25 May 2008, Posted by Cat in News, 18 Comments. Tagged movies
blockbuster film makers are reading my mind…
Saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull yesterday and it scored full marks from me (and from Roger Ebert) . It had everything: Nukes, Roswell, Area 51, badass Russians, capioera zombies in Mayan tombs, Marion Ravenswood returned — who everybody knows ougta’ve been in the second Indy movie instead of Spielberg’s dreary wife… Marlon Brando impersonation, motorbike stunts, swordfighting, tarzan, whitewater rapids and the skull itself turns out to belong to… nah, I’m not gonna give that bit away. It’s not as good as Raiders of the Lost Ark, but then, nothing else ever has been. Go see it. You’ll love it if you’re just like me.
And then what do I see this morning but the trailer to The Mummy 3. OMG, I simply cannot wait till August to see Brendan Fraser fight Jet Li. And Michelle Yeoh is in it AND a Yeti AND if I’m not mistaken, that’s King Ghidorah putting in an appearance at the end of the trailer there.
18 Comments
May 24, 2008 9:42 pm
martianmooncrab
and monkeys, it had monkeys!
oooh Mummy 3? thats worth seeing.
May 24 2008 21:46 pm
Cat @
yeah, the monkeys were cute!
May 25 2008 01:37 am
possbert @
But does M3 have Oded Fehr (who was damn sexy in the Mummy but decidedly ordinary in Charmed...)??
May 25, 2008 1:08 am
lauragoodin
Clearly I am just like you. And can that possibly be a bad thing?
And not only did it have all those other things, it had STONEPUNK, which I think desperately deserves to be a new subgenre.
May 25 2008 01:10 am
Cat @
oh, most definitely. Rock on the stonepunk thing. I had this awesome dream about Aztec robots once. Now might be the time to get in early with a new subgenre.
May 25, 2008 6:43 am
jblum
I’m just astonished that they just made another Indiana Jones film. Not a pisstake, not a reinvention, not a major updating, not a post-modern subversion — they just did it. Like they’d been doing them all the time since then.
May 25 2008 06:55 am
Cat @
better late than never!
May 25, 2008 9:52 am
austspecfic
Yeah I loved it. And I really, really love The Mummy movies. I’ve been watching with baited breath for Mummy three on the IMDB. I can’t beleive you saw the shorts. We saw the shorts for The happening by M. Night Shamylan. Brendan Fraser is so cool.
May 29, 2008 4:42 am
stevecav
Cool, my novel is Stonepunk! I’m more cutting edge than I thought. Well, chiselled edge.
Of couse, by the time I finish writing the thing, Stonepunk will be passe.
May 29 2008 04:45 am
Cat @
you need to anticipate the next wave... gravelpunk? pebblepunk? How about linopunk?
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