Voyage of Discovery
Aug 10th, 2008 | By Eric Jensen | Category: BlogsJoin our hero as he learns that, oops, he has been enjoying Nazis for years without realizing it.
Join our hero as he learns that, oops, he has been enjoying Nazis for years without realizing it.
Even as I type these words, I’m eating Kellogg’s Limited Edition Indiana Jones Chocolate Cereal with Marshmallows. Can you believe it? You’d better believe it.
Once upon a time, Lucasfilm put out two trilogies of great movies. Everyone loved them and longed for more, but it seemed each series was destined not to go beyond three entries. Then, many years later, some sequels to one of those trilogies finally arrived. Everyone got their panties all in a bind, their bowels aroar with excitement. Then those sequels turned out to be indisputably horrible and everyone everywhere was disillusioned, most of all me. A few years later, along came a sequel to that other trilogy of great movies, a sequel called Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And saints be praised, it didn’t bite the big one like the new entries in that other series did. No, it turns out that the new Indiana Jones movie is pretty okay.
Recently, the producers of Hollywood blockbusters have decided to use the prestigious, artsy fartsy international awards show to showcase their… let’s say, more mainstream projects. A few years ago The Da Vinci Code got totally owned by critics at the press screening, but they’ve kept it up, all the same…