This book contained a map. A map with no names,
precise directions from the unknown city to the secret Canyon of
the Crescent Moon. So it did. Where are these missing pages? This map?
We must have these pages back. You're wasting your breath. He won't tell us
and he doesn't have to. It's perfectly
obvious where the pages are. He's given them to Marcus
Brody. Marcus? You didn't drag poor Marcus along, did you?
He's not up to the challenge. He sticks out like a sore thumb.
We'll find him. The hell you will.
He's got a two day head start. On you, which is more than he needs.
Brody's got friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan.
He speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom. He'll blend in,
disappear. You'll never see him again. With any luck,
he's got the Grail already. Does anyone
here speak English? Or even ancient Greek? Water. No. Tank is a
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It's the podcast where two middle aged dads sit around and shoot the about
the movies of the 80s and 90s. Here are your hosts, Steve,
Paulo and Nick Brianna. Hello, everybody.
Welcome to another episode of 2Dads. One movie. I'm Steve. And I'm Nick.
And today we are going to 1989 and we are watching
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I mentioned it
last week when I picked this one for us. This is my favorite, I think
the best of the Indiana Jones films. Really? I only consider the
first three films to be extant to begin with. I'm not going to
watch that Crystal Skull or Dial. We live in the 80s and 90s. We're true
to that. Exactly. So. So yeah, one of my favorite movies growing up.
I saw this in the theater when it came out. This was, you know,
Indiana Jones in general was a huge part of my childhood, along with Star wars
and a handful of other things I think a lot of people our age definitely
grew up with. But Nick, I was your first viewing. Yeah,
I'd never seen this one before. I think there are a lot
more of these movies than I'd like to admit. But yeah, so I. I'd seen
the first couple Indiana Jones here and there and I don't know what happened.
I just never watched this. I always considered it in my mind to be the
new one. Oh, and I like Sean Conry. I like
everything about this. I don't know why I never got back to it. I think
maybe by the time I had access to it, I was kind of grown into
like different kinds of action movies and didn't really go back and revisit some of
this stuff. Yeah, this is definitely more of like an adventure movie than like a
pure action movie, for sure. You know, there's definitely action, there's lots of fights,
and there's lots of different action sequences. But, you know, it definitely has more of
that adventure feel. The classic Indiana Jones sort of vibe. Yep. But, yeah,
in the intervening 36 years, I guess you just never got around to it,
huh? I never. Yeah. I mean, for the number of times I've watched,
like various Steven Seagal movies, to have never watched this,
I feel like I'm going to end up at a few levels down in hell
if I were to die today. So I got to really start repenting. This movie
was also sort of a return to the roots for the series. Much in the
same way that European Vacation stands out as a sore thumb in the
vacation series because there's no Cousin Eddie. And having a vacation movie without Cousin Eddie
is sort of like lacking Temple of Doom doesn't have Nazis. So to go from
Raiders, the Lost Ark, which had Nazis, to Temple of Doom with no Nazis,
to Last Crusade, where we have Nazis again, having Indiana Jones beat up and kill
Nazis is like a major attraction of the series. Yeah,
for sure. This really is like a return to the core of Indiana
Jones. And you know, again, as someone not familiar with this movies, I was pleasantly
surprised by the number of Nazis that get like punched and shot and blown up.
So it was nice. Crashed into things and oh my God, it's fantastic.
So, yeah. All right, let's jump into the facts on Indiana Jones and the Last
Crusade. This movie came out May 24, 1989. Good old memorial Day.
Weekend big for movies. Running time 127 minutes. Rating of PG
13 directed by Steven Spielberg. The one, the only, written by Jeffrey
Bohm, George Lucas and Minnow Mayus. I believe I'm pronouncing that name right.
I don't know for sure. Starring, among others, but primarily starring Harrison
Ford and Sean Connery. 84% of rotten tomatoes certified fresh.
Critics did not have a problem with this movie. An 8.2 on IMDb.
A very high score for IMDb. It won
nine total awards from various award shows, including, I'll mention specifically one
Oscar. It won the Academy Award for best effects Sound effects editing.
And I feel like every Inanna Jones movie should win that just for the sound
of punches in Indiana Jones. Oh, yeah, the whip, smack, sound of the punch
is so uniquely Indiana Jones and so good on a budget of $48
million, which is a ton of money for 1989.
Yeah, it did bring in 474 million for just
shy of 10 times what it cost. Crazy. We'd have to look back. I think
this in nominal dollars made slightly less than Terminator
2, but significantly more than its budget and slightly less as a
percentage of its budget than Coming to America made. But it's like right up there
with as far as like box office success with those two movies of the ones
we've done. So yeah, huge hit. It was pretty inescapable. Inescapable. The summer
of 89 again, another like T2. Another of those movies with like a ton of
like fast food tie ins and you know, action figures and stuff just kind of
all over the place. Indiana Jones sort of took over for at least,
at least that year. Let's dive in. I'll go ahead. I'll go and kick us
off. Yeah, yeah. So first of all, I just want to mention the creative team
behind this movie. Right. You have Steven Spielberg directing.
It's produced by Frank Marshall and George Lucas from a story and characters by George
Lucas. You know, John Williams does the score. The cast includes,
you know, obviously Harrison Ford and Sean Connery in top billing. But River Phoenix is
in this. John Rhys Davis is in it. There's just some fantastic actors
up and down, even ones that maybe Denholm Elliott. Denholm Elliott is fantastic.
Love him as Marcus Brody, you know. And there's other characters. Allison Doody
plays the beautiful Dr. Elsa Schneider. Also by the way,
who she. The thing that I actually remember sometimes almost as much for. She played
Wild Thing, Vaughn's agent in Major League 2. Oh, okay.
And so she was definite. Definitely a favorite of mine. Been in all the great
sequels. But yeah. So we start off in a flashback
sequence to a young Indiana Jones was a member of a bench based the Boy
Scouts it looks like or whatever similar thing. So this would have been based on
the idea that generally speaking the Indiana Jones films, at least the ones involving
Nazis take place in the late 1930s. That's sort of the ballpark of where
his stuff. This must be about 19. I think it said 1915. I couldn't remember
if it said so 1915, we're taken back to Utah and so
Indiana Jones is. Is played by River Phoenix at this point.
Very young. His hair I don't think matches the time
period at all. It's like way too long for a boy to have at that.
I don't feel like people were that cool. Yeah, about Long hair. It was accidentally
stylish. Yeah, it was, maybe, but. But basically, we get this prologue
sequence. We'll go into the whole thing. But I want to say just. There's something
so clean about this prologue. It takes 10 minutes
and it gives us the Orient. The origin of the
hat. Yeah. The whip. Yeah. The scar on his chin, his fear of
snakes. Yes. All in 10 minutes. Yeah. And it's really impressive
because I was. Looking down, like, when this sequence ended, I looked down once,
it kind of flashed into present day and was shocked to see how efficient
that was. Because all these things as I'm going through as being the dumb guy,
seeing this for the first time, being like, wait a second, I thought he didn't
like snakes. Hey, that guy's hat looks a lot like his hat.
And I'm. Yeah. So I'm kind of following along here. But, yeah, I mean,
a great way, especially as someone who's kind of, like, less familiar with the Indiana
Jones lore, to just be caught up on, like, all this stuff and you're kind
of like, oh, it makes a lot of sense. And it wasn't really crammed in
there. I mean, it was very, like, efficiently done. It was pretty cool. Yeah.
I think it's really the. It does something some really good sequels do,
which is both give you, you know, sort of fan service,
if you are a fan. If you know the origins or you know the story
or you know the characters. You get these little bits that are sort of fun,
like, oh, that's so neat. Look at that. And if you're not familiar, it's just
explaining stuff to you. Yeah. And I think that that's really great. It really makes
it so that new folks to the series or whatever can kind of come
in. You know, Indiana Jones is not a serial series in the sense
that the events of one movie do not directly influence the events of
another necessarily. Right. It's like an ongoing lore. And so being
able to drop in, if you'd never ever heard of Indiana Jo, you could drop
into this movie and get all the information that you need in order to enjoy
it as we go along. So, yeah. So the prologue. Indy is in Utah with
his Boy Scouts. They're just exploring caves. He stumbles upon some
treasure hunters who are digging through one of the caves, and they find a beautiful
golden cross with a long golden chain, which he immediately recognizes as the Cross of
Coronado. I don't know exactly how old Indy is at this point. 17,
18, 19, in that ballpark. I don't know exactly, but he still lives
with his dad at home, so there's that. But, you know, he's obviously been very
well educated to be able to recognize an artist artifact like that. So instantly is,
Is, you know, again, sort of an insight into Indy himself.
He does not have a problem with a snake that's crawling on his buddy and
says it's just a snake, throws it away. But he sends his buddy off to
go get the sheriff and go get their, Their, their troop leader and like,
you know, kind of tell people that they've. He's found some people who are like,
robbing this, this, you know, site, basically. So he climbs down
to steal the cross and he's almost away when he
kicks something and it attracts the attention of the treasure hunters. And now they're chasing
him. Yes. And it's. It's a fantastic chase sequence. It starts going
down the hillside river until he's running near some train tracks.
And it turns out there's a circus coming to town. Yeah. Because he jumps onto
the train carrying the circus animals. Such a cool idea.
This all looked great, like the beginning of the movie as
they're riding horseback, like in the flashback scene, all that just. It's beautiful.
Like, it really sets it up. And then the colors and everything in this train
sequence, there was a shot of it where it's kind of like directly from the
side. And it almost looked like, you know, homage to like a silent film type
chase. Like, it seemed intentional that it was filmed in a certain way
to look like what some of those silent films look like because they didn't really
use that angle otherwise. But so many things he could get into,
like, okay, I'm being chased on the train. Well, what if I dip into a
car? There's a lion here. There's all this stuff. Really cool idea.
And just a great way to get that adrenaline flowing early in the movie.
This is also the first of many times throughout the movie where we have either
fighting occurring on or involving a different kind of vehicle.
There's super. Well, I'll mention them all as we go through them, but this is.
