Spaghetti Adventure?

As we all knew it would, Indiana Jones fever has taken the country by storm. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull raked in an estimated $101 million on its opening weekend, making it the second largest Memorial Day release and the third largest opening of all time. It was only #2 at the box office this past weekend (behind Sex and the City!), but that still puts its total gross so far at a whopping $216 million.

On top of that, you can’t go anywhere right now without that familiar cascading logo showing up, whether on the seemingly endless sea of merchandise currently lining store shelves, or as some kind of contest or other corporate tie-in (I saw that there is even a toy whip now that makes realistic cracking sounds and plays the IJ theme when you swing it around. I must have one!).

I’m sure most of you have hopefully had a chance to see it by now and probably have a very strong opinion on the film one way or the other, which seems to be the norm. The verdict seems pretty mixed, with some people already hoping for yet another sequel (but then again, some people just always want another sequel) and others already crying foul and predicting another Star Wars prequel-like fiasco. I’ll spare you my personal opinions on the matter, because that’s not what this post is about.

But either way, the people have spoken and what they said was, “We obviously love Indiana Jones!”

Well, not to be outdone, I figured I’d better get in on the Indy bandwagon, too.

So, just in case you simply can’t get enough world traveling, temple raiding, treasure hunting summertime action-adventure, I’m proud to present to you Radiation Sickness’ very first special feature/review series:

But before you continue on, as a small aside, I’d just like to point out that as this is my first big feature article, there may be a few bugs with it, so please bear with me as I get it all worked out. This started out as one massive article (which is why it’s been taking a while and you haven’t heard much from me otherwise), but I decided, based on ease of reading and navigation, to break it up into sections. So hopefully, if all works out as planned, the article will initially only be accessible through this link (which leads to the introduction), but as the reviews go up one by one, you will be able to choose to read each one individually or the entire feature as a whole.