Crack that whip
Off the see the new Indiana Jones movie at the Carolina tonight. You kids stay out of trouble.
UPDATE: So, who all saw it? What did you think? I couldn't believe that Karen Allen didn't get to throw back a single shot of booze.
UPDATE: So, who all saw it? What did you think? I couldn't believe that Karen Allen didn't get to throw back a single shot of booze.
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I saw it at Northgate-almost no one there. There were a couple of people with Indiana Jones hats.
The movie was alright, a lot of cheesy and a lot good moments. I would discuss it with you, but I don't want to spoil it for everyone.
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Anonymous, at 11:56 PM
I probably won't see the movie, but Karen Allen -- hey hey...
One of my lesbian couple friends once asked what kind of woman I'd like to go out with, in case they know someone for an introduction. I said, "someone like the Karen Allen character in Raiders of the Lost Ark." Their response, "Yeah, us too!"
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Unknown, at 1:03 AM
She's a yoga teacher and knitting instructor now (if I remembered where I read that I would link). That's, like, the opposite of whiskey.
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Valerie at We Love Durham, at 5:30 AM
i liked her character a lot better in the first movie.
i was thinking if they figured out a way for Harrison Ford to say "I've got a bad feeling about this," (which i probably whispered 3 or 4 times to Mrs D in the course of the movie) the least they could have done was drop a passing reference to one of the best scenes ever filmed into this one.
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Barry, at 7:51 AM
I should be there either tonight or tomorrow...since my mother is visiting, it's prime movie fodder for entertaining her.
oh, and with Indiana Jones playing at the Carolina, I cant see why I would venture to see it anywhere else...
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Unknown, at 9:26 AM
I read most of the "top" reviewers at Rotten Tomatoes, and Indy 4 was a rare care of the top critics blasting the movie far more than the critical masses. Most seemed quite concerned with placing Indy 4 in the hierarchy of the other films. "It lacks ___ of Raiders. Better than Temple, on par with Crusade, but doesn't come close to Raiders". Whatever. And then some compared it to the National Treasure "franchise". Ick.
It was silly. And fun. Preposterous, but in a good way. And, to echo Phil, it has Karen Allen. I was 5 years old when Raiders came out, so Karen Allen didn't do much for me. She's 56 now, and, well, hey hey...
Fans of chick flicks should see Indy 4 just for a one-second Karen Allen reaction shot that, to me, is priceless.
I think I'll go buy some knit stuff from Karen Allen Fiber Arts.
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toastie, at 12:20 PM
We saw it. It was as if Lucas sent out a survey asking everyone to tell him their favorite parts of the first three, and then he combined them into this movie.
The first half was pretty good. But swinging like Spiderman with the monkeys? Aliens? The last half hour was crap. Utter crap.
I amused the people sitting next to me by loudly proclaiming "no" over and over at the ending hat scene.
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Emily, at 11:56 PM
I thought it was pretty good. No Raiders, naturally, but pretty good.
Grace thought it was fucking awesome. I kind of see her point, but when all the suspenseful parts just get me giggling uncontrollably, eh, something missing.
But well, well worth the cost of admission and the 2 hours. Harrison Ford is a pretty good actor who's shown a fair bit of range in his career, but he was born to play Indiana Jones. Han Solo, Deckert, and Dr. whatever in the Fugitive were just window dressing.
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Unknown, at 12:53 AM
(did anyone else have a few bars of Devo run through your head with this headline, or is it just me?)
Of course it's cheesy... which is why it's just so darned good. I think I might wait for the dvd release, though.
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Unknown, at 1:55 PM
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