A pictureless post from work...
Am I 13? Indiana Jones is back in the theater, and I'm...sorta...well, not excited, but interested.
During the elementary school years, a new Star Wars movie was an event. After that, in the middle-teen years, Star Wars was replaced by Indiana Jones. My dad took me to see "Raiders of the Lost Ark," and even he enjoyed it. Later I went to see "Temple of Doom" with a friend of mine and his mom in middle school, and I remember being so full of adrenalin from that movie I could hardly stand it. Our sometime-poster Scott became an expert at making simulated bullwhips from rope, a cutoff broom handle and a nail. "The Last Crusade" hit right before summer vacation in high school, and me and my friends went to see it after some "Fun Friday" event at school.
However with this new one...can I suspend logic long enough to believe a 60-something Harrison Ford still looks 40 and can pull of those stunts? I already suspect this film may have been in the can for awhile, because the Indiana Jones I'm seeing in previews looks like the "Last Crusade" Harrison Ford, not the current model I see in interviews. Either that or his turkey neck and crinkles have been removed by CGI.
Also in the theaters is "Iron Man." I had a few Iron Man comic books as a lad, so this movie interests me. However while I had a few Iron Man comics, I was a certified Batman fanatic, and those movies disappointed me, and I also had a healthy collection of Daredevil comics, and that movie was killed for me as soon as I heard Ben Affleck was going to be Daredevil. George Clooney maybe I could've believed, but Ben Affleck? (EDIT) So how much better could the treatment of Iron Man be?
Good thing I got a DVD player last year.
