Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Movie Review (Scripted)
Video version of an old post (as I explained about HERE)
For the original post, see:
http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2008/11/indiana-jones-and-kingdom-of-crystal.html
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Interesting -- I was not aware that Lucas initially pushed to make the aliens the villains. I think that could have worked too, maybe something along the lines of Simon Pegg's movie The World's End. And I agree with you -- arguing about when an Indiana Jones movie becomes too far-fetched is ridiculous.
You might dig this review by Peter T. Chattaway. He laments the devolution of the series from a religious/mythical POV. I might counter that the atomic bomb at the opening of the movie reduces all mythical sense-making to gobble-de-gook anyway, so go with the aliens, but I don't really feel like I have a dog in this particular scrap any more than I am inclined to argue over when a viewer's suspension of disbelief has been taken too far.
As for the next chapter, I have to wonder if the times could bear another Indiana Jones movie. Man, if we re-watched the first movie with "intersectional" eyes, I think we'd be doing so between our fingers.
Thanks for that link.
I can identify with that guy. I think I was in 6th grade when I first saw that movie. I had been studying the Old Testament at my CRC school, and we had studied the story about Shishak sacking Jerusalem. So when it was mentioned in the movie, I had the same reaction as Chattaway--"Hey! They're mentioning that thing I learned in Bible class!"
At the time, I was in the CRC bubble, so I assumed familiarity with these Old Testament stories was a lot more commonplace than it actually was. So I also shared Indiana Jones reaction when the other scholars didn't recognize the story.
Now though... it's all so faded in the memory I had to check Wikipedia just now to get the facts straight. And it's been 30 years since anyone ever talked to me about Shishak sacking Jerusalem.
"How many shacks did Shishak sack, when Shishak still sacked shacks?" :D
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