from Facebook: I, biggest Indy fan ever, do not require a fifth Indiana Jones movie
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handcrafted film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
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Just picking up a new Ark of the Covenant…
The truth about one of the great urban legends of videogame history is nowhere near as epic as you’d imagine: in fact, it’s rather anticlimactic.
In the vast conspiracy of stupidity that has overtaken pop culture, the disparagement of this movie by a film critic becomes an endorsement of a sad sort.
Just another rote space adventure. It’s not actively awful, but there isn’t a single damn thing in the least bit surprising or memorable about it.
It requires an extra suspension of disbelief beyond what men have to engage in…
As jaunty as Jean Dujardin’s beret, but in a sincere, old-fashioned kind of way. It could almost have been rediscovered from the 1940s…
Perhaps a film actually inspired you to do something or learn something. Perhaps it’s merely a positive feeling that a particularly film left you with.
A Star Trek for our times. Very much for our times. Which means there’s little hope to be found here…
Really? A giant reset button? An actual in-fact for-real big-friendly reset button? Really?