My bone is with “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. Aside from having a name that sounds like it was plucked from a morbid Nancy Drew novella, the first TRAILER was just released to the internet. Watch it.

What’s that music at the beggining? Does it sound familiar? You may have heard it in several other trailers before. Like the one for “Master and Commander”, with Russell Crowe. Or “Cinderella Man”, with, well Russell Crowe. And now it’s in Indiana Jones.

This particular piece of music seems to be one of the hottest tickets for including in a movie trailer, and then of course never having in the actual movie. And that’s a shame, because it’s an amazing soundtrack, written and composed by the supremely talented Brian Tyler. It was created for the Sci-Fi Channel tv mini-series “Children of Dune”, which was also amazing, and I am sick and tired of tiny snippets of it floating around the internet without it getting its real due. The other day I saw it in a video on YouTube of high school football highlights. YouTube high school football highlights. That’s too ridiculous to stand.

 As for the actual trailer: It’s actually pretty awesome. They’re going to give Indiana Jones the complete modern action movie treatment, but you know what? I still think it might turn out okay. Sure, it will be loaded with effects shot after effects shot as a CGI Harrison Ford swings around like Batman with a bullwhip, but by God, it’s Indiana Jones. A shame they don’t get to have Nazi villains though. Evil Russians are an inferior substitute.

 -Jim

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