Indy Marathon - Sunday 5/18

[innerSpaceman]

Noon works for me.


I'm gonna bring some vintage stuff for show & tell.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

We will be there!

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Woo hoo!

I am working all weekend. Bleah. But we are off to look into laptops (finally - I won't have to carry around the bright orange clamshell anymore!) so I won't have to leave the screening room to check on and deliver art and notes back and forth from artist to client. That would've sucked!

[BDBopper]

I am off to see Prince Caspian so I might be late to say hello to everyone on Skype...if that even works out. If not maybe I can say hello at the Reading party?

[innerSpaceman]

Heheh, we could barely get the DVD to work at first, much less Skype.

Sorry that didn't work out. The Indy Marathon was great.



I thought I would find it exhausting to watch all three of those in a row, but it turned out to be invigorating and quite the best way I've seen the mediocre sequels in a long, long time.

Generally a series fun to view with friends, this was a hoot ... and a great lead-up to next weekend's Swanktacular Screening of the new Indy 4!

[Moonliner]

I had my own private showing Sunday, and I'm glad I did.

I'd forgotten how cartoonish the originals were, Indy hanging onto the outside of a sub for a thousand miles, melting wax faxes, etc...

I think I'll go into Crystal Skull with a better attitude.

Anyone want to place a bet on Crystal Skull?.... I'll lay heavy odds that....

Spoiler:

Indy and Marion sitting in a tree K I S S I N G. First comes love then comes marriage then comes Mutt Williams (aka Shia LaBeouf) in a baby carriage.

Note the use of spoiler tags. Don't blame me if you peek. I'm just guessing but I'm still right.

[mousepod]

Thanks LSPE and Tom for a wonderful afternoon! I had to leave before the third movie - but watched it when I got home. Then, I stayed up for hours watching old "making of" TV specials from the first three movies. Indy fever, indeed!

By the way - iSm's "show and tell" was a real highlight. Good stuff all around...

[innerSpaceman]

Oh, sorry you missed the second half of show-and-tell -- Vintage original release International Raiders of the Lost Ark posters from around the globe. Hahahah, if I list them on ebay, I'll send you a link so you can at least see photos.

Originally Posted by Moonliner

I'd forgotten how cartoonish the originals were, Indy hanging onto the outside of a sub for a thousand miles, melting wax faxes, etc...

The comic-book touches in Raiders are high drama compared to the cartoon-antics in Temple of Doom. Though I enjoyed it perhaps more than I ever have, ToD stands out like tone-deaf thumb when watching all three.

I think the two sequels work better in the context of a series.


Raiders of the Lost Ark, on the other hand, stands alone as its own film. More than that, I think it actually suffers from being part of the series. All the clever bits that hint at a fictional backstory of Indiana Jones Aventures are somehow diminished when there really are other adventures. The homage factor is kinda canceled ... and that was a good part of the original's charm.


Still .... I enjoyed the films together so much more than I expected. And it was fun to see them with friends. It's going to be a blast seeing the new one with a BUNCH of friends!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

So much fun, watching them all together! I was set for this to be some sort of ordeal. Turned out it was anything but.

I now understand why fans of the original have trouble with the sequels. I barely remembered the film, saw it when I was very young, but knew the sequels practically by heart. Raiders is much more adult in tone than I expected. Good film, of course.

I do still enjoyed the sequels plenty, even though watching as an adult, Kate Capshaw is much more blatantly awful than I remembered, and the less-than-spectacular Knight set to protect the grail hurts the whole powerful grail concept. All the action is still fantastic, the stories are still great, Short Round makes ToD, Connery is a perfect foil for Ford...I think they stand the test of time.


Was he really supposed to have held onto the outside of the sub? I assumed he made it inside somehow. Even so, I felt it a stretch that he could make his way into a German sub so easily and without explainer.

Oh, and by the time you begin the third film, and Indy is once again calling the spirituality at hand "ghost stories" and "mumbo jumbo", it's hilarious. "The Ark? Real. The power of Kali Ma? Totally. But the Holy Grail, that's a bunch of crap." As someone at the party commented, perhaps he had a grudge against that specific legend, since his dad was so obsessed with it.

Many thanks to LSPE and Tom for hosting. I wouldn't have gotten around to them otherwise, and now I'm all pumped for next weekend!

[BDBopper]

Glad a fun time was had by all.