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Via nebroadwe, When you see this post, quote from Doctor Who on your LJ.

As much as I like classic Who, I have to go with:

"People assume that time is a strict progression from cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff."

Because that timey-wimey stuff gives me so much trouble.

1. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." -- Don't become addicted to the thesaurus. Don't use a fancy word in your writing if you wouldn't use it in your speech, and you're not sure if it means what you're using it to mean.
   
2. Spell check won't recognize when you use the wrong word -- if u wont too right well, no witch word best fits you're usage.
3. Know how to punctuate speech, especially when one character is addressing another: "Hit the road, Jack, and don't you come back no more." Pay attention to your commas.
   
4. Know your apostrophes. Don't use apostrophe's for plural noun's or verb tense's. That's wrong, and it's irritating. Only use apostrophes for possessives (except for its, their and your) and contractions.
   
5. Speaking of verb tenses, used properly, a verb tense signals the relationship of an action to time. In English time is signaled by the use of the auxiliary verb be or have with a verb participle. A phrase like "he was sat" just doesn't work in English.
6. Proofread carefully to make sure all your words are there. It's not unusual read a fic in which a preposition or other little word like that never made it the page.

Shia LaBeouf is pretty and all "teen idol" in a Richie Cunningham dressed as Arthur Fonzarelli sort of way, but without any other young folks in the cast once the scene shifts to Peru, he seems somehow misplaced.  By the time the main cast end up at the temple his purpose seems to give a hand to Karen Allen or John Hurt lest they fall over while tramping up and down the stairs.

Cate Blanchett seemed to be having fun as a Soviet dominatrix. That gray jumpsuit made it clear just how slender she is, and it left me feeling more than a bit envious.  I used to be slim once upon a time decades ago when I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark on my first date.

I didn't mean to be writing such a negative review; I just find myself feeling a bit discontented over the film, feeling as though it didn't take me anywhere new. Even the premise was a hearkening back to my '70s youth when I read Erich von Daniken. Yes, it was a fun way to spend a couple of hours, but it didn't have anything more than that to give, just half-reconstructed nostalgia for a time when nostalgia seemed to mean something. 

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