Jacked-in goes WordPress!!
June 15, 2008
Jacked-in has been around since 1998. I’ve used many different HTML editors and WYSIWYG web applications. All that has resulted in the site becoming a bit of a Frankenstein monster. So I’ve decided to use WordPress to take Jacked-in into a more organized future. I will slowly add as much of the old, classic Jacked-in content as possible into this newly designed site. Fear not, you can still view all the classic Jacked-in content HERE.
Please leave a comment letting me know what you think of the new design! (feedback welcome)
INDIANA JONES & THE TEMPLE OF DOOM [1984] review
June 4, 2008
Having established a format in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK that we’d later see again in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, one realizes just how large a departure from the Indy formula INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM is. This is not to say that the movie isn’t good and a successful action film, but I can just imagine who jarring it must have been to fans who saw it in 1984. I have no memory of seeing it in a theater then, so I can’t say. While in the first and third Indy films, Indy is sought out specifically by other parties to retrieve an object, which forms the structure of the film, this time Indy literally stumbles into his retrieval assignment.
While I commented in my RAIDERS review that nothing really implausible happened in that movie, right away in TEMPLE OF DOOM does the implausible happen. Landing a life boat on a snowy mountain top after falling countless feet from a crashing airplane? Not believable. Fun to watch, but the touch or reality of RAIDERS was lost.
Yet the movie is very memorable. I have no idea when I saw it last, maybe over 10 or more years ago, but I totally remembered the very memorable dinner scene where an assortment of bugs and eyeballs are brought out for sampling.
TEMPLE OF DOOM is almost literally non-stop, and in that way it’s a totally satisfying action movie. The rope bridge climax is particularly visceral and tense.
And as always, John Williams iconic score punctuates it all helping to continue and maintain the essence of Indy, though the script structure deviates from the norm.
DR. NO [1962] review
June 4, 2008
DR. NO has been one in a series of older, “analog action” movies I’ve been watching a lot of in 2008. I much, much prefer these kinds of analog action movies where the action stays more within the realm of feasibility, although believing Sean Connery can overthrow a whole mini-island of thugs with only his fists does begin to leave the realm of feasibility. Still, I prefer that than having him pullout some whiz-bang gizmo or fly or drive some large vehicle beyond the limit of physics to overthrow the bad guys in the end.
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