Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Trailer Thursday the 14th

Ron-P

9am ET / 6am PT

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/indianajones.html;_ylt=AhnbrnBk4iwk1..kgcVCRBFfVXcA

It's just a sneak peek but we'll get to see how this is going to shape up and compare to the other films.

Personally, after viewing the images posted, Ford is just too old and does not look to fit this role at all. He should have stayed retired from the whip. I'm sure the movie will be entertaining and all but I don't see him pulling this off.

Grimster74

Can't wait to go see it, always been some of my favorite movies.

Ron-P

Hmmmm, I knew it would be entertaining, had no doubts there, but he's still too old for the role, he just doesn't fit it anymore. I still stand by my comment that he should have retired the whip with #3.

I'll be seeing it as I love popcorn movies (my favorite genre) but sadly, just like #'s 2 and 3 that looks like all this one will be.

Ron-P

After watching this again, I noticed that the scene in which Jones is swinging from his whip looks identical to the warehouse that the Ark is stored in from the first film. Wonder if the Ark will play a part in this new film.

Jstas

Ron-P wrote: »

Hmmmm, I knew it would be entertaining, had no doubts there, but he's still too old for the role, he just doesn't fit it anymore. I still stand by my comment that he should have retired the whip with #3.

I'll be seeing it as I love popcorn movies (my favorite genre) but sadly, just like #'s 2 and 3 that looks like all this one will be.

Nah, this is Indiana Jones, arguably the greatest movie series in history. This will be awesome! Also, after reading the Vanity Fair piece on the film, it's taking a kinda different direction. Since Shia LeBeouf (sp?) is purportedly (but not confirmed) playing the now young adult love child of Indy and Marion, they could be setting up the movie franchise to take on a new action hero.

After watching Shia in Transformers, he's got what Harrison Ford has in being able to take the Indiana Jones archetype of the "everyman hero" and running with it...and well at that.

This is looking like it's gonna be a blast and I really can't wait because so many other series of movies ended in the past two years that I really didn't think we had anything to look forward to. Now we do and it's gonna be story time with two of the greatest talents in film making in history period and if it's like every other Indiana Jones movie, George and Steven are gonna take up on one hell of an adventure!

I can't wait! WOOHOO!:D

Ron-P

and if it's like every other Indiana Jones movie,

I'm hoping it's not. While Raiders was one of the best movies of all time, the other two pretty much stunk. The second was horrid and the third not much better. I sure hope it's nothing like 2 or 3.

Strong Bad

Ron-P wrote: »

After watching this again, I noticed that the scene in which Jones is swinging from his whip looks identical to the warehouse that the Ark is stored in from the first film. Wonder if the Ark will play a part in this new film.

From what I read in the Vanity Fair article, YES, that is the same warehouse that the Ark is stored in. If you notice, it was a very quick closeup, but on the side of the box it says "Roswell New Mexico 1947." The article said in the first 3 movies, the main object (Ark, Stones and Grail) were all religious in nature. The main object in this one is Science Fiction based. Put 2 and 2 together. Roswell + Science Fiction =

I'm pumped for this movie and have high hopes. I just hope Lucas doesn't have him finding a buried Light Saber and turns him into Indiana Jones-Kenobi!

John in MA

Strong Bad wrote: »

I'm pumped for this movie and have high hopes. I just hope Lucas doesn't have him finding a buried Light Saber and turns him into Indiana Jones-Kenobi!

No, he'll have Jar-Jar coming along for the ride.

MrNightly

Looks better than I thought... with Ford being what 60 years old?

I might make the trip to the theater for this one. I personally love the 1st and 3rd but the 2nd was just dumb.

We shall see here!

wingnut4772

NY Times

obieone

Um, that link goes to the loggin screen?

wingnut4772

Ooopsie....



Indiana Jones Is Battling the Long Knives of the Internet

By
By MICHAEL CIEPLY
Published: May 10, 2008

LOS ANGELES — Now comes the part where Indiana Jones dangles over the snake pit of public opinion.




Actually, a handful of Web reviewers have already struck at the film “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” despite an intense effort by the director Steven Spielberg, the executive producer George Lucas and Paramount Pictures to keep this highly anticipated sequel out of sight until Sunday, May 18.

On that day, this fourth Indiana Jones movie is scheduled to make its debut at the Cannes Film Festival with an afternoon press screening, and another one at night.

