Indy Apparently Not Coming Soon Enough
I don’t understand the need to devour every little detail about upcoming summer blockbusters, but the need is widespread and whole websites continue to be predicated upon the behavior.
In that spirit, ComingSoon eagerly reported today that you can glean plot details about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull by reading the names of the tracks on the official soundtrack now available for pre-order from Amazon.
I kept looking for the part where they said they were just making fun of people who go for this kind of crap, but I couldn’t find it. They were absolutely serious.
If someone would care to explain this behavior to me, I’d be happy to hear it. Meanwhile, I’m just praying one of the tracks isn’t called “The Return of Short Round.”
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lol, I do not get it either.
LOL, yeah this is getting to the point where I shut down all Indy radar until May 22. I’m still utterly clueless - just the way I love it.
I may literally have to shut down all web use until May 22. I don’t wanna know nuthin’. I’m sure Wells can’t wait to spoil it!
“The Return of Shortround.” LOL.
I tuned out when I saw a post at CHUD.com that was looking at the Lego playsets for the movie and trying to glean plot clues from the toys. Kinda creepy borderline-stalker behavior there.
It must kinda suck to work on a movie like this and have to go to such ridiculous extremes to hide any and all details from the press, the fans, and everyone else working on the studio backlot.
Yeah, I’m not one who needs every bit of info on a movie I can get before it’s release. However, there was the one time recently when I didn’t have enough will power to stop myself from watching the first 5 or 6 minutes of The Dark Knight that was leaked not too long ago. I don’t regret doing that for a minute. But checking soundtrack titles to find out plot points? Come on, that’s called being a silly fanboy, not to mention it’s cheating.
And I’ll have to disagree with you Craig about The Return Of Short Round. I would welcome his return, with the condition that he hasn’t aged since 1984.
Damnit! I knew there’d be a Short Round fan out there!
Watching the opening 5 of Dark Knight kind of makes sense…I mean, it’s just the beginning. It gives you a taste of what’s to come without much in the way of spoilers I presume.
Lego playsets…COME ON! Did they deduce that everyone is yellow and has a little nugget on the top of their head to which can be attached assorted head gear?
I complimented Coming Soon in the original post for not actually spoiling anything. They were simply pointing anyone interested in the right direction.
There wasn’t even a hint of irony in that CHUD article either. Normally those guys are quick to mock the sillier fanboynish of the web, even though truth be told they are massive fanboys themselves.
Shorty was one of the less annoying and not overdone sidekicks of the ’80s. I can understand not liking him but I thought he was a lot of fun.
I wish I shared your regard for him, Justin. All he ever inspired in me were murderous fantasies depicting a terrible death for him.
I’m with Justin here. Short Round is pretty awesome, although it helped that he was in the same movie with Willie, who was annoying as hell. Maybe it was just that I disliked Willie, but I sort of wish that TEMPLE OF DOOM had been just an Indy/Shorty adventure.
More on this as we approach the release date of CRYSTAL SKULL, I’m sure.
I have to agree, Paul. Willie really was the most annoying character in a movie. Her grating squeals kind of overshadowed and cancelled out anything that might have been annoying about Short Round.
There is no expected Summer blockbuster that makes me want to slit my wrists more.
I’m happy to preserve my wrists but I feel no enthusiasm for the new Indy. I found both the first two sequels a letdown and I’ve heard nothing to encourage confidence this time round. I truly hope I’m wrong.
In the interest of peace and harmony in the LiC community, I retract what I said about Short Round and I substitute Screamin’ Willie.
Mostly I just didn’t like Indy having a sidekick, especially a little one.
I’ve said this 100 times before here and elsewhere, but Temple of Doom has greatly improved with age. I thought it was disappointing when it first came out, but now I think it’s a worthy successor to the original and way better than the flaccid Last Crusade which I liked a lot the first time through but which hasn’t aged well.
I like all of the Indy films for different reasons though I happily concede the two sequels are, in their own ways, flawed. Temple of Doom is a lot of fun in its sheer pulpy glory and Last Crusade is probably the most warmhearted and ultimately optimistic father-son dynamic in the Spielberg canon but they both miss by a wide margin the perfection of Raiders.
Considering how strong Spielberg has been in the last ten years, though, and since I do think this is it for the franchise, at least in this incarnation, I’m nevertheless optimistic about the new one despite my initial lukewarm feelings about the prospects of it.
CHUD started to lose me with regards to this film during the Lego set thing, way back in early winter. Then there was the literally endless dissection of the one-minute, fifty-second trailer there. After that, I just shrugged at them.
I like the occasional event film as much as the next guy but some people become truly consumed by them. They are, I suppose, the Dictionary definition of “fanboy.”
Dissections of trailers, sadly, has become the norm for certain internet sites. It’s all kinds of silly, but the reality is that whether the Greek (fanboy) chorus rants with violent hatred or coos with unadulterated love, they’ll all be showing up opening weekend wallet in hand to buy a ticket just the same.
It’s gotten to the point where I sort of love/hate watching these sites dissect every speck of marketing fluff tossed their way. On one hand, there’s a bizarre reality TV show/people-watching sort of interest I have in watching folks froth at the mouth over yet another teaser one sheet or a bad spy cam shot from some delivery guy’s cell phone.
On the other hand, it can get really annoying too.
Yeah, any self-respecting film nerd would at least wait for a movie to be released before exhaustively analyzing it! ;-)
Exactly.