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From: grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman)
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Subject: Re: Indiana Jones (SEMI-SPOILER)
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Date: Tue, 29-May-84 14:15:43 EDT
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    Well, here is my review of IJ&TD:

	Radiers of the Lost Ark was an adventure film with a few
    really stomach-turning scenes (esp. at the end).  In IJ&TD,
    the balance has shifted even further away from plot and towards
    stomach-turning scenes.  The problem is this: by about 1/4 way
    through the movie, the stomach-turning scenes failed to turn my
    stomach, it was just plain overkill.  After a while, people
    eating live snakes is just passe'.  Who cares?
	Also, we traded in our somewhat interesting heroine of
    RotLA for a ditzy blonde chanteuse who mostly just screams and
    looks sick, except when she's trying to seduce our hero.  This
    was not a film written by someone who likes women.  It is incredibly
    sexist, which is surprising coming from such new-age Marin County
    progressive liberal types as Lucas & friends.  The girl is there
    so that Indy can have someone to boss around, and save from certain
    doom, etc.  He seems to despise her.
	The interesting character, and the films saving grace, is
    Short Round.  He gets some respect.  Short Round is Indy's 9-year
    old chinese assistant, and seems to have been derived from the
    ubiquitous precocious-kid-in-Japanese-monster-films.
	Anything else in the movie is either stupid, sick, or way
    too unbelievable.  Go see "Romancing the Stone" again, instead.

						-Glenn