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I think Rosanne Barr is available... but she'd need to trim down a bit.
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Thank you for that.
And thank you Amy for spoiling Raiders of the Lost Ark.
We're a month behind in the UK and just had this episode. One thing I don't understand... does Amy's revelation about Raiders come as a surprise to everyone because that was all kind of obvious. |
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jgsugden
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...We're a month behind in the UK and just had this episode. One thing I don't understand... does Amy's revelation about Raiders come as a surprise to everyone because that was all kind of obvious. Obvious if you think about it... but most people that watch BBT saw the movie at such a young age that it would never occur to them, and once the movie is seared into you mind, you stop looking for this type of stuff. |
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Spoiled in the sense that Indy doesn't affect the outcome of the movie. I thanked Amy because I won't look at the movie the same way ever again.
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Ironwood
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It was never about what happened, but how anyway.
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Spoiled in the sense that Indy doesn't affect the outcome of the movie. I thanked Amy because I won't look at the movie the same way ever again.
That's what I don't get - how were you looking at the movie? Because aside from a couple of scenes, nothing ever really goes right for Indy all the way through - from the opening moments right through to the end. I'm not having a dig or meaning to be rude - I'm just genuinely surprised. Basically, if it wasn't for this thread, I'd have thought the joke in BBT was that the uber-intelligent geeks didn't get that? |
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I'm sure if Raiders was a newly released movie you'd have about 50+ pages of people bitching about it.  |
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Some of you guys are silly. Raiders was always meant to be a feel good caricature of American pop culture involving Americans kicking Nazi ass.
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jgsugden
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I think that jgsugden guy had a brilliant point above. We should all hail him for his wisdom.
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Nazis harnessing the power of God was never going to work.
I don't see this as a problem at all - in fact it's a good thing. Raiders is a movie about minor victories and setbacks in the context of something that dwarfs man. I love religious horror and other religious-themed movies that take this approach - I mean it's kind of stupid to make a movie about the power of God then have a dude with a machine gun heroically save the day. If your movie includes players like God or the Devil the humans in the movie just have to do the best they can given their meager circumstances.
It doesn't work if you try to pigeonhole it into a typical Hero's Journey tale, but it works as a story about small people wrapped up in big events.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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I'm sure if Raiders was a newly released movie you'd have about 50+ pages of people bitching about it. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how this forum works. What you'd get is 50 pages of people bitching about other people complaining that other people called someone a hipster for moaning at someone who objected to Ironwood saying the film was fun but the scene where Indy hitches a ride on a submarine was a bit silly. |
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Ironwood
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Apparently the submarine thing made sense, just not in the finished version.
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Apparently the submarine thing made sense, just not in the finished version.
Yes. Plus you also have to understand that it was a U-boat not a modern submarine, so they worked differently. They could only travel about 60 miles underwater before having to surface and recharge batteries. Since their primary engines were diesel they would need fresh air, so "Underwater travel" would only be at snorkel depth and Indy lashed himself to that or the preiscope. Also WW2 wasn't ongoing, so there was no reason to burn batteries & fuel going undersea. |
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Ironwood
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Yeah, I just couldn't be arsed typing that up.
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Ironwood
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Ok.
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Merusk
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It's Bernadette's actress, Melissa Rauch. Took me a minute to get it.
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Really ? Took me a nanosecond. For all the Cardigan nonsense, when you see her in other interviews it's quite clear that 'Bernadette' is a far cry from her actual persona.
Not entirely sure she needed to do this tho, but possibly she just really, really wanted to.
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Ironwood
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Since Raiders is on right now, technically Jones saves Marion.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
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Sheldon!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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After last week's flat episode, this one was awesome. Well done BBT! *raises glass of grape juice that burns*
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Sheldon!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Valentine's Day and Sheldon finally kissed Amy... and seemed to like it.
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Since Raiders is on right now, technically Jones saves Marion.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
Did he, or did he put her on edge by asking about the headpiece so she resisted Kato where she would have parted with it more reasonably without Jones' interference? |
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Ironwood
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No, she'd pretty much have told them to get to fuck.
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I was feeling pretty bad for Amy, Sheldon was calling her 'Gollum' and 'Stinky' as pet names and ignoring her on the train. Kind of hoping Amy would just dump his ass and retain a bit of self-respect. But the writers did a nice little trick there and that was a great payoff for the two characters. I can't decide if Sheldon had a plan there to kiss her it just happened. Anyway, it was a scene three years in the making and left a smile on my face.
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