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From: grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman)
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Subject: More on IJ&TD
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Date: Tue, 29-May-84 15:50:17 EDT
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[Anything Goes...]

	As addenda to my earlier review of the new Indy picture:

	One more thing I liked, a little:  The fictional starving indians
    were apparently played by actual starving indians, and, at least
    racially, they and the maharaj were accurate (not a big plus, really).

	I have seen reviews praising the action-packed nature of the film.
    Sorry, guys, but I can suspend disbelief only so far.  Let me digress:
	In an early Spider-man comic (c. 1963-64), an orbiting Mercury
    spacecraft is having trouble.  It's orbit becomes so low that it
    is within the atmosphere (though still orbiting).  Spidey steals
    the part needed to repair the craft, steals a jet plane, flies up
    to where the spacecraft is, opens the cockpit of the plane, jumps
    to the spacecraft, replaces the damaged part, jumps back in the jet
    and flies home (all this with a high-school science education -- he
    doesn't even know how to drive a car).  Let me just say that compared
    to the amazing things we are asked to believe in IJ&TD, this is EASY
    to swallow.

		    *** SPOILER ***

	1. A Ford Trimotor doesn't have the range to get from Shanghai
    to the Himalayas, even using all its fuel, let alone dropping 1/2
    of it.
	2. A Ford Trimotor's ceiling would be much to low to cross over
    the Himalayas, which it does in the film.
	3. I don't believe I need to say anything about the life-raft
    scene, do I?
	4. Why did Wo Fat (or whoever he was) decide to kill them in a plane
    crash?  His goons/pilots could've just shot them while they were asleep.
    He obviously didn't need to make it look like an accident -- he was
    willing to machine gun them at the Club Obi Wan!

	There's LOTS more where that came from.  I don't mind suspending
    my disbelief any more than the next guy (probably less), but it's
    insulting to be asked to believe this stuff!

						-Glenn