Ok, first things first: If you haven’t seen the new trailer for the fourth Indiana Jones movie, watch it now. Here. Immediately.

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Ok, now that we have that out of the way…

My thoughts: I don’t like that they open with a re-hashing of the original movies. For those of us who have seen the first movies, i think we know who Indiana Jones is. If they had just shown the clip of the fedora on the ground and the silhouette…that would have been more than enough and a great intro. For those that haven’t seen the previous movies (all two of you) you just had them all spoiled for you.

Anyway…once the trailer gets going, it looks good. It looks like they’ll use a bit of a comedy (i just hope not too much) to address the fact that he’s old.

One thing that i am very disappointed by though: from numerous shots in the trailer, Spielberg and Lucas have obviously recanted their promise to keep computer generated effects to a minimum. I know this is a very short trailer, and those shots could be the extent of the CG in the whole movie – that would certainly be minimal – but i don’t have my hopes up. I guess i’d rather be disappointed now than while watching the movie though.

I am definitely pumped about the movie though. The trailer had a good feel and in terms of cinematography, it looked very similar to Last Crusade. Good stuff.

In other movie news…
It is time for an updated list of movies i’m interested in seeing:

Planning on seeing:
Feb 14th – Jumper (scratch…heard it sucked)
April 18 – The Forbidden Kingdom
May 2 – Iron Man
May 9 – Speed Racer
May 16 – Chronicles of Narnia: Price Caspian
May 22 – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
June 20 – Get Smart
June 27 – WALL-E
July 2 – Hancock
July 11 – Hellboy II: The Golden Army
July 18 – The Dark Knight
Aug 1 – The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Nov 21 – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Dec 25 May 8, 2009 – Star Trek XI – just got bumped :-(

Might checking out (or wait for video):
March 14 – Horton Hears a Who!
June 6 – Kung Fu Panda
June 13 – The Incredible Hulk
June 13 – The Happening
July 11 – Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D
Oct 3 – Valkyrie
Dec 10 – X-Files 2

So…looks like i’ll be dropping somewhere in the area of $300 in movie tickets this year. Could be worse i guess. Maybe i’ll hit some matinées.