5/22/08 (Running Indiana Jones thread)

Some early photos released. Cool poster, I think.

Indiana Jones and the Kingkom of the Crystal Skull. It's a hard formula to fuck up, but I must admit I'm skeptical.

http://movies.yahoo.com/slideshows/generic/indianajonesandthekingdomofthecrystalskull.html

 

I love the series and I've always been a tremendous fan of Ford, but I really wonder about this one.

 

I hope this isn't a D_B, but the first teaser trailer for this has been released. Looks pretty fun:

http://www.movieweb.com/news/44/26544.php

 

Looks like a CGI shitfest in the vein of the last three Star Wars movies.

 

I didn't think it was awful.... but potentially you could be right. There were a couple of red flags.

 

I liked the old-fashioned stunt sequence with the trucks, but other than that everything else looked extremely fake.

 

Eh, I'll still be there.

 

Looks like a force (something being done merely for the sake of doing it, and for the $$$).

Hope I'm wrong.

If it's 80% as good as The Last Crusade (and does not resemble the second POS), I'll take it.

 

Looked f-ing awesome to me. I'm pumped.

 

Looked ... confusing? But hell, I'll be there.

 

[possible spoiler removed]

The chase through the warehouse? Ding, ding, ding.

 

I, for one, dug that shot of Indy leaning down to pick up his Fedora and then you see his shadow cast on the side of the Army car. To me, that's vintage Spielberg. Even better considering the cinematographer on the first three films is 90 and retired meaning the guy who shot "Schindler's List" did the lens work.

I'll go out on a limb here and predict that No. 4 is going to be totally worth it.