Nope.  I've never seen either movie, but based on the description above, it doesn't sound like a terrible idea.  It's basically the Bill Pullman plot from Titanic, but with the evil storm-chasers from Twister thrown in. 

I didn't have a problem with that awesome opening Shanghai sequence being a year earlier than the events of Raiders.  It was supposed to be a light-hearted part of the adventure, and the earlier year took the edge away from the threat of the poison.  That is, they neutralized the threat to Indy's life, but still…

This seems as good a place as any to remember this exchange:

I think he was seen as a novelty artist, rather than a serious artist.  And even those who recognized his unique perspective and style must have had a hell of a time fitting him into a movement or style of 20th-century art.  He exists, it seems to me, as a special case with no obvious predecessor or successor.  So…

What are your feelings about the War on Christmas?

That's code for "Googling" used by Microsoft workers at the office.

Well, I suppose a Happy Memorial Day would be one that doesn't involve any sadness, which, I can only assume, would mean that people are wishing you and your family a day that does not involve the death of your active-duty spouse in the line of duty.  I would chalk it up as people wishing you and your family well,…

@avclub-28b1819668d7c62501acb9852cad10a9:disqus , are you a bank teller of the fucking truth?

To be fair to your then-girlfriend, I don't think Escher has been embraced by art historians as a "serious" artist.  Kind of like how science-fiction hasn't been embraced by literature professors.

Exactly.  Maybe she's just started her studies, and hasn't come to realize his
influence yet.  Or maybe she totally would recognize his work, but
doesn't know him by name.  Or, she might just have decided that she was
really "into" stop-motion a week ago, having just then learned what it was about Moral Orel she…

I agree, but stop-motion works best when it involves cartoonish or otherwise unrealistic characters, right?  Look at the difference between the stop-motion Terminator skeleton at the end of The Terminator and the fluid, almost believable metal-man Terminator throughout Terminator 2.  I think most viewers, even in…

I always find it interesting when you see that the flag being burned is obviously a hastily home-made job.  You know, it'll be on an irregularly shaped scrap of fabric, with something like four red stripes, and blue stars on a field of white, instead of vice-versa.  It's an abstraction of the American flag; and a…

There's a restaurant in my town that has the biggest fucking American flag I've ever seen in person.  They fly it on a fairly normal-sized flagpole, too, and it's set back only about 20 feet from the street.  So when this thing is at half-staff (an increasingly common experience these days, what with the…

Maybe, but they had to contend with the expanding cast of characters.  In the first one, it was just the two main guys, but it grew to have half a dozen core characters, and each of them needed a subplot to do them justice, and so after the second one, they couldn't possibly make one like the first one, without doing…

Hey, didja hear they're making a porn parody of Girls?

But it's so vertical, too, with all those skyscrapers everywhere.  Way more z-axis than most other cities.  A friend of mine got totally lost in New York one day.  He was in mid-town, trying to get down to the Village.  He was totally convinced he was walking south, when after about two hours, he ended up on the…

I got one word for you: plastics.

…on Mars.

Which Planet of the Apes sequel is the picture from at the top of the article?

"Mammarial Day's a's and extra m have gone to war!"