Dear Luscasfilm

[joyandthunder]

Dear Lucasfilm,

I am writing you about your new film, Indiana Jones & the Suckfest of the Crystal SkullYou have destroyed my childhood. I can remember fondly the quality time I spent with my father and my brother as Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones taught me about the secretly adventurous life in higher education. My brother and I would cuddle up

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[amber_laine]

After the movie (which my five year old son watched in is entirety on the edge of his seat, eyes wide), I turned to myhusband and asked, "What did you think?"

My kids overheard and shouted "OMG IT WAS AWESOME!! AAAAAHHHHHH!"

My husband aid, "Um, it was...okay...."

I said, "Dude, it was stupid."

Y'know, I didn't even mind the aliens. It wasn't what I would have wanted but that didn't ruin it for me. What ruined it was the extreme campiness of it. Did these people even watch the first movie, where Marian was a total badass? Why would they make her into this uninteresting, bland, housewify type person with no spunk at all? And the way she was all swoony over Indiana and then they got *married*?! What?!

Yeah dude, no. I wasn't mad about it, I guess because I sort of expected it to suck. And suck it did.

[swingland]

it seems that for the past decade, anything with Lucasfilms Ltd attached to it is bound for suck-town. Spielberg hasn't come out with a good movie since Saving Private Ryan. and even that is up for debate.

[swingland]

i like at the end when indiana jones asks his son, "are you leaving?" and son turns back and says, "why did you leave?". i thought it was a good question. and indiana just looks up at the CGI sky and smirks "somewhere up there you're grandfather is laughing."

what type of answer is that to a son abandoned by his father since childhood?

it's okay to have children and abandon them. you can discover them twenty years later and assert yourself as the dominant male figure. if they ask why you were never there, you can use a light spiritual justification to your carousing other women for the past twenty years.

i hope you actually sent that letter. i'm half-way tempted to send one myself.

[joyandthunder]

Send one.

Yeah, that random "Why did you leave me, dad?" crap was really really dumb. And the response, "Oh, son," all Leave-It-To-Beaver like. Ugh. Gag me.

[drown_in_sound]

haha...that bad, huh? I haven't seen it...

you should have put a "good night and good luck" and the end. keith olbermann would have been proud.

[joyandthunder]

Keith Olbermann is my estranged father. Making him proud is my only goal in life.