The Lucas problem

Life is good. I WILL lose this weight and be in shape for the cbp fitness tests when that comes around. I got a call from work force inquiring about my current employment status. I tell them I'm trying to get a job back in the federal government, that's all. They say they have openings at TSA still. I'm thinking, wouldn't mind jumping back in there. If I knew how to lose weight I would have stayed at my job there because I feel so much better about life now that I know how to get rid of fat. This is the key to success in life, more than college or whatever. I see fat college grads, in fact a lot of people go through that shit, come out just as stupid as they were before, but boy do they know everything about pulling a computer apart and putting it back together, good for them.

On to the topic of today. I want to get into the reasons why Lucas and Spielberg made Indiana Jones 4, a movie that makes both of them look like completely incompetent fools.

Harsh words, yes, but they deserve it.

These are Legends in cinema. And apparently they're not smart enough to know that when men reach a certain age they experience the Mid-life crisis. They know that they have to let go of their former glory and leave it behind and prepare themselves for their inevitable deaths. But no. Like little kids wanting ice cream, they gave in to their temptation to see another Indy adventure, and they ruined a once classic, well regarded franchise with a flat lifeless pile of garbage that will be laughed at for all time to come.

I'm a forgiving movie viewer, always have been. I generally like to watch anything that's not utterly insulting like batman and robin... So that side of me, that imaginative side of me that's able to just be like a kid and just say whatever the fuck and just enjoy a movie for what it is, TRIED so hard to like Indy 4. It's like this... ya watch a movie like Jurassic park 3 which I did as a mega super duper jurassic park fan, yeah it's a shitty sequel, but I rolled with it back then. I was just happy to have another Jurassic park movie to sit and watch with Dr. Grant and stuff. The movie's awful, makes no fucking sense at all especially after what happened in Jurassic park 2 which Dr. Grant must have heard about. There's NOTHING new about it, which is the worst part. It's literally a rehash of JP2 upside down and sideways. What a waste of time and money for all involved.

So here we have a similar issue with Indy 4. Will a kid carez about it being a bad sequel or just be happy to have another JP to sit and enjoy on a lazy sunday? NO. I watched EVERYTHING under the sun as a kid. Every Rocky, Every Superman, Every Indy, Every Batman, Every Police Academy, Every disney movie, whatever. I watched it and just got lost in the magical world of film, period. I can definitely see a kid watching Indy 4 and not feeling too offended by it.

But I am.

Maybe I'm too old now and know too much about why it got made. Simple reason too... Spielberg and Lucas are old men struggling to recapture their youth. They don't want to let it go, that feeling of invincibility they had back in the good ol days. But what a way to show the world you still got it in your golden years guys... Good lord.

On top of that is the Harrison Ford factor. Wtf is he, like 60 something now. Yeah, just don't. Don't show Indy as an old man jumping around with the fadora and jacket and whip with his sidekick shia. Just don't.

If there's anything that signified the final nail in the coffin for my childhood it was the fumbling of Indiana Jones. That truly woke me up to reality, that my heros and my beliefs are a sham, the world as I knew it was a lie... that kind of thing.

Time to grow up and become a grumpy old man who hates everyone.

And the ultimate joke of it all? We're STILL sitting around in this world with a mediocre last Indiana Jones film and Lucas and Spielberg are thinking to themselves about making a last one that will TRULY bring it and send it off on a high note. DON'T. I beg you guys, don't.

And they STILL haven't learned their lesson. We're going to get new Star Wars movies now to further bury the franchise deeper into the ground if it hasn't been buried enough already...

It's funny too. We've been down this road before. I decided to watch EVERYTHING star trek some years back. Watch the whole original series, watched all the movies. We've seen this before when actors begin to age and the studios decide to make the most of it before they get too old. Well it sucked back then too. What the hell makes them think it'll work out this time? Old Captain Kirk looked fucking ridiculous as the series went on past wrath of khan.

I'm just saying, these guys got to learn to let go of the past imo and stop thinking they can do no wrong.