Harrison Ford is fuckin' over it!

Looks like Harrison Ford answered Ian McKellen via t-shirt:

Hilarious.

London is calling

We did spend Valentines Day in one of my favorite places on this planet: London. Traveling around the globe is probably the best way for an average person to relive Dr. Jones' life style (just think of the dotted line on the map next time you are on an airplane). Anyway, I was doing what I like to do whenever I travel: Trying to find Indy in all the (wrong) places.

This time I actually was trying to look in the right place: Wested Leather Co., the company that made the original Raiders jacket. I got my own trusted Raiders jacket from the shop owner Peter Botwright in 2001. I am wearing it for 12 years now, it is an amazing piece. So I got the idea to get a new Last Crusade jacket as well. And maybe some fitting trousers, a shirt and the belt. Brilliant idea until we noticed that the Wested Leather Co. has been relocated to Kent. So much for not looking it up properly before going to England. Brilliant fail. Well, at least I can order my new jacket online.

But luck was on my side in the end: Taking a wrong turn while walking through London did lead us to an X that marks a spot. We did stumble over The Cinema Store, a nice little cinema memorabilia shop that happens to feature a well known face in their logo: "The Archaeologist". An excellent choice for a cinema store.

An "honest trailer" for Indy 4

A group of people named screenjunkies is making "honest trailers" for youtube. Such an "honest trailer" is a film trailer with a voice over telling honest things about the film. This is hilariously funny for really bad teen blockbusters (the Twilight honest trailer is the only thing you ever need to see from that particular franchise).

They pick the films for those honest trailer by public demand and this weeks new trailer is the honest trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Here is their announcement: Get Ready for George Lucas to ruin another legendary franchise as we join Indiana Jones on his quest to find aliens. Yeah, you read that right, aliens.

Now a little warning: I think this trailer ended up a bit to harsh and offensive. Kind of like most parodies about Indy 4 do (the Indy 4 Southpark treatment comes into my mind). Please make up your own mind about this trailer, it does not display my personal opinion.

Disney and Indy 5

It's been a couple of weeks since Lucas' deal with Disney. After the flood of pictures of Darth Vader with mouse ears washed away half of the internet, we finally see some comments on a future Indy movie surfacing. A nice writeup with references to all current "official" comments (like producer Frank Marshall's thoughts) can be found here: http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/11/01/disney-lucasfilm-deal-indiana-jones/ - stuff to think about.

Empire's Indiana Jones Week

Well, the editors of the British Empire movie magazine really like Indiana Jones (and keep proofing it again and again). This time they have created their ultimate online tribute with exclusive features and interviews. Check it out while it is online: