things that are good:

for the m-a crowd: nikethewingedvictory. girl must have a cast-iron asbestos layer we didn't know about. read her reply to J.S., or at least scroll to the bottom and read the very end.

in general: indiana jones. i've never seen raiders on non-pan&scan before!

well, this can't be good.

i believe i may have scratched a hole in my leg. ngah.

why we heart spielberg, even though we don't heart lucas:

steven spielberg, now: i do remember that the snakes were supposed to recoil from fire, but in fact they got close to the fire to get warmed up.

spielberg, then, holding a snake in his hand and talking to it face to face: you don't like fire? you do like fire. you love fire! in the script, you're supposed to hate fire. why do you like fire? you're ruining my movie!

there are. no. spiral. notebooks.

never have been. face it, y'all, george lucas is just a big giant liar.

even spielberg says so: "george said that if i did wind up directing the first one, that i would need to direct three of them. he said he had three stories in mind. it turned out george did not have three stories in mind -- we had to make up all the subsequent stories. so it was like two weeks after raiders opened, we knew we'd have to sit down in a room and figure out what raiders 2 was going to be."