In which I rant about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Spoilers.

'kay. Went to see it last night. Pretty fun, and did not feel as long as the runtime. Always a good thing. However, the film has levels of such WTF-ery that I really needed to write about them.

Background: I'm Peruvian. You can probably tell where this is going on just that statement. However, I am very trusting, and am willing to throw away my disbelief for lots and lots of things.

Psychic agents? Well... um... it happened, and she's probably just nuts.

Indy surviving an atomic explosion? Um... er... he's got Title Character Invulnerability, so... Also, the shot of Indy's silhouette with the mushroom cloud would make a good webpage layout base. Yes, I thought this when watching that shot.

Indy excavating at Roswell? Cool!

Flying directly from Mexico City to Cuzco? Um... er... wouldn't you fly into Lima/Callao first and then make your way to Cuzco? Er, well, planes were smaller then so I guess you might...

Mariachi as the background music for Cuzco? WTF. No. Fail. Do not pass Go, do not collect S/. 200. Mexico =/= Peru. We are different. Ask a Mexican. Ask a Peruvian. Play some motherfucking huayno for the motherfucking background music. Shit, I was even willing to accept the Mayan-like art and architecture for the temples in Brazil/Peru, since this was supposed to be from the "mother" civilization that then spread out to the others.

More rants about Cuzco: You know how there are establishing shots of a place, and then some sort of scene where the characters interact with the place that, if done right, tells you just where you are? Um, yeah, when I think of Cuzco, I think of these streets. They're pretty much required when you look at travel guides. Where are they? Where are the actual examples of the civilization that was there before? (sigh)

Back to the movie: I was even accepting of the caporea-using Peruvian ninja, but mainly because I was still dumbfounded by the inclusion of mariachi in Cuzco that I didn't recognize the fighting style as caporea. (Props to amande_san for spotting it.)

And back to the WTF: Ox's quipu. See, I know he's nuts, but since his crazy-costume also includes a device to convey information, you'd think that the information on that quipu would be important. Eh, no, it's just a crazy string nick-nack that he can have around his neck! Thanks for nothing, movie.

Fuck, I even excepted/expected the goddamn aliens giving out civilization, mainly because I had been reading about that effing theory since high school, but the fucking mariachi is what threw me out of the movie.