Random thoughts.

- I liked Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull...and yet, I laughed myself silly at last night's new "South Park", where the boys try to come forward with the admission that their friend was raped. It seems more like a message board post than an actual storyline, but message boards - especially the ones at Ain't It Cool News - give me great entertainment value. Perhaps, it was Trey Parker's statement on how people overreact to movies online, equating it with much more serious issues like rape; 'raped my childhood' and so forth. While not quite in the same league as the brilliant "Free Hat", it was quite funny.

- Apparently, people are getting up in arms about the new DirecTV commercial. (In case you didn't know, their thing of the last two years is recreating scenes with actors in some of their famous roles hawking the product.) The newest one features Craig T. Nelson reprising his role of Steve Freeling from Poltergeist. The problem is that the ad features Carol Anne saying the line "They're here", then Nelson does the schtick. I found it amusing, but people are talking about how the ad sullies the girl's memory and how she's being used. Again, people overreacting, but that's to be expected. For me, it was way more off-putting when Kathy Bates addressed the audience about DirecTV just before Annie Wilkes was ready to hobble Paul Sheldon in Misery.