gwax's rumblings

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is not that bad. With the crap that George Lucas has been putting out recently, I’m sur­prised the new Indiana Jones movie was not worse. The increased use of spe­cial effects and CG def­i­nitely hurt the movie but not as much as that Gungan idiot hurt Star Wars. Ultimately, the goal and end­ing of the movie were pretty poor but the early and mid­dle parts of the movie were plenty decent as far as Indiana Jones’ style is concerned.

Funny that aliens and fly­ing saucers are less rea­son­able than the hand of God but I think that’s just the way my mind says the world of Indiana Jones is sup­posed to be.

Saturday evening, I went out with some friends and saw The Fall, which was, I must say, a gor­geous movie. The movie is quite artis­tic, pretty and rather fun. It gets a wee bit on the odd side at a num­ber of points and there are a few WTF?! moments but, over­all, the film is quite coher­ent and a very nice way to spend a cou­ple hours. Unfortunately, The Fall, being thor­oughly inde­pen­dent, is suf­fer­ing very poor dis­tri­b­u­tion and show­ing up in a rather small num­ber of the­aters but, in my opin­ion, it’s worth seek­ing out one of those the­aters and see­ing it.