961 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Hee. I had checked my disbelief at the door, but I was still wondering "how is he going to get out? They didn't make refrigerators that opened from the inside back then."
P.M. Marc - May 26, 2008 9:05:37 pm PDT #5962 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Jilli, Indy and roaches, man. When the apocalypse comes? That's what's left.
And all that I can handwave, because MARION! SEEKRIT INDY BABY! (Yes, that's the Bulletproof Narrative Kink I mentioned in email, blame YEARS of unrepentantly trashy bodice rippers, ahem.)
Even if Young Master Shia makes me feel like a dirty fuckin' cougar from hell.
DavidS - May 26, 2008 9:08:24 pm PDT #5963 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Even if Young Master Shia makes me feel like a dirty fuckin' cougar from hell.
Pfft. You're not even a cub, much less a cougar. Besides, you need to look...tawnier.
P.M. Marc - May 26, 2008 9:14:50 pm PDT #5964 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Pfft. You're not even a cub, much less a cougar. Besides, you need to look...tawnier.
Dude, I think that kid was born after I hit puberty. Ergo? Cougar country.
Anyhow, I own bronzer.
Atropa - May 26, 2008 9:59:27 pm PDT #5965 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Yeah, I kinda figured that was your Bulletproof Narrative Kink. Mine, of course, is the undead (vampires preferred, but zombies are okay too), which is why I felt CHEATED. Cheated, I tell you!
Even if Young Master Shia makes me feel like a dirty fuckin' cougar from hell.
Yeah, I get that. He was pretty decorative.
P.M. Marc - May 26, 2008 10:20:55 pm PDT #5966 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
He's not SUPPOSED TO BE DECORATIVE!
HE'S THE GOOFY KID FROM HOLES, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!!
Ahem. I mean, it seriously feels like JUST yesterday I was watching him in kids movies with the nephew.
I mean, I have OTHER bulletproof narrative kinks. But somehow, I don't see the Indy franchise as giving me rentboys.