Indiana Jones and My Hesitantly-Working Laptop
Indiana Jones was a fun movie. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a critic who has been waiting to compare the franchise to Star Wars ever since the intention to create a fourth Indy was announced. Shia LaBeouf is still that kid from Even Stevens to me, but he did a decent job in creating his character. I was more impressed with this character than his lead role in Transformers, at any rate.
One thing that I didn't like about this movie compared with the others was the inclusion of the paranormal right from the very beginning. I am very much a science fiction fan. However, the standard trope of the Indiana Jones movies involves Indiana evading the Nazis for two hours before finally finding the paranormal at the end.
As a note, I am thinking of the first and third movies-the second my parents do not like, I have only seen once, and for the purposes of this LJ-post consists entirely of Indiana Jones, the stupid girl, and the amusing kid eating monkey brains.
This movie differs from the the past. Cate Blanchett is invoking supernatural powers within the first ten minutes of the movie. While this is somewhat nitpicky, I thought it made the movie a little weaker. But maybe that's just me.
In other news, my non-school laptop (the one I won three years ago and I've had for 2.5) is beginning to do funny things. The battery died about a year ago-it works, but it has no idea how much time it has left on it (which is usually about an hour). Now the screen isn't behaving properly. When I make it resume from standby, the screen remains black. I have to close the lid and open it again for it to figure out it's supposed to give me a picture. Is this a serious problem, and can/should I get it fixed?
Also! Tomorrow is Towel Day and Nerd Pride Day! Last year it was also International Day of the Jedi as the 30th anniversary of A New Hope's theatrical release, but I have no evidence of such a day on Wikipedia (there was last year) and as such have no proof of its current existence.
Anywho. Celebrate as you will.
One thing that I didn't like about this movie compared with the others was the inclusion of the paranormal right from the very beginning. I am very much a science fiction fan. However, the standard trope of the Indiana Jones movies involves Indiana evading the Nazis for two hours before finally finding the paranormal at the end.
As a note, I am thinking of the first and third movies-the second my parents do not like, I have only seen once, and for the purposes of this LJ-post consists entirely of Indiana Jones, the stupid girl, and the amusing kid eating monkey brains.
This movie differs from the the past. Cate Blanchett is invoking supernatural powers within the first ten minutes of the movie. While this is somewhat nitpicky, I thought it made the movie a little weaker. But maybe that's just me.
In other news, my non-school laptop (the one I won three years ago and I've had for 2.5) is beginning to do funny things. The battery died about a year ago-it works, but it has no idea how much time it has left on it (which is usually about an hour). Now the screen isn't behaving properly. When I make it resume from standby, the screen remains black. I have to close the lid and open it again for it to figure out it's supposed to give me a picture. Is this a serious problem, and can/should I get it fixed?
Also! Tomorrow is Towel Day and Nerd Pride Day! Last year it was also International Day of the Jedi as the 30th anniversary of A New Hope's theatrical release, but I have no evidence of such a day on Wikipedia (there was last year) and as such have no proof of its current existence.
Anywho. Celebrate as you will.