Indiana Jones and the hunt for anything B-Movie Plotesque

Well we have just got back from seeing the forth installment of the Indiana Jones franchise and it was fun but oh how I wish I could get to see the script that was rejected, because I get the feeling that Lucas in his hunt for trying to be ( in his mind at least ) the worlds greatest EVERYTHING  film related, he rejected it JUST because he thought that he could do something better and in doing so all that he ended up doing was something, if I did not know better was the work of Ed Wood and Lucas was just channeling him, let me explain ...................

 OK picture the scene, its film school and its day one of the cliche course and the subject is 50's B-Movie's and their affect of todays film makers. In walks Lucas after a hard nights looking in the mirror telling himself he looks gorgeous and the combination of lack of sleep, self delusion all the surreal images he was looking at somehow embedded themselves into his mind somehow to reappear some 30 years later in the script and plot of the forth Indy flick.

 The lesson starts well with the obvious subject of nuclear war, a stable of 50's b flicks, then it progresses through spaceships,aliens,giant killer ants,Tarzan movies and gang movie's, after the course finished Lucas had so much material in his head it somehow buried it's self DEEP only to resurface ALL AT THE SAME TIME in the form of the screenplay for this installment.

 Now I know that sounds like I'm panning it, far from it  IF your able to totally switch of your brain its good film, a few things though .........................

 The part with the town/cafe/university its like a total cliche of the 50's they did not need to make it SO 50's to get the point across.

 Secondly.. the car/truck chase through the amazon now if you over look the fact that the tree cutter is not cutting at ground level so there would like a bazillion stumps on which to rip off an axle with, the fact that once that tree cutter is destroyed there is magically yes magically a two lane highway through the virgin rain forest  wow how lucky is that ?

 Well that being said it was entertaining  and not as bad as Temple of Doom ..............