(They've actually both taken turns blaming themselves for it, though to our minds, it sure feels more Lucas-y than Spielbergian.) The idea of Indiana Jones in a '50s suburban setting where there's a test nuclear bomb is not a terrible one, but having him escape it by jumping in a lead-lined refrigerator, getting thrown into the high heavens, and then pop out like nothing happened (and greeted by a rodent!) is something else entirely. Yeah, Spielberg and Lucas are never going to live down the "nuke the fridge" moment. What was the impact? In the history of Indiana Jones movies, if there's one scene fans will spend the rest of their lives trying to forget, it's this one: ![]() On opening weekend, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull earned $101 million in three days, giving it the third-highest opening weekend total of all time. Who wouldn't want to see another Indiana Jones movie? While The Last Crusade didn't get quite the incredible reception of the first two Indiana Jones movies, people still loved it, and Indiana Jones is still one of the most iconic figures in American film and popular culture. ![]() It also introduced Irina Spalko, a Russian agent played with high relish by Cate Blanchett, a rare blockbuster appearance for one of the most respected actresses of her time. Ford and Spielberg were back, but so was Karen Allen, playing Marion again, with the revelation that she and Indy had a son together that Indy didn't know about, "Mutt" Williams, a motorcycle rebel played by Shia LaBeouf. ![]() Why was it a big deal at the time? It's Indiana Jones! Who didn't want to see Indiana Jones? Even more so, this one made sure to get the whole band back together. they're not usually talking about this one. Because when people speak lovingly of Indiana Jones movies. In fact, there is a fifth Indiana Jones movie coming in 2022, one that may exist to help blur the memory of this one. but perhaps not in the ways the filmmakers might have preferred. The movie continues to live on, discussed regularly 12 years later. This week, we look at the fourth Indiana Jones movie, which hit theaters on May 22, 2008, 12 years ago this month. Also Jurassic Park, of course.) But George Lucas always loved the idea of an older Indiana Jones dealing with the scary world of the 1950s, and Harrison Ford always made sure to stay in shape, just in case he was called upon to don the fedora again.Īnd thus: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. (He was off to the world of Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan by then. The idea of a fourth Indiana Jones movie had been something Steven Spielberg had been resisting for years, saying he'd "matured" as a filmmaker after the initial trilogy. Even The Godfather and The Godfather Part III had 18 years between them.īut the span between 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Crystal Skull somehow tops them all. Heck, it was 16 years between Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace. The distance between, say, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Star Wars: The Force Awakens? 16 years. Needless to say, 19 years is an unusually long period of time to go between sequels in a movie franchise. Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world's greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released.
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