24th May 2008, 7:01 PM
Yeah, clearly the inspiration was the modern mythos surrounding a lot of things, like the lines in the desert and such.
For more information on crystal skulls, there's this article.
http://skepticwiki.org/index.php/Crystal_skulls
I liked the movie (it made me wonder if a few decades from now we'll be seeing an older Jack Sparrow reprising his role in a 4th Pirates movie). Sure it was far fetched, but they all are, and the important thing is none of them are claiming to be real. I mean the previous three were about the ark of the covenant, shiva stones, and the holy grail.
So, as it's fantastical adventure fiction, it gets a free pass until it tries going just a little too far (I think the lead lined fridge as a defense kinda pushes it, but then again that's the era when kids were told they could hide under their desks to protect from nuclear blast, and I'm pretty sure everything was made of lead anyway so maybe...).
This free pass does not apply to the HISTORY CHANNEL, which recently spread around line after line of unsubstantiated nonsense claims about crystal skulls in a special clearly inspired by the movie. Ugh...
Lost City of the Gods eh? That has a nice ring to it. I actually think Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a pretty good name myself. It's certainly no "Attack of the Clones".
By the way, this movie made me want to play Illusion of Gaia again.
Oh, another by the way, the "Spoiler" tag has a glitch. It appears that when you click show, it displays the spoilers in ALL posts in the currently viewed page, not just one specific tag.
For more information on crystal skulls, there's this article.
http://skepticwiki.org/index.php/Crystal_skulls
I liked the movie (it made me wonder if a few decades from now we'll be seeing an older Jack Sparrow reprising his role in a 4th Pirates movie). Sure it was far fetched, but they all are, and the important thing is none of them are claiming to be real. I mean the previous three were about the ark of the covenant, shiva stones, and the holy grail.
So, as it's fantastical adventure fiction, it gets a free pass until it tries going just a little too far (I think the lead lined fridge as a defense kinda pushes it, but then again that's the era when kids were told they could hide under their desks to protect from nuclear blast, and I'm pretty sure everything was made of lead anyway so maybe...).
This free pass does not apply to the HISTORY CHANNEL, which recently spread around line after line of unsubstantiated nonsense claims about crystal skulls in a special clearly inspired by the movie. Ugh...
Lost City of the Gods eh? That has a nice ring to it. I actually think Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a pretty good name myself. It's certainly no "Attack of the Clones".
By the way, this movie made me want to play Illusion of Gaia again.
Oh, another by the way, the "Spoiler" tag has a glitch. It appears that when you click show, it displays the spoilers in ALL posts in the currently viewed page, not just one specific tag.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)