You've probably heard and/or seen it by now, but just in case you haven't, here's the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull:
The music! The door-slam haymakers! The whip! Karen Allen! "Part time!" The warehouse (Roswell?)! Shia LaBoeuf!
Okay, forget that last one.
Fine, so I lied. I may not be reading any behind-the-scenes crap, but I've watched this five times already, and you couldn't jackhammer the smile off my face. Given the generally less impressive nature of the sequels (Last Crusade is a merely adequate remake of Raiders, and Temple of Doom can jam it crossways), I know I shouldn't have my hopes up for this, but...I'm an idiot. For all my posturing as a cinema crank, I can't deny the goosebumps I got when the theme kicked in. I may well be setting myself up for disappointment - again - but I'll take that risk. Raiders of the Lost Ark is probably my favorite movie of all time, meaning I'm affording it a little, okay, a lot more leeway.
And from the look of those jungle scenes, I sure hope Indy learned to speak Hovitos.
I keep asking myself, Dare I get excited about this movie? How old is Ford? How Hollywood-paint-by-numbers can it be? But yeah, I’m looking forward to it.
I don’t think it’s going to suck. They aren’t to cover up Ford’s age, but they don’t look like they overplaying (Space Cowboys anyone?) either.
I know someone my age isn’t supposed to like LaBoeuf, but he really sold the parts of Sam and Cody (Transformers and Surf’s Up, respectively). He’ll be a good addition to the cast.
The big question mark for me is Karen Allen. Doesn’t she have a whole bunch of crazy in her? I might be thinking of someone else, but I thought she went batshit crazy more than once. We’ll see how that caries to the screen.
No matter what, my son and I will be there by the end of the third weekend.
If Pete says its “Kids Safe”, that is.
I might be thinking of someone else, but I thought she went batshit crazy more than once.
You’re probably thinking of Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in the Christopher Reeve Superman movies.
If Pete says its “Kids Safe”, that is.
You’d better be more specific than that. What’s out? Melting heads? Tongue kissing? Mildly BDSM overtones?
eeekkkkkk!!! can’t wait!!! :D love the few snarky lines in the teaser - can’t wait to see and hear the full on snarkiness in the movie! *grin*
I’m not sure it’s fair to call LAST CRUSADE a ‘merely adequate remake of RAIDERS’. (On the other hand, perhaps fair’s got nothin’ to do with it. In which case, I’ll see you in hell, Peter Munny.) LAST CRUSADE did a lot of stuff that RAIDERS didn’t, and, while, yes, they hearkened back to the first film reasonably often, it seemed to me that generally, where they retread in their own footsteps, they did it bigger and better, and they opened the Indy legend up in interesting ways on both ends, as well.
Maybe it’s just that I liked LAST CRUSADE as much as RAIDERS, and, generally, when they recycle the first movie for a sequel, it makes for a vastly and often offensively inferior Xerox, ala RETURN OF THE JEDI, ANOTHER 48 HOURS, or SPIDER-MAN 2. LAST CRUSADE worked beautifully for me, so perhaps that’s the real reason I object to your observation.
I agree with you on the horror that was TEMPLE OF DOOM, with the reservation that the opening sequence in Hong Kong was absolutely terrific. I would have loved to see an entire movie of Indy and a sidekick or two bouncing around the Pulp Era Far East raising hell, TERRY AND THE PIRATES style. In fact, TEMPLE OF DOOM reminded me a lot of RETURN OF THE JEDI for that reason… the opening sequence was fabulous, and I’d have liked an entire movie of that stuff, but both films went badly pear shaped once they switched locales.
My main curiosity at this point with CRYSTAL SKULL is, who are the villains? It’s set too late for Nazis, and somehow, I don’t think it’s the Commies, who were our culture’s generic villains for most of the 1950s. It almost looks like a rogue faction of the U.S. government, which would be an interesting direction for the Indy franchise to roll in. Prior to this, the U.S. government on Earth-Indy has mostly just been comprised of bumbling boobs… it would be quite a jump from there to active villainy.
Not that I have any real problem with that depiction, based on actual U.S. history, or anything.
I am such a fangirl. I can’t wait.