{"id":1129,"date":"2007-09-11T09:45:39","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T09:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2007-09-11T09:45:39","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T09:45:39","slug":"indy_iv_title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/11\/indy_iv_title\/","title":{"rendered":"Indy IV Title"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve got a much longer entry in the works about what I did over the weekend, but I’m in the middle of a crushingly busy week, so I don’t know when I’ll be able to finish it. In the meantime, here’s a quick note about yesterday’s big announcement. If you didn’t hear, Shia LaBeouf revealed<\/a> the title of the upcoming fourth Indiana Jones movie at the MTV Video Music Awards. It is — are you ready? — Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The reactions I’ve heard thus far have been luke-warm at best, with many people saying that the title is too long. I’ll admit, it’s a bit ungainly — it would be better if Uncle George shortened it to Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull<\/i> — but I’m generally fine with it. It has an appropriately pulpish sound, and crystal skulls<\/a> — which do<\/i> exist and have long been rumored to possess occult or mystical powers — are far more the sort of thing you’d expect an Indiana Jones story to pivot around than Area 51 and the Roswell aliens. (One of the rumored plotlines from a couple years ago had our favorite fedora-wearing whipcracker uncovering the truth that Mulder never seemed to get to the bottom of, an utterly ridiculous idea that would make a disastrous movie, in my not-so-humble opinion.)<\/p>\n

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think I like the title. I’m starting to think that maybe George, Steven, and Harrison might be making a for-real Indy movie, instead of the lame and pointless mess that everyone fears…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve got a much longer entry in the works about what I did over the weekend, but I’m in the middle of a crushingly busy week, so I don’t know when I’ll be able to finish it. In the meantime, here’s a quick note about yesterday’s big announcement. If you didn’t hear, Shia LaBeouf revealed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}