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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - B

May 29th, 2008

I saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull last week. I still can’t decide if I liked the movie of not. I mean, the premise of the movie is a little “out there,” but all of the Indiana Jones movies have been “out there” as well. It’s just that they are exploring ancient South American artifacts instead of ancient Judeo Christian ones. There were a few times when I would just think to myself, “oh you have got to be kidding me!” but then I would remind myself to just go along for the ride and just enjoy it for what it is - an adventure movie. I think part of me was a little disappointed in the movie just because I had watched National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets the night before and there were some themes that were pretty similar to this one and well, previous Indiana Jones movies.

One thing I didn’t understand though and I didn’t think really gelled with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was that they revealed that Indy’s Dad had passed away between these films. That had me scratching my head because his Dad drank from the Holy Grail in the Last Crusade and drinking from the Grail was supposed to give that person eternal life. Unless the person only had eternal life if they never left the cave where the Grail was stored? I have no idea. Plus, I think drinking from the Holy Grail would be the only feasible explanation for Indy escaping certain death in the first 15 minutes of the film. But that’s me and yes, I have watched the previous films numerous times.

I totally need to check of the Lego Indiana Jones game came out for the Nintendo DS yet.

edited to add - Oooh looks like the game will be released for the DS on June 3rd! Yay!

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