Film Buff

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).


Starring :

Harrison Ford as Henry 'Indiana' Jones Jr.,
Kate Blanchett as Col. Dr. Irina Spalko,
Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood,
Shia LaBeouf as Mutt Williams and
Ray Winstone as George 'Mac' McHale.

Directed by Steven Spielberg.


Two persons who worked on the film :
George Lucas as story writer and David Koepp on the screenplay. The screenplay is the description of the story plan by plan with dialogues and the framing for each scene.


Released in France on May 22nd, 2008.

Plot :
The well-known archaeologist Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones is called back into action when he becomes emboarded in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret hidden behind some mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.


Opinion of one reviewer (user comment from ImDB):
The problems with 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' are manifold and it certainly does not match up to it's predecessors. The computer-generated imagery is excessively used so the fans of older opus are often desappointed.

Critical analysis:
As a fan of the previous movies starring the famous archeologist I was sceptic about this new adventure, the last one came almost twenty years ago.
After I had watch it, it appeared to me that this movie could drive viewers to different reactions, according to they were fan or not.
In overview 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' is a good film. Even a very good one. It brings the most important thing that a movie have to bring: entertainment. During two hours we do not be annoyed a minute. Steven Spielberg reached his goal by providing a movie which permit us to get away. The Indiana Jones character is still pleasing, the good replies are here, so is the humor.
But the fans have several reasons to be desappointed. The 80's charm of the oldest Indiana Jones movies is missing. Certainly because of the excessive use of the computer-generated imagery. The supporting parts, except maybe Kate Blanchett as the ukrainian villain, have not the "vitality" of the Indy's old man, played by the outstanding Sean Connery in the Last Crusade. Shia LaBeouf doing well, until we learn he is the twenty years old Jones' son! This revelation breaks something in our perception of the Indinan Jones universe. At last, the most desappointed part of this film is the "trip" of Spielberg and Lucas about UFOs. Like if they have had to search inspiration on the far side of the cosmos... E.T are you there?

In spite of these imperfections (fans should say HUGE imperfections, but still then) 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' stay much better than any adventure film out for the past several years.

Desert Island Discs

If I was stuck alone on a desert island, which discs I wish I had with me...? This is a harsh question because it is really difficult to choose only eight songs among the thousand I could heard in my life. So I made a list of songs that I had listen over and over again without had been ennoyed. These are songs that I am always pleased to listen.


C2C, DMC world championship 2004. They won with this set.


Getting Jiggy With It, performed by Will Smith.


Ring Ring Ring performed by De La Soul.

De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring
envoyé par Momo59-93

Under The Bridge, performed by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
envoyé par thegirljenny23

So special.


The Pretender, performed by Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters - The Pretender (Video Premiere)
envoyé par Alisvideo

Aerodynamic, performed by Daft Punk and re-mixed by Daft Punk. Weird? I know. But so good to listen.


Million Miles From Home, by Keziah Jones. So appropriate to this list.


Little L, performed by Jamiroquai.

Jamiroquai- Little L
envoyé par diol

So groooovy!

What a joke!

Last week has happened the election for the PS first secretary, that is to say the chief of the party. That would have been a major event in the french political life, but that turned into a pathetic joke.
It seems that PS, as a part of the opposition, should to be unified against its opponents, and Mr Sarkozy in particular, who monopolizes all french politics aspects.
But for a while we are attending to some infightings which increasing the incredibility of this party. I begin to think that a major part of current politicians are fully devoured by their personnal ambition. Last-in-date evidence : the request from Mrs Royal for recounting ballots, after the results have announced Mrs Aubry as the winner.
Something tells me that french politics face is not close to change.
If I would care about politics, I would be certainly kind of demoralized.
Lucky me...

The Return of Waazaaaa!!!

This clip is the sequel of the most famous advertising of the early 2000's. They took the same and they did it again, however with some little differences :
it's not a advertising for a well-known beer anymore but it becomes an incitement to vote Obama during elections.
The characters, who were teenagers in the fisrt ad, have grown and evolved (a little) and they're now adults passing trought times crisis. Someone was sent in Irak, an other has just lost his house, the third suffers the fall of exchange markets... Sad and funny in the same time.

What next?

Hello everybody,

today I'll talk you about my next five years life, what I hope to achieve and why.
First of all, and certainly the earliest important event, I expect to be gratued of IFIPS and so become an engineer in electronics. This step will allow me to access interesting (and I hope well-paid) jobs.

If unfortunately I don't find a job (we never know, after all it's time crisis!) after the school, my plan B is to incorporate the French Team of football because football players are rich, famous and they date models!!

Still in sport domain, I trully hope to become a baptized capoeirista. That means I reach a level which is recognized by the community. This needs lot of training and won't happened before one or two years.

To improve my english language I want to travel to Hawaii in order to attain an english level as developped as Jeremy S. 's, or as he prefers to be called : "steel shoes". His travel seems to substantially improve his english mastery. Well, he hasn't reach 750 at TOEIC yet but he's my hero anyway (silver shoes 4 ever!!).

I've just created my blog...

...and it already rocks!! Let's see.

My Past and Present
Yesterday we were Sunday. And today we are Monday.

My Future
Tomorrow we'll certainly be tuesday. And the day after tomorrow we'll be... yes, you've guess: Wednesday. I think you now understand how that works.