Aww, MM, that's too bad. I went with my dad and we enjoyed it a lot. I loved Shia Labeuf (not sure I spelled that right), with his ducktail and motorcycle. And fencing! Hee. It's all so over-the-top, but when is Indy not?
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
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SailAweigh - Jun 02, 2008 4:25:08 am PDT #6065 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Miracleman - Jun 02, 2008 5:09:32 am PDT #6066 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I didn't mind the over-the-top, though the "Tarzan" routine almost made me get up and leave. But, come on... ALIENS?! Even "interdimensional" aliens?! What the...?
It's always been a staple of Indy flicks that he deals with magic. The Ark of the Covenant, the Stones of Whateverthefuck, the Holy Grail. To switch that to super-science just felt...like a big ol' WTF? Ancient Astronauts? Really? The whole Van Daaniken thing just put me off and the giant 1950's cheap ass flying saucer at the end just made me wanna spit.
Why not go back to the magical relics bit? What's wrong with the Lance of Longinus? Excalibur? The Commies wouldn't want those? A magical sword that would make Stalin invincible? You know?
It just felt like horseshit to me. The whole chase through the jungle was "speeder-bikes" redux, the plot...okay, let me get this straight. Ox finds the grave of what's-his-nut, gets the skull, *takes it to the temple*, somehow fails to open the door so he puts it back where he found it, goes batshit and gets locked away so he can conveniently scratch psedo-mad-dribble all over his cell and lead Indy to find the skull that he, Ox, *already found*? Buh-whuh?
Meh, I say. Meh.
sumi - Jun 02, 2008 6:19:46 am PDT #6067 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Aims - Jun 02, 2008 6:27:15 am PDT #6068 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
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$10 says the HPHBP trailer is tied to Dark Knight.
sumi - Jun 02, 2008 6:40:32 am PDT #6069 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
That would be excellent!
Aims - Jun 02, 2008 6:42:52 am PDT #6070 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I can't remember, what movies were the trailers tied to before?
SailAweigh - Jun 02, 2008 6:43:07 am PDT #6071 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Why not go back to the magical relics bit?
I was fine with the alien stuff because in the 50's it was all. about. aliens. And Commies. But, it was all. about. aliens. And flying saucers. Superscience *is* magic. Any science beyond the knowledge of a civilization is magic. We may be more aware that there are scientific reasons behind it, but if we can't recreate it, it's magic. I had less problem with that aspect than I did the "swinging through the jungle", a side comment may have popped out of my mouth at that about about George of the Jungle during that scene, and the "drops three times" and they all survive.
Still, I enjoyed myself. Probably because folks already said not to expect it to be too much like the first three, so I went into it without a lot of expectations.
The refrigerator scene was priceless.
Ailleann - Jun 02, 2008 7:27:05 am PDT #6072 of 10000
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See, for me, my biggest problem was the refrigerator thing. That's where I almost walked out. Especially since it ended up having no point.
Scrappy - Jun 02, 2008 7:28:06 am PDT #6073 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
MM, that worked for me because, instead of being a '30s pulp serial, this film was clearly a '50s pulp drive-in movie. It had all the tropes from that era angry teens, radiation, aliens, and evil commies. and that worked for me.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 02, 2008 7:28:15 am PDT #6074 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I got Feast, the result of the last season of Project Greenlight, as my weekend movie from Netflix. I watched it so you don't have to. I think the people behind it wanted to make a sick horror-comedy like Dead Alive or Slither, but with no writing or acting talent to bring to bear (seriously, they spent half the commentary raving about how good Eric Dane was in his two minutes of screentime!) were doomed to failure.