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getting old in mke

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13. I remember _Temple_

Thu Apr 12, 2012, 08:12 AM

Apr 2012

and being underwhelmed. It was one long action sequence with no time to speak of for characters or wonder. Sort of like if the opening scene of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" had been extended to two and a half hours of Indy running from the big rolling ball without exposition.

I haven't read anything else by him because of that.

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