Also known as "pink eye," a bacterial infection that is usually mild and clears up in a few days with antibiotics. Highly contagious because of the desire to rub at the eye, but I've never heard of a case of pink eye that kept anyone out of work for more than a week or two, at most.

Saw Indy IV yesterday. The reviews I've read have been reasonably fair, but fortunately, I am not plagued by the intense desire to have every cinematic experience be either high art nor top its ancestors with each sequel. That said, I enjoyed the hell out of it, especially the latter 1/2. I will say that it seemed to me that Harrison Ford seemed to have difficulty channeling Indy until the last 1/3 of the film. The first 2/3's Indy seemed to be a bit of a "worn" character, as in worn like a set of clothes. Only in the last 1/3 did Ford seem to finally be the Indy of old. I believe that part of that was him trying to portray Indy's age and weariness, but it just didn't resonate that way.

All said, I liked it, I was entertained, I did not feel cheated out of my money paid to see it, and I will buy the DVD. It was wonderful to see Karen Allen, who, despite being a bit thicker, is still a hottie in my book.

Saw it while on vacation in NJ with my family. We hated it.

I quite liked it when we hit a showing Saturday afternoon. It is rather Old Indiana Jones Chronicles -- The Video Game, but it's still quite fun to watch. At least this time the scriptwriters were clever enough not to put vampire bats, giant or regular, in India.

But a leadlined fridge is a new one on me. Even for Doomsday Village.

I hate anything that jars my willing suspension of disbelief.
Luckily I am ignorant on most of the topics featured in Indy films.
(I loved the bats and the fridge...)

Pray god he doesn't make another film set in England!

Finally saw it--very fun! Harrison Ford is great, and Shia LaBouef just shines.

The only thing that bothered me is that in The Last Crusade, Indy drinks of the Cup; therefore he was supposed to be immortal, no? I was happily thinking of him anthro-swashbuckling through time . . .

Entertaining, but hey, why hasn't anyone commented on the complete ridiculousness of the major plot point ... although I guess it's hard to complain without dumping a major spoiler.

I did like the bit in the warehouse.

I'm not bothered by the ridiculous plot at all. I don't watch such things for the plot, nor do I think it's any more ridiculous than the other ones, really. It's not like Spielberg/Lucas made that stuff up; even (previously) respected academics have espoused those theories.

I'm wondering, at the end, is that a college tie that Mutt is wearing? (indicating he went back to school?)

I thought the power ended once he passed the seal.

ah. maybe that's it.

I read an article over the weekend (Newsweek, I think) that said they have coined a new phrase based on this movie.

In television, when a series has become ridiculous beyond measure they refer to it as "jumping the shark." It refers to a late episode of Happy Days where Fonzie is on waterskis and jumps ramps, jumping over shark-infested waters.

So, they say the new phrase is for movies which have just gone a bit haywire. It's called "nuking the fridge" and the story says it's something about I. Jones hiding in a fridge and surviving a nuclear blast. I have not seen the movie so I'm just paraphrasing what the article said. Google confirms the phrase with over 30 pages of posts.

I like it.

It definitely calls for a large level of suspension of disbelief.

Suspension of disbelief? I has it.

so do i. i'm a star wars nut. it's science fiction and i'm ok with jedi that can pull off the impossible. even here on planet earth i'm ok with John McClain taking on a whole array of Eurotrash terrorists and coming up aces. But the last indiana jones movie just really went wrong for me. Flying miles overland in a nuked fridge? pompadour wearing monkeys? aliens? sorry, lucas and spielberg took the left turn in albaquirky.