Jonezy

My blog’s 2nd anniversary is on the 29th (the one in Friendster). And honestly, I have all this ideas in my head I don’t know what to blog about. So much for a commemorative gesture eh? Well I’ll try to get something down, that is if I am not that busy.

Let’s see…hmmm oh, watched the fourth Indiana Jones flick on the night of its premiere here in Manila. It was okey, not bad—I mean its Steven Spielberg after all. I guess I was put off by its formulaic-ness and its “The Mummy-ness” and its “Alien vs. Predator-ness” with a different cast but heyy Indiana Jones was there from the start.

The Mummy-ness of Indiana

1. The giant ants. It’s like the Scarab beetles.
2. The destruction of El Dorado—it really felt like the last scene in The Mummy II

The Alien vs. Predator-ness of Indiana

1. Aliens as Gods…Hmmm E.T. Olympics anyone?

really.

But I guess the Mummy-ness & Predator-ness ends there. Man, it’s been a long time since I heard John William’s score and I must say it brought me back to my childhood. When I engaged in the scarce “father and son” moments I shared with pop (I don’t know, I guess when you get old you grow out of it).

It was fun to see the old “warehouse”. I thought they were re-opening the Ark of the Covenant again hehehe

And guess what, like a joke it got a few seconds of screen time.

It’s weird when you see The Ark. Isn’t it supposed to be more metaphysical and “up there” than the aliens in area 51?

I mean it’s from

GOD

after all.

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Cate Blanchett was cool.

And alas the same old “seek twist” emerges.
Gold = Knowledge

Ahhhh.