Obviously, they're fighting on a train and they're. And they're sort of going. And he's,
you know, getting caught by people and they're getting away from them and then punching,
and then they punch. You know, there's all this stuff and he's got to fight
a guy with a knife while a rhino in the car beneath them is shoving
his horn up in through the. The roof and almost getting him in the nards.
He falls into the. The reptile car.
Yeah. And that's where we think maybe his fear of snakes comes from, because it
is. He is covered in snakes and there's a few. They're like in his clothes.
Oh, man. Kind of follow him for a little while. Yeah. And then, yeah,
he falls through the ceiling of the lion car. And this
is where he grabs a whip off the wall to sort of try to keep
the lion at bay. But his first use of it actually gets himself across the
chin. Now Harrison Ford, of course, has that scar for real. You know, he got
it as a young man. But this explains the scar as far as the Indiana
Jones character goes. Like, oh, it came from the first time he ever tried to
use that whip. But yeah, but basically he, you know, is. Is kind
of helped out of the lion's cage by the treasure hunters
who think they've got him now. But he's able to get away yet
again and get into like a magic car. It's like a caboose and it says
like, Dr. So and so's magic caboose. And this is when the head treasure
hunter is kind of like, okay, well wait, see if he doubles back, like,
don't, don't all of you go in. Yeah. But he dives into like a trunk.
But it's clear that he's gone into the guy's like, okay, get out of the
trunk, kid. Well, apparently this trunk. I don't know if the circus. If the magic
show takes place in the train car. Right. Would it be rigged
to drive through the floor? Yeah, clearly he's, he's been able to get out of
the train car itself through the floor of the trunk, which is interesting. You just
have to place the magic box somewhere. Just. Yeah, I guess so. So, so apparently
that's built into that train car to be impressive. And, and so he's able to
get away. So he runs off and he's able to make it home to where
he lives with his father, the Joneses. And yeah.
And this is. We first hear one of our co stars here. We don't actually
see Sean Connery. Right, right. And he's. He's home and he,
he has the cross. Yeah. But then the sheriff
shows up at his door. Yeah. And he's. And he's excited. He's like, okay.
He's like, good. Hey, I'm a good guy. I get to turn this in.
Like, because it seems like his motivation is like, this should be in a museum.
Yeah. Like, this should, should be for someone to, for everyone to See? Or whatever.
And the sheriff like to his disappointment is accompanied basically by
the treasure hunter crew. Yeah. He's like, well, you know, these guys say you stole
it, whatever. He gives it back. They immediately walk it outside, get handed an envelope
full of cash from this other guy. This guy in a white suit. Yeah.
So he's just learning like the dirty game of artifact hunting, I think.
Yeah, for sure. And, and so then the, the head treasure hunter
who's got the brown felt fedora. Yep. You know, takes it off of his hat,
you know, and puts it on. On the. Kidding. Say kid, you lost today,
but you don't gotta like it. Right. And he puts the hat on. Which is
our transition then to modern day or present day, which for
us is like again the late 30s. That's when the Indiana Jones films take place.
But it's now adult Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones who is on
the deck of a storm tossed ship,
we're told the. Off the coast of Portugal, I believe it says,
and being punched and attacked and whatever.
Just getting the crap out of them right away. Another vehicle on which we're having
a battle. Yeah. Train to boat. If your
kid is approached by a guy that looks like that treasure hunter who
puts his hat on the kid's head is like a. Hey, good job, kid.
How quick before you burn that thing. Right. I think it's
just another indication to us that Dr. Jones, the father is not particularly.
He's not fan. Involved. Yeah. In his son's life. Where'd you get that
hat? What hat? This fight on the boat.
This is a great intro to the action of present day Indiana Jones and
just, just you know, him beating a bunch of nameless guys and he.
And, and in the end of it he basically turns into
one of our former podcast subjects, Demolition man,
and blows up an entire boat just to save like, you know, this artifact wasn't
his fault. He. He took, he flew off into the ocean and
then you know, like some big thing fell over and burned the boat. Okay.
It wasn't his fault. It wasn't his fault. So his hands are clean. His hands
are clean. And plus the artifacts obviously way more important than the people. So.
But yeah. But this is also good introd introduction to again, what I mentioned that
that whip smack noise. Yes. That punches make in Indiana. I don't think it's ever,
I've ever heard in any movie. It's interesting if you're listening close in certain movies
that the other sounds they lay over to enhance things. Like I've heard
like a, like a Jaguar roar put over explosions.
Okay. Like, things that add punctuation to it
that aren't really the. The real life sound. So, yeah, that's really cool, the whip.
Smack sound there, but, yeah, so classic. So. So he gets his artifact back
to school, and he's back at his boring life teaching. It's kind of like his
Clark Kent character, right? And all he wants
to do is return this to the school. He doesn't have big stories about,
dude, you wouldn't believe what I had to go through to get this.
So, yeah, so he's. He's back there and he gives it to Denholm, Elliot,
Mark, Marcus Brody Mark, character's name. And he is the curator
of the museum there at the college. They don't say what college it is,
but I get the sense we're talking about upstate New York. It seems like just
based on other geography, where he's easily taken to.
And then. So, you know, let's think it's probably something along the lines of,
like, Cornell, Syracuse, something that ballpark. It's probably an Ivy League. It's not like he's
not at some community college. He's probably at a big school that has a museum.
He's not at Bunker Hill Community College. Exactly Right. But before that, when he's teaching
his class, he says, archaeology is the search for fact, not truth. If you want
truth, you know, Dr. So and so his philosophy course is, you know, down the
hall, and he makes a comment about, like, we don't hunt, we don't follow maps
to bury treasure, and X never, ever marks the spot,
which is going to come back later, of course. But, yeah, so he goes,
you know, he tells Marcus about, you know, hey, I found it. I've been looking
for this all my life. Marcus is super impressed. And of course, then Joan says,
oh, we'll discuss my honorarium over dinner and champagne, your treat.
Honorarium, of course, is what you pay to someone who's. Who's donated something to a.
It's basically his fee for tracking down and getting the things. It's one of the
ways he makes his money. Let's not pretend Indiana Jones is completely altruistic.
He's paid to retrieve these things, but. He'S probably paid an incredibly small fraction
of the. Of the value, right? Sort of like last week we talked about sneakers.
You know, when you do the good work. Yeah, exactly. With the skill set that
could do evil, you don't get paid as much for the good. He is.
Goes to his office at the school, and there are just a crowd
of students, like, beckoning and clamoring for his help with stuff.
I don't know, with papers, whatever. I think a lot of them might just be
young women who are attracted to him and want to hang out with him.
But his secretary says, your mail's on your desk. You know, you got these term
papers to gray, like, whatever. And he's like, okay, okay, I'll talk to everybody once.
Once in, you know, one at a time. Intern, da, da, da. Goes into his
office, which is really cool little office. It's like, clearly he's like, you know,
built himself a bunch of shelves around the office holding all these artifacts and different
things that he's, you know, gathered over the years, but apparently weren't good enough to
go in Marcus's museum. They just sit there in his office.
But he has some mail on his desk, one of which is a small brown
wrapped paper package that says it's from Venice, Italy. And he mentions all venison.
He puts in his pocket. Pocket. Instead of heading back out through the throng of
students who are still screaming at his door. Yeah. He sneaks out the window because
them kids and so. But as he does, he is approached by
men very ominously sitting in, like, a black car, like, waiting for him.
Doesn't look good. No. But they basically say, like, you know, Mr.
Dr. Jones, will you come with us, please? You know, it's like, who are these
guys? I want to have money someday to just send a car of goons to
like, pick one of my friends up. Even if it's just like, hey, you're coming
over to watch the hockey game. It's just like, I want to send them there
for that. Yeah. So he gets brought back to this guy's
house who's like, maybe the benefactor of the school, One of the rich.
Obviously a really rich dude. And this is my
ignorance of the series. Has this character appeared before? No, Walter Donovan is a
character for this movie only. Okay. So he's basically saying, hey,
you like finding stuff? I like, quote, finding stuff,
too. Don't trust anybody. Like, kind of a similar to the
Russian diplomat sneakers. That's right. Yeah. Don't trust anyone. Don't trust
anyone. And. And he tells him, though we found this
etching, I guess, that is partially looks like
it's giving us clues to the location of the holy grail, the cup that Jesus
drank from at the last supper supper, which is supposedly to
give you eternal life or healing or. I mean, this is the theory behind it,
right? That's the lore. That's the lore. And so, yeah, like, we're really close to
it. And of course we learn through this conversation that they
had a project lead, you know, on the job and sort of, they were looking
in Venice and they think they might have found the second marker that they're supposed
to be looking for. Again, this is all this. They're going, they're following the myth
and finding pieces of it are real. So let's keep following the myth then.
And you know, he says, well, you know, we. Our project leader is missing.
We need someone to go both, to both continue his research, but also maybe to
find him, you know, and so we thought we'd talk to you. And he,
and Indy tells him, like, well, you got the wrong Dr. Jones. My dad's the
grail enthusiast. I'm not into this stuff. And he goes, oh no, we're. We.
That's who's missing. Which I'm like, you, Walter Donovan burying him,
burying the lead his dad is missing is like so
shitty and should be such a red flag about what kind of guy Walter Donovan
is. But yeah, obviously Indy agrees, you know, to, to sort of like
whatever. So he initially goes and gets Brody and Marcus. Brody and,
and Indy go to his dad's house to look for him. It's been ransacked,
it's been torn apart. And, and you know, Marcus is like, what. What could they
have been looking for? You know, and, and that's my, that's my Denholm, Elliot.
Good. It's pretty good. And he's got the, the rap package with him.
He opens it up and it's the Grail diary. So he realizes that his dad
sent him his Grail diary. All the notes, all the research, everything he'd ever done
over his entire career looking for the Grail and interpreting signs
and different clues are all there in the diary. And they've been sent away from
wherever he was, as it says, from Venice to indie.
And so he now knows for sure Donovan's not like lying to him.
His dad is missing. He's seems to be in trouble. He clearly was in Venice
recently to mail this thing. So he agrees to go and to
look for. Look for his dad and will be greeted at the airport
by was. We said by the airport, whatever. But will be greeted by Dr.
