grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman) (05/29/84)
[Anything Goes...]
As addenda to my earlier review of the new Indy picture:
One more thing I liked, a little: The fictional starving indians
were apparently played by actual starving indians, and, at least
racially, they and the maharaj were accurate (not a big plus, really).
I have seen reviews praising the action-packed nature of the film.
Sorry, guys, but I can suspend disbelief only so far. Let me digress:
In an early Spider-man comic (c. 1963-64), an orbiting Mercury
spacecraft is having trouble. It's orbit becomes so low that it
is within the atmosphere (though still orbiting). Spidey steals
the part needed to repair the craft, steals a jet plane, flies up
to where the spacecraft is, opens the cockpit of the plane, jumps
to the spacecraft, replaces the damaged part, jumps back in the jet
and flies home (all this with a high-school science education -- he
doesn't even know how to drive a car). Let me just say that compared
to the amazing things we are asked to believe in IJ&TD, this is EASY
to swallow.
*** SPOILER ***
1. A Ford Trimotor doesn't have the range to get from Shanghai
to the Himalayas, even using all its fuel, let alone dropping 1/2
of it.
2. A Ford Trimotor's ceiling would be much to low to cross over
the Himalayas, which it does in the film.
3. I don't believe I need to say anything about the life-raft
scene, do I?
4. Why did Wo Fat (or whoever he was) decide to kill them in a plane
crash? His goons/pilots could've just shot them while they were asleep.
He obviously didn't need to make it look like an accident -- he was
willing to machine gun them at the Club Obi Wan!
There's LOTS more where that came from. I don't mind suspending
my disbelief any more than the next guy (probably less), but it's
insulting to be asked to believe this stuff!
-Glennusadaca@uiucuxc.UUCP (06/01/84)
#R:fortune:-345200:uiucuxc:31100009:000:293 uiucuxc!usadaca Jun 1 14:29:00 1984 who asked you to believe it ? are you going out and try to reenct all those stunts? all they really asked you to do was to be interested enough to cough up the dollars to view it and to ENJOY the flick for what it is... a series of incredulous, cliff-hanging serials strung together for fun!