Movies

For those of you who don’t follow my Twitter stream at 7 pm EDT every Friday night, you may not know that I am following along with The Popcorn Dialogues, a blog and podcast by Jenny Crusie and Lucy March. Basically, they’re watching a whole bunch of romantic comedies and then ripping them apart to find out why they work (or don’t).

I don’t want to do an analysis every week on my blog, because that’s what they do on their blog and podcast, but I have some stuff I want to say about some of the movies and I’m allowed to do that since I’m the writer here. Live with it. Jenny and Lucy have divided the movies up into eras, and since we watched the last movie in the Depression Era set on Friday, I thought it would be a good time for me to summarize.

The Movies

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I’m super duper busy and instead of abandoning my blog for today, I’m performing some sleight of hand and plunking you down in front of some videos so that you won’t think I’m ignoring you. (I’d be an awesome parent.)

And, because no one wants to watch me, these are all videos of cute widdle aminals. Enjoy.

On farm tour day, we saw this little cutie at Maple View Farms (of the famous ice cream):

I took this video at our favorite plant nursery, For Garden’s Sake in Chatham County. They have plants, goats, llamas, ducks, peacocks, and swans– the swans bite.

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I’m writing this post even at the risk of being one of those scary fangirls. I am possibly a borderline Indiana Jones fangirl, even though the vast majority of the time I can’t work up the energy to be a fangirl about anything at all. Anyway, if that’s what I am, I guess I can own it, since I can’t think of a single other thing I qualify as “fangirl” for. Make fun if you must. Onward.

Lots of people skip the 2nd in the Indiana Jones trilogy, The Temple of Doom. Admitedly, it’s not my favorite either. My mom doesn’t like it because it’s gross, and I think it definitely has some darker stuff in it than the other two movies do, so I understand that reasoning. The reason I never liked it, though, was that it seemed incongruous. Indiana Jones wasn’t the Indiana Jones I’d come to know and love (despite his repeatedly choosing career over love) in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and he’s certainly not the lovable guy from The Last Crusade who makes jokes with his dad and falls for… well, that’s a whole different blog post.

**SPOILER ALERT** Lots of Temple of Doom spoilers follow. I’m assuming you’ve already seen it and decided your opinion on it. If you haven’t seen it, watch it first, then come back here and read this.

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