Schneider. Right? So they didn't know at this time. And you know,
the, the common perception, especially back in the late 30s, you're being
greeted by a doctor, it's going to be a male,
right? So then, you know, it's this nice looking blonde lady who's like, oh,
what's. This broad doing here? Where's the real Doctor, Toots? Oh,
no, I am the Doctor. And that. And it actually wasn't like a big deal
in the movie. It was just kind of a brief, like, oh, okay. Yeah.
So then she takes them to. What is this place that she takes
them to in Venice. Right. It's a library, but it used to be a church.
So it's like a converted church built. Kind of on top of the ruins,
potentially, of this well. So it's like what we find out is that there's
catacombs beneath the city that would be the church. So they would have used it
as, like, a sacred barrier burying place. Okay. You know, whatever. Back in. In the
1200s or something. Whatever. But that, you know, the church that was built on top
is no longer used as a church. It is used as a library.
And so Dr. Schneider takes Marcus
and Indy there. You know, is basically saying, like, you know, this is, like,
the last thing that your father. When I. When your father went missing, he left
this note where he was, and it just had Roman numerals on it. 3,
7, and 10. Just the Roman numerals. Right. And that's, like, all they've kind of
got to go on. Indy notices right away the. The spot where she brings them
to this stained glass window that's in front of them. He's like, I recognize dad
literally drew this stained glass window right, in his grail diary. Like, this was an
important thing. And, of course, water on the stained glass window. But those Roman numerals,
7 and 10. Right. And then they start looking around, and on one column,
they see a three, and on another column, they see a seven. Never mind.
There are other columns with other Roman numerals on them, but. But, hey, ignore those.
Here's what. But there is no confirmation bias. Yeah, Exactly. Where's the 10?
Everybody look around for the 10. So they're looking around. They're looking around, and Elsa's
going this way, and Marcus is going that way, and Indy kind of looks like
the floor. And he climbs this little, you know, one of those classic iron spiral
staircases and looks down. And on the floor, of course, is the Roman numeral 10,
to which he has to sheepishly admit, X marks the spot.
Spot. Yeah, because X never, ever marks the spot.
Yeah. So. And this, like, as a viewer, I was like, geez,
this is happening pretty quick here. We're. We're discovering the treasure very
quickly. And then Indy takes one of those, like,
stanchion holder things. Those posts and just hits
this incredibly heavy tile three times. And then fully, like,
produces a hole through to the floor enough for him to, like, move it out
of the way. I think it's marble, I think, which is incredibly hard.
Right. And. And the. I think what happened is he's just trying to
hit a corner. Because the idea is that if there is a way down
underneath, just destroying a corner would let you sort of like. So that's what he
does. But there's a great moment we don't. I don't want us to miss here
where the librarian is like, like, stamping books. And just so happens that
every, like, second or third stamp he does coincides with indie
nailing this thing into the marble floor. Until the crunch sound of the
last break. And he has to put the stamp down. Like, what's going on with
my stamp? Yeah. Him looking at his stamp as if, like, what's happening? I.
Super strength here or something. I also say very funny. Real quick, before we get
too far into it, I want to say, like, if I were to be an
incredibly wealthy person someday, which is, you know, probably not in the car cards,
I would pay a pretty. Pretty obscene amount of money to
own the original movie prop of the Grail Diary. It's one of, to me,
one of the coolest movie props of all time. The amount of detail they
had to put into it just so he could flip through it. Yeah. On screen.
Yeah. Camera on it. He's able to flip through it. And there are no blank
pages in there. Right. It's page after page of, like, drawings. And, like,
I would pay, you know, literally six figures if I
had it, if it was that kind of wealthy to get my hands on the
original product from the movie. It's probably in Steven Spielberg or George Lucas's house.
Right. It's probably something one of them has. Held on to in a drawer.
It's not treasured right now. Not to. Right. Not to be on the nose,
but it is my holy grail of movie props.
All right. They end up finding a hole in the floor. He easily pulls it
up. Is like, okay, well, there's a hole, so let's go down. Right. No idea
how far down. And the doctor, to her credit,
just said, says, lower me down. Yeah, yeah. So I like that. I like that.
Go get him this. She's just as much of a sort of treasure hunting adventurer
as he is, which is great. And they go down, like, onto a pile of
skulls immediately. I mean, I guess they're catacombs, but there aren't normally,
like loose bones on the floor. You expect them to be like. Yeah. In alcoves
or burial, something like. Yeah, they're just. No, they're just everywhere. They're just all over.
But good, good creepy stuff down there. We had some rats.
Rats. Oh, my God, Lots of rats. He smelled in
the water. He's like, oh, it smells like patrolling. There's some kind of leakage
there or some kind of fluid there. And then he did a very cool thing,
which is take a loose bone and wrap a rag around it, dip it in
there to make a bone torch. Right. Which I think was a very cool device.
Very cool. But it also is clearly, at times, like dripping embers into
the. Kept dripping. And I'm like, what's going on?
Exploding. At this point. At this point, they've introduced the
petroleum. So it's going to blow up. So is it going to. From a stray
drip? Chekhov's gasoline? Yes. No.
So while they're down there, they start going through. They're. They're looking for whatever they're
looking for. They're trying to find this. They're trying this marker, and they don't know
exactly what form it'll come in, but they believe it'll be buried with one of
these three brothers that they believe is buried this. So they're just hunting for this
particular, you know, casket or something. Right. They don't know exactly what it is yet,
but they're going through. Meanwhile, we're shown back up at the top. Marcus Brody,
who is kneeling over the hole, staring down into it. Yep.
For some reason does not hear three armed men in patent leather
shoes walk down a massive spiral iron staircase and across a marble floor,
hears nothing and is struck from behind and
knocked out. Yeah, that's kind of crazy. Meanwhile,
Indy, underground, has found the tomb that he's looking for.
He kind of punches his way through a stone wall.
He has some kind of like terminator level ability to destroy
straight structures. Yes. But they find it
pretty quickly and realize that the etching
on this shield is. Matches the one that they're missing the chart from.
So he very smartly brought down a. The rubbing. The rubbing? Yeah.
So he can, like, get a copy of it. Yeah. So he's got his brown
crayon and he's got. Or whatever, you know, little etching thing and. And is able
to, yeah, line it up and kind of copy the rest of it so that
they can see. Line it up perfectly. It was. It was quite impressive, especially given
the nature of everything going on. But in the meantime, the, the, the bezed m
mystery men who knocked Marcus Brody out have gone down into
the catacombs and have, you know, they know that, that, that Elsa and India are
going and where they're headed. And they clearly know things that we don't at this
point, this group, but they light that petroleum on fire. They toss
the lit match. So when you first come down into the catacombs, it's like
water, but it was once Indie broke through that wall. That's where the petroleum smell
was. So it seems like wherever the guys are standing before they throw the match,
that's not gonna light. That's just water. Yeah. But they light it up.
So now this fireball is heading down. The catacombs, chasing all the rats. Right.
Chasing the rats towards them or killing the rats. And it sounds terrifying.
So at this point, he now hands the burning torch to Elsa,
flips over the. The casket,
which I guess is probably made of stone, seems like. And gets underneath.
But we don't see where the torch went or, or what petroleum it landed in.
But anyway, it's gone. It just disappears. And I'm not even sure why that casket.
It would stop the fire from burning the petroleum. It just seems
very strange. They're still like in gasoline, right? I mean, isn't that like.
Maybe it's just a thin layer of it. It's mostly water and there's like a
thin layer on top, something like that, but it's a little funky. Anyway, they're able
to sort of hide underneath the casket. And Indy finds a way out of the
chamber while Elsa is being eaten alive by rats. But they both are able
to exit and they come up through like a manhole cover until like
a piazza where there's people like, eating and drinking. I love that shot. Espresso,
cuz like you, you know it's coming. But it's still very rewarding to see because
you have this peaceful scene of everybody just dining al fresco. But you
can notice this sewer grate like right in the center of the screen. So when
they start to pop up, it's, it's, it's really good. And he pops up and
I think for the second of three times she kind of looks around and goes,
ah, Venice. Which is great too.
So now we've got the, the Fezman are after him.
Yes, Right. And they hop on one of those really cool wooden boats.
Those look so, I mean, old school speedboats. Yeah, Just something about that look.
It seems so much more fun. And there's, there's a great
Chase scene here, driving the boats away. They barely squeeze through two boats that
are being kind of, like, shoved into each other by tugboats.
Yeah, there's some good explosions. These guys are really.
I always feel like my hat's gonna fly off just in life. Right. We went
to. We were in Cambria the other day. We're seeing the elephant seals, where you
go out to, like, the vista by the. By the coast, and there's these elephant
seals, and it's amazing, but it's so windy. So I'm, like, holding my hat on
my head with both hands. During the scene where Indy's on the boat at the
beginning trying to retrieve the cross, his hat is magically staying on as it's getting
hit by these, like, you know. Oh, yeah, Deadliest Catch waves and everything
thing. And then now these guys with the fezes. Like, dude, there's not even a
strap. There's not a chin strap on those things. There's also no bill, no brim.
That helps, but maybe more aerodynamic. But the fez fitters
back then really were on another level. We also have added. We've had the fight
on a train, the fight on a boat. Now we're fighting on smaller boats.
Little speedboat fight now. Yeah. Really great stuff. They're able.
He's able to dispatch most of these guys. One of them is the kind of
the one who threw the match we've been shown. Kind of the main guy.
He and Indy are fighting as the boat has stopped working. Because it's gotten shot.
Yes. And they are backing up into the spinning propeller of a very large,
like. Container, which is just shredding it up. And it looks so cool. It really
does. These boats are just getting. Just mutilated. Getting pushed back into
there. Yeah. So it's a matter of time. And this guy basically is able to
convince Indy, like, you know, we're basically the eternal protectors
of the Holy Grail. Yeah. You know, if you don't, like, I'm ready to die
for this cause. Yeah. So if you don't, you don't get us both off this
boat, we'll both just die. I'm good. Yeah. And so Indy pulls him off.