At about the same time, the picture, which opens in theaters on the following Thursday, is expected to be screened for the news media and industry insiders at multiple showings in Manhattan and Los Angeles, while other screenings are scheduled around the world.

Mr. Spielberg is unusually fastidious when it comes to protecting his films from advance word that can diminish excitement or muddy a message planted by months of carefully orchestrated publicity and expensive promotions (including, in this case, a February cover article in Vanity Fair, complete with Annie Leibovitz photos of the cast, and leather bullwhips delivered weeks ago to newsrooms).

Mr. Spielberg customarily avoids leaky test screenings. Even Marvin Levy, his publicist of more than 30 years, said he had not yet seen the new movie.

Still, there it was, at 6:42 a.m. on Thursday: a harshly critical review on aintitcoolnews.com, from a poster who identified himself as “ShogunMaster.” Rife with details from the film, the review said, “This is the Indiana Movie that you were dreading.”

By that afternoon two other less critical, but less than sparkling, reviews also appeared on the Web site.

The man who posted as ShogunMaster, reached via the Web site, said he is a theater executive who saw the film at an exhibitors’ screening this week. He spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid reprisal from the studio.

Paramount had shown the film to a handful of theater company executives at its Los Angeles lot and elsewhere.

Movie studios increasingly tend to protect their biggest bets from advance showings. Two years ago, for instance, Sony Pictures screened “The Da Vinci Code” for critics at the Cannes Film Festival only two days before its opening in the United States. But exhibitors’ screenings can open a window for determined reviewers.

Such screenings are required in about two dozen states that have laws against blind-bidding, a practice in which theater owners were once asked to bid on films they had not seen.

As a practical matter, there is little or no actual bidding in the contemporary theater business, which relies instead on negotiations between distributors and theater owners. But distributors continue to hold screenings for theater company executives in the weeks before a film’s release, whether as a courtesy or as a way to avoid conflict with a patchwork of state laws.

Theater executives may have an incentive to play down a movie’s prospects after such a screening, to get better terms. In any case, many fans will most likely flock to “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” if only to make their own judgments about Mr. Spielberg’s decision to revisit the franchise fully 19 years after its last installment. Still, bad notices could keep the more ambivalent moviegoers from attending and thwart a truly huge box office haul.

According to Mr. Levy, who spoke by telephone on Thursday, Mr. Spielberg has kept a watchful eye on virtually every aspect of the film’s marketing campaign. “He gets involved with everything,” Mr. Levy said. “Every TV spot, every line in every ad, every advertising concept.” (Among the marketing tie-ins were Indiana Jones fedoras, available at Blockbuster stores.)

The current campaign has been engineered to create excitement around the opening date, May 22 — some billboards feature the date, in flame-colored letters, and little else — without telling too much about the film. Last year the movie’s producers went so far as to file a lawsuit against a bit player who had publicly discussed the film’s plot, which involves the exploits of an aging archaeological adventurer, still played by Harrison Ford, now 65.

The campaign has been effective so far. Fandango, which sells film tickets online, said this week that it was “seeing brisk advance ticket sales” to “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” identified as the summer’s most anticipated film in a poll Fandango conducted of moviegoers.

But a better gauge of success is likely to be the extent of online sales in the few days after the film screens at Cannes — and after many reviewers have weighed in.

Tim Ryan, a senior editor at Rottentomatoes.com, which compiles film reviews, said he expected those of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” to surface “maybe an hour or two” after the Sunday afternoon press screening in France. His company will have someone on hand to post them immediately, Mr. Ryan said.

As rated by Rottentomatoes, the earlier “Indiana Jones” films enjoyed strong reviews. The worst-reviewed of the three — the second, “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” released in 1984 — was still the third-most-popular movie of the year.

Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Levy said, may not be the first to know if the aging Indy manages to wriggle past any negative early notices to score another hit. “When a movie opens, he usually disappears,” Mr. Levy said. “He usually doesn’t want to know all the details about how it’s doing.”

obieone

Thanks Wingnut. That article doesn't sound too reassuring for the franchise fans.
JMO, but, I think it's SAD, that they're squeezing those teats this long. Time to retire that cow, and move on to an ORIGINAL idea.
I guess that's to much to ask of Hollywood.
Again, JMO!

Ron-P

I'll trek to the theater for this, heck it's Indy. I know it won't come even close to Raiders (the other two sequels sucked) but it'll be fun. I expect to turn my brain off and enjoy the ride.