tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10585025.post6116385055216900514..comments2023-10-21T03:28:00.596-04:00Comments on Mad Minerva 2.0: Movie Review: "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"Mad Minervahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01649780647476573087noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10585025.post-6458204110503366322008-05-29T16:29:00.000-04:002008-05-29T16:29:00.000-04:00The best BBQ I've ever had was in Bluff City in fa...The best BBQ I've ever had was in Bluff City in far eastern Tennessee, the wedge between Virginia and North Carolina. But that wasn't a regional style, just a single roadhouse. <BR/><BR/>The best regaional BBQ (to my taste) is KC. Don't particularly like Texas-style or North Carolina vinegar Q, although I am partial to South Carolina mustard-glaze. <BR/><BR/>There were too books published years ago named @Goodfood' and @Roadfood' published by a couple who lived in Connecticut but travelled a lot looking for the best regional American food in the US.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10585025.post-48147429307641412852008-05-29T13:48:00.000-04:002008-05-29T13:48:00.000-04:00@MM - yes, I believe I did. Sadly, I've moved out ...@MM - yes, I believe I did. Sadly, I've moved out of NC, and there are no places around here that I've found that do BBQ the way it should be done. ;-)<BR/><BR/>I agree with your ranking of the quadrology. Temple of Doom included a lot of really hokey things, and they seemed to include a lot of things in a way of one-upping what they'd done 30 minutes earlier. 4 was stupid almost from the get go - bad acting Commies infiltrate the US and take over Area 51. They throw gunpowder in the air to detect a highly magnetic object in a building full of metal objects and their guns barely react except when convenient. Then they spill over into a nuclear testing area where Indy survives a nuclear explosion inside a lead lined refrigerator which gets catapulted through the air and he climbs out, unaffected from the crash landing. And that's just the first 30 minutes!<BR/><BR/>I could accept the oversized man-eating ants, and the ability to survive a 200 foot drop in a waterfall as standard tropes of adventure movies. As well as the horrible shooting of the bad guys. But how in the world did the Spaniards steal the head in the first place, if it required the alien head to enter the friggin' chamber?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10585025.post-38011648872484568912008-05-29T13:15:00.000-04:002008-05-29T13:15:00.000-04:00A quick reply to all:~Blanchett's acting couldn't ...A quick reply to all:<BR/><BR/>~Blanchett's acting couldn't match the cartoony Natasha's, really. What does that say? <BR/><BR/>~Spalko and the Soviets really were a disappointment, IMHO.<BR/><BR/>~If I had to rank all 4 Indy flicks, I put them in this order:<BR/>1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade<BR/>2. Raiders of the Lost Ark<BR/>3-4. Tie between Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull<BR/><BR/>~The plot device about space aliens was just too much even for me, really. Suspension of disbelief is one thing, but it kind of requires a movie context in which you're willing and happy to suspend that disbelief. Indy 4 just didn't have it. <BR/><BR/>As I said earlier, I think I gave this flick a B- based on nostalgia, not merit. It's probably a C movie at best.Mad Minervahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01649780647476573087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10585025.post-1083055270568258452008-05-29T13:08:00.000-04:002008-05-29T13:08:00.000-04:00Welcome back, Greg! Didn't we once have a friendl...Welcome back, Greg! Didn't we once have a friendly argument about which regional BBQ was best? ;-)Mad Minervahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01649780647476573087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10585025.post-54587994259405455032008-05-29T05:56:00.000-04:002008-05-29T05:56:00.000-04:00Two points concerning the latest Indiana Jones; Th...Two points concerning the latest Indiana Jones; The first is that Hollywood does indeed have more money than God so even He might be tempted to do a sequel such as, Jehovah and the Five Lost Commandmants and second, Cate Blanchett was simply channeling the greatest femme fatalle spy of all time, Natasha, you know of Moose and Squirrel adventures.Pat Pattersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13239278034499766418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10585025.post-27046223915211793142008-05-29T00:26:00.000-04:002008-05-29T00:26:00.000-04:00Well,I saw the movie this afternoon and it's reall...Well,I saw the movie this afternoon and it's really BAD!!!. There is no time to expect anything, is easy to predict, and the use of unnecessary violence makes it almost offensive. I was expecting a GOOD or at least a FAIR goodbye to Indy, but it seems that the producers wanted to show how skillful they are in computer generated content, than a real sense of legendAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10585025.post-32568286281623728722008-05-28T19:28:00.000-04:002008-05-28T19:28:00.000-04:00I saw two films over the weekend, 'Iron Man' on Sa...I saw two films over the weekend, 'Iron Man' on Saturday and 'Indiana Jones' on Sunday. <BR/><BR/>I thought it rated about even with the second flick in the series, the one with the blond in India, and below 'Raiders' and 'Grail'. Good points were the return of Marion Ravenwood, she was the best heroine by far I thought. They shouldn't have dropped her although I can see why they did because if they had stayed together after Raiders there would have been a family, kid(s), etc to keep Indy from other improbable adventures. <BR/><BR/>The most disappointing plot device were Spalko and the Russians. They got it off to a roaring start (Holy Mushroom Cloud, Batman!) and provided rationale for a lot of great action in the middle of the movie (the chase scene), but the Spalko chracter was a big disappointment at the end, unlike the villians in Raiders and Grail. Basically she shows up just in time to get sucked into the maelstrom, but really played no role in drivign the plot in the last 30 minutes of the flick.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10585025.post-42910777832802568642008-05-28T16:10:00.000-04:002008-05-28T16:10:00.000-04:00Sounds like you got the same things out of it that...Sounds like you got the same things out of it that I did. And I didn't even get around to discussing Cate Blanchett's horrible acting. But yeah, the film was definitely drenched in moments of things that were just too stupid to be accepted, which definitely ruined some of the cohesiveness of the flick.<BR/><BR/><BR/>ps. you might remember me from several years ago as a commenter who just rediscovered your blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com