Elsa's driving the other boat. They drive him up to a jetty, and he gets
off. And he. Yeah, he says it specifically. He's a member of the Brotherhood of
the Cuneiform Sword, which has been tasked with protecting
the Grail, you know, keeping it hidden, keeping it protected for, you know, a thousand
years or whatever. And he says,
you know, basically, Andy asks Him, like. Well, you. My father was looking for the.
For the Grail. Did you try to kill him too? You know, where is he
now? For some reason, Kasim, that's his name, knows that.
Dr. Jones, Indy's father, is being held specifically
in the Castle Brunwald on the Austrian German border. I don't know why he knows
this. I don't know why he knows this and then doesn't know what we later
find out about Elsa. As a fact. Yeah. Which I won't give away right now,
but, like, why does this guy know certain things and not other things that it
does not make sense to. To me. Yeah. But he sends them on their way.
They, in fact, go to Castle Brunswald
just outside of Germany, near Salzburg, Austria. And it's
a rainy night and it's pouring, and Indy's thinking about, how are we gonna.
How are we gonna, like, get. What are we gonna do here? We're gonna get
in. So it's funny. He gives his hat to her, she gives her beret
to him. He wears her cape, she wears his jacket. Just mix up a bunch
of clothes, like, whatever it is. And he comes in with the worst of.
Worst Scottish accent really ever. Really funny. Like, we hate to see the
tapestries. Like, he doesn't sound like anything in particular. And I love that
the waiter or the waiter, the butler or whatever who answers the door says,
this is a castle. Of course we have tapestries. But if you are a
Scottish lord, then I am Mickey Mouse.
And he just goes, how dare he? And he punches him, and it's a classic
indie move. I do love his resorting to the punch as his second
option. Like, he's the QB going through his progression impressions. And the punch is always
the second. Option, you know, so talk first, punch second, shoot if you have to.
Yeah. But this is when we get a real look at
our real villains of the movie. Of course, it's an Indiana Jones movie that isn't
the Temple of Doom. So the villains are the Nazis. And so
they're walking through this castle. They find this big control room. They're able to
sort of view from above, full of Nazis doing Nazi things.
Whatever map in it. Yeah, Doing their strategies. Exactly. And he
even says, like, not Nazis. I hate these guys. And this
is when we get the start scene, killing and fighting and beating up Nazis.
And that's awesome. It's. Yeah, it's fantastic.
Thinking of this as kind of more like a kids movie. Like, it's good that
they're Nazis because it's Right. It's kind of in a movie that's meant more for
kids to see the guys actually get killed instead of just like,
you know, gun butted and knocked out or whatever. It's. It's a little jarring,
but it's like, oh, no, these are not. Don't worry. Right. Don't worry about these
guys. Fine. There's plenty more with that. There's not a lot of geopolitical gray area
here. No, it's. It's. It's nice that it just. You know what?
Audience, we're going to do you a favor and make this nice and easy for
you to watch these people get killed. I do feel like, based on his filmography,
Steven Spielberg is just a big fan of anything that. That beats up, kills or
Nazis. Yeah, I think so. I think so. I think
even the shark in Jaws was. Was German. Oh, absolutely. Yeah.
So. Yeah. So. Oh, and he's. He's reunited, right. With his
dad, right? So he does this cool move with the whip out one window where
he was able to, like, kind of swing across to, like, a gargoyle, and then
swing back to the room his dad is in and bust through the window,
at which point his dad smacks him over the head with a vase. Yeah.
Because he thought he was one of them. And he's like, dad, they take the
door. Like, it's so dumb. But, yeah. So we are. We are introduced for the
first time visually, Sean connery as.
As Dr. Henry Jones, Indiana's dad. The diaries with Indy,
and they're fighting out, and they get. Basically, they kill a bunch of Nazis.
They shoot him. Henry is scandalized, like, oh, my God, Indy, what are you doing?
But he's like, let's go, dad. And so they get. But they get to a
place where, like, kind of the head Nazi guy, he's got the crazy SS hat
and whatever, he's all. The black uniform is holding a gun to Elsa's
neck, right? He's like, if you move, she dies. Give me the diary,
whatever, you know, And. And, you know, put down the gun,
everything. And. And Henry keeps saying, well, let. He won't shoot her. Yeah.
She's one of them. You know, whatever. And he's like, what are you talking about,
dad? It's crazy. Like, this is like, they. I think we skipped the part.
But, you know, Elsa and Indy have. Have made love together. Like, that's, you know,
there. He's very much into this. He's vetted her. Right, Exactly.
And so, you know, finally, he does. He puts down the the gun or whatever.
And Elsa comes over and she's like, I'm so sorry, but you should have
listened to your father. And she takes the Grail diary out of Indy's pocket and
brings it to the Nazi guy. And we find out all along Elsa Schneider has
been working with the Nazis. Who would have thought? So ridiculous.
You can't trust anybody. And so. Yeah, so now they've been
captured, they and the diary are brought to another room in the castle where
sitting ominously in a chair, high backed chair, so we can't see him initially,
who's there to retrieve the diary? Walter fucking Donovan,
the guy who sent them there in the first place, also working with the Nazis.
It is kind of crazy because looking at that guy, once it's revealed
that he's a Nazi, it's like, how the fuck did I not know he was
a Nazi? He has the most Nazi face. Like I could have pictured him chasing
after the Blues Brothers in the Pinto wagon. You know, know, like he just,
he looks the part very well. So. Good, good little
twisteroo there. Yes. And then at the same time now we have,
I think that they're, they're saying, well, we're okay because
our dude, Denholm. Yeah. Is.
He's gonna be fine. Right? You know, and he's with their, their other allies
because. Yeah. So in Indy, once they figured out from the second etching that
Alexandretta was the name of the city they needed to start in, he sent Marcus
to Iskanderon, which is the current, like the modern day city, on the same site
where their friend Sala, who's an Egyptian man, who they've seen
in other movies, he helped out in Raiders and stuff, you know, go, go talk
to Salah, whatever. And here's the map that his dad had drawn a map.
He just didn't know where to start. So now they know Alexandretta Iskandaron is
where they should start. So he tore the map out of the diary and gave
it to Marcus to go. So when the diary is retrieved, Donovan,
Elsa notice, like they need a map. Yeah. And they know that this is an
important, important piece. Especially since Elsa now knows as well as
Indy does that Alexandra is the starting place. So they.
But he says, you know, you'll never get him. You know, Marcus has got
a two day head start. He's fluent in 12 languages. No,
Marcus, bro, kind of more bumbling through.
And him and him and Salah end up in some trouble.
Yes. And. And Salah's trick where he holds
up a newspaper to the Guy, he said, like, look at this newspaper.
And then punches him through the newsp.
Oh, I really like that one. Really good. I really. It's not the same punching
somebody through an iPad. You know, like, you need that paper media. The crumpling
is kind of an important element of it. Solid. Tries to hide Marcus
in this, like, you know, looks like maybe it's like a. A shop or something.
But it turns out it's actually just. Like a Nazi truck. A Nazi truck.
And so, you know, these guys, like, lift up the tailgate, and it's. And I
love it. It's like this specific Nazi desert symbol. Yeah, it's like a Nazi
with Nazi swastika with, like, a little bit of
sand in a palm tree or something. Like a little oasis. They had alternate uniforms,
just like the NBA do. They had to sell jerseys. So back to Austria.
Yep. The Jones boys need to escape. They've been left,
because instead of being allowed to kill them right away, Donovan or
Elsa tells Donovan and the Nazi, like, no, no, no. If we can't retrieve the
map from Brody, we are going to need them alive because we need to know
what they know. So they don't kill them right away. They leave them tied up
in this room. And they all leave because Elsa Schneider, she is
being requested by the Fuhrer himself to join some event in Berlin.
Yeah. And Donovan, I think, as well, they leave them. And now
Indiana Jones is like, you know, dad, reach in my pocket. I've got a lighter.
Try to burn through the ropes. Which I'm like, this is the dumbest idea.
So good Indiana Jones has ever had. Like, it's. How would this even work?
If it worked, you're just gonna burn yourselves anyway.
So of course he came. He can't burn through the ropes. He, like, gets burned
by them, and it tosses the lighter away. And it's one of those classic Zippo
Windproof. You know, those are. You can't blow those out. No, they either. They either
run out of fuel or they just burn. And so the entire room is lit
on fire. And I do love that that Dr. Jones the senior is.
He's kind of reluctant. He's not saying at first what happened.
And it is kind of a funny thing that we see a few times throughout
the movie where, you know, he's not as much of a father figure in the
traditional sense. What was the term? You brought up a great term during Terminator 2
of John Connor was like a parentified child. The parentified child.
Yeah. Is India parentified child? I don't Think so. Because the only
reason I'll say I don't think so is because it sounds like their issues as
a, as a father and son occurred after his mother died.
And it sounded like that happened when, when he was maybe a late teenager.
And so I don't think it's quite the same. And also it doesn't seem like,
like Henry has needed him the same way that Sarah
needed John. That's true. So there's not that element. I don't think there is.
There is neglect and there is, you know, sort of a withholding of emotional,
you know, support and love and things like that. So there's. This is not a
good healthy parent child relationship. But I don't think that particular element is
at play. Mainly because Henry has himself been self sufficient, has not relied on
Indy to do things for him the way Sarah clearly like needed John
to like calm her down and like, do stuff so. He just to
make up for his bumbling a little bit. A little bit, yeah.
So they're tied up. So we have, we have a really cool scene now.
So they're tied up to the chair, back to back, right? And then the whole
room is catching on fire. Yes. And they're kind of like trying to hop away
from the fire and maybe, okay, let's hop back over here, up against this wall.
