Summah-Time

And it's fucking forty degrees out. Awesome.

Anyhow, another semester is over and for as weird as it is for me to say, I actually miss it. Summers for us college freaks host this strange lull where you aren't writing papers every week or staying up all night doing research and stuff like that. Well, I suppose that applies to us college freaks who pay attention, not the lazy shits and business majors. But I digress. (Or do I? Mua-ha-ha-ha-ha!)

What?

One thing I am looking forward to this summer, now a mere 12 days away is the new Indiana Jones film. I generally avoid IMDB due to the fact that 50 percent of it's users are idiots and the other 50 percent, as the case with the alleged Silent Hill 2 script proved, lying assholes. But since the info about the film released is modest anyway it's safe to look up who is going to be in it and who isn't and disregard any other information as complete and utter bull. Kate Blanchett and that annoying kid from Saved by the Be -- I'm sorry Transformers -- are making appearances, which worries me. Blanchett is totally hit or miss and has never really impressed me and if Temple of Doom was any lesson to Speilberg whatsoever, he should know younger, fast-talking sidekicks DO NOT WORK.

One thing that gives me hope is that, again allegedly, from an interview with the man himself, very little of the movie will be done with computers. I have nothing against graphics, but so far the best examples of films that have done it right are Lord of the Rings and Brotherhood of the Wolf, where the graphics were simply streamlined into the film, such as the Orc costumes in LOTR being made in meticulous detail, then simply enhanced. Speilberg and Lucas each rely way too heavily on graphics, but at least Lucas does it right. I cite Minority Report as not only an incompetent movie but one that simply vomits acidic light all over its viewers because someone in the tech department thought that bloom makes everything better.

In spite of myself, and my whining, I'm looking forward to the movie anyway. Its a throwback to the kinds of things that inspired dozens of really shitty adventures stories I wrote at age 9, and don't ask because they have all been destroyed for the betterment of humanity.

Kickin' it old school!