No Cause for Alarm

My lack of postings are not a cause for alarm.

Just busy-ness and exhaustion. Been a hectic week. Huge bbq party for our neighbor on Sunday, a nice (semi-)relaxing day on Monday (with a trip to see Indy... more on that later), then a fairly hellish work week... I joked with Lisa last night that it felt like Friday, but it was only Wednesday of a SHORT week. Not a good sign.

[Indy was good... and it cemented in my mind how Temple of Doom simply doesn't belong in the canon...


OH, and by the way...

SPOILER ALERT:










1) it deviates from the chronological timeline (it takes place before Raiders, but contains sight gags dependent on that earlier, er later film; but more importantly

2) doesn't have at it's core the depiction of a male in the Jones lineage... the first film is about Indy, the third about his father, and this last about his son... and isn't it a cool little twist that he is named Mutt (when we know that the nickname Indy was for the Jones' DOG)!!! Yeah, the film works for me.











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So hokey, yes. A little off-putting because of the sci-fi (as opposed to jungle/desert adventure), ok, but remember that those other films were set in eras whose movie serials were set in those locales, whereas the fifties movie milieu was definitely more "spacey". But fun? Absolutely. And it's great to get Marion back in the mix.]