And they end up hitting a switch which flips this wall into this other room,
which appears to be a control room type. I think it's the one they maybe
saw earlier. Like the same kind of thing with. The map and all that,
but nobody saw them. So it was like it flipped quickly around back and they're
just like, okay, so now we know it's either fire or whatever's
on this side of the wall, like, what are we gonna do? Right? So there's
some good, some good action there where they're turning back and then they're finally recognized
and they're able to turn the wall back. So let's
see, how do we get out of here? Right. So basically like they're able to
like stop the wall from turning with all the Nazis on the fireside of it
or whatever. That's right at this time, about this time, Donovan gets
word like a, you know, telegram or something that Brody has been captured. They have
the map. So he tells the SS guy, go ahead and kill the Joneses,
you know, or actually even, it's even a message from the Fuhrer or something like,
you know, must kill the Joneses, destroy the American conspirators. So he is going Back
in the castle to go get them. But of course, the room they were in
is on fire, so they're being chased. But Indy and Henry are able to get
their gear back because, like a good video game, they were just sitting. Their gear
was just kind of in the next room. So they're able to get their gear
back. He's got a satchel and a. His whip and everything else. And they're now
trying to escape the castle. They end up in a room that looks like it
has no exit. And I love. Henry's got this great line of, like, sometimes I
just decide to sit down and see if the solution will present itself. At which
point the chair he's on is like a lever, right? Opens a spiral staircase.
That was a great effect. Indy, unfortunately, fell down a bit, but they're able to
get out of the castle that way and. And get out to.
It's like a boat dock. Right. So they get to the boat area,
and basically he turns one of the boats on and sends it down the river
to kind of throw the. Off their scent. And.
And then at this point, they're kind of motioning towards, okay, well, this is the
way we're getting out, which we aren't shown yet. Yeah. And the Nazis get down
to the dock there. They see the boat going down. Ah, let's get in the
boat. Instead of waiting until they got in a boat and started to pursue,
they bust out of this crate in a motorcycle with the sidecar immediately. Right.
They could have bought themselves another couple minutes. How did they even get
into it? How did they get into it? Get the thing closed, get into the
motorcycle? It's so ludicrous. Too much. Too much movie magic there. But you're
right. If they had just waited, they probably would have just gotten away. But instead,
the Nazis now chase them and we're. I love a sidecar, by the way.
A motorcycle with the side car just. Oh, really adds to it. Absolutely. And so
now yet another vehicle type that we're fighting on. So we added motorcycles
to the list. It's a growing list. But I also love.
This scene, to me, is very. The vibe is very reminiscent of the
speeder bike chase on Endor. In Return of the Jedi Eye. There's a lot of
sort of elements both between how some of the Nazis are dispatched.
One of them has a. He's got like this big stick,
a flagpole that he uses to joust. One of them ends up shoving into the
spokes of another one. And the way that that bike flips up here I think
one of the, one of the scout troopers on indoor dies like the exact same
way. He like hits something in the, in the bike flips. Very interesting corollaries
and similarities between this motorcycle chase and the speeder bike chase in Jedi.
But. Yeah. And during this whole time, Indy's doing this amazing stuff to
keep them alive and to fight off these Nazis. And Henry Jones,
not impressed. No, he's. He's refuses to be. Just holding impress or
whatever. Yeah. And his umbrella. Really good. Yeah.
So now they realize they have to go back to Berlin because
that's where, that's where the diary. Right. And Indy doesn't understand at first why do
we need the diary. Marcus has the map and, and Henry explains to him it's
not just the map. There's trials, there's these like three devices
that you'll have to get past if you even get to the place. There's these
three trials you have to get past. And I wrote down all of the solutions
to getting past them in my diary. And he's like, well, can't you remember them?
I wrote them down in the diary so I wouldn't have to remember, you know,
so they have to go to Berlin and go get, go get the book back.
And so we're treated to a very short scene in
Berlin at a book burning celebration. Book burning rally. Elsa is
there. She's crying because of course, you know, know she's not really a Nazi.
She's just working with. Yeah, she's sad. Getting paid by them and going along.
With everything you're doing. Exactly. But we're supposed to get this. I hate this part
because we're supposed to get this like, twinge of sort of sympathy for her.
It's like, fuck that shit. But she's crying about the book burning. Indy finds her.
She's got the diary on her. Which is weird because she even mentioned something about
taking it to a library or Donovan did, to like a museum or a library
or something to like store. But she's got it on her. And so Indy's able
to take it from her. They have a little exchange change and we don't see
her again, I think for quite a while. But like, you know, basically he takes.
It from her pretty easy. He takes. He just takes it from her. And then,
you know, she's like something about, you know, I think
this or whatever. Like, I don't think like the Nazis doing. Who gives a damn
what you think? You know, they kind of. And then he got it. He's got
her. His hand around her throat. All I have to do is squeeze. She says.
All I have to do is scream. And then he's like, okay, off. I'm gonna
leave. But before he can leave, he tried. He gets swept up in the crowd.
Yeah. Yes. And he ends up pulled into this group of autograph
seekers who are all crowded around the biggest star of Nazi Germany at that time.
I don't understand what's happening here. Is Hitler signing books to then be burned?
Why is he signing books at a book burning? I didn't understand that,
really. I just thought it was, you know, it's just a classic
thing to, like, throw a goofy version of Hitler into a movie, you know,
and it takes some of the edge off the. The symbology
that we're seeing. And everybody doing the my heart goes out to you symbol.
Yeah. And stuff like that. But. But, yeah, that was.
It was Roman salute, I believe. Salute. Right. Very light.
Yeah. Thing where, you know, Hitler autographs his diary,
which I hope is not the reason that it's your number one. Oh, no,
that movie prop of all. It is definitely not. But I will say, though,
obviously, it's number, like 5720th
on the list of horrible things Hitler has done or true do. But signing an
autograph in a pencil is just a dick move. That's pretty. That's a dick move.
Way down his list. But still, you're not Getting a gem Mint 10 if it's
a pencil autograph. It's not hard to authenticate. A sociopath signs an autograph of
the pencil. Oh, that kind does. Okay, so. So he ends up. It's very
funny. So he has the diary now, and he has Hitler's autograph. That's the
important part. The important part. He's like, I finally got it signed. Then they end
up on the zeppelin, I think, Right. So they got to try to get out
of Germany. They go to the airport, and, yeah. They end up on a zeppelin
somewhere. Adding zeppelin to the number of interesting vehicles.
But, yeah, so they get on the zeppelin, and Indy is like, hey,
we made it. We're good. And his dad, quite wisely, is like, when we are.
When we're airborne, Germany's behind us. I'll celebrate with you.
But before they can even get off the ground, our buddy who's been following along
with Donovan and Schneider, the SS guy. I don't know his name.
He. He shows up and he starts looking around. He's got a picture of Henry
of the senior Joe Jones, asking people, have you seen this man? Have you seen
this man, everybody's like, no, no, I haven't. No, I haven't. But, you know,
Indy sees him and then follows a waiter and sort of like, I guess probably
knocks him out and steals his outfit, whatever, but he's wearing, like, a waiter's clothes,
starts asking for tickets. And the guy, the SS Guy, sees Jones,
you know, Henry Jones, and is like, you know, like, oh, Mr. Dr.
Jones, you know, kind of whatever. But that's when Indy walks up behind him and
goes, tickets, please. He's like, what? He's like, tickets. And he punches
him and throws him out the, like, window. Which I'm like, the dude probably should
have died from that fall, but I guess he landed on a bunch of luggage.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. And then it was like, why is there a pile of luggage?
As the zeppelin starts flying away, the dude is sitting in the luggage that I
would assume is supposed to be on the zeppelin. All very strange. I don't know.
But all the other patrons on the zeppelin, in this, like, dining car,
whatever. They turn and look, turn and look. He goes, no ticket. And they're all
just like, oh, here's my ticket. Here's my ticket. Don't throw me out the window.
Really funny. Really funny. There's. What do you think Zeppelin travel
was like? Like, did you have to get there three hours before it left?
Did we. What kind of like, how far did they go?
I wish I knew more about these because it's such a forgotten mode of transportation.
I've never been able to understand, and I've never really done the research,
I'll admit. But where the. Do you sit in it? Because isn't the
big oval football all filled with whatever gas.
I think it's almost like a. Almost like a hot air balloon basket. It's just
like a little room that's underneath this giant thing that was way too small.
So it's like the size of this room. Yeah. But think about, like, where they
were. That was. That wasn't. Like, that wasn't the bridge. That wasn't the flight deck.
That was just, like, the dining room. And it was huge. True. I don't understand
where the hell. And I feel like even the little, like, gangplank or whatever they
had to walk up to get in wasn't going into, like, that little unit.
It was like going into the silver thing. So, like, is. I guess some of
it is where the. I don't think so. I think listeners think. Yeah, Listeners.
Zeppelin Museum. We're taking donations. We're going on a field trip. I was Going to
say, any Zeppelin enthusiasts out there? Email us at the show@2dads1movie.com
the number two. The number one. And tell us how. Where the fuck do you
sit in Zeppelin? I've never understood it. Please, we can move forward. But this is
definitely something that has always bothered me about this and other movies involving Zeppelins.
I think, I think it's worth investigating because I would like to know a little
bit more about dirigibles. On this flight out of Germany. On this flight out of
Germany. But they're still concerned. They're on the zeppelin and they're like, we kind of
got a zeppelin. Turns around. Oh, right. He sees the shadows sort of change direction
of the sun's on the other side. Basically. Basically. And so he realizes they're taking
us back to Germany so they got to escape. So they go down and there's
apparently like a. Like a cruise ship has a lifeboat, a single
one, I guess. Yeah. There's a biplane with a machine gun just attached to the
bottom of this. Perfect. So they climb into it and you know how to fly
this thing? I fly it, yeah. Land. No. And so they get into it
and they're. They're going to try to fly, you know, continuing out of Germany.
I don't know exactly where they are based on what happens after they land.
I think they're over Italy somewhere. It seems like they are able to.
They are basically attacked by a couple of German fighter planes.
They are trying to fly away. And there is a machine gun like turret
on the back of the biplane. And so Indy tells his dad, dad, you got
to use the machine gun. You got to, you know, whatever. And he, you know,
does a decent. Job at first getting a couple of them. Yeah. You know,
I don't know that he actually even hits anybody, but he's like, you know,
controlling the thing pretty well. But then blows up their own.
I don't know what that's called, the dorsal fin, whatever, whatever that the vertically place
placed, you know, Finn on the back of the plane is destroyed. Bad move.
