Shia LaBeouf: Not a Fan of Flying
Shia LaBeouf: Not a Fan of Flying
When it comes to flying the friendly skies, actor Shia LaBeouf seems to prefer planes to helicopters. He was spotted at Dulles International Airport in Washington DC yesterday when he stepped outside for a smoke.
Reportedly, the “Constantine” actor had to wait on his transport from the airport, and during the lull, he go so bored, he even raced a paparazzo, emerging victorious.
But planes are pretty much the only way Shia likes to fly. After his latest film “Indiana Jones 4″ wrapped, star Harrison Ford gave LaBeouf flying lessons in his private helicopter. And it didn’t go so well for the “Transformers” stud.
An insider told press, “After the film wrapped, Harrison took Shia to Burbank Airport and they took off. But by the time they had landed, Shia had no stomach for a pilot’s career. He came barrelling out of the chopper and dashed for the men’s room. He lost it. When Shia emerged Harrison asked with a mischievous glint in his eye, ‘So when is our next lesson?’”
Is “Nuke the Fridge” the New “Jump the Shark”?
The Urban Dictionary has added an entry for “Nuke the Fridge”, a contemporary replacement for the slang term “Jumped the Shark”.
Jump the Shark is a reference to a scene in an episode of Happy Days when Fonzie literally jumps over a shark while water skiing. The scene was considered so preposterous, and is considered by many to signify the moment in time when the show became unappealing to its core audience.
The new term Nuke the Fridge is based on an event in the opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Here is an explanation of the term from the online Urban Dictionary:
“Nuke the fridge is a colloquialism used to refer to the moment in a film series that is so incredible that it lessens the excitement of subsequent scenes that rely on more understated action or suspense, and it becomes apparent that a certain installment is not as good as a previous installments, due to ridiculous or low quality storylines, events or characters.
The term comes from the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which, near the start of the movie, Harrison Ford’s character survives a nuclear detonation by climbing into a kitchen fridge, which is then blown hundreds of feet through the sky whilst the town disintegrates. He then emerges from the fridge with no apparent injury. Later in the movie, the audience is expected to fear for his safety in a normal fistfight.
Fans of the Indiana Jones series found the absurdity of this event in the film to be the best example of the lower quality of this installment in the series, and thus coined the phrase, “nuke the fridge”.
The phrase is also a reference to the phrase “jump the shark”, which has the same meaning, only applied to a television series instead of a film series.
This phrase is not in common use.
“Star Wars didn’t really nuke the fridge until Jar Jar Binks was introduced.”
“Peter Parker dancing around the bar in Spider-Man 3? Kinda nukes the fridge!”
“The Godfather: Part III nukes the fridge.”
“Gremlins 2 more or less nuked the fridge.”
What do you think? Pretty funny but I think “Jumped the Shark” rolls off the tongue easier.
via: FilmDrunk
Indiana Jones: The Fiscally Responsible Hero
You never forget your first melting face.
That’s just one of the thrills of Indiana Jones: The Adventure Collection, a three-disc set that collects the first three Indy films along with new bonus features, including a close-up look at how the melting faces in Raiders of the Lost Ark came to be.
Our favorite is a short, new introduction that includes archival footage from the filming. In it, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas reveal that Spielberg hoped to make a globe-trotting action-adventure movie that he could shoot fast so he wouldn't go over budget, as he had on his previous film, 1941.
“I was trying to make a movie that was fiscally responsible,” said Spielberg.
Turns out, he did.
Lucas, for his part, says he just wanted to see the film get made by someone so he could watch it. And yes, as Harrison Ford says in an archival clip during the making of the film, Indiana Jones really was named after Lucas' dog.
There may not be enough new material to require a purchase if you already have the films on DVD, but there’s plenty to slake your jones for the adventurous archaelogist before the new Indiana Jones is released in theaters.
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