She Treads Softly: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of The Crystal Skull

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of The Crystal Skull

Movie night:

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of The Crystal Skull

Twice

3 comments:

1morechapter said...: We watched it for the first time tonight! My boys and I enjoyed it.; October 26, 2008 at 10:02 PM
Lori L said...: I really was very good and we really did watched it twice! The first viewing was with my 2 nephews, my husband and me. The second showing included my 2 nephews, 2 college-aged children, and me.; October 27, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Jane said...: Oh WOW!
We rented this on Saturday.
We really enjoyed it!
Well, I kinda thought the ending was a dud, but overall it was good.
I'm kind of wondering if the story will continue thru the boy....; October 27, 2008 at 7:31 PM

John Updike's six rules for reviewing:

1. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.

2. Give him enough direct quotation--at least one extended passage--of the book's prose so the review's reader can form his own impression, can get his own taste.

3. Confirm your description of the book with quotation from the book, if only phrase-long, rather than proceeding by fuzzy precis.

4. Go easy on plot summary, and do not give away the ending.

5. If the book is judged deficient, cite a successful example along the same lines, from the author's oeuvre or elsewhere. Try to understand the failure. Sure it's his and not yours?

To these concrete five might be added a vaguer sixth, having to do with maintaining a chemical purity in the reaction between product and appraiser.....Review the book, not the reputation.... Better to praise and share than blame and ban. The communion between reviewer and his public is based upon the presumption of certain possible joys in reading, and all our discriminations should curve toward that end.