Indiana Jones and the Temple of Absurdly Implausible Excess in the NY Times discusses “Nuking the Fridge,” the expression spawned from some inanity in the latest Indiana Jones flick.
Jason Nicholl, a 37-year-old high school teacher who runs one of the sites, said he went to a message board shortly after the new “Indiana Jones” film [...]
The balcony is closed
Roger Ebert reminisces about Gene Siskel, following the announcement that Ebert & Roeper were leaving the show.
The first time they appeared on the Johnny Carson show:
We were scared out of our minds. We’d been briefed on likely questions by one of the show’s writers, but moments before airtime he popped his head [...]
Cuckoo’s Nest Hospital to be Torn Down
Oregon State Hospital, the mental institution where the 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was filmed, is making way for a new complex. Most of the dilapidated, 125-year-old main building will be torn down and replaced starting this fall.
There’s nothing to the rumor that a giant pillow [...]
Nuking the Fridge
[it] is a colloquialism used by U.S. Cinema critics and fans and has a meaning similar to jumping the shark. It is used to denote the point in a movie or movie series at which the characters or plot veer into a ridiculous, out-of-the-ordinary storyline. Films that have “nuked the fridge” [...]
Professor Henry Jones is denied tenure
As chairman of the Committee on Promotion and Tenure, I regret to inform you that your recent application for tenure has been denied by a vote of 6 to 1. Following past policies and procedures, proceedings from the committee’s deliberations that were pertinent to our decision have been summarized below [...]
The science of scriptwriting
McKee examines story-telling like a biologist dissecting a rat. But after taking it apart, he explains how to build a story yourself using rules that wouldn’t look out of place in a computer programming text book.
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Using McKee’s rules they compare the script of the film Casablanca, a classic pre-McKee movie, [...]
How bold can Darth Vader be?
Font pun and typeface art. I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
Oh, boy, was he strict. Harvey Korman, 1927-2008
I remember watching him on the Carol Burnett Show, trying not to laugh at something Tim Conway had done or said. That was as funny as the rest of the stuff.
Top . . . men.
No, not the Ark. It’s Indiana Jones and the Conservation of Momentum at what looks to be a new physics-y blog, Built on Facts
Haven’t seen the new movie, so I’ll just take their word for it.
I’ve seen the movie National Treasure a couple of times (and it was on again recently) and while I enjoyed it, there are a few things that bugged me about it. Two physics-related, and one, not so much.
1. Why use a green laser to set off the temperature sensor alarm? Green [...]
No, not the powdery, chalky stuff.
I noticed that Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was on today. Now, movies have a lot of bad physics in them, and I generally don’t let that get in the way of the movie enjoyment. But … there’s the scene where Augustus Gloop falls in the chocolate [...]
Censors wagging the dog
OK, for the Nth time in recent memory, there was a movie on cable, with which they just shouldn’t have bothered. If you’re going to show Blazing Saddles but are going to blip out every instance of words like “nigger” and “faggot,” just don’t bother. It’s a satire about bigotry. [...]
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