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Free Pacman Jones! Or At Least Let Him Back On The Football Field
As UT's Longhorn football team approached their spectacular game with Oklahoma last week and a tough stretch in their schedule over the next few games, including tonight hosting #11 Missouri, I've found myself checking in more frequently at the venerable sports cable network ESPN and couldn't help but notice they're producing a flood of stories aggressively criticizing troubled Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones, who was suspended this week by the league after an argument with a bodyguard at a hotel.
ESPN and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell seem determined to turn Pacman Jones into the next Michael Vick - a sacrificial lamb suitable for crucifixion in the media to show the league doesn't tolerate bad guys. Maybe Jones deserves it for his past transgressions, which I've never closely followed before he came to Dallas, but not for the incident that most recently hounded him out of the league. Permalink / Comments
Indiana Jones And The Best Damn DVD Ever
So, without gushing too much, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has one of the best damn 2-Disc packages ever. Simply put, the DVD case doubles as a pictographic journal of the filming of the movie. You open it up, read the intros from Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford, and on to the pictures. It's really beautifully amazing, and when a DVD package makes me smile from the word go, I get my hopes up for the special features.
There's a great, two hour documentary on the filming of the movie, plus extras on special effects, props, locations and makeup. What I wish I could have seen were deleted scenes, because the documentary shows off some interesting footage that didn't make the final cut, but would have been interesting to see as extras.
The film doc is a monster: seriously in-depth reveals as to how...
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Indiana Jones Giant RC Ant
Indiana Jones Giant RC Ant
Thought ants were insignificant little pests? Yeah, so did we - until we saw the pumped-up Peruvians in the new Indy film. And now we want a hoard of these nasties to guard the office!
He's the latest horror faced by Indy in ‘Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'. You thought the monkey brains, viper pits and human sacrifices were bad. But it gets worse in part 4 - when the man-eating Remote Controlled Giant Ants are unleashed! With mashing jaws and six legs that take him scurrying across the floor, this oversized ant is the perfect way to terrify relatives and friends. On Christmas Day, tuck Anty under the tree ready for a surprise appearance after dinner. That's one way to brighten up the Queen's speech...
Kids from 8 to 18 and beyond will go crazy for this Remote Controlled Giant distance-controlled bug, which comes boxed with a...
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I Hate Indiana Jones: Day 47
Day 47: Indiana Jones and the Deja Kung Fu
As I've mentioned in a previous entry, the Zombie Monkey Kung Fu Indians weren't a great idea. That being said, I'm sure they would have been more bearable had they not been so bafflingly repetitive. There's a simple rule to go by if you're going to put something odd, or stupid, or cheap in a movie: If it absolutely has to be there, get it onscreen, get it out of the way quickly, and then move on. And whatever you do, if it was ridiculous the first time, don't bring it back. Heck, even things that were absolutely wonderful the first time in a film can find themselves giving off a stink of increativity the second time around.
So why is it that we get two seperate scenes of kung fu monkeymen running around behind walls, peeking out through...
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I Hate Indiana Jones: Day 43
Day 43 Indiana Jones and the Idiotic Archaeologist Part Four
Interestingly, the film seems to tacitly acknowledge the growing idiocy of the Indiana Jones character, in that he never actually has to figure anything out. He's supposed to be a brilliant archaeologist and beloved professor who uses his mind to first to solve the puzzles and uncover historical mysteries, and his gun second, when when threatened by fascists and communists - although he's very nervous about shooting communists for some reason. What's startling about this film is that it never asks Indiana Jones to figure anything out. He's just a character who gets told where to go and what to do, first by communists, then by Shia Laboeuf, then by a crystal skull.
All of this wouldn't be so bad if the audience got the sense that Indiana Jones was going to solve some major...
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