'Trash'
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.
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.
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.
I've actually given it thought because of one thing -- The two best Indy movies are the ones where he's trying to recover Christian relics. The two lesser movies, he is not.
The two best Indy movies are the ones where he's trying to recover Christian relics. The two lesser movies, he is not.
Absolutely. I don't know why this is, but it is true.
That's why I advocate Indiana Jones and The Spear of Destiny. Alas, my genius will go unrecognized as by the time I could work any miracles like completing a script, Harrison Ford will have crumbled to dust.
Christian
o.O
Christian
o.O
Point. Abrahamic?
That works.
The Spear of Destiny
is that the one the roman soldiers poked Jesus with?