I've been waiting for this movie for twenty years. Seriously. I was eleven years old when Raiders of the Lost Ark came out. And I was eleven and a half when I got a genuine leather bullwhip - 12 feet long. Dang near beat myself to death learning how to use that thing. But I did it. Indiana Jones has arguable had more of an impact on who I am than Star Wars. Seriously. So, it's with that that you read this post.
This movie was awesome. This movie is exactly like the other three. Same formula, same bad jokes, same impossible stunts and the same indestructible Indiana Jones. I know that some of you have a problem with Indiana Jones going after aliens instead of something more archaic. So here's my brief argument for why it's okay:
All Indiana Jones movies have been about the pursuit of power by corrupt governments. All the power sources have been just a story, something unbelievable to Indiana Jones. Now, when you make the forth movie, twenty years after the third, you have two choices, pretend the main character doesn't look twenty years older and have him go after Nazi's again, or have him appear in the 1950's and have him go after Communists. Now, Communists were into world domination, just like the Nazi's, but unlike Hitler, they were after sources of power that were science based, not religiously based, hence, mind control.
In the end this movie is super fun. Is it silly? Yes. Is it unbelievable? Yes. Does it make me giddy with nostalgia, perhaps enough to overlook some of it's shortcomings? Heck yes. So, go to the newest Indiana Jones flick and have some fun. Get some popcorn and sit back and learn why as a child I nearly gave my mother a heart attack with the welts I gave myself.
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