Indiana Jones and the Cheesy Contrivance

[infrogmation]

mshollie and I saw the new "Indiana Jones" movie at the Prytania yesterday. It was fun mindless entertainment.

candid doesn't care for Indiana Jones; an interesting take I can't argue against intellectually. One needs to suspend logic if watching something like this. Don't expect it to be plausible or make sense. It is high budget cheese. Ms. H and I laughed both at and with it.

Well, we're former staffers of "New Orleans Worst Film Festival", so perhaps we have overdeveloped bad film amusement senses. Heck, I enjoyed "Aztec Rex" (AKA "Tyranasaurs Azteca").

Speaking of great moments in film, tongodeon introduced me to the silent film "Grief in Bagdad". It is a short parody of the Douglas Fairbanks feature "The Theif of Bagdad" (though you don't need to know that to appreciate it). This is a fun short, with what is probably some of the greatest acting by non-human primates in film history!
Watch on YouTube.

Comments

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

And I didn't get to see "Aztec Rex". Waaaaaah. If you want pure cheese, I'll have to show you "From Hell It Came" sometime. :)

Hey you kids! Get offa my lawn!

[jdquintette.livejournal.com]

I dunno what it is with me and cheesy entertainments, but I've found my tolerance for them has dropped down to zero the last 15 years or so. They're no longer guilty pleasures, just annoyances. I sit there and get pissed off at how much money and resources are being wasted in the process of insulting my intelligence.

And I can't eat junk food anymore either. Gives me the runs.

[la-azteca.livejournal.com]

I had the same reaction to the latest Indiana Jones move as I did to Star Wars: Episode 1 -- "You made me wait a long time for the next installment, and all you gave me was THAT?"

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the recent "Indiana Jones" more than the recent "Star Wars" in no small part because the "Indiana Jones" film didn't seem to be taking itself seriously.

Indiana Jones and the Cheesy Contrivance

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Abridged Script" (http://www.the-editing-room.com/indianajones4.html)

Ha ha! And FAR too accurate a description!