And again and again passes the buck where Henry says,
oh, it looks like somebody hit us. You know, we didn't. Sorry son, they got
us. So he's got to try to land,
which he was. We hear. We've already been told India is not good at landing
planes, but. But now he has to crash land. So. So they do, they,
they sort of, they crash. They come down and then the, you know, the other
jets, the planes keep coming at them and shooting at them
and so they Gotta hide. So they go and they steal a car. And this.
I feel like this guy looks like he's dressed like an Italian guy for some
reason. That's why I think they're in Italy. But they steal this car. They start
driving off a plane tries to follow them through a tunnel.
I love that. Doesn't work well. Strips off the wings. It worked
better than it should have, like. But it's still, you know,
ultimately ended terribly. Yes. For the pilot, at least. But, yeah,
the great gag, though, of just the wings get. Instead of it just exploding when
it hits there, the wings getting clipped off. And then he's just riding in the
momentum fuselage of the plane, just kind of with this look on his face,
like, you know, the Bugs Bunny when he steps. Or the.
The coyote when he steps off the cliff and puts the sign up that says,
like, oh, falls down really good. Because he
then did fully explode once. He got past the exit
of the tunnel. That's what made him blow up up was leaving the tunnel.
I don't know. Anyway, so that's one of two fighter jets down, but the
other one drops a bomb, luckily not on them, but on the road in front
of him, causing an enormous crater that they crash into. So they got to ditch
the car now. So we've had biplanes and fighter planes and another car. What's next?
So they end up running onto a beach. Yeah, it looks like.
And it doesn't look good for them. That plane is making another thing coming
around. And it knows where they are. There's no cover weaponry. Yeah, you're on a
beach. It's got machine guns. There's no cover. And then there's this moment. And it
was something I realized. The way I'd seen it before is different.
So we see Henry's face, so Sean Connery's face.
And what I'm noticing, what I noticed this time. But what I thought. I'll tell
you what I thought was. Was different about it. We see the reflection of the
plane coming, like, in his glasses. Okay. You see this little, like, line, and it's
him watching the plane coming. I thought that was a tear for years. Oh,
I thought we were seeing, like, he was crying this single tear, like, we're done,
done. But he immediately figures out there's this massive, like,
flock of seagulls sitting on the beach. And he just starts shaking
his umbrella at them to send them up into the oncoming flight
path of the plane, which has got to be one of the worst ways to
go. Death by birds and birds and Then. The way it showed,
just all the birds hitting the plane and everything, it was terrifying.
Yeah. So he. He got Sully Sullenberger, and he had to crash into the side
of the. Worked out a lot worse. Worse for him than it did for Sully.
Certainly did. Certainly did. So, yeah. Great.
And. And it was a good kind of like, oh, the old guy still got
some tricks. Oh, you think I can't use my umbrella? Remembered my Charlemagne.
Really good. So then we're still. We're still being chased
by the Nazis. Well, no, this. Well, so this. This. We'd go away from Indian
Henry now. They've essentially gotten away. Like, they don't really explain kind of where they
get to next, but they. They're away now. They're out of Germany.
There's no Nazis following them right now. So we cut to where
the. Where Donovan and Schneider are talking to. It says. It said,
like, Republic of Hatay, which I haven't looked up. It must be a former country
in the area, because I don't recognize the name now. But they
are, you know, basically talking to, like, this crown prince of this. Of this country
where. Because where they need to go the. The town of Iskanderon,
and. And so formerly Alexandretta. And this crescent valley of
the CRO Canyon or the crescent moon they're trying to get to is all within
this country's, you know, border. So they're saying, like, hey, we wouldn't come here and
just take this away, like, without compensating you, but we also want to make sure
that we have permission to let go. And they offer this trunk of the Nazis,
this trunk of. Of gold and whatever, and the dude. Is just not into
it. He's like, whatever. But he sees their car. Rolls Royceville Phantom
2. Yeah. And he is just super into it. He's naming the leaders of the
engine and the brand of carburetor and, like, all this whatever, and.
And he goes, you know, the keys are in the ignition, your highness.
It's yours, and I love it. He goes, you will have men. You will have
horses. You will have camels and tanks.
A tank or something. It's like, you're welcome. Yeah, seriously,
that went easier than they thought it would. But,
yeah, definitely got that guy with the shininess of that beautiful.
That beautiful, beautiful Rolls Royce. And. Yeah,
so now we have tanks in the mix. Right? So. So now
Henry and Indy have reached a scander on. They've met up with Salah. Salah told
them how Brody was taken, you know, and. And they start,
you Know, going the same path, basically. Right? Yeah. They, they know where they're headed
because they're all headed to the same place. They all starting in the same place.
So they're following along and they're obviously moving faster than a big sort of like
caravan with a tank and whatever. They can drive much, much faster than that.
So they end up on a, on like a, you know,
a high canyon and looking down at, you know,
where the tank is coming through and stuff. And, and you know, Salah tells them,
hey, they've got Brody, you know, in a car or whatever, and he's like,
you know, Indy's like standing, I think he's like looking through a spyglass or something,
which is reflecting the sun, which draws the attention. And the tank actually
is able to shoot. He's like, they can't see us,
we're. So out of range. Yeah, yeah. And the tank destroys their car.
We later learn Salah's brother in law's car, he later mentions, but yes.
So the car blows up. So now they have to like figure out, well,
how do we get Brody out of here, you know, how do we move on?
And so Indy goes to steal some, steal some horses and
tells Solid to do the same. And Solid goes, I don't get camels. No camel.
No camels. I'm not sure why. I don't even know the Indiana Jones movies
I've seen. I'm not 100% sure why the no camels reference. I don't know if
there's something in Temple of Doom I'm not remembering, but like, but yeah, like no
camels. Yeah, so. So they're kind of. It's always an interesting battle
when you have people who are on foot or on horseback or something against something
like a tank. Right. Because you think of a tank is like, well, this is
indestructible. There's no way it's not going to win. But it's slow and it doesn't
have good visibility and all these things. So there's ways that you're able to get
an advantage over it. Bad maneuverability. And, and Indy
ends up on horseback and reaches down. Like his ability to
spot the perfect diameter of a rock from horseback in motion is amazing
because then he just reaches down and scoops up this rock, shoves it
into the gun of the tank, which if one of the side turrets, at least.
Yeah, the side turret. Right. And if you've ever seen Looney Tunes, you know
that if you fire it, then it just peels back like Elmer Fudd's shotgun.
Like. Like a. Like a banana peel.
Yeah. It's very cartoonish, but that is what happens. It sort of like blows up
and it causes a fire inside the tank and everything. And, and Henry,
you know, in Indie, he's like, he gets away. He's got the horses and he
drives off or. And Salah's got camels. And he's like,
salah, like I told you, no camels. You know, like, what are you doing?
You know, compensation for my brother's car, you know, and.
And so. But he's like, well, where's. Where's dad? He goes, they have them in
the belly of that steel beast. And so he realizes, God damn, his dad got
captured. He's like, brody's probably in there with him now. I got to go back.
So he's got to keep kind of fighting. Yeah. And we get this just.
It's a fantastic action sequence. I'm not going to go into all the, like,
you know, different pieces of it, but he is, you know, he ends up on
the tank fighting. Henry is fighting inside the tank.
There's just all this, like, stuff going on. The big bad Nazi SS guy is
fighting him. At some point, the tank gets completely separated from the other vehicles
and trucks. Or they kind of, I guess, go off to like, continue the.
The search for the Grail. Meanwhile, Henry and everybody in India are fighting
on the tank. And we get to just the whole tank we see,
which is pretty amazing. And I don't know if there's anything in particular you wanted
to, like, mention during this action sequence, but we get to the end where basically
the tank is heading towards a cliff, like a big, big cliff. And it's
just Indy and the SS guy that are fighting on it still, because the driver
has been shot by a ricocheting bullet. That's right. Right inside. And so it's
heading off that cliff no matter what happens, because it's not going to stop.
But Indy and the SS guy are fighting on top. And Indy's hat flies
off, which I think is important because you mentioned how in all these other situations
his hat stays on, but the fedora flies off.
And we see the tank go over the cliff. And we
see, just like in Terminator 2 had a couple of bad dummies, a really bad
action figure dummy of the SS guy holding on to the T tank as it
goes over the cliff and bouncing around like a little, like a little GI Joe
figure or something. I did like the guy driving the tank. I think they made
him like a totally different kind of character, you know, to be the tank operator
because he was kind of. He wasn't in the uniform. Like, he was one of,
I feel like, because he was. The tank belonged to the kingdom of hate or
whatever. He was a local Nazi. Yeah, he was a local because he was like
the tank guy for the army and that was like their one tank. He was.
He had some good moves. I wouldn't mind like a sit in arcade where you
like have to really swing those levers, you know, with like real physics to
operate one of those kind of tanks. So. Yeah, so the tank off the edge
and it explodes and that's it for Indiana Jones. Right. And Salah and Marcus
and Henry are all, you know, looking over the cliff and mourning the loss of.
Of their son and friend. And. And you know, we're all
like not 100 sure what's happened either, but it seems pretty convincing other than the
fact that it's an Indiana Jones movie and they would never kill Indiana Jones.
Yeah. This is not a George R.R. martin show. So he
is climbing now up like a root, right? He's able to grab onto something.
He's able to pull himself back up. No help from these men. Just sitting,
looking over the thing to the point that he looks over to look at what
they're looking at. Yeah, I love that. Where someone appears behind me. Oh, what are
we looking? But yeah,
so Henry's able to welcome him. Oh, I thought I lost you, son. Like all
this kind of stuff and. Okay, let's go. Go. Yeah, let's go. And I mean,
he's exhausted, right? And Henry even was like, I think
he made a comment about, oh, there's so much I. I didn't say.
You know, it would have only taken a couple minutes. And then Indie appears and
he's just like, oh, good, you're fine. All right, let's get out of here.
Not even. You're fine. Just. You're alive. No. Good. You're alive. No. Like,
no. Oh, okay. Well, now that I have this second chance,
it's been given to me by life. Let me tell you, this stuff. It was
kind of so. And of course, Indy is sitting there as they're running off.
