![]() What do you think? Do you also enjoy Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? For more news on all things Indiana Jones, make sure to swing by here often. Because when you add aliens, really anything goes. I thought it was very consistent with all the weird stuff that we’d gotten in earlier films, and I admired the fact that they were willing to add something new that was both totally different, but also very on brand with the series. Hell, he even witnessed a heart beating AFTER it was ripped out of somebody’s chest in Temple, so I’ll never get why people got so upset when they saw aliens in Crystal Skull. Indiana Jones closed his eyes when the Ark was opened in Raiders, and met an old knight in Crusade. But, I was probably one of the few people who saw the UFO rise out of the ground at the end of this movie, and thought, "Wow, that’s actually kind of cool."īecause, you know what? It is cool. Is it going to land on any best sci-fi movies list? No, of course not. Lastly, I think it’s kind of cool that this can be seen as a sci-fi movie. (Image credit: Paramount Pictures) I Actually Kind Of Like The Idea Of Aliens Being In The Indiana Jones Universe The only entrance to the city was through a series of. The city was built in a crater next to a tributary of the Amazon River with waterfalls. Yes, it was obvious that the movie was meant to be a torch-passing moment between Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf (more on that in a few), but I really dug the fact that Indy was definitely older in this picture, and the movie didn’t try to hide it. Akator, also known as El Dorado or the Lost City of Gold, was a legendary city of knowledge built by Ugha natives with the help of Interdimensional beings, in the western part of the Amazon rain forest, in modern-day Brazil, near the Peruvian border. And, I really love that aspect of the film. This is an Indy who is weary of adventuring, but will get back in the saddle if it means stopping the bad guys. But, in Crystal Skull, Indy seems grumpy, just like an older man would feel when being pulled out of semi-retirement. That said, he never seemed ornery in any of those films. In the film, an aging Indy finds himself partnered with old flame. Reflecting the passage of time since the last picture was made, Crystal Skull is set in 1957, and the visual elements include ’50s Americana and sci-fi trappings. In the first three films, Indy always seemed pretty old for an action hero, or rather, more mature. Now, nearly 20 years later, Indy is back with a new adventure, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. But, even though he probably won't be swinging from a whip, or punching KGB officers in either of those projects, I still think that Ford was convincing as an older Indy in Crystal Skull. We of course know that Harrison Ford is going to be joining the MCU pretty soon, and he's also in Taylor Sheridan's 1923. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a 2008 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by David Koepp, based on a story by George Lucas and Jeff Nathanson. Four prairie dogs then watch its remains fall near their holes.(Image credit: Paramount Pictures) Harrison Ford Is Still Compelling As An Older IndyĪs I mentioned in the last section, Harrison Ford was way older than 39 (his age in Raiders of the Lost Ark) when he made Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but dadgum, he still had it then, and he’s still got it now. After knocking Dovchenko away from its rails, it crashes against the rubber bumper and sends Jones and the Janitor into Doom Town only to then destroy the bumper and fly into the sky, where it explodes into smithereens. Boarded by Jones and the Janitor, with Dovchenko dragged behind from his chain, it leaves the bunker at full speed (without burning any Soviet). In LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues, the rocket sled gets destroyed. In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, it can be clearly seen that the engine on the sled has compressor blades, indicating a jet engine rather than a rocket motor, so the strictly speaking it's a 'jet sled'. Once out of the hangar, Jones shoved the unconscious Soviet aside but, disoriented from the ride, lost his balance and fell to the ground, avoiding being spotted by Dovchenko once he recovered conciousness and allowing him to escape to Doom Town. When Dovchenko accidentally engaged the sled's engine after getting knocked into the control panel, the pair were carried down the track, burning five Soviets during the ignition and reaching speeds so high that Dovchenko lost consciousness. In 1957, Indiana Jones and Antonin Dovchenko discovered the rocket sled of Hangar 51 during the archaeologists Escape Attempt of the facility when they cracked and fell through a glass window in the floor. One was stored in a bunker beneath Hangar 51. Sleds of this sort were used by the United States of America in the Cold War against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to test ejection seats and other equipment for aircrafts. A rocket in the back propelled the sled forward. The rocket sled was a high speed sled mounted on a set of rails.
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