Re:Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.
by tptacek on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @06:36PM
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Well, I did learn not to hide in discarded refrigerators from Punky Brewster.
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Re:Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.
by jessedhillon on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @07:25PM
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Some people learn from the Bible and associated interpretations that if they pray hard enough, dead people can walk again, but more people learn that gays are evil. People are able to analogize from fiction, or did you think the moral of the Sour Grapes fable was not to taunt foxes?
Really?
I learned the exact opposite from Indiana Jones!
Wait, what? Which Indiana Jones?
The one that most of us would prefer to forget. www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/
For a while, it seemed like "nuking the fridge" was going to replace "jumping the shark" as a metaphor for creative failure.
Well, I did learn not to hide in discarded refrigerators from Punky Brewster.
That's funny; another of Mr. Lucas' fine films taught me that you can survive a direct nuclear explosion by hiding in a discarded refrigerator.
It's not so implausible:
The question isn't whether it's plausible or not-- this is Indiana Jones, after all. The question is whether it worked in the movie. The whole scene is bizarrely out of place and is making light of something that most people don't think is really all that funny.
In a similar vein, there's nothing wrong with funny characters necessarily, but there is something wrong with Jar Jar.