Not that there's anything wrong with that.

laser, please don't ever write the words 'yub yub song' again, i snarfed my black cherry soda all over the place when i read that.

Me neither!

Aboriginal, I caught your Blade Runner reference. You are among geeks.

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We'll see...

My guess is that the skull, if it contains any power, will be something awesome akin to the Ark's destructive properties and something no human, brown or white, could invent in a million years. Perhaps the ancient meso-americans discovered a crashed ship or the relics of an ancient alien civlization and simply built a cult around the find.

Fuck, where was this complaint when meso-americans were prostrate at the feet of predators in that AvP flashback?

They're pimping this thing to death! We're being inundated with Indy news! I smell Phantom Menace! This is gonna suck! WAAAAHHHH!!!

TOO SOON!! TOO LATE!!! WAAAHHHH!!! Ford is, like, old! WAAAHHH!!

TOO MANY CRATES!!! WAAAHHH!!!

Bitches...

People line up on both sides to just shit on the film, and we know little about it.

Can you be racist to an alien? If you think about it, you're being speciesist. It is a great chance for world unity as all the races on the planet gang up together to beat the shit out of green.

Pah! I'm an alienist.

There's really no getting around it.

There must be some gifted editor out there who could knock all 3 prequels into one- sure it may be about 4 hours, but I bet a pound to a penny that it would be good.

Fucking stupid hat. Why does he wear it? he should have dreadlocks, facial piercings and wear those trousers that his naked ass could hang out the back of. That would be original.

1) the lightsaber duel
2) Padma and Kanaka and the others
3) Anakin in the space battle
4) Jar Jar and Gungans vs. Battledroids on the ground

And I think it was too much. A ground fight was probably inevitable, but it's the part I like the least now, especially because of Jar Jar. I for one just want the lightsaber duel to keep raging, uniterrupted. And frankly as cool as it was, Obi Wan's slicing of Maul was a cop-out ending.

Basically, before ROTS lucas admitted that he put 10% of the plot in TPM, 20% in AOTC, and 70% in ROTS. What I'm suggesting is that if you take all the footage from the prequels, then you could produce one great (albeit long) movie that cuts out all the shit we hate flows properly and is just plain great.

There's no saving the love sequences, sadly, but almost all of AOTC can go in the bin.

Less gungan shite wouldn't have hurt either.

Seriously though, I think it would be cool if the five-note "noo nee nee noo nu" music from CE3K showed up somewhere, or the sign language. Or if the spaceship landed, a hatch opened slowly, a ramp descended, an alien strides down silently...and Indy pulls his revolver and shoots him dead.

"Eighth level operating body thetans. Very dangerous. You go first."

The "alien crystal skull" is definitely an interesting angle, but unless the obviously alien looking one is an aberration and is shown alongside the factually homo sapien styled crystal skulls, I call shenanigans on the whole mess.

Karen Allen is still hot though, and will forever be the penultimate Indy Girl. :)

abom, indy definitely needs to shoot an alien, preferably one that obviously looks like a little kid in an alien suit. those are the best.

Mystical religious artifacts should stay mystical, and not be retconned into alien technology!

Damn you Lucas for raping our childhoods!!!

STAR WARS was originally, and quite simply, a modern space serial, Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon/ Rocky Jones with better special effects and a (THEN) hipper attitude. He threw in a little modern science fiction and some hippie mysticism. Sure, in his early, DISCARDED drafts and edited versions, some of the convolutions we've come to know and hate appeared but George was still humble enough to listen to other people who wisely told him to leave/edit them out.

Harrison Ford famously told him, "George, you can type this shit, but you can't say it."

Indiana Jones, as we all know, was inspired by Lucas' love of the old adventure film serials that were re-run on TV Saturday mornings when he was a child in the 1950s. Spielberg dug 'em too. There's also a great influence from the adventure pulp magazines than ran from the 1920s-early'50s.

In one of the last Indy talkbacks, we fans debated which film was best, worst and which were equal. If you look at them as pure pulp and pure serial (like breakfast) they all work well. In some stories, the hero was harder edged than others, the events racier, more frightening, while in some, things were funnier, faster, sunnier.

DOC SAVAGE has never been mentioned as an inspiration for Indy, since he was a crimefighter, etc., but one thing we can take from that series to this is that sometimes, Doc had mystic adventures, some straightforward action, and some were sci-fi (not "science fiction" but glorious "Sci-Fi!" I don't care much for science fiction, but I love Sci-Fi!).

So religous, mystical or alien/ supervillain/espionage, the maguffins are just maguffins. But it's gotta be Serial. It's gotta be Pulp.

xi, my husband often uses the word 'goozle' instead of 'gullet.' that's because he's white trash from the south, but it's a good word nonetheless, if you'd like to add that to the trifecta and make it a...uh...quadrifecta? that sounds like a who album!

you know one of the most charming things i learned from the blade runner doc? that the deckard character was originally storyboarded with a fedora, you know, playing into that whole gumshoe look, but when 'raiders' came out, ridley was like 'oh crap' and had to lose the hat!

The preceding gag was stolen from the deleted scenes in the SIMPSONS movie, in which Moe explains to Marge that after they left the dome, Springfield first became a Utopian society, then a Dystopian society, and finally an Autopian society. Complete with wacky illustrations.

buzz, i have given up joking with my students. it's like banging my head against a brick wall.the only time i got a laugh was when i inadvertently used the word 'pwned' and my one student who's an electrical engineer cracked up. *sigh*

I learned very quickly never to make a joke. Only teachers in the movies get to that (when they're not inspiring the gang leaders of inter-city schools to put aside their violence and express themselves). I taught a class for 3 months, made one joke and it took me about an hour to get 'em back to normal.

I know. People make excuses for everything Lucas does:

You: "The dialogue in TPM was kinda lame. I mean yippee and wizard?"

Lucas Apologist:"Real space kids talk like that!"

Also, I think the skulls are clearly meant to make us associate them with the current idea of what an alien looks like.

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