Three Things

[jeriendhal]

1. It's approaching three weeks since I sent SotRV off to the beta readers. I was hoping for a November 1st release, but that doesn't seem likely at this point. Giving it another once over by uploading to my Kindle for a different perspective is revealing an embarrassing number of errors.

2. It was a trifle windy and wet Monday. Fortunately we never lost power or communications, so all was well.

3. The fanboys are apparently drooling over the possibilities with Disney's announcement of their acquisition of Lucasfilm and making more Star Wars films. Well I don't give a fig about that, what I want is more damned Indiana Jones movies until Harrison Ford has to voice his computer animated double because he's a wheelchair. I liked Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, even with the damned gophers.

Comments

[seawasp]

Ugh. I didn't like Crystal Skull AT ALL. Indy was about the intersection of the magical and numinous with the world of fictional archaeological adventure, not about silly alien conspiracy theories. And the Nuke The Fridge moment really just made me wince.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

YMMV I enjoyed it (and I regarded the fridge incident as no worse than Indy & Co. paragliding a raft from the plane in the 2nd movie). I was playing Atomic B-Movie Bingo most of the way, which is likely what Lucas and Spielberg intended.

As for archaeological adventures vs. aliens conspiracy theories, is Indy running into Mayan aliens that much more unbelievable than Nazi melting Arks or Thuggee cultists? Both are from Sagan's "Demon Haunted World" in the end.

[seawasp]

The Mythbusters showed that you could indeed paraglide with a life raft. Maybe not the exact model shown, but way, way more plausible than most things like that in adventure movies.

The Nuke The Fridge moment was just ridiculous. (Fallout New Vegas even nods to that; as you wander around the wasteland you can come across a fridge with a skeleton in it, wearing a very familiar hat)

It's not a matter of which one's more unbelievable. It's a matter of "I'm here for ancient mystical stuff coming true with Pulp Hero Indy to the rescue, not for modern INVENTED mythology which didn't even get real currency until after the movie is supposed to have taken place!"

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I'll concede your point there. When they started talking about the Nazca lines even I was rolling my eyes a bit (don't get Von Daniken in my Dero, dagnabit!) Even I'll admit that certain flaws to be found.