<p>Has anybody else seen the new Indiana Jones movie yet?</p>
<p>I saw it, and I couldn’t recite the plot to you if my life depended on it. It’s all kind of convoluted, with Communists and aliens and lots of other incomprehensible stuff.</p>
<p>But boy, do Harrison Ford and Karen Allen look good. If only we could all age so well.</p>
<p>lighting, make up and air brushing can make movie stars out of anyone. Now if we could all make that kind of money for doing our job…</p>
<p>Kate Blanchett as the Russian agent. Weird. And did anybody else notice that the crystal skulls were only magnetic about half the time?</p>
<p>I just got back from the show. LOVED it. Lots of fun. And FYI, the college scenes were apparently filmed at Yale. The train station scene at Essex Steam Train in Essex CT.</p>
<p>I have been getting impatient when a series goes flat.</p>
<p>do I need to remind anyone of Jar-jar?
I haven’t even read the last Harry Potter book</p>
<p>But I like this music
[YouTube</a> - Harrison Ford: Lost There, Felt Here](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r87wJ1QmyYw]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r87wJ1QmyYw)
Which means I haven’t seen the movie yet.
;)</p>
<p>I hadn’t given Erich von Daniken (sp?) a thought for YEARS until I saw this movie. I did think the skull looked like it was filled with saran wrap. </p>
<p>Who was in the oil portrait hanging in the hallway outside Indie’s classroom? The camera lingered for a moment on it so I thought it must be significant.</p>
<p>The movie was an opportunity for me to tell h.s. d about nuclear testing, above and below ground, radioactivity and the admonition when I was a kid not to eat the snow and the whole alien thing. I thought it was a fun romp through the 50s.</p>
<p>Here’s a bit of trivia: several years ago I read in some design/home magazine that Karen Allen had opened a knitting shop in the Berkshires. In the movies, she opened a bar in Nepal. Parallel worlds? Life imitating art?</p>
<p>WildChild thought it was horrible, my brother in law loved it. I have no interest- the series is past it’s sell-by date, in my opinion. I DO love Harrison Ford, though.</p>
<p>Good thing the crystal skull wasn’t magnetic all the time or it would have picked up all the metal-containg stuff the characters had on. Would have made a real mess out of the swordfight, e.g.</p>
<p>We saw it last night. I found it amusing, and H and D loved it. I thought it looked somewhat like a parody of the previous Indiana Jones movies. H read somewhere that Communists in Russia picketed the theaters in Moscow where the movie played because they were very displeased with their party’s portrayal.</p>
<p>i saw the movie and i like it. the indiana jones of the 70s come alive in the 21st century, of course thanks to the new high tech in film making today. hope that there’ll be more of these ‘that’s 70s’ movies in the next couple of years. it’s time for a comeback!</p>
<p>the movie was great. Highly scientifically inaccurate, but really amusing at times.</p>
<p>I loved Cate Blanchett’s russian accent.</p>
<p>Saw it today. My review: “Eh” (courtesy of my Jewish heritage. Great word for “Just OK” 
) Ok way to turn off your brian and be given “spoon-fed” entertainment for a couple of hours. A plot you could have actually followed would have been nice, but I guess that would have gotten in the way of the car chases!</p>
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<p>It was Marcus Brody, the guy who Indy worked for in his University, and the Museum Curator. Had a big part in the third Indy movie as the bumbling intellectual type who could read a dozen languages but can’t find his way around in “the field”. They also used his image for the bronze statue in the courtyard, the one the Russian agents crash into. I’m not sure if the actor has died, and that is why they gave his image so many scenes (in tribute?). Off to check IMDB to find the answer…</p>
<p>Update: Marcus Brody was played by Denholm Elliot, who died of AIDs in 1992 (information courtesy of IMDB.com). Like I said, I guess including so many images of him was their way to give hime a tribute. Sean Connery only got his picture quickly in one scene (guess that’s what happens when you hold out for more money in a supporting role).</p>
<p>dadofsam-
My point exactly. If that thing was supposed to be so extraordinarily magnetic, why didn’t it pull at people’s belt buckles, pull the rims off the hubcaps, the tree/undercut brush cutter things (those were humongous- maybe too big for the magnetic pull, they’d probably say).</p>
<p>Glad someone else noticed the ‘saran wrap’ in the skull…that just bothered me all through the movie…that plus the fact that the skull appeared too plasticky and seemed to be ‘light as a feather’ the way everyone handled it. I too was disappointed. The plot line was a bit much to swallow, and I didn’t like Cate Blanchett at all. Harrison managed well, as did Allen and Shia Leboeuf (sp?) was quite good. I won’t be renting it to get a second look, I don’t want to toss more money after all.</p>
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There WAS a plot line? :D</p>
<p>Did anybody think that Kate Blanchett reminded them of a character in that old cartoon? What was her name??? Boris and ???</p>
<p>Natasha from Rocky & Bulwinkle?</p>
<p>Yes…haha…as soon as she started speaking, I could see her with a cigarette and one of those dresses Natasha used to wear…thanks!!</p>
<p>Here’s a piece of useless trivia-- The Russian pair on Rocky and Bullwinkle were Boris Batinov and Natasha Fatale (pronounced “Fa-TAHLL”)</p>