Sasha and Ariel Experience ... Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade!

Sasha: I know we always put an exclamation mark at the end of our post titles, but I really had to force myself to type that one.
Ariel: Yeah. Like, what the heck? I was SO excited to watch an Indiana Jones movie that was even better than the one we watched earlier today!

Sasha: I guess we should have predicted that if we liked the one everybody says they hate, that might mean everybody's wrong about some of the other movies too.

Ariel: I guess everybody should put their spoiler blankets over their heads if they don't want this one spoiled.

Sasha: I dunno if they're going to need them there for long though, because I don't think I have a ton to say about this one.

Ariel: Me either. It's not even that it was bad ... just kind of ... boring?

Sasha: I mean, it is an old movie. And they're usually not as exciting as newer movies.

Ariel: Right? Like, Yay, here comes Indiana Jones! Only then it starts off with just him as a kid? Well, it must be setting something big up about how there's some issue from when he was a kid and he has to grow through it ... or maybe get back in touch with his inner kid ... or something.

Sasha: We did learn where he got his hat.

Ariel: Yeah, a rando dude gave it to him, and it was somebody who was doing something Kid Indy thought was wrong, but for some reason Kid Indy keeps the hat and not only that but grows up and goes for the same leather jacket and hat look as the rando dude he didn't respect?

Sasha: And then, new scene ... and look, the special conquistador cross he got cheated out of as a kid shows right back up and he gets it back as an adult. Oh, and there's a bad dude in a white suit who was also there when Indy was a kid, and his boat gets sunk and that takes care of that. So much for the Kid Indy part being important to the rest of the movie!

Ariel: It's like 20 minutes into the story or more, and there's no bad guy or plot or anything. I mean, we did get one single scene where his dad is a jerk-face to him, but I'm pretty sure when the oldster version of his dad shows up later in the movie, I would have figured out real quick that he was always being a jerk-face to Kid Indy even if I never saw any scenes with Kid Indy at all.

Sasha: And what the heck was up with that Nazi love interest chick?

Ariel: Well, he didn't know she was a Nazi at first.

Sasha: Dude. She's from Germany, and Germany is full of Nazis doing scary things, so you'd think before he tries to hook up with her, he might want to ask, "Hey, you're not one of those horrible Nazis are you?"

Ariel: Wouldn't she have lied, though? Also, I thought she was from Austria.

Sasha: Right, but Austria was full of Nazis too, and really, I think it's something you would want to know, so he should have at least asked.

Ariel: Well, maybe he was so busy archaeologisting that he really didn't know too much about the Nazis.

Sasha: I guess ... fingers crossed that when we see the other two movies, we'll find out he was totally all over the world in places where there weren't any Nazis, so he really didn't have enough information to form an opinion and know it's the kind of thing you'd want to check on if you get the hots for some Austrian or German chick.

Ariel: I was also kind of bothered by the way he just totally laid that majorly aggressive kiss on her without any invitation or consent.

Sasha: Wow, yeah, big turn-off.

Ariel: It's an old movie though. Things were different then I guess.

Sasha: I mean, not so different that I ought to get blindsided by this mongo aggressive kissing when there really wasn't all that much chemistry going on between them. I mean, they were a little flirty, but she also got kind of "keep your distancy" at some point too. Plus he's supposed to be worried about his dad being missing the whole time he's putting the moves on this chick without doing a Nazi-check on her first?

Ariel: It was a very weird movie.

Sasha: Super weird. They're trying to chase down this Holy Grail dealy-bob, and it's supposed to be a great big giant extra-amazing huge archaeology thing, only it wasn't important enough for them to actually tell us very much about what it meant, religion-wise. Or what, you know, Jesus Christ, the dude whose grail it originally was, might have had to say about anything going on in the movie.

Ariel: It was a very zero-Christianity movie for a movie about one of the biggest archaeology dealy-bobs in all of Christianity. I mean, I didn't want a big sermon or anything, but having this Christian gizmo be so super-important only not having Christianity be too important at all seemed kinda weird.

Sasha: Maybe if we knew more about Christianity we'd get the connection.

Ariel: Like, maybe one time Jesus said, "Here is how thou shalt defeat a tank if you are hanging off of one of its guns while a Nazi is trying to hit you with a shovel."

Sasha: Or maybe he said, "If thou art tempted to kiss a Nazi, be sure she is hot and kiss her really hard wheneth she expecteth not to be kissedeth."

Ariel: All right, I'm all pooped out on this movie.

Sasha: Well, we're kind of watching them in reverse order of when they were made, so it looks like next up is the one most people supposedly think is second-worst. If we're lucky, that will mean it's second best, right?

Ariel: As long as it's not worse than this movie, I'm good.

Sasha and Ariel: All done for now, then, folks! Enjoy your weekend!