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The title is my reaction to Indiana Jones: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.  The above is also my reaction to every Indiana Jones movie, so I guess if you like Indiana Jones, you'll like it.

Let me just say though, that as someone who watched 9 FUCKING seasons of the X-Files, this sanitized, Americanized, and abridged version in 2 1/2 hours and M&Ms packaging just feels like a smack in the fucking face.

+ : every time Indiana Jones fails at something. 
- : every time Indiana Jones succeeds at something.
best character: crazy professor man + mutt
worst character: marion ravenwood + indiana jones
best impossibility: Indiana Jones gets pulled out of a sand trap by holding onto a snake that is somehow able to hold his entire weight!
worst impossibility: Indiana Jones survives a nuclear explosion by hiding in a refrigerator and doesn't die of cancer in three weeks!

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It also, needless to say, creates an essentializing view where having whatever characteristic that marks you as being a member of a marked group, be it your skin color, way of speaking, sex, clothing (incl. religious dress), age--whatever happens to be relevant in any particular context--limits you to the marked status that it's bound to by history. This because people tend to think, "one form, one function/meaning," being black = x, y, z; being a woman = x, y, z; and that really only does a disservice to individual freedom, individual variation, individual choice and opinion, and also those characteristics that get excluded, which are invariably what the marked can't share with the unmarked--rationality, humanity, power, mercy, objectivity...