Indiana Jones & the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Date: Mar 13th, 2007 10:26:30 pm - Subscribe
Pumpkin Pie Makes Me Feel Like: O.o
How come every archaeologist in Hollywood leads a double life?
[Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, that guy from that Bond movie...]
wtf!?!
Eddie Bauer by day and hard core kick ass by night. Huh. But you never hear about the paleobotanist who researches by day and ass kicks by night. No. I suppose for them it's more like 'run a floral shop by day and research dead plants by night' as exciting as that sounds...
I think Hollywood has a bias against paleobotanists. They're exciting too you know. Somewhere... Doing something...
But all that mystery is left up to the Archaeologists because heck, they just do a super cool job of doing it.
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At the beginning of the movie, after being taken through Shelob's summer home and watching Indi steal the only dusted and polished 'Pier 1 Import' artifact (that the second camera man got on sale at their summer clearance) Just before all that and destroying an entire landmark he runs into "Alex West"'s father. I just knew that Indi and Lara had more in common than what they were leading on about...
Oh and as for the rest of the movie goes, of course everything wrong in the world is the German's problem, pffft whatever, we get it Indi. You know Harrison, you should know better than to shoot a film about bias against a culture when you look like one of them. pfft. Oh and did I mention he's rough with the ladies, anti-debonair, lacks suave/sophistication and the ability to get rid of that stupid smirk that's always on the side of his face.
-4 Harrison.
-4.
But overall it proved entertaining enough.
I mean everyone knows that if you're gonna hide an ancient artifact in Tibet you can expect a creepy German guy who stutters and sweats constantly to show up on your doorstep. It's just common sense.
And as for that whole swapping the artifact with a bag full of sand, chyeah- pathetic.
I'm sorry but I'm sure most of us remember that because it was one of the stupidest parts of the movie. First of all, who do you know who caries around bags of sand with them?
Secondly who in the hell manages to screw up something as big as that?
We all know Tom Cruise would've done a cooler job with lowering himself from the ceiling in all, and he would've done it in black without getting any dust bunnies on himself. And we definately know Daniel Craig could've done it. He would have walked straight up to it, taken it and as soon as that unnecessarily huge soccer ball came rolling out he would have put out his hand and just stopped it. With no hassle. No running. No stapling safari hats to his head.
I think Daniel Craig is the real Indiana Jones and James Bond combined...
Yup. That'll do it.
I'm out.
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Peter Pan
Date: Feb 5th, 2007 4:56:41 am - Subscribe
Pumpkin Pie Makes Me Feel Like: bleh
What a wonderful book! No seriously, I am sure that some of you wanted to experience some hard core bashing from this review but I am sad to inform all of you, it’s really not going to happen. The only way I can ruin this book is:
1) Psycho Analyze it to death
c) Do what Disney did. *bastardize version much*
One thing I will bash though is Disney for absolutely bitch-slapping this poor book. I never liked Peter Pan as a child and I didn’t like the cocky little twit until a week ago. After reading the book all I can say is, “shame shame Disney. Do you really think Walt will ever approve?” I am going to try and give Walt here some credit. When I think of the work this guy has done, I can say confidently, he has an imagination. So I am going to politely assume that he never read the book or at least stopped ¼ of the way through.
I am however far more pleased with the remake of Peter Pan that came out in 2003. It parallels with the book far more than any other movie. But I will say, took people long enough to realize the plot was a little off?
I sincerely hope to encourage the rest of you to read this book as it is quite enjoyable. A few things that may motivate you or rather “the inside scoop”
-Tinker Bell is a real bitch on fairy dust
-Peter is fiery amounts of “me-ism”
-Wendy is kind of flaky
-Mrs. Darling is quite a babe
-Mr. Darling is a dolt
There you have it. Max Rating of +19
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