my week at the movies: ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,’ ‘Prince Caspian,’ ‘Stuck,’ ‘Young@Heart’
This billboard in Times Square has been tormenting me for weeks now. I can’t look at it without hearing that dum-da-DUM-DUM, dum-da-dum theme music. I can’t wait to see the movie. And now the wait is almost over: just a few days more. I am seriously geeked. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opens wide on Thursday, May 22, and I’ll be there again, too, on opening night. Because it’s Indiana Jones. That’s just the way it is.
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I saw The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian [opens wide May 16] last night. I feel like such a dirty old lady, but I don’t think it’s really my fault. Why do they keep putting such cute boys in these movies?
Remember that horrible news story about the woman who hit a guy with her car, and the guy languished in the windshield of her car for days? Well, someone made a movie about that: Stuck [opens limited May 30]. Mena Suvari is the driver; Stephen Rea is the victim. I’m curious to see what could be said about such inexplicable inhumanity.
Young@Heart [now playing in limited release] is a documentary about old people who do rock ‘n’ roll. I guess no one told them that there’s nothing really all that odd about that: have they seen Keith Richards lately?
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comments
posted by PaulW (May 13, 2008 9:37 PM)
You should consider a review of the first three Indy movies as a lead up to reviewing the fourth... It would help esp. to rewatch Raiders and Last Crusade...
posted by Clayj (May 13, 2008 10:05 PM)
I'm still passing on Indiana Jones; I was against them making a 4th movie in the first place, and I overheard a theatre employee last Saturday remark that there's a lot of recycled plot elements in this movie... he said "it seemed rushed". Not to mention, I can't stand Shia LaBeouf.
posted by MaryAnn (May 14, 2008 9:56 AM)
Yeah, I'd really like to do that, but I don't think I'll have the time.
posted by jenn (May 14, 2008 12:51 PM)
I think Caspian in real life is about 26. So at least he's legal.
posted by Hdj (May 14, 2008 2:33 PM)
Im kinda in the same boat with Clayj sorta dreading the new Indy. It takes a little more then a theme song to boost my anticipation for a film. But I dunno I think for once Ill stop being such a stickler , and see the movie before I start kicking and screaming how much the trailer isn't doing much for me. heres my positive reinforcement for the new Indiana Jones, it cant suck as bad as Speed Racer
posted by Danielle (May 14, 2008 7:49 PM)
The boys in Caspian are cute, but I'm most looking forward to the men in this film: Peter Dinklage and (the voices of) Liam Neeson and Eddie Izzard (met him last weekend, and goodness, he's sexy).
posted by Ryan H (May 14, 2008 8:37 PM)
I figure that I'm going to pass out from ecstasy the first time the music is played. So what do I care if the movie after that point is good or not?
posted by MaryAnn (May 14, 2008 11:33 PM)
He is, and actually Will Moseley, who plays Peter, is 21, so he's legal too. Saw them both at Comic Con, and they are seriously adorable.
Dinklage was at Comic Con, too. No question that he is a god. And he's great in the film, too, though it's Izzard who steals it.
Well, I *could,* but even that takes time. Honestly, if I could devote every waking *and* sleeping hour to watching movies and writing about them, I would, because that's the kind of dork I am. But my landlord and the power company and the grocery store don't yet take dork-credits as payments. I'm eagerly anticipating the day that they do.