SatC had a bigger opening weekend than Indy.

Really? Didn't Indy break $100 million? Was the three-day total under $55 million? SATC had a bigger opening weekend than Prince Caspian, too.

Huh. SatC had a bigger opening weekend than Indy.

Given that
1) SatC is the only movie (in the year I've been here) that has been announced on the marquee of my local theater in advance, and
2) had people (with tickets) waiting in line 1/2 hour before the show,
3) had people in the audience cheering as the lights dimmed,
I'm not surprised.

("Sodomy" led me to look up several words in the dictionary)

Oh yeah. In 7th grade English we each had a dictionary under our desks. Man was I popular in 7th grade English.

Apparently I've repressed it even more than I realized.

That's what the stone with three stripes is -- a Shiva lingam -- Shiva's dork.

Whoops, my mistake. I forgot that Indy opened last weekend. Duh.

Shiva's dork.

Yeah, I twigged now that you mention it -- but not only did I not quite get at the time what the thing was, I'd completely forgotten in the time since what they were even looking for. It's just the meh movie with the horrible actress, the annoying kid, and the roller-coaster thingie.

(Which is also why I'm completely unbothered by the "Indy always looks for magic items" thing -- although I had the same conversation the other day with a meatspace friend who I'm pretty sure isn't MM -- the thing Indy's looking for in any given is what kicks off the action, but I've never given it enough importance to really care what it was, let alone make it part of my personal definition of what makes it an Indy movie. OTOH, if he didn't wear a hat...)

SatC had a bigger opening weekend than Indy.

I wondered what the numbers would be in comparison. So is it that women can open movies, or is it that women can open movies better than old guys?

I have no idea what my first R-rated movie was because I never paid attention to what rating movies were. Okay, not never. I paid attention to whatever movie I saw on my 15th birthday, because I wanted it to be a movie rated 15. Other than that? It all seemed to work out just fine.

I knew there were crystal skulls.

Indy did get a few of the side facts kinda right. Kinda.

They mentioned the Mitchell-Hedges skull, which was found by the daughter of an "archaeologist" (really just kind of an all around adventurer type) in 1924 in the ruins of a temple.

Well, allegedly. F.A. Mitchell-Hedges, the adventurer, never mentioned the discovery of the skull in his writings of the time, so there's a fair amount of controversy concerning Anna's "discovery" and just when or where it allegedly happened.

Anna and others made a lot of weird claims regarding the skull, like bad luck befalling those who owned or handled it, that the manufacture was made without any metal and by completely mysterious techniques and that it maintained a constant temp of 70 degrees. There's also the usual healing and divination claims.

It's been tested by Hewlett-Packard laboratories, where they found indications that parts of the skull had been carved with metal tools like drills and lathes. Subsequent to that, Anna Mitchell-Hedges stopped bringing the thing out in public.

They also mentioned the Nazca lines, which I thought was cool. Whether they were meant to signal fucking space aliens is doubtful.

Also Stir Crazy.

::high-fives amych::

My circuit was predicting that Indy in its second week would top the opening weekend of S&tC so Carrie and her crew did outdo predictions in that regard. Oddly enough, the #1 movie at my theatre was The Strangers. I think it's because the theatre down the street only got one print so we were able to compete with them for a change.