She Treads Softly: Movie Dude Weekend

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Movie Dude Weekend

This weekend we watched the first two movies in the Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures Collection.

Raiders

of the Lost Ark, 1981

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1984

Director: Steven Spielberg; Producer: George Lucas

Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Kate Capshaw

Quotes:

Movie Dude: One of my friends had his gym shorts fall down when he was running in P.E. this week. He was going commando.

Lori: Well, there is a moral to that story...

Just Me: Yeah. Wear a belt.

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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.