Indiana Jones And The Cumbersome Bazooka

[Sheridan Passell]

There’s a new picture from Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull out, and it’s got Harrison Ford with a rocket launcher, ready to fire it up some communist ass.



Producer Frank Marshall says the movie is shot, edited and is shortly to be scored by the legendary John Williams. When he was asked what the tone of Indy 4 would be, Marshall said it was closest to Last Crusade. “It’s all adults. I mean, you have the sidekick in Shia, but you don’t have a Short Round and I think the banter between the characters is as fun as it was in the third movie.”

Oh oh, there’s that dangerous buzz word again - “fun”, the word that’s used to hype every shit summer movie. Van Helsing was a “fun monster mash”. The Mummy Returns was a “fun family adventure”. More to the point, how can anyone not prefer the tone of Raiders Of The Lost Ark to Last Crusade? Do we really want to see Harrison and Shia tied to a chair, bickering at each other as they spin around in a revolving fireplace, or Indiana Jones risking his goddamn life running away from a huge motherf**king boulder?

Source: Empire

[hanchan]

i think i speak for a lot of the intended audience of the film, being a bit on the young side to have seen any of them at the cinema: i remember a glorious adventure, many hours long, that is comprised of the best bits from all three films. the monkey eating the bad dates. the snakes. the mining carts. the whip, the hat, 'i love you' written on batting eyelids.

i have purposefully not gone back and bought the original trilogy on dvd (yet) because i want to preserve it all in a mishmash of excitement... the kind of excitement when the film on bbc 1 on christmas day was an event, and everyone watched it.

so i'm eating up the spoilers and revving myself up in the fervant, possibly misplaced hope that when the lights go down there will be adventure (and fun!) enough to satisfy the child in me, and the other children in the audience. that's who the serials that indy pays homage to were for.

i just really hope they know what they're doing. :/