Just Goes to Show You, John Williams' Music Makes Anything Exciting

I'm the only person I know of that seems excited by this upcoming movie, and I really can't figure out why. So, in order to try to garner some more exposure that it so richly deserves, I thought I'd talk for a minute (and link copiously) about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

This movie has been way too long in coming, but I assure you that after you watch this you'll be right back on the bandwagon and ready for more Indy:

movies.yahoo.com/feature/indianajones.html?showVideo=1
(Apologies that it's Yahoo; I'm too lazy to dig up another source and the quality isn't that terrible.)

Seems silly at first, but all it takes is John Williams' rousing adventure march to get you stoked. I will admit that I while I have been excited about a new Indiana Jones movie throughout, I wasn't sure what to make of this "crystal skull" business. While the trailer certainly doesn't help explicitly, it offers a few more clues and makes it look pretty interesting. This shot by shot breakdown of what they think is in the trailer offers some insights and theories:

www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1581573/story.jhtml

It's a little Internet-cynical, but what do you expect from MTV? They catch a few things that I wouldn't have the patience to go through and find so it was interesting to read.

This is also a fascinating article from Vanity Fair that talks with Lucas and Spielberg on the new film. It posits a little more of the "movie magic" that we've all lost being children of the Internet:

www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/02/indianajones200802?currentPage=1

Not directly mind you, but being it came from a print magazine the implication is there. Back when we were just excited about new movies instead of tearing them apart with ones and zeroes across the inter webs before they were even released. I even have a vague memory of seeing the preview for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in theaters when I was eight or nine years old; the trailer for this new one brought all that back, and the more I hear about this new movie the more excited I get.

It's kind of lame, but for as much legit and spoiler-free Indy goodness as you can get you can't go wrong with www.indianajones.com. It hides the good stuff so you have to dig around, but there's some worthwhile fun in there.

Me, my attitude here can be summed up by some anonymous poster on a Canadian website: "This is exactly the point of the trailer I believe. In this era of pseudo-intellectualism and cavalier cynicism, the cheesier the better I say."

Amen.

Blog on!