He says, you know, why are you sitting? We're so close to the end,
you know, whatever. And of course, I love indies. Fedoro kind of rolls off from
off screen right to him. So the hat has come back. The hat has a
mind of its own. But yeah, so they are now. So they have to get
the grail still. That's right. So now they know how to get to the Canyon
of the Crescent Moon. They know the Nazis are on the way too, but they
have horses, and so. Let's go get the grail. Yeah.
And, yeah, they. They roll up. It's funny because there's no trucks
or anything outside side. Yeah. Which I kind of figured there would be. But maybe
they deliberately, like, hid them around the corner or something, knowing that. That they might
come. But sure enough, they get there. They. They are go into the entrance of
this temple, and there is a local person being pushed,
you know, at gunpoint, to go through. Right. The. The. The opening
to the rest of the cavern or whatever, where we've been told, of course,
Henry has told us there are three devices, three trials that have to be
passed in order to get behind. And, you know, this guy walks in and he's
holding a sword, whatever. And as the cobwebs sort of start to part,
because the first trial, according to Henry, is called the Breath of God,
they start to part. A. A huge, like, saw blade. Yeah.
Crazy. Flies through and cuts the dude's head off. Because we don't. I don't know
if we're even shown it. When he goes in there, we just see his sword
get cut in half and then his head kind of rolls out. Exactly. Although we
are. We also see another body with a severed head as he walks in.
But, no, they don't go rated R and actually show the head getting cut off,
but show us that. It's definitely shocking, though. Yeah. It's crazy to
see that. I. The stuff that Indy. I wrote this down because Indiana Jones kind
of, like, goes through the same tribulations as one of the bandits in Home Alone.
Okay. Like, he's just kind of getting hit by booby traps all the time.
And, like, having to avoid this stuff, he's a little more successful, but he's getting,
like, a Marv level of punishment right throughout these movies.
So. Yeah, so this guy's going through, and then, you know, the second his head
gets cut off, they're like, all right, who's next? Like, next person through there.
Yep. And I think this is when Indian crew. Yeah, this is when
some. Some Nazis will know they. They've been watching this, but the Nazis. Some Nazis
show up behind them. So I do think that, like, you know, they'd hidden the.
The. The trucks or whatever around the corner or something and been told to watch
the entrance when they go in. Some. Some guys follow them in and at gunpoint,
bring them into to where Donovan and Schneider are and
and so basically, Donovan tells Indy, you're going to go get
the Grail for me. And he's like, nope. And he points a gun at him.
You're gonna go do it. He's like, well, shooting me won't get you what you
want. And he goes, you know what, Dr. Jones, you're absolutely right. And he shoots
Henry, Indy's father, in the stomach, which, as other movies have told us,
you're gonna bleed out. Bleed out, but it takes a long time. It hurts like
hell, but it's not gonna. You're not gonna die right away. He's got some time,
but of course, his time is now limited. If he doesn't, you know there's
not a hospital nearby, right? There's no doctor. They can go get nine. These are
the wrong kinds of doctors. All of these doctors. Doctors, our PhDs in archaeology
and whatever else. None of them are medical doctors. Is there a doctor in a
house call? There's at least four. At least. I don't know if doctors on this
zeppelin, but they're all archaeologists. I don't know if Donovan's a doctor, but. But Schneider.
And both Joneses and Brody are all doctors, but they're all,
you know, PhDs anyway. So he.
Donovan mentions the Only the healing power of the Grail can save him. Like,
you don't have a choice if you want to save your dad, go get it.
Yep. Right. So he's got the book, he's got the diary. He's able to go
through the first clue to get through the first devices that the penitent man
will pass. And penitent, of course, means like, humble and kneeling. So that's when he
realizes he needs to drop those knees. I don't know how that prepared
him for the other blade that comes across the floor that
he has to roll out of the way of. Yeah. What the hell was going
on there? In fact, if you did a full penitent bow, that one would have
cut your head off because your hair would have been all the way to the
ground. Very strange little booby trap.
And I. I don't know how it's. They never really explained why Indy was aware
enough to avoid it, but. And then how many kids in church were kneeling and
then rolling as, like their official. Neil. They're like, well, this is the way you
do it. That's how the pennants do not get. Your head chopped exactly. Right.
Yeah. So then he has to do that, and then the next one. I think
that there are floor tiles. With different letters on. He has to spell out.
They determine you have to spell out the name of God. And then they're like,
okay, so that would be Jehovah, but wait, the Latin spelling of it,
you know, so it's different. He had stepped on the J and like,
immediately fell through to just this horrifying. We don't really get a lot
of visibility into that area. It looks bad. Terrible. A lot of
stalagmites ready to, you know, impale you. Oh, yeah. And yeah,
that. That rock crumbled like paper. Like it was like crazy right through. Like he
didn't put his full weight on it and it took him through. So he's able
to spell out the correct name of God to move on to the final one.
Right. What was the final one is like a leap of faith,
basically. It's only from a leap from the lion's head or whatever.
And I've never fully understood how this works, but it looks like it's some kind
of optical illusion that makes it look like there's no platform,
no bridge there. But he does end up sort of, you know, just stepping out
right from the lion's head and sure enough, lands on a solid piece of.
Of stone and is able to walk across, across. And he smartly grabs some.
Some like, you know, just dirt or whatever, some dust or gravel and throws it
back out onto it to, like, make it more obvious. But, you know, the whole
thing was clearly stone. It's not like it was glass or something that would be
see throughable. I don't know why that would be such a trick. Like what this
supposed optical illusion was. It made that impossible to see, but it does seem
like if you tilted your head slightly, you would see it. But anyway, he gets
across, which leads him into this sort of final chamber with this
knife knight who's sitting there waiting for him, who looks very old and tries
to attack Indy, but can't even lift his sword. He falls back,
whatever, and. And then he's just like, you've bested me. Yeah, exactly right.
You beat me. Mortal Kombat or whatever? And he. And he explains to Indy that
he's waiting for a knight to come relieve him, basically to take over. Yeah.
And did he say something about he'd been there for 700 years or something like
that? 700 years. So this night then, had clearly tried. Drank from the.
Yes, he must have. In order to stay right. In order to be that guard.
So. So instead of there being the Holy Grail sitting there,
there's the thing that I experience every single day at my House. Which is which
one of these cups is mine. Why does every cup in
the house have to be out right now? Why can't I just have this one?
And. And there's basically, I don't know, like 30, 40, 50 of
these different grails of different styles. And the knight says,
okay, yeah, you're seeing here just, just pick up the grill. If you pick the
wrong one, though, you're going to die. Right. Because now Elsa and Donovan
have, you know, have followed and they've entered the thing as well.
Right. And it's like. And he's so, so many. There's how to choose. And he
says, you must choose. And if you're wrong, you know, the real grail will give
you life. The false grail takes it from you. Right. And so
most, almost all of these are shiny, glittery gold,
gem encrusted, you know, whatever. And so Donovan is like, he doesn't want to pick.
Basically. He's kind of like, I'm not trained. I don't. I don't have the education.
I don't know what to do. So Elsa says, let me pick for you.
And he, and he even says, thank you, doctor. Like, please do. Yeah. And she
picks one of the gaudiest, biggest, you know, cups,
hands it to Donovan, and he's so impressed. And he's like, this truly
is the cup of the king of kings. Oh. You know, and there's a font
nearby, just like a water, you know, whatever. God knows how long that water's been
sitting. I know. Seriously? Yeah. The 700 year old water. So he goes over
and he like dips the cup into it and he takes the sip or whatever
and everything's like, okay for a moment. And then the thing I love
is the first thing that happens is John Williams score changes slightly. The music like
dips an octave and becomes a little. I think it switches from a major to
a minor key. And suddenly you see the look overcome his face. Yes. Where it's
like everything doesn't feel right. Yeah. This isn't what living forever feel like.
And. And we get a really brutal, cool, like,
and satisfying, you know, just like rapid death decay
of this guy. As if he goes through, you know, 30 years of like,
oh, at least everything all at once. Yeah. His hair grows long. His skin initially
just his face gets gaunt until the skin starts melting off it. At one point,
it looks like there's maggots crawling over his face, eating him. And he's of course,
right in, in Dr. Schneider's face. And she's Screaming until finally Indy
pushes him away and he like literally flies against the wall and like shatters.
So Donovan is gone. He's dead. It. This reminded me obviously anyone
who's seen the first Raiders of the Lost Ark. The, the, the. When the ark
of the Covenant is opened and the Nazis faces are melting, like this felt very
much like we needed to do that. Something similar to that. Yeah. But it's also
if you're a Disney fan at the end of Tangled, when Mother Gothel ages rapidly
before falling out the tower window. Very similar.
Obviously not as brutal in the Disney version, but. But yeah,
very nice. Yeah. So now Indy and Elsa have to pick the right one.
He still has to choose. Right. And he's looking at all. And like you said,
these are all mostly like gaudy and things. And he's like,
okay, well I'm going to go for like a humble cup because
Jesus was a humble carpenter. Yeah. You know those humble people we know
who are like, I'm the son of God,
you know, you need to follow me for eternal life. Like those kind of people
that are super chill and humble. So he was like, yeah, that's probably like one
of those kind of cups. It also said property of Jesus XXL athletic
department on the side of it. Actually he had etched his initials into the bottom
from when he made it in shop class. Yeah. So it was like before firing
it, he etched a JC in the bottom. His house cup. So he picked the
right one. He picked the right one and Indy took
a sip from it just to make sure it. To make sure kill
him basically. Right, right. And then realizes, okay, well I'm not dead. Let's go give
it to dad. Right. But the, but the knight warns him like the grail cannot.
You can't leave this area, can't pass. There's a great seal in the temple,
in the entrance, entryway. The grail cannot go past the seal. That's the, that's the
price of eternal life, is you get to live in this temple, in this,
in this tiny booby trapped cavern. Yeah. You can live forever, but if
you want to live any longer, you can't leave. Yeah. Yeah, I guess you could
keep coming back and forth. I guess come back in a trip. Yeah. Make a
trip back every year or. So just to like just refresh. I don't know how
long, I don't know how long it recharges your batteries for. But like, you know,
but anyway, so they are going to take it out to heat heal Henry to
heal his dad. And sure enough, you Know, they give him some sips and then
actually pour it on. The gunshot wound. Yeah. And it looked like hydrogen peroxide.
