**Seriously – spoilers. I’m not even joking. If you want spoiler-free, go read the Sun-Times. If you want spoilers and bits, keep reading.**Adam, Sandy, Joel, Fred and I met a couple Irina Spalkos, 17 Indy’s and a couple of guys in long black trenchcoats who hide 3 pounds of Gummi Bears in the pocket. It was a Midnight Showing Extravaganza – and what is the aged fanboy’s review of the movie?
Loved it – it definitely ranks in the Top 3 of the franchise. That’s right. I’m not pissed I saw the show at Midnight, and had to be in Schaumburg by 8AM. On top of that, if anyone – ANYONE – dares say anything about the movie, and you claim that “Last Crusade” is your favorite – go screw. If you suspend your disbelief that Indy met a 5,000 year old knight, drank from the Holy Grail AND is named Henry – then you can do the same again. It’s all about cracking whips, cracking jokes and cracking Russian skulls (no pun intended).
Although yes, I did miss Sallah. I won’t do anything more to ruin it, other than tell you that the Crystal Skulls are alien skulls – and that there is a spaceship in Peru. And it takes off at the end. And Indy marries Marion. And Shia is Indy’s son. And although his name is Mutt, his REAL name is Henry Jones III.
But that’s ALL I’m going to say.
Formed in 1997, Schad began performing sketch comedy on Chicago’s north side. The troupe has since performed at countless venues around the world including The Goodman Theatre, The Second City, Steppenwolf, Lollapalooza, ImprovOlympic, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (LA), HERE (NYC) and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Can Adam post his “blog right after the movie” entry, based on his rant last night? Oh God.
Seriously. Best part about that rant was the people behind me waiting to validate their parking quoting him to each other. Genius rant, I just BARELY touched on it… But Adam – when you wake the hell up – post it.
Also add the audio for the Willhelm scream.
Adam was on FIRE last night everyone. After the movie during the credits, Witt went on a 6-minute run of bits, every bit hit, aisles of people were looking back and cracking up. Priceless. HUGE thanks to Fred and Joel for dealing with the line.
We did notice that it was the one night of the decade when one can legitimately wear the “Chicago Force” shirt out in public. I think we ripped that one up a while ago at the Heartland after a heart pull…
The movie was fun, guys, and while I picked it as the top opening of the summer movie bracket tourney, with 4 theaters not quite at capacity, I’m no longer sure…
Sandy, you don’t know how hard it was for me to pick against Indy. I think the no-shows were mostly because of the movie not being well advertised. The inconic nature of Indy is being played up some, but honestly this movie is for guys like us that grew up with him.I think it will do well, but not well enough for the 5th/final sequel. In my mind, that ok because this was ended pretty well.
Guys, seriously…Adam’s a funny dude, and having been around him for almost 15 years now I can say that last night was one of the top strings of bits that I’ve ever been present to. He just was ripping it up.
You fucker.
Why would you put spoilers in your post????!!!!
I don’t care that you said “SPOILERS BELOW.” I didn’t actually expect you to *include spoilers.* I mean, c’mon, saying “SPOILERS BELOW” is like sending out an email at work that says, “Hey, it’s my birthday so I brought in doughnuts. Please don’t eat them.”
(Does this attitude make me douche of the day?)
You fucker.
Aliens. Har har hardey har har. Nice try.
@ Fred: Agreed, I’ve known Adam not as long as you have, but I have never seen a Witt run go on for so long. The bit-to-hit ratio was about 90%. That’s huge.
@ p. riddy: Dude, I hear ya, but that’s Stephen’s style. I learned my lesson with his Transformers post from last year. If you see the word “spoilers” in a Stephe post, do NOT read on, because the next words will be “Darth is Luke’s Dad and William H. Macy gets arrested at the end of Fargo, the end.” I like it, because there are movies that Stephen reviews that I will never see, and he sums them up for the generally curious. Like the Lake House. Watch it, sum it up, I ain’t never gonna see it, but put “spoiler warning!” on there for Kate. There are those out there who just want to know how Indy ends so they can satiate their curiosity before they get it on Netflix. Cool.
ONE WORD, though — STEPHEN — GIVE THE WORLD AT LEAST ONE WEEK before you spoil the final cylon so we can all see it on DVR and still make sure our posts got up there ok. Fair enough? That’s all I care about. Give the final cylon a statute of limitations of 7 days.
Ok, Sandy, I just got you back for the Michael Cera “Knocked Up” rant video.
It took me a while, but I did it.