It did not suck.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Started GREAT. First 60 minutes were fabulous.
Next 30 minutes were good.

'bout the time we got to the last waterfall I found myself muttering "come on".

Moose remarked that we probably witnessed the greatest feat of Russian engineering, and amphibious vehicle that didn't rust to a stop at the first contact with water.

The ending was a tad, well, shall I just say that it could have been better.

Brought the Young Indiana Jones Adventures in to the official lore - nice.

Overall, initial reaction is that I would rank it just behind Temple of Doom. But not by much.

Highest complement I can pay a film (and I have seen a lot) - "I got my money's worth"

Acting was great - Harrison Ford's older than my Dad. Impressive that he did the majority of his own stunts. Kudos.

John Hurt was great - would have liked to know that character a bit better.

Dr. Jones, I got my money's worth.

Wish Sean Connery had been in it.

Also, note to film directors. This movie is entered as Exhibit #23516625442 that just because you CAN do super fantastic special effects, doesn't necessarily mean you have to. Sometimes less is more...

I have ideas as to where the Indiana Jones films should go from here. That's for a later post.

For the Record: I love Indiana Jones Movies

I have seen all of them to be able to quote from them at length.

A while back I read a summary of the proposed Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men from Mars. I thought - cheesy: nuclear explosions, alien relics and space ships.

ummm....

From CNN.com:http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/21/bts.indiana.jones/index.html

Early reviews of the latest Indiana installment have been mixed, but the Harlem audience was firmly in Indiana's corner. "It gets 10 stars," said one audience member, Robert Egbert. "The sound effects were crazy and the action was off the hook. I loved the space ship!"

I may have to hate George Lucas. Can Congress do something useful? Call it the Han Solo Shoots First Act, it would be to restore Han Solo killing Greedo in Star Wars IV, and then forbidding George Lucas from being allowed to make (or change) any more movies.

I mean really. Don't get me wrong, I am going to see the new Indy Flick tomorrow, (and rewatch Temple of Doom and Last Crusade tonight), but I swear, on the Precious Felt of the Hallowed Fedora (Peace Be Upon It), this movie had better not suck. I am not expecting Schindler's List, or Lawrence of Arabia, but I had better be entertained and not have my (admittedly limited) intelligence mocked. I don't have the highest expectations, but I expect a good, escapist romp, by the Powers of the Almighty Bullwhip (PBUI).

I'll let you know.

Knaves abound...

IN what could be the funniest thing I have read in quite a while, i have stumbled across this

Pulp Fiction (A Slurry Tale) as written by William Shakespeare. http://pulpbard.wikispaces.com/

Highly recommended to all fans of the work of Quentin Tarantino and the OG hisself, William "BillyMack" Shakespeare.

Hurt myself laughing so hard...

(Further proof that there is no amount of time that the intertubes can not lay waste to...)

Battlestar Galactica

I have to admit the fascination with that show has waned a bit for me. Don't get me wrong, it's still the best Sci-Fi show on television (that I watch - I've still never seen Lost - No time), it just got a little "Soap-Opera'y" for my tastes after the exodus from New Caprica.

That being said, I may not see every episode when they come on Sci-Fi (although I do have Sci-FI HD now, so I may need to remedy that situation), but I do try to catch up with the episodes online.

That all being said I have 3 hypothesis as who might be the final Cylon.

1) Lt. Felix Gaeta
Evidence - he wrote it better than me: http://www.haibane.info/2008/05/02/cylon-speculation/

To add to that - he was "able to beat the Cylons at computer programming"

Makes good sense.

2) Everyone
Evidence: "It's all happened before, it will all happen again."

3) An unnamed unseen Cylon - on Earth - the Holy Grail in the Photo.
(Dirk Benedict - the Original Starbuck)

I am personally not all that sad that the series is coming to an end. It' provided me with quite a few hours of thought provoking enjoyment, I dig the acting, writing and special effects. They just lost me a bit when they started getting away from the chase, entered the "soap-opera zone", got all metaphysical, started humanizing the Cylons, and lost most of the over-riding "military-vibe" that they nailed the first 2 seasons.

Just my 2 cents.

Something to ponder

Being a resident of a certain western state that is, quite frankly, viewed as being weird byt he rest of our country, I just stumbled upon something interesting.


Seems the local religious majority believes in laying in food. Storage to some, stockpiling to others. I am quite sure it's not a recent trend, but as a minority, I have to say it's kind of disconcerting.

Example: the Food storage calculator
http://lds.about.com/library/bl/faq/blcalculator.htm

I ran it for my family - these are some serious numbers.

Probably has to do with something about the "local religious majority" being persecuted for all of these years. BUt this is a LOT of food were talking about here.

My reaction can only be likened to being on a cruise ship, then finding out all of the rest of the passengers have put on life vests and nobody told you.


I am now going to research this a bit more...

Oh, joy... and the Crazed American puts a piece of the puzzle together

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/majornews/1917167/Chinese-build-secret-nuclear-submarine-base.html

The Chinese are building a "Secret" submarine base.

Not so secret, is it?

Underground sub pens, berthing for a dozen aircraft carriers.

Good for them.

Job security for the US Navy.

All of a sudden the robust ground penetrating ordinance we were "developing to attack Iran", don't seem so out of place, now do they? They, in fact make a whole lot o' sense. Divine Strake, anyone?

This is what the Crazed American does, he puts disparate pieces of the puzzle together!