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Is it weird that the Indiana Jones movies never struck me as particularly racist, but the Lego Indiana Jones video game sometimes makes me squirm a little?
Part of me suspects that neither is worse than the other in this respect, but the Lego game stands out more for being (a) brand-new and thus contextualized in 21st century cultural awareness, and (b) acted out by animated children's toys.
Also, except for watching Raiders a coupla years ago at a friend's house (which may have been the first time I ever saw it start-to-finish), I don't think I've watched the movies as an adult. My sense of heywaitasec was calibrated much looser when I was younger.
Part of me suspects that neither is worse than the other in this respect, but the Lego game stands out more for being (a) brand-new and thus contextualized in 21st century cultural awareness, and (b) acted out by animated children's toys.
Also, except for watching Raiders a coupla years ago at a friend's house (which may have been the first time I ever saw it start-to-finish), I don't think I've watched the movies as an adult. My sense of heywaitasec was calibrated much looser when I was younger.
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Date: 2008-08-13 12:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-13 01:37 am (UTC)(For the record, I disagree, but I think the point's arguable. But the terminology is still a little cringe-inducing.)
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Date: 2008-08-13 02:33 pm (UTC)I often have three or four conflicting thoughts and motives that come tumbling out in the space of one or two sentences in an LJ comment, so it's typical that I started out defending the movies and ended up using a term that should indicate what is wrong with them, and then tried to salvage that term when it was so clearly wrong.
For the record, I don't much like the second movie, and haven't seen the fourth. The first and third are, I think, defensible.
Don't worry about the coinage, though: no one pays sufficient attention to what I write to pick up on the terminology.
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Date: 2008-08-13 06:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-13 01:18 pm (UTC)*sigh*
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Date: 2008-08-13 01:39 am (UTC)I still find it a little strange to see Lego sets with licensed media themes and Lego sets that are styled to be over-the-top badass, though they've done a fair amount of both since the early 1990s.
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Date: 2008-08-14 06:14 am (UTC)