movie thoughts.

Some great quotes, from the New York Magazine movie review (May 24, 2008):

(about Sex and the City)

I haven’t carped about the smooth-FM music or the fact that the hetero men (Mr. Big semi-excepted) are nonentities. But Sex and the City’s nod to the nonwhite is scary. Jennifer Hudson plays Carrie’s personal assistant, and Oh my God, it’s Hattie McDaniel for the new millennium: Instead of cleaning Carrie’s house, she cleans up her computer files (although she does help declutter the apartment, too). She admires her mistress in those beautiful outfits. And check out that smile when you give her a Louis Vuitton handbag! Please, Sex and the City, do not pretend you exist in the real multiracial world. White will always be your new black.


(about Indiana Jones)

This spring, Harrison Ford was elected to the board of directors of the Archaeological Institute of America, a group with some 250,000 members, whose president offered this explanation: “Harrison Ford has played a significant role in stimulating the public’s interest in archaeological exploration.” Not everyone was so thrilled—one dubious anthropologist at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa (dissertation topic: “mining and indigenous people in highlands Papua New Guinea”) posted the following comment: “My ever-tenuous grasp of the line between fantasy and reality seems to be slipping away again.”

...How many variations are there of “We meet again, Dr. Jones”?

Source: Epiphany