ah, time again to check on the DVD... last week it was still €17.90
__________________ Kyuzo: Don't you see? A real sword will kill you. Mr. Earl Brooks: If I were here to kill you, you would already be dead. Mercedes: My mother told me to be wary of Fauns. Mr. Le Chiffre: No, I believe in a reasonable rate of return. James Bond: Now the whole world will know you died while you were scratching my balls!
__________________ Kyuzo: Don't you see? A real sword will kill you. Mr. Earl Brooks: If I were here to kill you, you would already be dead. Mercedes: My mother told me to be wary of Fauns. Mr. Le Chiffre: No, I believe in a reasonable rate of return. James Bond: Now the whole world will know you died while you were scratching my balls!
Well, it struck me that there are hardly any real challenges for Indy et al in this film. They encounter some problems, but it never takes very long to overcome them, nor is it very difficult. With a whiff and a smile all danger disappears, like in the James Bond films with Roger Moore.
No sealed up in the Well of Souls with snakes, no spiritual blindness by drinking blood of Kali, no dying father to save by beating some mortal challenges... Nope, it's pretty easy sailing down the Amazon for Indy and partners...
I mean, I just braced myself for the monkey scene and it surprised me how quickly that ordeal was over. It doesn't get much better though, still utterly ridiculous, but I felt the pain before.
I was curious after reading the vitriol in my posts assessing the movie.
I wondered, "well...have I been too harsh."
"Maybe the letdown after all these years amplified my distaste for the really bit bits...." I mused.
"NOOOOO! You were right! I concluded."
I'll have to compare the cine cam-job pirate version against the copy of the DVD that I perused to truly tell about the monkey quotient...
But that it happened at all is bad enough.
Im sure that it was longer at the cinema..With a few seconds more time spent on Mutt studying/learning from the monkeys then swinging, catching vines.
Maybe. It struck me as kinda short as well. But then again, the horror in that scene made time stand still, as if Lucas tried to get salt in the wound struck deeply into my heart.
Many important discoveries have come from horrific things...
Medicinal and techological advances through war...
The blues came from a scene of much misfortune and pain...
The realisation that fire hurts you made by that caveman equivalant of Jar Jar Binks in the fire-building stakes.
The gaining of knowledge that watching Michael Bay movies (or Cannonball run 3) is for those with deceased brain functions, through watching a Bay movie (or Cannonball run 3)...
So Lucas and Spielberg having accidentally proven quantum theory as being that bit more true comes as little surprise to me there.
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Last edited by Sadako of Girth on Dec 12th, 2008 at 09:55 PM