Jun 01 2008
Indiana Jones and the…
Warning, if you read this, it will spoil the movie ending for you.
So I just came back from seeing the new Indiana Jones movie and all I can say is, what a disappointment. Not only where all the action sequences pastes over from the original, but the anti-empowerment propaganda of the series has become so painfully blatant and caricatured that the real entertainment value is to be found in the idea that the Lucas’s “you are a dumb ass human, not worthy of the power of the force” formula has any credence anywhere anymore. I mean really. A race of “hive mind” Grays’ with crystal skeletal structures waiting around for the return of a skull so that they connect, embody, and fry the mind of the psychically sensitive, but evil and unbalanced Blanchet, before they return to their world “between the space of the spaces” — or something — had even my sixteen year old going “dumbest movie ever.”
I have to agree.
As Irina Spalko’s brain disintegrates at the force of the light, which she is clearly incapable of handling, the message is clear.
Don’t go there.
You’re not worthy of knowledge.
You can’t handle it.
Ya there might be aliens, but the last thing you want is contact.
Look what it did to the poor Russian agent.
The sad thing is, I took my two youngest children to the movie thinking they’d be treated to a wonderful Hollywood adventure. Instead, I had to spend the next half hour assuring them (really deprogramming them) that if they ever saw aliens, the aliens would not burn their brains out or make the people disappear. If the reaction of my children is any indication, the movie had the intended effect.
If you ask me, participants should be ashamed of themselves.
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