dr jones

Saturday night saw me at a housewarming party, which involved me playing Twister for the first time ever - I was one of those kids who always opted to watch instead. Damn was I sore afterwards. One of the girls tipped a bit of drink down the back of my pants while I was trying to balance too.

Sunday was Indiana Jones day as far as I was concerned. Along with James and Darz, we hijacked a room with a big projector, found some confy couchy things and footrests, and went through the Indiana Jones trilogy.

Raiders of the Lost Ark - 115 mins
The first of the series, and I love this movie. Absolute classic, too many memorable moments to mention. Karen Allen is hot.

Temple of Doom - 118 mins
I never really liked the second movie (which is a prequel to Raiders) as much as the others, the theme behind it was a lot darker than the others, and the key female Willy annoys me. I do like Short Round as Indy's sidekick though.

Last Crusade - 127 mins
Sean Connery is great in this one as Indy's father, the chemistry between them entertaining, and Alison Doody is quite aesthetically pleasing as Dr Schneider. Love the intro too, explains a lot.

Following watching the trilogy as well as getting through corn chips, salsa, lollies and soft drink, we went off to buy tickets for the fourth movie at the cheap cinemas. When we got there - sold out. We'd have to wait a a few hours for the next session that wasn't sold out yet. So we decided to go for a walk to the more expensive cinemas, which had an session on soon that hopefully wasn't sold out. By the time we got there and went to get our tickets, we found that it hadn't sold out but we had missed the first 5-10 minutes. So we decided to buy tickets to the next session, go get ourselves some dinner and kill some time before making sure we didn't miss a single minute of the movie.

Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - 124 mins
I liked it. Though not quite as awesome as the first or third. There was a bit over CGI overkill here and there, and it just didn't have that same level of breathtakingness (a bit like the newer Star Wars films). And I didn't see as much of Indy's whip as I had hoped (no, that's not metaphorical for anything...). What I did love was the running gags relating to the past three movies.

Anyway that was my 8 hours of Indiana Jones on Sunday. It was good.