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This is a must-buy for me, but I'm going to wait for the UHD disc.

Thank you. I didn't mean to wade into forbidden waters with my prior (now deleted) post.

Normally I would have seen this opening weekend, but a combination of the lackluster reviews and some prior commitments put me off of it. I finally took my mother to see a matinee this afternoon, and I'm so glad I caught it in theaters. I really, really enjoyed the movie. I'm not sure where I...

I think Kathleen Kennedy deserves a lot of the blame for the mess on the Star Wars side. I don't see the same issues here. Disney wanted another Indiana Jones movie, the window in which Harrison Ford could plausibly play the character was closing, and Spielberg didn't want to sit in the...

It'll be interesting to see whether the score goes up or down once the rest of the critics who weren't at Cannes weigh in. The dangerous thing about this release strategy is that word of mouth could end up nosediving before a larger audience even gets a look at it. Last Crusade, while far...

I'm kind of hoping for a jump cut from the Disney castle to a real world castle, maybe Neuschwanstein.

Variety: For ‘Indiana Jones 5,’ John Williams Scored ‘An Hour and a Half of Music, Maybe More’

That's a legitimate reading, given the ambiguity of what's actually included the final movie. It's just not how I read the scene. Even in the excerpt from the screenplay that you included as a screenshot above, it's clear as day to me that Marion was underage and that they were sleeping...

Morally questionable to be sure, but hardly a fireable offense in 1936. I do take issue with some of Indy's womanizing, but I also view it in the context of the time in which the story was set -- which was way more sexist than now. This was an era when most women were married by 22, and...

That looks like Phoebe Waller-Bridge to me.

Loved that brief beat with John Rhys-Davies back as Sallah. With Denholm Elliott and Sean Connery both gone, it's nice to see one of the guys from the old days besides Indy still in the mix. I do hope that, even if we don't see Karen Allen, it's implied that Indy and Marion are still happily...

It's telling that a lot of the "intel" surrounding this flick has come from sources of a certain political persuasion. Whatever "agenda" the movie might or might not end up having, it's clear that the people spreading rumors have an ideologically-driven agenda.

It's a deep fake, but the technology and the expertise has evolved since Luke in "The Mandalorian". It was only a brief shot in the trailer, but it didn't trigger the uncanny effect of Luke or Tarkin. Let's hope the odd-even rule continues here.

One of the more genuine smiles we've seen from Harrison Ford in quite some time.

I do think the CG criticism is valid. The motorcycle chase through the campus of "Marshall College" is far from the most spectacular action sequence in the movie, but it's the most effective one because it was largely done practically and it shows. A lot of the jungle sequences in the back of...

There was also a lot going on in his personal life. The sale of Lucasfilm to Disney was announced in October 2012, his daughter Everest was conceived in late 2012, he got engaged with Mellody Hobson in January 2013, he and Hobson got married in June 2013, and Everest was born via surrogate in...

Also, the scenes we're talking about are action scenes with a lot of motion (and therefore a lot of motion blurring), which can hide a lot of sins.

And he crashes a plane on a roughly annual basis.

His statement says that Indy didn't consider her innocent at the time, but it doesn't speak at all to her age. I don't think she was literally a child, but it does seem pretty clear that she was under 18 at the time while Indy was a decade older.

Based on dialog in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Marion Ravenwood was definitely still a minor when Indy started banging her, so this isn't a franchise I particularly associate with "wokeness". If gender issues play any significant role in this film, it'll be because it's set in the late sixties or...

Exactly; I wouldn't be surprised if they do something similar here: Open the movie with Indy looking like Harrison Ford circa 1980 on a classic Nazi-stomping adventure, and then cut to old Indy decades later after the title card. Whatever the main adventure for old Indy is ties into the what...

The live action Cinderella and the live action Beauty and the Beast both qualified for me. I actually prefer the live action Cinderella to the animated one. The animated Beauty and the Beast is head and shoulders above the live action version, but I'm still glad the live action version exists.

Ain't no problem when this is what 78 looks like:

She's not necessarily Indy's love interest. She could be playing a rival for whatever artifact he's after this time, or she could even be playing his daughter; Harrison Ford was already in his mid-forties when she was born. The bigger of today's news for me was the announcement that John...

I'm glad they're going into it knowing that it will be Ford's final outing; Mangold gave Wolverine a wonderful sendoff in Logan, hopefully he can do the same with Indy here. That way, whatever Disney/Lucasfilm decide to do with the franchise in the future, we'll have a complete story for Ford's...

It can, and it actually has. It's just that none of them have come out yet. There's a good chance that the Lucasfilm adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone will come out before a fifth Indiana Jones.

Depends what they do with it.

There are certain roles that generation after generation of actors get a chance to embody, and then there are roles that are forever identified with one performer. Indiana Jones falls strongly into the latter camp for me.

I love Kingdom of the Crystal Skull through the Yale motorcycle chase. Once Indy and Mutt make it to Peru, the movie goes downhill fast for me. The second half does have one of my favorite exchanges in all four movies, though: MARION RAVENWOOD I'm sure I wasn't the only one moving on with my...

People make jokes about Harrison Ford's age, but you're getting at the one real caveat with "old" Indiana Jones movies for me. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was set in 1957 -- the year the Soviets launched Sputnik -- and Indy 5 would presumably be set in the late sixties. The world had already...