Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

[mn dave]

I was wondering why they had to throw metallic dust into the air to spot the coffin. After all, the lights swayed wherever it was; why not just look where they're pointing in the first place?

Oh, crap. Don't start looking for it to make sense. 

[Joe_Campbell]

I'm not...really. That part just struck my as odd.

[Saul]

The movie was great.

[Brian]

The movie was great.

In which sense of "great"?

1. Great like Jesus or Lincoln or Newton or Einstein (in other words, historically timeless and crucial to humankind)
2. Great like Casablanca or Citizen Kane (in other words, an absolute artistic triumph)
3. Great like Famous Amos cookies (in other words, really good)
4. Great like the Wall of China (in other words, really long)

[mn dave]

Grate as in cheese.

[Saul]

In which sense of "great"?

1. Great like Jesus or Lincoln or Newton or Einstein (in other words, historically timeless and crucial to humankind)
2. Great like Casablanca or Citizen Kane (in other words, an absolute artistic triumph)
3. Great like Famous Amos cookies (in other words, really good)
4. Great like the Wall of China (in other words, really long)

Great as the amount of nonsense you spew here on GMG.

[DavidRoss]

I just saw the film, and I thought it was a great movie.

More than settled...confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt!

[Saul]

Here's Indiana Jones 5

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Golden Schmuck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdqlC6LwCY4

[M forever]

I was wondering why they had to throw metallic dust into the air to spot the coffin. After all, the lights swayed wherever it was; why not just look where they're pointing in the first place?

Good point actually. Suspense of disbelief only works if the "reality" you are expected to believe makes sense in itself. So if in this "reality" things happen which aren't necessarily "realistic", they at least have to be consistent, otherwise the suspense of disbelief doesn't work either. Then things become just random.

In which sense of "great"?

1. Great like Jesus or Lincoln or Newton or Einstein (in other words, historically timeless and crucial to humankind)
2. Great like Casablanca or Citizen Kane (in other words, an absolute artistic triumph)
3. Great like Famous Amos cookies (in other words, really good)
4. Great like the Wall of China (in other words, really long)

Did you come up with that yourself?

[Brian]

Did you come up with that yourself?

Guilty.

I had Famous Amos at lunch today. Otherwise I would have said homemade.

[Brian]

Great as the amount of nonsense you spew here on GMG.

Well, most of my posts are in the music forums, so how would you know?

[M forever]

Well, most of my posts are in the music forums, so how would you know?

Good comeback. I give you 7.2 points for that. Let's see what Saul can come up with ("You are a schmuck" will not get him any points).

[Brian]

Good comeback. I give you 7.2 points for that.

Interesting, last time I got 7.2 points too. Gotta up my potential here 

[Saul]

Good comeback. I give you 7.2 points for that. Let's see what Saul can come up with ("You are a schmuck" will not get him any points).

Aren't you late for your bowling lessons, M?

I mean , how many of those dummies you must knock out , I'm sure they're more then 7.2 ..........

[M forever]

Very good, Saul! I have to admit I am surprised. I don't quite get your comeback, but it is rather imaginative, bizarre and a little dada - you get 7.9 points for that!

But you were actually supposed to comeback better at Brian, so I have to subtract 1 point - sorry, but I don't make the rules, I just apply them - still a not bad at all 6.9 though!

[Saul]

Very good, Saul! I have to admit I am surprised. I don't quite get your comeback, but it is rather imaginative, bizarre and a little dada - you get 7.9 points for that!

But you were actually supposed to comeback better at Brian, so I have to subtract 1 point - sorry, but I don't make the rules, I just apply them - still a not bad at all 6.9 though!

Well 7.9 is better then 7.2 don't you think?

Well, if he gets the message behind that photograph, I'll give him an 8.2 mark....

[Joe_Campbell]

This is hilarious! Intentional vs unintentional humour!

[PSmith08]

This is hilarious! Intentional vs unintentional humour!

That's how it always rolls.

In any event, Spielberg and Lucas were both influenced by popcorn-flick, cliffhanger serials. You know, good, old-fashioned adventure movies. What they lack in a certain textual nuance, they make up with a swagger and sense of fun that is not often found - even in summer blockbusters.

If you want a sensitive movie, go watch The Remains of the Day or Infamous (the other, better Capote movie, in my opinion - though that's a matter for debate elsewhere). Indiana Jones flicks have never pretended to be high art.

[M forever]

That's how it always rolls.

In any event, Spielberg and Lucas were both influenced by popcorn-flick, cliffhanger serials. You know, good, old-fashioned adventure movies. What they lack in a certain textual nuance, they make up with a swagger and sense of fun that is not often found - even in summer blockbusters.

Are you serious? Have you been to the movies at all in the last 25 years? That's what it was like back then. Back then, those movies were just as much about cinema, the art form of the unlikely, yet visible reality on the big screen, as much as about anything else. This movie is all about merchandising, branding, bullshit, feeding people crap because most movies are so bad and un-cinematic, it doesn't matter anymore. Apparently, you have never experienced real cinema. That was what the old movies were about. This movie is just about the video game. And the McDonald's action figures. In other words, about the loss of cultural references.

[71 dB]

I was wondering why they had to throw metallic dust into the air to spot the coffin. After all, the lights swayed wherever it was; why not just look where they're pointing in the first place?

Because the storage hall was so large it would have taken ages to find the lights near the coffin?

Anyway, it was "Indiana Jones"-physics and magnetism far from reality. The magnetism didn't affect the guns for example. Magnetic force gets weak extremely fast when the distance increases. You can test that with magnets yourself. Everything in that scene was so much against the laws of physics it must have been "otherworldly magnetism". It was interesting thou.