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George Lucas says his new 'Indiana Jones' is 'just a movie'
By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY
To hear him talk, you'd think George Lucas would have preferred to call his movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Don't Get Your Hopes Up.
Lucas, who co-wrote and produced the May 22 film, can sound downright sullen when it comes to his expectations of fan reaction to the year's most highly anticipated movie.
"When you do a movie like this, a sequel that's very, very anticipated, people anticipate ultimately that it's going to be the Second Coming," Lucas says. "And it's not. It's just a movie. Just like the other movies. You probably have fond memories of the other movies. But if you went back and looked at them, they might not hold up the same way your memory holds up."
George Lucas says his new 'Indiana Jones' is 'just a movie'
By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY
To hear him talk, you'd think George Lucas would have preferred to call his movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Don't Get Your Hopes Up.
Lucas, who co-wrote and produced the May 22 film, can sound downright sullen when it comes to his expectations of fan reaction to the year's most highly anticipated movie.
"When you do a movie like this, a sequel that's very, very anticipated, people anticipate ultimately that it's going to be the Second Coming," Lucas says. "And it's not. It's just a movie. Just like the other movies. You probably have fond memories of the other movies. But if you went back and looked at them, they might not hold up the same way your memory holds up."
I don't know about him, but I love Raiders and Last Crusade each and every time I see it. ToD is the only one of the three that I've never really liked and even that one seems to get better with each viewing.
No George, they don't hold up to your memory. They hold up perfectly well to our memories. We do continue to watch them (what's this if crap, they're available on DVD and people have bought them), love them, and enjoy them. This is in contrast to the crapfest that is your PT. We can watch the Indiana Jones movies without cringing. We can't say the same thing for the PT.