indiana jones and the very brief review

[fox]

1.  Marcus Brody portrait on the wall = win.

2.  Bunker full of crates = win.

3.  Later busting open of crate containing Ark of the Covenant = extra point, for those who didn't think the bunker itself was sufficient shout-out.

4.  Karen Allen looks fantastic, doesn't she?  sanj points out that she's fifteen or twenty years younger than the rest of them, which may be true, but that doesn't change that she's thirty years older than she was.

5.  Henry Jones, Jr. has a(t least one) Ph. fucking D., and it is for that reason that I absolutely refuse to believe he is unable correctly to pronounce the word NUCLEAR.


That is all.

Comments

[the-star-fish.livejournal.com]

"Nukular" is one of the things that will lose anyone (yes, even Harrison fucking Ford) ten points in my estimation. Very very sad.

I was the only one in our group who caught Marcus's portrait on the wall. It quite distracted me from what else was going on in that scene. <3 Marcus!

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

(The statue of Marcus in the quad, I buy a little less.)

What makes me really sad about the "nuclear" thing is that it's not just Harrison goddamn Ford, but everyone else on the fucking set, who let it happen. I mean, I get that there must have been people who felt they were too puny to say "erm, Mr. Ford, it's nu-cle-ar, sir." But there were enough other people around the place who shouldn't have been afraid of him. STEVEN SPIELBERG, WHY YOU GOT TO HURT ME LIKE THAT?

[batagur.livejournal.com]

5. Henry Jones, Jr. has a(t least one) Ph. fucking D., and it is for that reason that I absolutely refuse to believe he is unable correctly to pronounce the word NUCLEAR.

Well, Jimmy Carter couldn't do it either and he was a nuclear engineer. In fact, I believe it was dear Prez Carter's mispronunciation of the word that made saying nukular fashionable.

But, yes, I totally understand. It drives me nuts too.

[insptr-penguin.livejournal.com]

wildmachinery and I half heard his pronunciation of nuclear and wanted to rewind to see which way he had said it. Was it really 'nukular'? We couldn't tell...

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

It really was. I slammed my fist into the arm rest.

[servalan.livejournal.com]

I'm going to second the "yay!" for the Ark of the Covenant. That part was just cool.

Much less cool was the mispronounciation of "nuclear". Am in complete agreement. That threw me for much long than I wanted it to. I hate that. Yes, you can shorten the word to "nuke" for one syllable, but that doesn't mean you can mispronounce when you backform later.

(Okay. Sometimes I'm prescriptivist. I also really hate "reveal" as a noun.)