Video: Cheap yet awesome video of the day
posted at 2:17 pm on July 13, 2007 by Allahpundit
Fair warning: it’s a 15-second video, but thanks to the avalanche of traffic they’re getting from around the Net it took me fully 10 minutes to download it.
But tell me your heart doesn’t skip a beat when you see the whip.
Click the image to watch (hopefully).
Blowback
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Does this mean that he will also re-appear as an aging Han Solo in Star Wars Episode VII?
Bigfoot on July 13, 2007 at 2:23 PM
I was able to access it right away. Pretty cool – amazing how such a little innocuous video can cause such anticipation.
nailinmyeye on July 13, 2007 at 2:25 PM
Of course he is…after all, he did drink from the Holy Grail. Heck, they could even have set this installment in the present day without too much trouble. (Other than the troubling similarity to the Highlander sequel, that is.)
James on July 13, 2007 at 2:26 PM
I am one full body goose bump.
liberrocky on July 13, 2007 at 2:31 PM
Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Blade Runner: my child- and adolescent-hood would not have been the same without him.
deesine on July 13, 2007 at 2:32 PM
Remember the Rules:
-Odd numbered Planet of the Apes’
-Even numbered Star Trek’s
-Odd numbered Indy’s
Best to keep your expectations low.
ScottMcC on July 13, 2007 at 2:36 PM
just think what would have happened if they had added a taste of the theme song to the end of the video.
(tears of joy)
mattshu on July 13, 2007 at 2:39 PM
~sigh~ I’d have my tubal ligation reversed for him!
Pulchritudinous Patriot on July 13, 2007 at 2:42 PM
What!!!
Temple of Doom rocked.
Mola Ram Lives!
liberrocky on July 13, 2007 at 2:44 PM
Geez man what are you trying to do, crash their server and squander their monthly bandwidth?
At least have the decency to get permission and host the vid yourself if you want to play that game.
CommentGuy on July 13, 2007 at 2:46 PM
I just saw Shia LaBouf (Indy’s son) in Transformers last night. They guy is frikkin’ hilarious. This is gonna be a helluva movie.
thareb on July 13, 2007 at 2:48 PM
I just saw Shia LaBouf (Indy’s son) in Transformers last night. They guy is frikkin’ hilarious. This is gonna be a helluva movie.
thareb on July 13, 2007 at 2:48 PM
Doesn’t it always?
KelliD on July 13, 2007 at 2:48 PM
It’s all in the writing. He just says what he’s told, stands where he’s told, emotes as he’s told…
Ford is a committed lefty. Ever see these retards when they try to speak without a script? I doubt he even graduated from high school.
jaime on July 13, 2007 at 2:52 PM
Allah,
You gotta open that hug headline for comments. I can’t stop laughing.
BadgerHawk on July 13, 2007 at 3:04 PM
That old geezer still has it.
Brat on July 13, 2007 at 3:08 PM
After 30 years, he can’t STILL be fighting the Nazis, right?
logis on July 13, 2007 at 3:11 PM
No, instead of Nazis it’s the evil McCarthyites. Indy jumps of his porch and comes to the rescue by throwing his cane at those evil bastards.
brak on July 13, 2007 at 3:19 PM
I’m glad he decided not to wear his ridiculous earring.
noodle on July 13, 2007 at 3:20 PM
So what’s your point? If it’s that any movie with a registered Dem in it sucks, than you’re gonna be limited to about half of a real small shelf at Blockbuster.
Ford may be a leftard, but he keeps his mouth shut and is generally a decent and professional guy. Plus, he *is* Indy.
fiatboomer on July 13, 2007 at 3:21 PM
They’ve been on the Big Island filming this week.
I like the Indy movies. They remind me of the old serial films they used to play in the movie theaters when I was a kid. Good story line and just plain fun. The way movies should be.
Kini on July 13, 2007 at 3:41 PM
Ever notice that when he and Steve Martin where younger they looked a lot and I mean a looooot alike?
At one point he ever dressed like Han Solo
- The Cat
MirCat on July 13, 2007 at 3:45 PM
So long as they don’t get all caught up in some leftist ‘message’ and portray the good guys as good, the evil guys as evil…
…then there’s no worries about the politics of the actors in it.
James on July 13, 2007 at 3:46 PM
Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford are two different people. Ya gotta keep em separated. I wouldn’t be able to enjoy watching any movies at all otherwise.
Guardian on July 13, 2007 at 3:46 PM
I don’t know. Seeing Indy on the backseat of a motorcycle kind of broke my heart. But of course I’ll see this in IMAX.
Nonfactor on July 13, 2007 at 3:52 PM
I’ve yet to see any of those films.
rightside on July 13, 2007 at 4:02 PM
Was I the only one who noticed that the two soldiers holding his arms in the scene were American Army? Does this mean the “New Evil Empire” has taken “its rightful place” as “heir” to Nazi Germany. We all know that Ford, Lucas and Speilberg would never make the Soviets the bad guys.
srhoades on July 13, 2007 at 4:02 PM
Oh yeah, count me out. I don’t need to see geriatric Jones.
srhoades on July 13, 2007 at 4:03 PM
Man, I was there a couple of months ago. Took a flight around the island. The pilot told us Ford has an expensive house on the West coast, but I guess they want the lusher locations on the East coast.
Next Indiana Jones movie will have Indy using a cane.
Snidely Whiplash on July 13, 2007 at 4:15 PM
FordSmeato!RushBaby on July 13, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Oh no! I saw George Lucus! Fear of phantom menecing approacheth.
