Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complica...
Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy), works of fantastika often preclude comedy, because humor gets in the way of messages of doom or s...
In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran).
Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innova...
I wake up most days with a vague feeling of doom - 'Dear God. Here I am again.' Then, when I read about politicians in the newspaper, the vengefulness starts. By mid-morning, the anxiety is kicking in.
There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'
Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.
Necromancer: [Black Speech] Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Galadriel: Nine for mortal men doomed to die.
Willie: You're gonna get killed chasing after your damn fortune and glory! Indiana Jones: Maybe. But not today.
Indiana Jones: Kali Ma protects us! We are her children! We pledge our devotion to her with an offering of flesh... and blood!
[Willie accidentally sets off the same trap she just sprang] Short Round: It wasn't me! It's her!
Willie: [being lowered over a sacrificial pit] I'm not going to have anything nice to say about this place when I get back!
Willie: There are two dead people in here! Indiana Jones: There's gonna be two dead people in here! Hurry!
Shaman of Maypore: Now you see the power of the rock you bring back. Indiana Jones: Yes. I understand its power now.
Willie: Ooh, what big birds! Indiana Jones: Those aren't big birds, sweetheart! They're giant vampire bats!
Mola Ram: You don't believe me, Dr. Jones? You will, Dr. Jones. You will become a true believer. [Indiana and Mola Ram laugh]
Lao Che: You never told me you spoke my language, Doctor Jones. Indiana Jones: Only on special occasions.
Indiana Jones: [to Lao Che] I suggest you give me what you owe me... or 'Anything Goes!'
