indytim
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I keep reading on this forum how people wish it was the 22nd already so that they could see the movie. Don't! Revel in this seemingly never-ending anticipation because the chances are this is the last Indiana Jones film ever and so you'll probably never be this excited about a film ever again. Sorry if that is a somewhat sobering thought but we've all waited too long to be wishing for this to be over all too soon.
I can remember walking out of Last Crusade in the Summer of 1989 as the credits rolled, with the Raiders march thundering out of the speakers, and thinking to myself 'See you around, Indiana Jones' ... resigning myself to the fact that I had just seen the last Indy movie and that I would never enjoy that experience ever again (at nearly 38 years of age I've been fortunate enough to look forward to and see each adventure upon their individual releases).
I then remember in January 1990 reading in the UK newspaper Today (which doesn't even exist anymore) the reported first whispers that Indiana would return in search of Atlantis with Kevin Costner being considered to play Indy's deep-sea diver brother!!! The stories kept coming that Indy would return but it all seemed like the stuff of dreams until I received a phone call in 1993 from my friend Graham (aka cinebird of this very forum), and he read to me word-for-word the Lucasfilm press release announcing that work would soon begin on a new Star Wars trilogy and a new Indiana Jones adventure. But that was 15 years ago and the constant reported 'roller coaster' script writing stories that followed filled me (and I'm sure other fans) with fear that the man with the hat might never return after all.
But here we all are, now down to counting the days until the release of Indy 4 and I, for one, feel like a kid at Christmas again ... bursting with excitement, hardly able to contain myself, scoring off the days on the calendar until the jolly man with the beard brings me my present. It just so happens that it's now two men with beards and they're about to give me the best gift I've had for a long, long time. So, thanks George. Thanks, Steven. And thanks Harrison. You've taken us all on a wonderful adventure and, just for right now, I'm glad it still isn't over
I can remember walking out of Last Crusade in the Summer of 1989 as the credits rolled, with the Raiders march thundering out of the speakers, and thinking to myself 'See you around, Indiana Jones' ... resigning myself to the fact that I had just seen the last Indy movie and that I would never enjoy that experience ever again (at nearly 38 years of age I've been fortunate enough to look forward to and see each adventure upon their individual releases).
I then remember in January 1990 reading in the UK newspaper Today (which doesn't even exist anymore) the reported first whispers that Indiana would return in search of Atlantis with Kevin Costner being considered to play Indy's deep-sea diver brother!!! The stories kept coming that Indy would return but it all seemed like the stuff of dreams until I received a phone call in 1993 from my friend Graham (aka cinebird of this very forum), and he read to me word-for-word the Lucasfilm press release announcing that work would soon begin on a new Star Wars trilogy and a new Indiana Jones adventure. But that was 15 years ago and the constant reported 'roller coaster' script writing stories that followed filled me (and I'm sure other fans) with fear that the man with the hat might never return after all.
But here we all are, now down to counting the days until the release of Indy 4 and I, for one, feel like a kid at Christmas again ... bursting with excitement, hardly able to contain myself, scoring off the days on the calendar until the jolly man with the beard brings me my present. It just so happens that it's now two men with beards and they're about to give me the best gift I've had for a long, long time. So, thanks George. Thanks, Steven. And thanks Harrison. You've taken us all on a wonderful adventure and, just for right now, I'm glad it still isn't over
