Movie: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

“During the Cold War, Soviet agents watch Professor Henry Jones when a young man brings him a coded message from an aged, demented colleague, Henry Oxley. Led by the brilliant Irina Spalko, the Soviets tail Jones and the young man, Mutt, to Peru. With Oxley’s code, they find a legendary skull made of a single piece of quartz. If Jones can deliver the skull to its rightful place, all may be well; but if Irina takes it to its origin, she’ll gain powers that could endanger the West. Aging professor and young buck join forces with a woman from Jones’s past to face the dangers of the jungle, Russia, and the supernatural. Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}”

• Director: Steven Spielberg
• Release Date:
  22 May 2008 (USA)
• Run Time:
  122 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Action , Adventure , Thriller See »
• MPAA:
  Rated PG-13 for adventure violence and scary images.

Tagline: In May, the adventure continues. See »

Trivia: When asked if Harrison Ford was too old to return as Indy, producer Frank Marshall quoted Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981): “It’s not the years, it’s the mileage.” He explained that it would be interesting to see Indy in a different decade, and deal with all kinds of new and interesting things. The age also adds to Indy as a fallible and therefore believable character. Ford spent three hours a day at the gym, and subsisted on a high-protein diet of fish and vegetables, thus building his body into a condition where he could perform his own stunts (he always kept himself fit anyway, as he hoped to complete all the five Indiana Jones films that were originally planned in the 1980s). Steven Spielberg later stated he was so impressed with Ford’s form that he could not tell the difference between the shoots for the third and fourth films.
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Goofs: Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Many of the soldiers in the early scenes are armed with Thompson submachine guns (tommy guns). These guns fire from the “open bolt” position, meaning that the cocking handles would be locked to the rear if they were prepared to fire. All the guns shown have their cocking handles fully forward in the uncocked position.
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