Indy and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

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I went to see KOTCS with C. and elerrina_amanya the week after it can out, but I haven't got around to talking about it yet.



I went with the expectation that it would be good silly fun, and it didn't disappoint. It was the first Indiana Jones film I'd ever seen in the cinema, actually, because I was pretty young when the earlier ones came out and we weren't into going to the cinema.

I liked the way they set up that it was set in the Fifties with the kids in that car. I like the way the films have that sense of time.

I spent several minutes squirming in my seat silently going "They nuked the fridge! They actually nuked the actual fridge!"

Then my physics training kicked in, and I started waiting for Indy to drop dead of radiation poisoning. :)

I liked Mutt. And his comb. The mods vs rockers fight at the café was great, reminded me of The Outsiders.

He is a bit Indy-lite, but I think he's meant to be. And it was interesting to see Indy acting as a mentor and a father. In the earlier films he's more of a static character, but here he's finally grown up.

Marion! She was absolutely great and so like herself. 'None of them were you', yay! I admit to always having been an Indy/Marion shipper and the wedding didn't bother me at all. Like I said, he's grown up.

As for the rest, it was chases and hokum and absolutely horrendous archaeological practice, ridiculously death-defying stunts (three waterfalls might just have been overkill) and a villain with a dodgy wig and accent, what's not to love?



In other news, Dubya is in NI today and managed to bring pretty much the entire afternoon commute out of Belfast to a standstill, bother the wretched man. And then he did soundbites for the radio about how committed he is to the peace praw-cess. Like he's done so brilliantly with peace.

Perhaps we can send him back to America via Heathrow Terminal 5? There's a good chance he'll get lost for ever in some Italian warehouse.