--- Question: Has anyone ridden the Indiana Jones Adventure Ride at Disneyland? I ask because I rewatched Temple of Doom - for roughly the thousandth time - two nights ago and was reminded that I'd always hoped for a theme park ride version of the underground-coal-carts scene, and today I see this post at Slash/Film about DisneyWorld opening a George Lucas enclave within their park in Orlando, and they made mention of the Indiana Jones Adventure Ride at Disneyland which I had no idea already existed and I know need to know if it's some variation on the coal-carts scene or not. From that link, it appears not to be the coal carts scene, which is a damned waste if ya ask me. Anyway, this George Lucas Land will also have bunches of Star Wars themed goodies, so you can get your inner Skywalker on, too. Geek.
--- Directors On Film - I really liked this list at Cinematical of the best turns by directors in front of somebody else's camera; what's sad is the first choice that popped into my head was Richard Attenborough in Jurassic Park, which admittedly we could hardly call as classic as Orson Welles in The Third Man, sure, but it lingers in my odd mind all the same.
--- Hail Steven - I'm really enjoying Damien's 31 Days of Spielberg over at Windmills of my Mind; y'all should check it out if ya ain't been doing so. He's just crossed the halfway point now, having just posted on Empire of the Sun, a film I saw for the first time only a week or so ago and had a pretty mixed reaction to (as most seemed to have had). Still, I agree with Damien's assessment that it is underrated.
--- Witch with a vengeance - Final Girl takes on the 1982 horror flick Superstition, and it sounds so wonderfully bat-shit bonkers that I've already added it to my Netflix queue. How do you find these movies, Stacie?!?!?
--- Poe Riddle Solved! For years a mysterious cloaked figure would go into the graveyard where Edgar Allan Poe is buried and leave three roses and a bottle of cognac on Poe's grave on his birthday, and no one ever knew who did it. Well... read the story here if you need to know whom was responsible; as is inevitable with this sort of thing, it's a huge disappointment though. I wish I could still just imagine it being Satan..
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I really liked Attenborough in Elizabeth, so he'd be up there for me.
For me, the top three would be Welles in The Third Man (I remember rewinding that scene on the ferris wheel several times, just so I could delight in Orson's perf), Huston in Chinatown (Noah Cross is the most evil man in all of cinema, if you ask me), and to be honest, Attenborough in Jurassic Park (I have always loved this performance, and always felt weird because this is my favorite Spielberg film). Kudos, however, would be to close Number Four Erich von Stroheim.
And I'm going to choose not to believe the Poe story, and instead continue pretending that Montresor or Auguste Dupin, escaped from the pages of literature, are paying homage to their creator.
The Indiana Jones ride isn't at all like a rollercoaster. You get strapped into a Jeep that moves slowly, but the ride is VERY bumpy. It's been a while since I've been on it, but I recall crossing a rickety bridge, a giant snake, and having poison darts shot past me (actually little bursts of air). At the end, an Indy mannequin swings by on a rope. Pretty cheesy!
I love the Indiana Jones ride. When I saw the movie years and years ago when it first came out, I always thought the coal mining part would be a perfect ride. But I love the Indiana Jones ride. Last time I went to Disneyland, Space Mountain was being remodeled. I went on the Indiana Jones ride 3 times - it's so much fun!
Just to complete the Disney Trifecta, the Disneyland ride is, as mentioned, a jeep ride (but it sure doesn't feel very slow--they have seat belts for a good reason--and it flings you from side to side as you careen through the darkened caverns), but Disney Tokyo actually has an Indiana Jones Mine Coaster--that you ride backwards.
I'm sure Youtube has some videos of both...
oops...the coaster is in Disney Paris...sheesh, can't keep 'em straight.
Here it is.
Awesome; thanks for that link, Uncle Mike!
That looked like the most boring rollercoaster ever. They could have at least spiced it up with some annoying Kate Capshaw animatronics.
Damian's blog on Spielberg has been accused of plagiarism on the spielbergfilms.com forum discussion list:
http://www.spielbergfilms.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=3
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