{"id":21745,"date":"2023-06-27T21:02:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T01:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=21745"},"modified":"2023-07-12T21:10:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T01:10:38","slug":"indiana-jones-and-the-crystal-skull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/indiana-jones-and-the-crystal-skull\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;If you want to be a good archaeologist, you&#8217;ve got to get out of the library.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull<\/strong>, released in 2008<\/p>\n<p>A Russian named Irina Spalko gets away with the corpse of a Roswell alien from Area 51, and Indiana Jones barely gets away with his life. The FBI isn&#8217;t happy about Jones helping the Russians, and they get him fired from his teaching job. When a kid named Mutt tells Jones that his old friend Professor Oxley is in trouble, Jones listens. It turns out that Mutt is the son of Marion Ravenwood.<\/p>\n<p>It is always delightful to see Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, and Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood.<\/p>\n<p>I liked it better this time. There&#8217;s some silliness, but there always was. The ending is still disappointing, but there&#8217;s lots to like in the rest of the movie.<\/p>\n<p>The jungle scenes were filmed in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, John Hurt, and Jim Broadbent. Directed by Steven Spielberg (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade\/\"><strong>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade<\/strong><\/a>). The glorious music is by John Williams.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd time I&#8217;ve seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;If you want to be a good archaeologist, you&#8217;ve got to get out of the library.&#8221; Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, released in 2008 A Russian named Irina Spalko gets away with the corpse of a Roswell alien from Area 51, and Indiana Jones barely gets away with his life. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-21745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21745"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21840,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21745\/revisions\/21840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}