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$10 says the HPHBP trailer is tied to Dark Knight.

That would be excellent!

I can't remember, what movies were the trailers tied to before?

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think I had the same problems MM did. As I said leaving the theater, it was entertaining, but ridiculous. I get what people are saying, but it just wasn't believable to me in the way that the other ones were. Which is crazy in a way, because, really, it's Indiana Jones. I had a similar problem with Ratatouille--even though the whole movie was fantasy, I couldn't really get past the fact that the moving the arms via the hair was not "believable" to me.

Oh! Also, why can't Indy shut the hell up? The Commies didn't even have to threaten him half the time! It was all "I'll never help you, you're scum, I'm a true blue American..." "Well, there's this puzzle, see..." "Ooh! Lemme see! Oh, wow, see the answer is..."

When Shia LeBoeuf (sp?) came up to Indy and Bad Commie Lady at the map table in the jungle camp I was cheering for him to smack the shit out of Indy and yell "Dude, the fuck? Stop helping them!" I was actually disappointed when it was a simple escape attempt.

Also, when did Indy become such a fucking pedantic ass? He's *sinking* into the ground and has to stop and correct Mutt's use of the term "quicksand"? Seriously? I can only reason that they were going for a "Indy is turning into his dad" thing, but it didn't quite play.

So.

When Shia LeBoeuf (sp?) [whitefont]

See, I noticed that too, and I found it funny to remember that, even though he's always doing these things for the bad guys, it always seems that he ends up getting sucked into figuring out the puzzle, even though he's doing it for the wrong guys. Like finding the temple at the end of Holy Grail. That's always been a character note that I liked about Indy, that the puzzle so often wins out, at least in the very-short-term.