Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull seems, oddly, to look like the best film I’ll have seen so far this year come later on this evening – okay, I haven’t seen much, but there hasn’t been much to see … and it’s Spielberg, I’ve got faith. Though I was never a massive fan of this series, except in that horrid way that young boys are compelled to be rabid about such things, I’m pretty excited about it, so I’m watching the originals in preparation, I’m sure I’m not alone

The thing that I noticed more than ever before watching this installment was just how episodic the script is. I know this was like the whole point, etc, to recreate the old 30s and 40s serials and what-not – but it never before struck me as so crazily disjointed, each segment is its own separate short movie almost.

In so many ways, it’s an un-reviewable film: personally because I seem without ever really trying to have committed the whole darn thing to memory; because the Macfarlane/Groening/etc parodies in the intervening years make it impossible not to smirk in inappropriate places; and generally, because you can’t deny how perfectly iconic it is and how huge an impact it made on movies. John Williams’ score is one of the greatest, Karen Allen is gorgeous (_very_ excited about her being in the new one) and the finale is awesome, even more of a WTF moment, again than I ever recall it being – I mean, the movie’s just so nice and gentle up to that point, lol!