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Latest Indiana Jones film Was Conservative and Anti-Collectivist
Modern Conservative ^
| September 07, 2008
| Sharon McGovern
Posted on 09/08/2008 4:56:10 PM PDT by thinkingIsPresuppositional
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To: fr_freak
They are using computer effects for so much of the film you ARE watching a cartoon whether you think it is or not.
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posted on
09/08/2008 8:09:28 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Better to support a pitbull in lipstick than to be in a party that is putting lipstick on a pig.)
To: weegee
How Duel not a chase film? Regardless of how dark it is. The actions scenes in it and in Jaws are virtuosic. The action scenes in his films are so uniformly good that its safe to assume he has something to do with it.
His ‘War of the Worlds’ had some of the great sequences of escalating chaos in recent memory.
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posted on
09/08/2008 8:11:36 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
It’s not like the Republic Serials the Indy films were emulating had any more ‘respect for reality’. These films are fantasies.
I understand that, and I am willing to suspend disbelief to some extent, but things like the nuke refrigerator are so over the top, it is ridiculous. If they had shown Indy flapping his arms and flying to the moon it would have been no more ridiculous. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" didn't try anything nearly that blatant. I don't count the supernatural stuff because that's, well, supernatural and so the rules are different. For instance, I have no objection to the inter-dimensional alien stuff in "Crystal Skull" because it goes into a realm for which I do not have any clearly defined rules. However, I know exactly what would happen if a guy locked in a refrigerator were tossed hundreds of yards through the air by a nuclear shock wave. And "Crystal Skull"'s version isn't even in the same universe.
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posted on
09/08/2008 8:12:23 PM PDT
by
fr_freak
To: Names Ash Housewares
Twas an awful movie.
Not Shakespeare, but I enjoyed it. First I’ve seen in the theater in 5+ years.
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posted on
09/08/2008 8:21:09 PM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Guns don't kill people, criminals and the governments that create them do.)
To: weegee
“What about when the bicycle flew in E.T.? I mean, really...”
ET sas about kids for kids.
Raiders of the Lost Ark should have set the tone for all the films, Jones was on his way to being a Bond like character. It was great. Instead they de-evolved into the much lesser sequels, and they abandoned the character for years until the mess of Crystal Skull.
To: Beelzebubba
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posted on
09/08/2008 8:45:49 PM PDT
by
YdontUleaveLibs
(Reason is out to lunch. How may I help you?)
To: thinkingIsPresuppositional
Good grief. A typo in the second word!
Hire a damn copy editor.
Sheesh.
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posted on
09/08/2008 8:48:23 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Zero-bama. All this time we thought it was an "O" but, nope, it's just a "0".)
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