Really? It was like. It kind of cleaned it and. Which I'm. All I'm thinking
is that bullet, that was a relatively small caliber weapon that shot him. It didn't
go through the back end. Yeah. So now the bullet's just in him. I know,
right? Take the bullet out. Oh, real quick.
Back to when Donovan picked the Grail. I thought it was really cool
when he takes it and he goes through this whole dying sequence, and then the
night goes. He chose poorly. Which I think
they ended up using as, like, a Pepsi campaign. This song where it was like,
you know, because it was like, choose Pepsi, Right? Coke. The Pepsi challenge. And it
was like somebody came in and it was a bunch of, like, sodas and thing.
And the night. The same actor playing the night scene in the commercial, the guy
picks up a Coke and, like, he chose poor. You know, it doesn't, like,
kill him, but, like, it's like, oh, it's not as good. Not as good as
Pepsi, but. Yeah. But then that was the thing, too. When he says to Jones
before he tells him that he can't take it past the seal, he said,
you chose wisely. So he confirms that they do have the right thing. It heals
Henry up. And then it's like all of the locals and some
of the other Nazis, all the guys that are left, basically, besides Brody and Sala,
Henry and Indian Elsa run, because they've seen this guy get healed
now. And they're just like, I'm not dealing with that crap. I'm out of here.
So they bolt. Now it's just the five of them. And, you know,
it's time to leave, basically, and they're going to go. But Elsa has decided,
we can take it with us. We've got it, Indy. We can go. We can
take it with us. And she starts stepping backwards. And he's like, hey, Elsa,
let it go. Yes.
Nailed it. Fucking last episode ever. We got to get a frozen reference
in every episode now. But, yeah, so it's like, you know, hey, stop. The knight
told us. He warned us, don't do this. Don't do this. And of course,
as she crosses the center of the seal, you know,
earthquake, things start falling. Massive stuff is opening up, you know,
crevices in the ground. It's total chaos. She drops the Grail at one point.
Point. And. And tries to, like, dive for it.
Yeah. But just pushes it. It's like, look, did you Play shortstop.
Because if not, don't try to dive for something like that. That's not going to
work. But, you know, so there's all this chaos going on. She ends up hanging
off of part of the open crevasse. And Indy
grabs one of her hands, but she takes the other one away to reach for
the grail. It's just out of her reach. You know, she's like, I can get
it. I can get it. And he's like, elsa, I can't hold you. I can't
hold you, dog. Give me your other hand. You know? And sure enough, she was.
And she slips through his hands and falls into probably
that room that we saw, probably whatever that is. He's just. She's under there now.
Now, Indy is sort of like, falls, and he's also sort of hanging. And Henry
goes to help him. Luckily, Andy doesn't reach
for the cup. That's right. And it's the one time that Dr. Jones, Dr.
Hendrix, calls his son Indiana. He says, okay, Indiana, let it
go. And he dies. And they. They're able to get out as the temple
crashes around them. But, yeah, it's the one and only time that Connery's character
refers to Indy as Indiana. All right. Every other time, he calls him Junior.
I don't think we've mentioned that, but he literally calls him Junior the entire movie.
Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, so. So he saves the day,
pulls him out of there, and everyone's safe. Yeah,
seems like. And, yeah, and we get to kind of ride
off into the sunset. I mean, it really preserved everything in case
they were going to do another one of these. Yeah, well, and that's the thing
is that the concept of the Indiana Jones, you know, series of films,
everything in the lore around it is that it's episodic. It's meant to just be
like, you could. You could put these characters into a new challenge,
a new treasure to hunt, whatever it might be, and. And just run
with it. And so, yeah, you got to keep everybody alive. You got to make
sure that, you know, nothing has radically altered the situation
any of them are in. Right. That's kind of an important part of this.
I do love that we get the whole Junior explanation. Sala, at the
end, he's a. Why do you keep calling him Junior? And he's like, that's his
name. Henry Jones Junior. I prefer Indiana.
We named the dog Indiana. At which point, my favorite John Reese Davies line of
any time is, you were named after the dog.
It's good impression. That was nice. I've been working on a John Rhys Davies
for a long time. Yeah, there's a lot of money in John Reese Davis impersonation.
So I think that's a good career path. Always think, thinking.
But yeah, that's basically. I do. There was actually one other solid line that I
would mention is when. When. At one point when I can't remember exactly what happens,
but I think it's after Donovan and Elsa go in to follow. They get a
hold of the guns of somebody and. And Salah
turns to the guys that still have their weapons. It goes, drop your guns,
please. This is so polite like.
But yeah, so that's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
That's Indy. Yeah. Yeah. This was a fun one. Oh man.
Yeah, and I'm glad I've seen it. I. Yeah. Not seen
it before. I didn't know how much Nazi stuff there was. And like now talking
through this, it is like there's like 15 action sequences throughout this.
It just keeps going. Really. It's really jam packed and it is
just. Yeah, it's just really exciting and fun the whole way through.
Do you want to give your. Give your full rating review? Yeah, I'll give my
full rating. Review. I do want to revisit one of the cast members who we
didn't talk about as much here just because I have nowhere
else to say this, but this is the second movie in a row that we've
done that has featured the late, great River Phoenix. Right.
And River Phoenix was kind of. He was an upand cominging star in the late
80s, early 90s. I think he probably died in like. 92, 93,
something in that ballpark. Pretty early. Sneakers was 92 shortly after that. Yeah.
And. And he was like well known and, and like beloved among a lot of
people. Yeah. And I just wanted to read this quote. One of a friend of
his said this about him. This is a part of poetry from
the friend. There's a river born to be a giver Keep you warm,
won't let you shiver his heart is never going to wither.
Come on everybody, time to deliver. And this was a good friend
of his named Anthony Kiedis. And the way he delivered this tribute,
as we would all want it to be, is there's a river with the beginning.
It's just so funny that someone could write like beautiful words to you and
then they just sing it in the Anthony Kiedis voice and it ruins everything.
I think. I think River Phoenix is better off having died. I think he's really.
It's better that he wasn't alive for this song. Yeah.
So anyway, River Phoenix. I love River Phoenix. So shout
out to him. For being in two films in a row, I thought this was
a lot of fun, to be honest. Like, just because I didn't
grow up around this, it didn't grab me as much. Much as it. As I'm
sure it would have if I were younger. But it looked really cool. And the
talent level involved in this was really incredible. Yeah, the pace
of it, the music, everything was great. So I'm gonna give this one a four
out of five. I thought it was super fun. Just a little ding for me.
Just because I wasn't, like, it didn't hit me at the exact right time,
but I had nothing wrong with this. And yeah, just a
really fun way to end the. The trilogy and have this character never appear.
Never appear in anything ever again. Yeah, that's totally,
totally reasonable. I. For me, this is one of those movies, you know, that was
a major part of my childhood, a major part of my growing up. Just the
Indiana Jones mythos altogether was just something that was a major thing for me.
I grew up going to Disneyland, and in 95 they opened up the Indiana Jones
ride. That became like one of my favorite things ever. Just everything Indiana
Jones I searched for. We didn't talk about the ride, but the ride. I mean,
that. That is really amazing. Yeah, I've been. I was looking for the hat.
I wanted one of those felt fedoras, but they don't look good to me.
I have an enormous knob and I wear like a size 8 and a quarter
hat or something like that. So just. It always looked weird to be a tall
fedora sitting on my head. I'm glad I never got it. But, like, for years
I was like, I'm gonna find the right hat. I gotta look like Indy.
Anyway, this is, I think, the best of the Indiana Jones films,
in my opinion. I still love Raiders. Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, to me is
like, okay, I'm not a big Temple of Doom fan, but I love Raiders and
I love this one. This, to me, does. Does tick all the boxes
for what we've sort of referred to as primarily perfect movies. So this one is
a perfect movie for me. It is a five out of five. I give no
notes to Indiana Jones in the Last Crusade. I think it even handles the
mythology stuff well. Indy himself is clearly not like a true believer
in any sense. You know, obviously there's times where he sort of has to like,
take things in faith to make sure they were. But you know, he does it
because he wants to save his dad or do whatever. So I think that,
you know, we. We can have this mythology and not have to be browbeaten
about the moral implications of it, other than keep it away from not Nazis.
That's an easy thing. Yeah. I mean, the best way to justify, you know,
essentially antiquities theft is just be like, well, if we don't do it, the Nazis
are gonna do. That's one thing I don't love about the hole. That belongs in
a museum. It belongs with the original owner's, like. In a museum in the country
that it came from, at least. Right? Yes. You mean the National Museum of Portugal?
Sure, go ahead. This belongs in the Queen's Gallery. Right, Exactly. So,
yeah, So a nine out of ten from the Two Dads for Indiana Jones and
the Last Crusade. Yes. Fantastic movie, a ton of fun. And,
Nick, this was my pick, so you got to tell us, what are we watching
next? Okay, well, yeah, this was super fun. For this next one, I think
we're going to go away from the action adventure. We're going to go back to
a comedy, which I feel like is kind of an adventure of a comedy because
of what the character has to go through. And we're going back to 1985.
We're going to. We're going to see an actor we haven't seen yet, Richard Pryor.
Okay. And then one that we've seen a bit so far, John Candy. All right.
And this is 1985 film Brewster's Millions.
Nice. Basically, Richard Pryor's character is inheriting
a certain amount of money, which, if he can spend it all, he'll get even
more money. And it's very fun exercise to go through. I really like
this one as a kid. I think it holds up, and I think it'll be
a lot of fun to talk about. So this is gonna be fun because I
have never seen Brewsters. Oh, I'm aware of it. I've seen some clips, like the
clip of. Of him getting the. The. The. The reading of the
will over the video, learns what he has to do. I've seen that, like,
a hundred times in different contexts, but I've never seen Brewster's Millions.
My wife is a huge fan of this movie. She loves it. So she was
very excited to hear that we would be doing this movie at some point.
And, yeah, I'm really excited for it. Richard Pryor is a genius.
There's other Richard Pryor movies I've seen and loved, and so, you know, very much
into it. And yeah, that, looking forward to to that. That'll be next week.
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