Harrison Ford is: MOTOR PSYCHO!!!

[Zer0]

He's gonna find Atlantis, and the bad guys are going to be communists.

If he doesn't say: "Commies, I hate these guys," someone's getting hurt.

[Mea]

I'm just ecstatic that Marian is back.

[Caliann]

How did you come up with that.

First, a LOT of island and ocean filming. (got that from a friend that does costuming in Hollyweird)

There is not a lot of ocean in Egypt. Nor are there a lot of sizable islands in the Nile.

Second, there are two well known, acclaimed Utopian novels. They are City of the Sun by Tomasso Campanella and The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon. Both of these take a LOT of inspiration from Plato's Timaeus, which is a philosophical story about Utopian Atlantis.

Also, the "City of the Sun" is claimed, by those that get into such things, to have been the capital of the world during the time of the existence of Atlantis.

Put all these things together, do a little Hollyweird tweaking of the classic philosophies (they call it artistic license), and you have everything pointing to Atlantis.

Now, get into the 1950's. Public Enemy number one in the 1950's was communism. Being a communist sympathizer during that era (locked in a dead struggle in the Cold War) was one of the worst insults a person could deal another. The 1950's was when we were throwing arms, armament and military aid at Batista in the attempt to keep Castro from controlling Cuba that Batista almost didn't have enough time left from inventorying it all to torture and murder his own people.

Of course, Castro was having nearly the same difficulties, what with having to count and inventory everything Russia was sending him.

Containment of the "communist threat" was a VERY big deal in the 1950's. It was why we were in Korea. It was why McCarthyism was rampant. It was why we (the U.S.) are in such a pickle with the Middle east today.

So, we have the setting, we have the archaeological goal, and we have the enemy. I am willing to bet that it will be set in the Caribbean, and have clashes with Castro's communist forces...or, it is also possible that the setting will be one of the Polynesian Island chains, and the clash will be with North Korean communist forces. We must, after all, have our spies.

Peace,
Caliann

[DerGolgo]

How did you come up with that.

First, a LOT of island and ocean filming. (got that from a friend that does costuming in Hollyweird)

There is not a lot of ocean in Egypt. Nor are there a lot of sizable islands in the Nile.

Second, there are two well known, acclaimed Utopian novels. They are City of the Sun by Tomasso Campanella and The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon. Both of these take a LOT of inspiration from Plato's Timaeus, which is a philosophical story about Utopian Atlantis.

Also, the "City of the Sun" is claimed, by those that get into such things, to have been the capital of the world during the time of the existence of Atlantis.

Put all these things together, do a little Hollyweird tweaking of the classic philosophies (they call it artistic license), and you have everything pointing to Atlantis.

Now, get into the 1950's. Public Enemy number one in the 1950's was communism. Being a communist sympathizer during that era (locked in a dead struggle in the Cold War) was one of the worst insults a person could deal another. The 1950's was when we were throwing arms, armament and military aid at Batista in the attempt to keep Castro from controlling Cuba that Batista almost didn't have enough time left from inventorying it all to torture and murder his own people.

Of course, Castro was having nearly the same difficulties, what with having to count and inventory everything Russia was sending him.

Containment of the "communist threat" was a VERY big deal in the 1950's. It was why we were in Korea. It was why McCarthyism was rampant. It was why we (the U.S.) are in such a pickle with the Middle east today.

So, we have the setting, we have the archaeological goal, and we have the enemy. I am willing to bet that it will be set in the Caribbean, and have clashes with Castro's communist forces...or, it is also possible that the setting will be one of the Polynesian Island chains, and the clash will be with North Korean communist forces. We must, after all, have our spies.

Peace,
Caliann

Okay, sounds good overall. So, now we have a date, the film takes place in 59, after Castro took control in Cuba and started dealing with the Soviets (if what I remember from 12th grade history, that Castro didn't diddl with the Soviets until after taking power, is correct).
Or, if it is in Polynesia, he might also clash with Red Chinese forces, or, really shocking, it could be further west and he might tangle with North Vietnamese reds.

