{"id":63,"date":"2015-09-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/09\/20\/42movies-day-10-totally-eighties\/"},"modified":"2015-09-20T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T16:00:00","slug":"42movies-day-10-totally-eighties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/09\/20\/42movies-day-10-totally-eighties\/","title":{"rendered":"#42Movies, Day 10: Totally Eighties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m referring to the 1980s, of course. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard the legends.<\/p>\n<p><b>InnerSpace (1987)<\/b><br \/>and<br \/><b>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Blather after the trailers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7kQDIosuZuo?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7kQDIosuZuo\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/7kQDIosuZuo<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iXmFIoScT2Y?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iXmFIoScT2Y\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/iXmFIoScT2Y<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>(Hey, remember when Steven Spielberg still made mostly good movies? Remember that? Those were the days, man. I guess he can do whatever the fuck he wants at this point, but I just wish he&#8217;d do more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0443272\/combined\">&#8220;ever&#8221;<\/a> and less <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0983193\/combined\">&#8220;what the fuck.&#8221;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The thing I love about both these flicks is how well they pull off the <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HighConcept\">high concept<\/a> thing. Not only do they deliver on the adventure promised in their trailers, but they are both outrageously fun, often in unexpected ways.<\/p>\n<p><i>Last Crusade<\/i> really should have been the final Indiana Jones movie. We all agree on that, right? It sure felt like it was the big closer at the time. And it was a hell of a great way to go out. It took all the familiar, established elements of the franchise and pushed them to even more interesting places. Sure, there were a few cheap, crowd-pleasing, throwaway in-jokes, but Indy&#8217;s character arc&mdash;from the opening flashback to &#8220;It belongs in a museum!&#8221; to letting the Grail fall into the abyss&mdash;was the perfect way to wrap up the trilogy.<\/p>\n<p><i>InnerSpace<\/i> plays with the concept of miniaturization, which before then had last been explored cinematically in 1966&#8217;s <i>Fantastic Voyage<\/i> (based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby). Some people consider <i>InnerSpace<\/i> to be a &#8220;remake&#8221; of <i>Fantastic Voyage<\/i>, but I feel like that&#8217;s a stretch: there are many similar plot elements, but the vibrant escapades of <i>InnerSpace<\/i> are completely different in tone and execution from the somber Cold War intrigue of <i>Fantastic Voyage<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>(By the way, this year&#8217;s <i>Ant-Man<\/i> manages to recapture some of the vivacious charm of <i>InnerSpace<\/i>. It&#8217;s considerably weaker in the character department, especially with respect to the villain, but it&#8217;s more fun than a lot of other Marvel stuff these days.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m referring to the 1980s, of course. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard the legends. InnerSpace (1987)andIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Blather after the trailers. https:\/\/youtu.be\/7kQDIosuZuo https:\/\/youtu.be\/iXmFIoScT2Y (Hey, remember when Steven Spielberg still made mostly good movies? Remember that? Those&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[46,13,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-42movies21days","category-movies","category-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}