Mark Hawley
Second Unit
- Joined
- Aug 18, 2000
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You know it's funny that "Happy Days" was a conceived as a television version of "American Graffiti", so Lucas is directly, and indirectly responsible for both sayings!
Maybe somebody will come up with a "Six Degrees of George Lucas" game/theory where everything bad about movies will somehow always connect to Lucas!
And I agree with the contrast. "Happy Days" was a nostalgia show about small-town 50s life, so "jumping the shark" would seem out of place. And as argued countless times before, the Indy series is a homage to old serials and pulp novels, so using a refridgerator as a makeshift bomb shelter really isn't out of he realm of possibility given the fantasitical nature and tone of the series. As I said, I can't see why it's perceived as anymore than an minor annoyance, if even that and certainly not something to start a whole internet subculture on.
Maybe somebody will come up with a "Six Degrees of George Lucas" game/theory where everything bad about movies will somehow always connect to Lucas!
And I agree with the contrast. "Happy Days" was a nostalgia show about small-town 50s life, so "jumping the shark" would seem out of place. And as argued countless times before, the Indy series is a homage to old serials and pulp novels, so using a refridgerator as a makeshift bomb shelter really isn't out of he realm of possibility given the fantasitical nature and tone of the series. As I said, I can't see why it's perceived as anymore than an minor annoyance, if even that and certainly not something to start a whole internet subculture on.