{"id":1421,"date":"2008-05-29T20:45:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T01:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2008-06-15T21:25:37","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T02:25:37","slug":"indiana-jones-and-the-kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/05\/29\/indiana-jones-and-the-kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/3o5.gif\" alt=\"3 Stars\" \/><br \/>\nProbably everyone knows what to expect from the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0367882\/\">Indiana Jones movie<\/a>: thrills and chills leavened with cheerful good humor; lots of fun with no concern about passing the refrigerator test.<\/p>\n<p>Actually this sort of thing is much harder to pull off than it looks&#8211;you have to keep the audience so enchanted while they are watching that they won&#8217;t ask questions. Get things a little bit wrong and it will become annoying or tedious. No one does this kind of thing better than Steven Spielberg.<\/p>\n<p>This one is reminiscent of the first movie in the series: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082971\/\"><em>Raiders of the Lost Arc<\/em><\/a> (1981), but it&#8217;s set in 1957, which I think is about 17 years later in movie time. Instead of Nazis for villains it has evil KGB agents. Once again there&#8217;s a quest for an implausible treasure. Its witty and thrilling and fun, but mostly forgettable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably everyone knows what to expect from the latest Indiana Jones movie: thrills and chills leavened with cheerful good humor; lots of fun with no concern about passing the refrigerator&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/05\/29\/indiana-jones-and-the-kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-indiana-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}