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I'm so freaking excited about this! I've seen every Indiana Jones movie so far and loved them all.
I can't wait for May to get here so I can go see this one! Harrison Ford is just perfect in the role and I'm so excited he decided to do this movie.  ;D

Here's the first trailer: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/indianajones.html?showVideo=1

For those of us that were around when Indy first appeared onto the cultural scene so many moons ago and reintroduced us all to the Lost Ark, this is akin to coming home again in a lot of ways. Indiana Jones for me is always and probably will be always a part of the family of feel-good remedies right along with pepperoni pizza, a butterscotch sunday or some of the other things that always sit right and bring a smile onto my face.

I'm with you Melissa, I can't wait either! Its high time Indy came back to us all!

Peace>

Allin>

Guess we're all a little excited. I remember when the trilogy came out on box set with the extras dvd, I was working for Wal-mart and snatched it right up.  :eek3

Exactly! It's like reliving your childhood all over again! It's time that we have a fun adventure movie out! I even remember seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark in the theater and was immediately hooked. And the only reason at the time that I wanted to see the movie was because Han Solo from Star Wars was the star! lol
I just can't believe I've never picked up the trilogy on DVD. I guess part of that is because there for awhile, it seemed they played these movies on TV all the time.

I can't wait for this movie to come out.  The Indy movies are timeless.

Seems the same for me Mel. My Dad got me hooked on these movies. I do have to say my fav out of all of them was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom! Gives me the warm fuzzies LOL!

Yay!! I love the Indy movies. My kind of man too. lol

Well can't say the same about the man part, but yes Harrison Ford is a great actor  ;)

Think the trailer was great, try this link!
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1801097

The video is called "Raiders of the Lost Organ." It is a short video of a young man playing the theme for "Raiders of the Lost Ark" on a really old organ.

Saw the preview for this when we went to see the Spiderwick Chronicles.

Seeing the shadow of him picking his hat off the ground and putting it on his head... even my goosebumps had goosebumps!

I know Mehtare, I got the same way the first time I saw the trailer too, even a little misty eyed! lol

Sometimes you worry me a little bit. :P

Worry? Which one of us?
The teary eyed 2? Or me with my "Raiders of the lost Organ?"

I definetly had a few tears in my eyes! At one time I had the BIGGEST crush on that man. And he is still one of the sexiest things on this planet. And don't get me started on Shia! I wanted to hurt somebody when he died at the end of Constantine! I can't wait for this one. I'm hoping to take my son and daughter to see it. It will be their first theatre movie! ;D Just as Star Wars was mine.



* I think she's worried about you _elf. Frankly I am too! LOL

Hey it went with the thread.  :P
All it is, is a video of a young man playing the theme song of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" on an old pipe organ.

The Organ. lol

I love Indiana Jones, and I do not 100%ly hate the Temple of Doom...but, to be honest, that actually was the least favorite of them all for me, and it was not just because they used the Cult of Thuggee as the main bad guys. 

The Temple of Doom was seen as nothing more than just a little bit of entertainment for me, I had a REALLY hard time trying to tell myself "it is just fiction, the writers are not being prejudiced."  I was personally really disgusted at how they portrayed another culture in such a negative light (I.e., eyeball soup, monkey-brains, etc.).  I think that if the movie tried to do more to clarify the fact that it was just a few bad guys and not all Kali devouts, it would have been better.  As much as I hate to be critical of a movie that someone loves, I just think that if they made a movie where all of the Jews were killing non-Jews and portrayed as sadistic and malicious in the process, the movie would be considered anti-semitic.  They made Shiva into the equivalent of God almighty and Kali worshipers into some Satanic cult.  At first I was going to dismiss everything going on until I heard one of the boys say that Kali's blood was used to brainwash people and that he prayed to Shiva to be protected from a malicious Kali.  The scene when the Prince was using voodoo just sealed the coffin. 

I suppose my over all disgust with it is the reaction that it provoked.  Ever since this movie, it forever confirmed the negative stereotype that the West has on Kali (wasn't the biased Britannica definition of her and the colonial propaganda enough?).  No non-Pagan Westerner that I have crossed (other than online) actually know the distinction between the Cult of Thuggee, and your everyday Kali devotee - if they know anything about the deity at all.  Even more, a several of those people generalized it just because of that movie. I mean...I have to be very careful on who I talk to about my faith because that movie more or less set the stereotype of how the common person portrays it.  I would hope that most people here would know that I would -never-, ever do any of the stuff in the movie.  I can actually understand why they had to do it in Sri Lanka - India actually banned the movie from being made there; I think they also banned the movie from showing in the country period just because of how insensitive the movie was to their culture.  It would be like trying to film a movie on Dracula being a devil in Romania. 

I respect everyone's opinions and preferences, do not get me wrong.  I am not belittling anyone for them.  I just wanted to confirm why that movie was probably one of the least favorites for me. 

But on a positive note, George Lucas 'redeemed' himself when he did the Star Wars movie and I really do look forward to the new Indiana Jones movie.  Hopefully, him and Steven Spielberg learned from Temple of Doom and will at least be a little more mindful of how they try to portray another culture.  In the movie King Arthur, there were Christians who were bad, sure, but Arthur himself was the epitome of your good Christian paladin to counter that.  It is my hope that people try to be more mindful when they are doing fiction based on history or real life societies.  It makes me sound like a pro political correctness figure, and it is not my intent at all, but with today's society, it seems no one is going to know anything unless a movie shows them.  So again, maybe it is just my over all disgust at the reactions at these types of movies. 

Ugh...I am sorry if I ranted through most of the post.  I just have some reservations (well, not so reserved anymore, LOL) on the Temple of Doom.



Sincerely,
ResplendentSeraphim

You know, I feel the same way and in fact now that you mention it, I eventually can see myself picking up the lot. Once they have been re-mastered and Blu-Rayed or whatever. I decided That I'm making no further purchases of video until this entire BluRay DVD thing really gets all resolved and I can decide what the heck direction I have to move in is.

Peace>

Allin>

I really do not blame you Resplendent.... I was very young when that one came out and I have to agree that even at the time it didn't sit right with me. Something just seemed "off" about it. It seemed as though they were trying too hard to make the Cult seem as bad as they possibly could. I have known other's who follow Her and none has ever been like that. Though I do love Indy and the other two were great. The Last Crusade was by far the best of the three. I am looking forward to this one with an open heart and a hope that it will be as good as 1 and 3 were.

Dear Gods I'm old. *sighs*

Just as an fyi, Blu Ray is the clear cut winner in the format battle. Toshiba officially announced they are stopping HD DVD. And Toshiba is the main company of HD DVD. With them out HD DVD is done and Blu Ray is now the only HD disc format.

Damn it.  And I just bought a new DVD player.  Now where the hell did I put that receipt?

Thanks Bobby that totally slipped my mind. Yes Blue-ray is the clear winner now, mainly because of Wal-mart. They are the dominating force in DVD sales, and when they announced they were going to sell only Blue-ray, Toshiba saw the end coming and quit. Toshiba will still honor warranties on their HD-DVD players that people have bought.

Actually the downfall of HD DVD started when Sony threw enough money at Warner for them to go Blu Ray only when their HD DVD contract ran out in May. After that announcement Wally World made the decision to  follow suit and go Blu Ray only in the same time frame.

I can't wait to see this! I love all the Indy movies!! I remember seeing them in the theater. I don't go to movies much anymore but I am definalty going to see this one! I even put the trailer up on my MySpace!

I haven't been in a theater in years. lol