gee. thanks for the spoiler alert. A*****E.

What was the spoiler? Are you talking about Indy? Please.

Aliens in Indy was a spoiler for me, assuming you weren't speaking metaphorically.

unless you were joking, yeah, that was a pretty serious *&@! spoiler.

I saw Indiana Jones last week and was intensely disappointed. I think what annoyed me the most was all the totally pointless references to the previous (and much better) movies: the statute and potrait of Marcus, the brief appearance of the Arc, etc.

Alina: one of my friends said that the movie seemed like a fan fiction script, and cited the Marcus stuff as an example:

JBG: I apologize about the "spoiler," although it's sort of clear in the first sequence of the movie. And trust me, it's not a spoiler in the sense that there's any important plot developments that I have revealed. (Plot is sort of a 3rd class citizen in this movie anyway.)

We watched Indiana Jones on a pirated DVD last week and the quality was awful given the movie had only come out about 4 days prior. Given those circumstances, our opinion might have been colored as such, but we thought the movie was terrible and boring. The missus and my mom-in-law fell asleep. Big disappointment. Hope to see Redbelt sometime though. Did you ever see Mamet's spy movie with Val Kilmer from a couple years ago? Can't remember the name right now. I liked that one, even though it ended up being kind of mediocre.

Spartan. Yeah, I saw it in the theater, remember enjoying it somewhat, but don't remember a thing about it.

Quality of picture and environment has a lot to do with my enjoyability of certain movies, which maybe doesn't say a lot for those movies. I first saw 2001: ASO in my living room on a much-abused rental vhs and it was really boring. I've since seen new prints of the movie on the big screen and it blew my mind away. Similarly, I recently watched a trailer for National Treasure 2: The Search for Lincoln's Gold on blu-ray and damn it if I didn't want to go see that movie!

I know this isn't the point, but National Treasure 2 sucked. It was too bad, because National Treasure 1, while hokey, was actually pretty entertaining in a "movie I'd like to watch on an airplane" sense.

That sort of is the point. I figured it sucked, and yet I still wanted to watch it because of the Blu-ray trailer!

george lucas needs to be brought out back and shot. i had to watch raiders a couple of days after seeing crystal skull just to wash my mind of it. but i was expecting dreck in the first place. the husband was very upset, don't know why he had any positive expectations in the first place. speilberg was asleep through the whole thing, too. did anyone notice blue lines across the screen several times in the movie when the setting sun was in the shot? it was weird. after watching raiders, i was struck by the john mcclane quality in indy (or the indy quality in john mcclane)...there was none of this gritty white-undershirt-bearing spirit in this latest (and hopefully last) installment...indy (or henry, as they kept refering to him as) was all golly gee this and that. and they kept on freaking stopping to RESEARCH everything...let's do some translation, folks! lucas is so damn caught up on jamming cutsie crap into these stories...i know, let's feature some PRAIRIE DOGS in the film, won't that be nice!

i was considering redbelt and perhaps will go see this now.

okay, i'm done.

Ah, I had forgotten about the prairie dogs. There are no prairie dogs in Nevada.

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