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Kathleen Kennedy Does to Indiana Jones What Nazis, Supernatural Cults, More Nazis, and Space Aliens Never Could
PJ Media ^ | 29 June 2023 | Stehen Green

Posted on 06/29/2023 2:36:47 PM PDT by Rummyfan

An avowed nerd, I first read about Raiders of the Lost Ark through the official Star Wars Fan Club newsletter, Bantha Tracks. That’s how I learned about a sneak preview showing — remember those? — a few days or maybe a week before the movie’s official release on June 12, 1981.

Bantha Tracks gushed that the new movie — starring Harrison Ford, directed by Steven Spielberg, and co-written by George Lucas — was a thrill-a-minute throwback to serial flicks from the 1930s. I convinced my best friend Kevin to come with me, despite neither one of 12-year-old selves having much idea what 1930s serials were all about.

But we did know three things: Ford, Spielberg, Lucas. That was enough to place our butts in seats, loaded down with popcorn and Coke, for the sneak preview. We had no idea what to expect after the Paramount logo appeared on the screen. Just shy of two hours later, walking out into the warm midwestern evening, waiting to get picked up, we COULD. NOT. STOP. TALKING. about what we’d just seen.

“Thrill-a-minute” was a serious underestimation of the action/laughs/romance packed into Raiders’ 115-minute runtime.

The fun didn’t begin on the screen, however. It began with Lucas and Spielberg who, after making all those big-budget blockbusters, got the idea of shooting an action movie just as quickly and as cheaply as they could. They wanted to make a movie for the sheer joy of making a movie — and it showed in every frame.

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To: DeplorablePaul
Maybe Disney should have hired a few 50 year old white guys.

I dunno. I've heard they're not very "inspiring".

21 posted on 06/29/2023 4:14:12 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Recovering_Democrat
I think the Cruise flick will be great.

I can't think of a Cruise movie I didn't like. Not even the truly awful "Legend". His "Maverick" was unexpectedly good. Not a fan of the person, but as an actor who can, or whose agents can, pick a good project consistently, he has few peers.

22 posted on 06/29/2023 4:18:47 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Rummyfan

I liked Krystal Skull more than I liked Temple of Doom.

Am I going to hell? LOL


23 posted on 06/29/2023 4:19:31 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: Rummyfan

The whole idea is to replace all of the action movie heroes with Mary Sue womyn characters like Rey Palpatine and Captain Marvel.


24 posted on 06/29/2023 4:23:27 PM PDT by yawningotter
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To: butlerweave

Quote: “She has a new Star Wars movie with a transvestite Jedi ,LOL”

It is actually a show she plans to stream on Disney+. Nobody will watch it and it will crash like everything else. She totally hijacked the Mandalorian and turned it into the Strong Female Alorian. I watched two episodes and bailed.


25 posted on 06/29/2023 4:35:44 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: DeplorablePaul

Quote: “Not for nothing, left wing women, across the spectrum of professions, have been a disaster. . .”

An absolute and total disaster. They believe that their paycheck is to compensate them for spreading “THE MESSAGE.”


26 posted on 06/29/2023 4:38:03 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

While I’ve never seen the “Crystal Skull” installment, my impression of “Temple of Doom” was that it was more famous for its “graphic” (at the time) violence than a good plot.


27 posted on 06/29/2023 5:01:36 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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To: yawningotter

>>Mary Sue womyn characters like Rey Palpatine and Captain Marvel

There will never be another Mary Sue character to rival the fan fic Jewish girl who joined Spock in his pon farr and celebrated with a gefilte fish model of the Enterprise at their wedding.


28 posted on 06/29/2023 5:20:39 PM PDT by mairdie (Grandfather Jack Bell - miner, reporter, lawman, naturalist - https://youtu.be/Dnnb63UEk9c)
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To: Rummyfan

Lots of negative postings here,,but my wife and i watched it today and it was the best movie yet.Dont hate it till you watch it.


29 posted on 06/29/2023 5:30:01 PM PDT by Craftmore
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To: No name given

I like Temple of Doom, it is underrated.


30 posted on 06/29/2023 5:53:04 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! there is no coexistence wi)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
I think the Cruise flick will be great.

Honestly I don't know how they can top the last one (which I thoroughly enjoyed). But this one will not have Alec Baldwin at least,.

31 posted on 06/29/2023 6:07:32 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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32 posted on 06/29/2023 6:09:19 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Craftmore

Hmm....


33 posted on 06/29/2023 6:10:17 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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To: Rummyfan

The movie cost $300 million or more plus the ad costs.
It has to make $900 million to just break even.

For Jame Bond:
I suggest Phoebe Waller-Bridge as 007 Bond, Jane Bond.
Plus have the movie produced by Kathleen Kennedy...


34 posted on 06/30/2023 12:57:05 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: No name given

Well I am going to see my it in just a few hours, will give you a (very, very) general review.

😎


35 posted on 06/30/2023 12:58:07 AM PDT by cba123 (Tôi là người Mỹ. Hiện tôi đang ở Việt Nam)
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To: cba123

Interesting.

Not sure, not his best. But interesting.


36 posted on 06/30/2023 4:05:56 PM PDT by cba123 (Tôi là người Mỹ. Hiện tôi đang ở Việt Nam)
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To: Mr Rogers

Ye gads...I had no interest in seeing this film (Disney, Kathleen Kennedy), but these reviews are brutal...absolutely brutal.


37 posted on 06/30/2023 5:15:21 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Rummyfan

Indiana Jones and the Money Grab.


38 posted on 06/30/2023 5:41:07 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: Rummyfan

They don’t have any new ideas, and if they did they couldn’t raise enough money off them to make a major motion picture, so another Indiana Jones movie was inevitable, and they had to hurry to make it when Harrison Ford was still alive

Why they set up PW-B to be the replacement does remain a mystery, though.


39 posted on 06/30/2023 5:56:01 PM PDT by x
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To: who knows what evil?

The Drinker actually saw the movie. reviews it personally here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_k8cDLe-Kk


40 posted on 06/30/2023 7:28:28 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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