Mr. Plinkett’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Review!

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http://twitter.com/FCPolitics John Paul

The little summary of McCarthy is completely inaccurate. The blacklisting in Hollywood was part of HUAC, which proceeded McCarthy and was in the House – McCarthy was a Senator. It was a response to Soviet sympathizers trying to blackmail people into making pro-Soviet movies.

All the news clippings shown in conjunction with “got out of hand” were about people hounding McCarthy and his staff. The only careers ruined, other than careers of people who were Soviet operatives, were those of McCarthy and some of his staff.

Paranoia wasn’t rampant. McCarthy only went after a hand full of people. HUAC involved a few people strong arming others into making pro Soviet movies, and a lot of Hollywood nuts joining the Communist party then refusing to admit they joined the Communist party. There was no paranoia. Hardly anyone was accused of being a Soviet operative. As an aside, the people McCarthy accused of being Soviet operatives turned out to be Soviet operatives.

McCarthy didn’t even want to name names. He wanted Soviet operatives out of government positions. Dem Senators forced McCarthy to name names.
- John Carter Wiley
  
  You’re full of shit.
  
  McCarthy used congressional immunity to make these outlandish claims — claims that normally have resulted in successful libel/defamation suits.
  
  Of the majority of people brought before HUAC, most of them were not shown to have conclusively collaborated with any foreign power.
  
  “Innocent until proven guilty” is an American legal tradition, is it not?
  
  Except that most people who was brought before HUAC were blacklisted without evidence of treason or trial.
  
  That is “Guilty until proven innocent” — a very Soviet (actually Imperial French) idea.
  
  Good day, revisionist. I’m so certain defending McCarthy’s inexcusable abused of congressional immunity to ruin careers without judicial review matters to you. Shame you can’t judge the man by his actions, only defend his unprovable intent.
Plinkett’s catbox

I loved the use of Dokken’s “Breaking the Chains” in the background. They need to break with shit plot formulas and stale sequels. You should review that piece of shit BBC documentry “The American” with George Clooney. I want a pizza roll too. Thanks!
René Belloq

I agree with a lot of this review but one point in Part 2 I really disagree with….namely the Less Fast, Not So Furious analogy. If anything in Indy IV worked it was the fact that Indy IS an old man. These movies are tongue in cheek and parodies anyway. Lucas and Spielberg have said one of the things that came off the best about the character is that Indy is not exactly the hero he should be or what we expect him to be. He’s always in over his head and never up to the challenge and this adds an element of humor and tension to his cliffhanger moments. If he WERE the hero we expect he’d NEVER be in over his head and NEVER get the shit kicked out of him. Boring movie if you ask me. That’s really the appeal of these movies and what unconsciously makes them work.

Having said that making Indy older just adds to the element of fun. Being older and slower he’s even MORE in over his head which is a fun plot point. I wouldn’t exactly want to see a 90 year old Indy traveling the world on a walker but I think a 60ish Indy makes for a nice bookend to this series.
Crumb

THE time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.

So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.

And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl’s.
Krawlie

I’m digging the Metropolis music you have going on at around 10:00
AmandaHugginkiss

YOU STILL HAVEN’T REVIEWED LENNY THE WONDER DOG, DAMN IT PLINKETT!