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So I went to see the new Indy movie last week (I went twice actually). I liked it. It wasn’t as good as Raiders of the Lost Ark or The Last Crusade but I think it was better than Temple of Doom. It stuck to the Indy feel fairly well and the blend of fantasy and reality held true to classic Indiana Jones.

My biggest problem with the movie is summed up pretty well by the image at the right (which I posted on the tumbleblog).  There were several moments where all I could do was groan and think to myself “Damn it George.”  I imagine there were probably several conversations somewhat like this:

George Lucas: Steve, Steve, Steve!  I’ve got an idea!  We’ll have Shia swing though vines like a monkey! WITH MONKEYS!

Steven Spielberg: George… we had this discussion already. CG animals don’t make things better.  We gave you the gophers.

GL: STEVE! Common!  We cut half of the gophers–

SS: I KNOW… Geoge… they were terrible, I left them in because you’re my friend.  Why would the monkeys be in the trees with Shia anyway?

GL: Because the monkeys will attack the Commies!

SS: …. Why?

GL: Because they’re the bad guys!

SS: I know… but why would they attack the communists? George, no, no monkeys, no Shia in the trees.  It’ll be just like Jar-Jar all over again

GL: Common Steve! Jar Jar was great! Kids loved him! The problem with Jar Jar was that there wans’t enough of him! WE NEEDED MORE JAR-JAR!  MOAR JAR-JAR!

SS: ….

Yeah… that’s pretty much exactly how I imagine it.  George Lucas, as much as I love his old films, needs to just have a happy retirement.  Away from my movies.

Along with all the sweeping changes to the layout here I’ve changed the comment system to Disqus, the comment system I’ve been using on my Tumbleblog for a while now.  All posts without comments have switched over (including all future posts) to Disqus automatically .  Anything with a comment in the old system will stay in the old system in order to keep the old comments intact.

I’ve also changed the RSS feeds.  Now all of Tedger.com feeds are integrated into two feeds, one for posts, one for comments.  The Comment feed is integrated simply by having all comments go through Disqus (Comments made in the old Wordpress system wont be on this feed).  The posts feed was integrated using Yahoo! Pipes and Feedburner as described here.  If you read Tedger.com via RSS update your feeds!

I really thought this was going to take longer then it did.  I started working on this Wednesday evening and have worked on it while taking breaks from studying since then.  I’m not satisfied with how the titles currently are and that will require some tweaking but on the whole I’m pretty happy with the new look.  You’ll slowly see this working it’s way into the rest of tedger.com but at the pace this went you can probably expect it sooner rather than later.  If you have any suggestions, or notice any visual glitches, by all means let me know.