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Indiana Jones and the Search for A Better Green Screen.

I was excited to see this movie, even with several people saying it wasn't that good and South Park lampooning its creation as a raping of the franchise. After the first scene, which only importance was introducing the major players in the movie, I was almost ready to turn it off. Why?, you ask. Well simply put for something to be made by Lucas/Spielberg to have the most horrific green-screening since the late seventies(scratch that, pre-seventies). I was appalled.

But, after I managed to fight my way through the first scene, the movie skipped ahead at a frenetic pace, maybe even too frenetic. The puzzle, that encompassed the search seem to fall into place for Indy, rather than Indy finding the answers.

And with its wild assertation about the origins of a lost city in the amazon, and the crystal skulls themselves. I begin to wonder if the "anti-religion" fanatics forced this movie after the huge success of the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, as i feel they did with the with the first two movies. Is it not enlightening to Hollywood, the two better selling Indy's were focused around Judeo/Christian artifacts and the other two will simply get lost in the shuffle.

I give this one 2.5 out 5. Because the actions scenes were cool and the return of Marion(Karen Allen).

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Bonus Spoiler Alert.

I wasn't intending to watch Sex and the City, the movie. But i broke down and did. I was very impressed. After enjoying the first three seasons of the show, then being turned off by the writers insistance of making alternative life-styles a theme of every other show, I was worried, I would not enjoy the movie.

I was pleasantly surprised, the writting seemed to mirror that of the first view seasons of the show. It was quite entertaining to see the movie end with the Miranda, Charlotte and Carrie, each sticking it out with the men they each love. And truer still Samantha staying her coarse as a One woman, woman(that woman being herself).

4 out of 5 for this one.