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Which adjusted for inflation comes out to about $67 million.

Depends on where you are, as well. They’re not on Disney+ in Canada, for some reason, though I can’t imagine there would be any rights issues.

I'm surprised he isn't mellower, for an alleged pothead.

There certainly could be. There are many box sets that contain films from different studios.

It’s been 42 years since Raiders, which was set in 1936 - so the new film really should be taking place in 1978. Disco Indy.

It certainly has its flaws, but Spielberg’s direction is dynamite and the set pieces are great. I’ve never understood why most people prefer Last Crusade. Casting Connery was a master stroke, and the byplay between him and Ford keep the film going. But it’s pretty much a beat-for-beat remake of...

I think they should have left it at one.

It just occurred to me that this is a Disney release - I guess the opening shot gag won’t feature in this one.

And this is from the original story conference transcript between Lucas, Speilberg and Kasdan: http://maddogmovies.com/almost/scripts/raidersstoryconference1978.pdf G — He hasn't seen her in twelve years. Now she's twenty-two. It's a real strange relationship. S — She had better be older than...

From the revised third draft: Suddenly the hardness cracks. She is on the verge of tears and does not want him to see them. She turns away and takes a whiskey bottle from the shelf, then turns back to pour herself a drink. INDY Not a bad way to go. Doing what he loved. MARION (vitriolic)...

I can't imagine that a woman who has spent the last several years prostituting herself in a rough bar in Nepal (yes, that was also in the original script but left out of the final cut) would still hold a grudge against him over a kiss when she was 15-16.

The edges were smoothed off in the final version of the film. The scene with the student was cut and Karen Allen was 27-28 when it was shot - and a guy in his mid to late-twenties with a 17-18 year-old is somewhat less objectionable. But at least initially, Lucas, Spielberg and Kasdan were okay...

Its not explicitly stated in the film, but in the original script, Marion was described as 25, which would have made her 15 when their relationship ended, so yeah. And when Brody goes to Indy’s house, he’s ‘entertaining’ one of his female students.

I’m not sure that’s the best example. I’m all for strong women in front of and behind the camera, but thought that was a dreadful movie.

I think it was Marcia Lucas who asked ‘what happened to Marion?’

Indiana Jones and the Dialed-Down Expectations. Of course, I'll still be seeing it and still hope it's good.

I meant in reality.

They have been making something of a comeback lately.

I wouldn't say it's stagnated so much as fragmented. It used to be that people of all generations watched many of the same movies and television shows and listened to the same music. Now it's splintered into a thousand pieces, something to satisfy every niche. No one has the same frame of...

Bridge of Spies is another one. And Duel, though it probably doesn't count as it was originally made for television and predates the association with Williams.

Then you'd end up with something like The Irishman, where De Niro looked like he was about to break a hip when he was kicking someone.

Weird, because it seems to be getting rave reviews.

I'm equal parts apprehensive and excited about it. If I could only pick one favourite movie, Raiders would be it. I like Temple of Doom more than most, like Last Crusade just fine and was disappointed in Crystal Skull, though I don't find it as abysmal as some do. I certainly hope the new one is...

I still think the prequels are pretty terrible, but I give Lucas credit for at least attempting something different with them. The sequels seemed content with just recycling elements from the original trilogy.

I've seen a lot of Phoebe Waller Bridge's work and I don't get where this idea that she's excessively "woke" is coming from. Obviously, she writes from the perspective of a woman, but I don't see a lot of bowing to political correctness in what she does. And she's a terrific writer, and a good...

It reminds me of that scene in The Irishman, where a de-aged De Niro is kicking the guy on the sidewalk, but still looks like he's worried he's going to break his hip.

I think Lucas lost interest in telling stories decades ago and became more preoccupied with the technology of filmmaking. Robert Zemeckis, James Cameron, Ang Lee and Peter Jackson seem to have fallen into the same rabbit hole.

Much of Temple of Doom was shot with stunt double Vic Armstrong because Harrison Ford injured his back and was out for five weeks.

Whatever the original intentions may have been, Karen Allen was 29 at the time of filming, and Harrison Ford was 37/38, which isn't that dramatic of an age difference.

Things were a lot less corporate then. The film came out in 1981, but it was still largely a product of the 70s, a far more liberal and less politically correct era than the present. I think Lucas and Spielberg and Kasdan were also focused on making the film they wanted to make, and weren't too...