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"Stop loss" in action: President Bush trys to physically stop a soldier from leaving the service after serving 6 terms of duty in Iraq....

Indiana Jones and the Cheesy Contrivance

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.