Minority Report and Prescient Technology
Do popular visions of the future predict future technologies, or inspire them?
Steven Spielberg on Overthinking It
Episode 202: Putting on the Meat Dress
The Overthinkers tackle listener feedback for the first time in six months and preview the summer movies of 2012.
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You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Phallic Symbol: Jaws As a Journey from Impotence to Manhood
They don’t call it MAN vs. Nature for nothing.
Michael Bay: A Quantitative Comparative Analysis
How bad is Michael Bay, really? And how does he compare to some of the greatest directors of our time, quantitatively?
The Mystery of Indy’s Sub Ride Solved
So waaaay back in February, I mused over the scene in Raiders where Indy apparently stows away on a Nazi submarine. What is going on here? Are we meant to believe that Dr. Jones somehow snuck onto the sub, found … Continued
I’m just getting warmed up
Part 3 in a series of disgruntled rants. So towards the beginning of the movie, Dr. Jones tells us: Legend says that a crystal skull was stolen from a mythical lost city in the Amazon, supposedly built out of solid … Continued
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Swordsman Shoots First
So a while back, I complained about the relative lack of violence in the latest Indiana Jones film. Indy doesn’t shoot a single person. I blamed this on Lucus – the only person in the galaxy who believes that Star … Continued
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Some further complaints about Indy IV (most likely the first in a series)
[Though it was originally written before we recorded the Indiana Jones podcast, and though these positions of the author were more or less covered in that discussion, we are presenting here Matthew Belinkie’s original musings on Indy 4. They are, … Continued
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