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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4529677" data-attributes="member: 8863">Just saw it earlier, and time for my commentary.  Going to add spoilers anyway, since they're in the thread.It was pretty good.  It still felt like Indiana Jones, even though it got bumped to the 50s.  But I have no problem with that, Harrison Ford's in his 60s now, and trying to pretend he's only a few years older than he is in The Last Crusade would be ridiculous.  Besides, the 50's B-movie angle Lucas decided to go with here works.  And Russians worked nearly as well as Nazis for the bad guys.  Kudos to the various reviewers and publicity that didn't spoil the fact that [spoiler] Mutt is Indy's son.[/spoiler]  I wasn't surprised at all when that was actually revealed, since it seemed pretty obvious anyway, but it was good that the fact wasn't trumpeted beforehand. [spoiler] And it also sets things up to possibly continue the franchise with him, with perhaps hints to that end at the end of the movie when the old fedora rolls to his feet.[/spoiler]  Who knows?Favorite scene would have to be the sand pit, definitely.  Indy starts by[spoiler] telling Marion to get off Mutt's back for quitting school, then after learning Mutt's his son, he screams, "Why the hell didn't you make him finish school?!  Then Mutt rescues them from the pit with a big ass snake.  That is kind of silly when you think about it (that snake would have been damn pissed), but I laughed my ass off when he turned around and they show the snake for the first time and then he tosses it to Indy.[/spoiler]And Mutt as a nickname is itself interesting given [sblock]the end of The Last Crusade:[/sblock]So the [spoiler]Ark of the Covenant is stashed in Area 51.  Why am I not surprised?  I dunno, it does kind of weaken the end of Raiders a little bit, you know lessening the whole impact of the Ark being placed in a non-descript box and being buried deep in some unknown warehouse somewhere (plus everything about Area 51 is ridiculous; I suspect the American government uses it as a red herring, since all the conspiracies about it make it absolutely useless for said conspiracies).  But when Irina commented about all of America's sercets being stored there though, and the score gives us a cue using the Ark theme, I was expecting the Ark to show up.  [/spoiler]Only thing that was really really dumb [spoiler] was nuking the fridge.  Yeah, I don't care how much lead is in that thing, there's no way Indy's going to survive a blast at ground zero, and then live long enough to growl at kids in a museum in the early 90's.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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