So... not good?

Not to plug my blog, but that's where I came clean.

I read a very cool review of the movie actually.

If you eat three pounds of sausage, which pound tasted the best?  The first one, obviously, when you were still hungry and craving sausage.

So too with the Indiana Jones movies. The first one (for you...) is the best, because it filled a need you had... even if you didn't know you needed sausage until you ate it.  Now, this movie is just more sausage, not objectively better or worse than the others. For old school fans of the movie, though, you're stuffing in a fourth pound of sausage and probably more than a little full.  Still, if you really like that sausage you'll probably get at least SOME enjoyment from it... if you are new to sausage but inclined to like it, this sausage will be grand.



Make sense?




Of course, I also read a review that used a lot of words to put a bunch of unsmily faces on the page too.... so make what you will of it. Either way, my seeing it was a forgone conclusion. I'm too curious to miss it even if I know it sucks. Besides, I like sausage and I can seriously eat....

Ebert's review is great.

Doc, you Fraqnabber!!!


I'm trying to organize 20 to 30 people to go see it this Saturday afternoon.
(At Cincinnati Mills Cinema - if you're local or nearby...)


 Don't say its bad.


- Ed C.


WHEN: Saturday, May 24th, 2008

WHERE: Showcase Cinemas at CINCINNATI MILLS MALL on Winton Road just north of I-275.

WHICH SHOW? : Which ever showing starts between 3:30pm and 4:00pm that day.

I didn't say it was bad.  I'm saying that I was unfulfilled, and sad about it.

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I heard Iron Man is good.

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I was going to post a link to the Trailer for The Mummy 3 for you... but I just watched it... and now I'm not.

Bleh. :what:

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!        

I didn't expect this one to be very good.  Why?

Past experience suggests that only the odd numbered ones based on Judeo-Christian mythology are any good.

Maybe my low expectations will allow me to enjoy it.

I think that this movie really really rocked. As someone said before, yeah, is an Indiana Jones movie, so there. But it's a very well done movie, excellent script, fantastic acting, and I perceive love for the opus. I really recommend it.

I know it was an Indy movie.  That's what I wanted to see.  And yet, I feel as though I didn't.

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!I know it was an Indy movie.  That's what I wanted to see.  And yet, I feel as though I didn't.

Did you see Kung-Fu Panda accidentally?

No...no, Stormbringer.  I...no.

Good thing the Nazis didn't react this way to the first and third movies:

Indiana Jones and the wrath of the Communist Party

Also from the article:

   Indiana Jones also came under fire in Australia, where the head of the World Archaeological Congress called him an “ethical nightmare” for the profession. Claire Smith, of Newcastle University, said that the fictional archaeologist was guilty of an “imperialist assumption that artefacts in far-flung parts of the world needed ‘protection’ supplied by the West”.

She told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: “In pursuit of fortune and glory Jones ignores international treaties, treats human remains as weapons and destroys archaeological sites in a bid to escape from potential entombment. Archaeologists are concerned with preserving the past, not making a profit from it, and sometimes Jones seems more finely tuned to the commercial value of an artefact than the information it can give us.”

I'm reminded of sitting in my college apartment watching the anime movie Laputa: Castle in the Sky and during the scene where the bad guys start looting the ancient city, tearing gold panels from the walls and so forth, my archaeologist apartment-mate looks at the screen with faked anger and says, "Put...that...back.  Exactly...where...you...found...it."

Quote from: John MorrowPast experience suggests that only the odd numbered ones based on Judeo-Christian mythology are any good.

Are you kidding?  Now, sure, I had my problems with the second movie, but the third one?  By the time the Nazis had missed at point-blank range with submachine guns for the third or fourth time inside of ten minutes, I was shifting in my seat, sighing heavily, and counting the ceiling tiles.  Sean Connery and the Knights Templar did nothing to redeem that piece of toilet sausage.

QuoteMaybe my low expectations will allow me to enjoy it.

I look forward to whincing in the expectation that an overly-adventurous geriatric is going to break his hip.

!i!