[Caliann]

Okay, sounds good overall. So, now we have a date, the film takes place in 59, after Castro took control in Cuba and started dealing with the Soviets (if what I remember from 12th grade history, that Castro didn't diddl with the Soviets until after taking power, is correct).
Or, if it is in Polynesia, he might also clash with Red Chinese forces, or, really shocking, it could be further west and he might tangle with North Vietnamese reds.

*chuckles* Now we just have to wait for the film to come out....and if we are right (it would be funny if Atlantis was right off the coast of Vietnam, wouldn't it?), we can pat ourselves on the back for being such good detective types. LOL

Peace,
Caliann

[Trav]

I think they're hoping you won't notice the details of the bike.. The front tired is just too WIDE too. Cylinders are too 'big' looking.. lots of little things just look off for period correctness, which I don't worry about so much in reality, but when it comes to a period-based film.. well what's the point otherwise?

Still, if they're running from Nazis, I'll go see it! Nazis are the best villians ever, my number one love-to-hate 'em guys.

[DerGolgo]

There's a new trailer y'all!

It's South America allright.

http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=4665

And the baddies seem to be...well...the US Army. Oh dear oh dear...

[Beemer Dan]

Indian Jones and the Temple of Dune! That's Brian Tyler's music in the beginning of the clip:

http://downloads.paramount.com/mp/india ... 1_480p.mov

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I hope he did more music for the movie, his work is fantastic!

I can't wait to see this flick!

[SomeMook]

Dan, midliferider hastn't allowed you in yet. Get you ass back outside.

[DerGolgo]

NO!NONONONONO! Don't let it be true...it can't be tru...IT MUSTN'T BE TRUE!

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/enter ... 6219.shtml

[Davros]

As soon as I found out Shia LaBeouf was in it, I feared the worst. I hate that kid.

I don't know who that even is, but if you hate him, That's good enough for me to unleash the tenfold hate.


There

[Midliferider]

BlackJoe you are correct as usual. Shia Labeouf, who ever he is looks like a real shit. From a few previews ...what a craptacular actor. Raiders would have been great if the series had taken the dark side, ie. Sin City. Jones could have had a great deal more anger. The first movie was the best then they became kid's films.
They need one more with sex, let's see Marian and Jones cunoodle. And Jones takes no prisoners and of course he comes home with the gold. Daaa... da da da.... da da da... da da da da ..... da da da da da............ all together now.

[Midliferider]

BTW, SomeMook,
Dan can come in now, come on in Dan.

[Jaeger]

They need one more with sex, let's see Marian and Jones cunoodle. And Jones takes no prisoners and of course he comes home with the gold. Daaa... da da da.... da da da... da da da da ..... da da da da da............ all together now.

Dude, you so need to get your ass back out here for Doom this October. I owe you so much f'ing beer.

--Jaeger

[Midliferider]

Jaeger, you only want to see my dark side

[Jaeger]

Jaeger, you only want to see my dark side

POTESTATEM OBSCURI LATERIS NESCIS
You don't know the power of the dark side.




--Jaeger

[Midliferider]

Say big boy, I love the way you tease me with your hot words in Latin. Actually Jaeger I took one year of Latin in highschool. All I can remember is the word for farmer. Agriculorum or something like that.
Tell me you look these words up in a book. Maybe Latin for dummies. Smell youlum laterest.

[sun rat]

Jaeger, you only want to see my dark side

POTESTATEM OBSCURI LATERIS NESCIS
You don't know the power of the dark side.




--Jaeger

guess we can call you a necrolinguaphile.

[DerGolgo]

Maybe not all is lost...

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/56980/i ... eview.html

[gsglbc]

Heya, I keep forgetting to post this for y'all; but my pal Paul Greenstein built the motorcycles for Crystal Skull. He too was greatly perturbed that he had to put a disc-brake harley together for the gig, but they wanted the consumer to be able to build a new harley just like it from the HD catalog.

