Comments on: Your Team of Football-Playing Aliens Could Use More Aliens

By: Case of the Mondays « Friends of the Program

Case of the Mondays « Friends of the Program — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:47:34 +0000

[...] George Lucas and Steven Speilberg seek to ruin more franchises. [...]

By: Hakim Drops the Ball

Hakim Drops the Ball — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:51:44 +0000

throwbot, I see where you’re going with this…and I get it.

But Indiana Jones, to me, has always been about relics, religion, the occult, etc. Old shit. On planet Earth, albeit with nods to the divine.

UFOs? Eh, not so much.

As far as Crystal Skull goes, my one big ‘hollywood suspension of believe’ moment occurred when Indy climbed into a fridge. It was awesome, but at that point, anything else ridiculous deserves head scratching and gnashing of teeth.

CGI monkeys, hollow side characters, FUCKIN’ aliens…trumped up Red Scare nonsense that never is forgotten by film’s end…and of course, the threat of sequels!

It’s not that the movie blows goats, it’s that the movie was mediocre by Indiana Jones standards.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I must return to the nerdery with my calculator to play Risk.

By: throwbot

throwbot — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:05:56 +0000

I thought Crystal Skull was pretty disappointing too, but if I remember correctly, Raiders of the Lost Ark ended with Nazis opening up the Ark of the Covenant, resulting in ghosts emerging from the ark that proceeded to melt their faces. Oh, and Indy and his girl were able to avoid the face melting fate because they CLOSED THEIR EYES. So aliens and a UFO emerging from a native American pyramid is kind of par for the course.

By: swing4

swing4 — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:49:51 +0000

Posts like these make me smile sympathetically at your cat.

By: Otto Man

Otto Man — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:37:50 +0000

I heard his toupee was scalped off the original ALF.

By: jackin'4beats

jackin'4beats — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:35:05 +0000

I know it’s already been said, but… DUDE WHERE THE FUCK IS YOUR NECK?

Did he swallow a small mammal?

By: rant_casey

rant_casey — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:51:30 +0000

Love the neeeeerrddsss! tag.
“Is there anything fluffier than a cloud?”
-”If there is I don’t want to know about it”

By: porky1

porky1 — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:32:03 +0000

Let’s not overly blame Lucas though…this is Steven Spielberg here, one of the 2 or 3 men on Earth who can tell George “Piss off, that’s a bad idea.” Yet this stuff all got through. Why? Because Spielberg’s lost his “all access” touch.

Munich: A bit long, but a bad-ass movie.
Schindler’s List: Wrenchingly great.
Amistad: Bit dull but underrated.
Saving Private Ryan: A few plot holes but robbed by Shitspeare in Love at the Oscars.

All blatantly SERIOUS ADULT movies.

But when he tries to spin “magic,” “whimsy,” or “excitement” on a flick since Jurassic Park, he’s lost it. Hook, AI, Catch Me If You Can, Lost World, Terminal, Minority Report…and the Walkie Talkies in E.T.? Waddafux?

By: smurphette

smurphette — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:25:40 +0000

Chewbacca is awesome and his roar/groan/whatever it is always, without fail, makes me smile.

By: Lil Lebowski Urban Achievers

Lil Lebowski Urban Achievers — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:54:18 +0000

@ Big Rick….

NOOOOOOOOOO! It was…. possibly the most emasculating thing they could have done to the galaxy’s biggest badass.