- The Cat
MirCat on July 13, 2007 at 4:18 PM
For those interested, I can point you to spoilers a-plenty. And the Indy site also has video from the first day of shooting.
Karl on July 13, 2007 at 4:39 PM
I’m supposed to be going out to dinner…..not sure if I have the strength to go get changed! :) The hero of my younger years…..gawd, please, please don’t let them screw this up! I’d rather go on watching the fab old ones if they can’t do it right. I mean, look what happened to Star Wars! If only Sean would have agreed for another….ah, now we are talking memory film heaven. >smile
dustoffmom on July 13, 2007 at 4:59 PM
I’m hearing rumors that Indy 4′s plot revolves around one of two possibilities:
#1-Indy digs for Native American artifacts and stumbles upon an e-e-e-evil Eisenhower Administration-plan that ties into Roswell, Area 51, and every other idiotic government conspiracy since the 1940s.
#2-The non-partisan Council on Foreign Relations ask Indy to find King David’s temple robe because they cannot make the Ark of the Covenant work correctly without it. Of course, the CFR agents are acutally members of the military-industrial complex who really want the Ark as the American answer to the Soviet doomsday nuke.
The IESB site “Karl” linked to lends some credence to these rumors, but you’re all kidding yourselves if you think that there won’t be some form of Republican-hating in Indy 4…a movie that takes place during the e-e-e-e-e-evil McCarthyite reign of terror.
ScottMcC on July 13, 2007 at 5:24 PM
“Ford is a committed lefty.”
He was also a carpenter, and is one of the few Hollywood actors to have had an actual, real job outside of college and acting. Nowadays film stars get plucked from model agencies without ever experiencing real life. It was probably the case back in the day, but there were at least a few actors – Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson etc, – who actually did something in their twenties besides attend premieres. Ford isn’t as tough as those manly men but he does have a proper skill. If you were trapped on a desert island with him, he could build a hut.
There was a computer game a few years ago, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, set in the 1950s. The baddies were the Russians, and it was odd hearing Indy moan about the damn Commies. I suppose he’s a friend of freedom rather than one particular ideology, although the character is or was an academic university type. It’ll be hard finding a sufficiently outlandish, cartoonish baddy in post-WW2 times.
Apeking on July 13, 2007 at 5:57 PM
Tell me if its not hard as a fan of these films, having grown up learning how to be the gruff dusty hero watching Ford make that ‘gonna have to shoot ya’ face as Indy, and then learning the real guy wears an ear ring and dates Flockhart?
I pray I will be able to suspend the disbelief and just remember I’m seeing Indy, not Ford.
If only we had men like Indy’s character (not just the ones who currently exist and are wearing U.S. uniforms in a country called IRAQ at the moment, and are pretty gruff and dusty I might add) returning to their roles as men, refusing to “tolerate,” and take back this country from the feminized, politically correct ‘metrosexuals.’ It would do the world and this country good. Welcome back Indy. We need you.
Jones ’08.
russ2553 on July 13, 2007 at 5:57 PM
I thought Steve Martin looked like Evander Holyfield!
robblefarian on July 13, 2007 at 6:06 PM
Mr. Ford suffers from a severe case of BDS. All of the DVDs I had with his image are now at the Salvation Army.
Zorro on July 13, 2007 at 6:43 PM
Please God, let not this film be ruined by some anti Bush politics! Please! Please!
JellyToast on July 13, 2007 at 6:50 PM
Hehehe…thanks for the memories MirCat, I loved the Muppets, especially Animal! I remember seeing that show with Rita Moreno and Animal when it originally aired.
I also liked Beaker and the hapless Scientist…”oh nooo….nooo…nnnnoooooo….kaboooom!” Kind of reminds me of some of the hapless jihadists lately, only the jihadist aren’t funny…..
As for a new Indi movie, I’d be up for it as long as there are more scenes of him shooting dead sword wielding turbin wearing middle easterners..I can never get enough of that!
Liberty or Death on July 13, 2007 at 9:47 PM
Ever notice that when he and Steve Martin where younger they looked a lot and I mean a looooot alike?
At one point he ever dressed like Han Solo
- The Cat
MirCat on July 13, 2007 at 3:45 PM
Cat-
You are not joking! Has anyone else noticed this….
Harrison Ford, Steve Martin, Sting….
Are they the same guy cloned in their youth?
All pursued different avenues in the entertainment industry?
I thought I was the only one who noticed!
Thanks for mentioning this.
Any one else notice this or can add to the list?
russ2553 on July 13, 2007 at 10:52 PM
No, my pulse raced a bit when I heard the music used on this trailer. Not since the Bono and The Edge remix of the M:I theme was I so glad to hear something contemporized for a film update.
They’ve truly gotten the best man for the job for this one. This very slight trailer features only three gags, but I still chuckle each time. Forget the Dept of Homeland Security. Get me CONTROL headquarters!
Captain Scarlet on July 14, 2007 at 5:29 AM
From the Wiki.Usual grain of salt caveat applies.
He attended Ripon College in Wisconsin, where he was a member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity. He took a drama class in his junior year, chiefly as a way to meet women. Ford, a self-described “late bloomer”, became fascinated with acting. Toward the end of his college freshman year, he was a member of a folk band called The Brothers Gross, in which he played gutbucket. He, however, did not graduate from Ripon.
soundingboard on July 15, 2007 at 6:55 AM
Again?
Allah, might you be so munificent as to start an open thread where we newbies can practice our tag skills?
soundingboard on July 15, 2007 at 7:07 AM