Anyway, we saw the flick at the drive-in last weekend, and loved it! Great movie, hot rooskie chick, marion, hydrogen bomb, no problems.

Also, you can see some of Paul's old Indian Chiefs parked out in front of the cafe where the greaser/jock fight breaks-out.

here's Paul and his rad g/f Dydia (and pooch Harpo) in their AJS:

[Bigshankhank]

Wow, what a turd of a movie, sorry gsglbc but there were too many flubs to be counted among the good points. I think you could see the outline of a cell phone in his pocket at one point!

[mishka]

I dunno. I liked it. Good fun. Shia did NOT suck, nor did he ruin the movie. He was actually rather good (anyone remember short round?)

I like that they used a lot of old fashioned special effects instead of slick-i-fying it all in CG. It really LOOKED like the other 3 films (and I think it was better than 2). And thank god Spielberg put the reins on Lucas 'cus SOMEBODY has to. The film is a kind of homage to the films of the 1950's the way the earlier 3 were homages to the cliffhangers of the 1940's.

Bigshankhank, the gaffes happen. I missed the cell-square but you know you can totally see the telephone pole shoot out of the bottom of the truck in RoTLA (they used it to flip the truck over).

It WAS lacking in some sense of urgency, but I've enjoyed many stinker-sequals these last couple years (Pirates of the Caribean 3? or was that 2? X-Men 3, Spiderman 2 & 3?) This wasn't one of them.

just my $.10 (like the price of gas, the price of stamps is also going up so my thoughts have to keep up with the inflation)

[motorpsycho67]

HE MOST CERTAINLY IS NOT!

[Jaeger]

HE MOST CERTAINLY IS NOT!

First: Thread resurrect much? Goddamn, man, why you dig this thing up?

Second: Weirdly, just last night we showed the kids "The Star Wars Holiday Special" from 1978. Yes, that one. For you young'uns out there, no, you shouldn't watch it, it's truly awful. We then watched Harrison Ford denying its existence on Conan O'Brian, which is much more amusing.

Why, you may ask, did we inflict this on our children? Because while at Disneyworld earlier this month we noticed that they're selling "Life Day" merchandise, complete with the red-robed Wookies. The kid manning the booth didn't quite understand why were laughing. They also said they hadn't seen the special but had been told it was "not very good."

It's actually WORSE than you remember it, if that's possible. We had to fast-forward through much of it.

--Jaeger

[Bigshankhank]

HE MOST CERTAINLY IS NOT!

First: Thread resurrect much? Goddamn, man, why you dig this thing up?

Second: Weirdly, just last night we showed the kids "The Star Wars Holiday Special" from 1978. Yes, that one. For you young'uns out there, no, you shouldn't watch it, it's truly awful. We then watched Harrison Ford denying its existence on Conan O'Brian, which is much more amusing.

Why, you may ask, did we inflict this on our children? Because while at Disneyworld earlier this month we noticed that they're selling "Life Day" merchandise, complete with the red-robed Wookies. The kid manning the booth didn't quite understand why were laughing. They also said they hadn't seen the special but had been told it was "not very good."

It's actually WORSE than you remember it, if that's possible. We had to fast-forward through much of it.

--Jaeger

For those who truly wish to suffer, the Holiday Special is on Youtube complete with poorly placed ad breaks. No I have not committed to watching it tho I honestly thought my SW-obsessed daughter would have dragged it out for the lulz this season.

[DerGolgo]

For anyone looking for a bett... less awful Holiday Special, check out "The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special". No mucking about with any totally legit and canon alien holiday that absolutely are not a sorry excuse for cramming christmas into our franchise so that we can sell even more merch. The writers for this one only had to twist some canon into a minor knot a little.


But there is alcohol. And casual violence. And cussing and disrespecting the authorities. And some light brainwashing and abductions. As much House of Mouse it may be, I would not recommend for the kids.
But it does have Bacon.

Should be on a Disney+ near you.

[Bo_9]

+1 on the GotG holiday special.