Luke’s Corner

It’s been almost twenty long years since Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade hit the screens finishing up an epic trilogy of the best action-adventure hero of all time. But now, coming to all theaters soon on Memorial Day Weekend 2008, the long awaited fourth installment of the epic Indiana Jones saga is going to break free. Only Lucas and Spielberg could perform such a grand comeback. This is going to be bigger than the return of the Star Wars movies, which everyone had been expecting after seeing the fourth, fifth, and sixth installments.

All my life I have been an Indiana Jones mega-fan, ever since I watched the quaint Temple of Doom when I was really young. I own all of the Indy movies and all of the books written by Rob McGregor, Max McCoy, and Martin Caiden, all great authors. I even own my very own bull whip which I practiced with on a dead tree in my backyard. (And no, I did not whip it to death).

Being the great and enthusiastic fan of Indiana Jones that I am, I also couldn’t wait for this great new movie coming up just over the horizon! I have actually been waiting for this movie since I read the first rumors abut it in 2002. But after seeing the final result of the second and third star Wars movies, I hoped that the new Indiana Jones wasn’t going to be a colossal mistake that would ruin the series. But Spielberg is directing this, and he has denied script after script for this film since 1992 before he finally accepted this one, so there’s no way that it can be bad. Spielberg is a directing genius! There is nothing to fear.

Above that, the original actress, who played Marion Ravenwood, from Raiders of the Lost Ark is coming back for a glorious return, along with Shia LaBeouf, who will be playing Indy’s young, lively companion.

I am glad to say that I have never met a person that did not like Indiana Jones, it is one of the true masterpieces in movie history. I was utterly shocked when I found out that my friend Parker Steichen had never seen any of them before. That threw me so much that I made the first necessary arrangements of having him over to my house and watching the first two movies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and The Temple of Doom. That was about a year ago, then just last week, I found out that my other friend, Niki Liu, had never seen the movies either! This had me go crazy! How could both of my closest friends have not seen any of them, when I was an absolute freak about the trilogy? Well, it didn’t take me long to resolve THAT problem and had Niki watch them also when I went over to his house. And he loved them! Parker did too, I am now officially an Indiana Jones missionary!

All in all, I think that we can expect some great things from this movie, hitting theaters on May 22, 2008. I’ve already planned a van party with Parker and Niki to go and see the much awaited fourth movie, but I just hope that the movie will be as good as I hope it will be. As long as the movie keeps to the qualities that make a movie an excellent film, I don’t think that there’s anything to worry about. I don’t think that I could suffer the shame of seeing my favorite hero of all time go downhill.