The young summer movie season has been a bit of a box office roller coaster. It began on a high with Iron Man, fell miserably with Speed Racer, and then rebounded, although not as high as hoped, with Prince Caspian. As for perceived quality, it has been a decline from week to week, with Prince Caspian pulling up the rear. This weekend, featuring the return of a beloved character, should feature a strong rebound in terms of box office and quality. Well, that is what I am hoping for anyway.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. (2008, 122 minutes, PG-13, action/adventure, trailer) Nineteen years ago we learned that a man known as Indiana Jones, "Indy" to his friends, was actually called Junior. This year, Junior returns to the big screen in a new grand adventure. Now I would love to give you a brief plot description, but I have been doing my best to avoid reading much about it and am doing my best to keep my expectations in check, a difficult task for anyone. I am primarily hoping to not be disappointed. From the clips I have seen it looks like a lot of fun, and I will leave it at that. We will all learn my reactions soon enough. For now, I am just looking forward to seeing Harrison Ford in the fedora and carrying a whip again.
Originally, the new Indiana Jones adventure was slated to have some new competition, but those plans changed, leaving Indy as the lone hero entering the box office fray. The competition was to be none other than Postal, the latest opus from the filmmaking genius that is Uwe Boll. It appears that no theaters had any real desire to waste cinematic real estate on what is sure to be an awful film that will draw smaller audiences than his last outing, In the Name of the King (which I will admit to going to see). Postal was originally set to open in 1500 theaters, a number that was downgraded to four. Yes, four. This has set Uwe Boll off into conspiracy theories, doing whatever he can to get some attention. Poor guy.
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1 - dbo
It is just common sense,how could Indiana Jone's producers mix important ancient cultures such as Incas and Mayas? I can't believe it. How could they say that Pancho Villa spoke quechua? Please find out better! Pancho Villa always spoke spanish.It is the first time I heard that in Cusco, Peru, there are charros who sing "corridos and rancheras". What hapenned with the millions of dollars they spent in this movie?