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1. Harrison Ford is old; action scenes will require suspension of disbelief.
Issue addressed directly; his age constantly alluded to.

2. Remember how much you looked forward to seeing Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and how betrayed you felt afterwards. George Lucas trampled on your childhood myths to sell Jar-Jar Binks action figures! He can do it again, and probably will.
Massive relief! It doesn’t suck! It was fun!

3. What was the last Steven Spielberg movie you really enjoyed?
This one, and it has little references to his best work!

4. Only one Indy 4 trailer has been running in movie theatres, and it shows mostly bits from the first three movies. Could be they’re keeping the story secret, could be there’s nothing to show.
It’s the same silliness, and we’re happy!

5. Nothing will bring back the day you sat in a darkened theatre watching Raiders of the Lost Ark and clapping just because Indy’s plane flew over the Philippines on a map. Your childhood is over, no matter how immature you are.
Theme park ride!

6. Is John Rhys-Davies in it? Sean Connery? Good thing we like Shia LaBeouf — just bearing that name requires moxie.
Shia enters movie in hommage to Brando in The Wild Ones—only mildly embarrassing. Cate Blanchett rules as evil Russian dominatrix.
Chus: (clapping) High camp!
Ige: (clapping) Celia Rodriguez!
Me: (clapping) She looks like Professor Wilhelmina Ramas my Shakespeare teacher!

Pinoy sighting: Former ninja turtle Ernie Reyes Jr as Mayan warrior.

As I type this the Web is filling up with reviews of the “I’m so much better than you, Spielberg and your plebeian fans who inhale this commercial swill” variety. Or serious appraisals of something that’s supposed to be silly. Here’s one that gets our attachment to Indy.

Best post-movie activity: Eat at Pepper Lunch in Rockwell! Have the cut steak and hamburger combo or the beef pepper rice, they’re brilliant.

We saw Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. For a stoner comedy they don’t get stoned much, so it is not as absurd and surreal as we’d expected. In fact it is almost rational, which is disturbing.

During our post-movie snack we saw Judy Ann Santos and Dante Nico Garcia, the star and director of Ploning. They came over to say hi and thanks for the blog post. The great thing about Juday is that she’s a big star who comes across as a genuine human being. She looked good, svelte, minimal make-up, casual attire. I forgot to take a picture.