Welcome to Looking at Lucasome, the podcast with a different perspective in the world of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and all of the other entities that George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Filoni, and John Favreau, as well as the rest of the team at Lucasome have dreamed up over the past 45 years.

I'm an entertainer, writer Jim Hill, and my co-host Brian Gone and I are recording this week's show on Sunday, May 21st, 2023, and Brian, given the news of the week, I can't help but quote the opening of Charles Dickens, the tale of two cities.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Oh man, can I breathe now? Can I let my breath out? I've been holding my breath through this whole thing and turning purple because it's like, I don't know what's going on.

Yeah, well, I mean, it is very much an evolving story, so let's start with the good news. All right, we have a brand new Indiana Jones film, which just had its world premiere at CON.

Okay, so yes, it got kind of middleing reviews, but it got a five minute standing ovation.

Yeah, but I want to say the new Martin Scorsese film got a seven minute standing ovation.

It's one of those things where it's like, and a standing ovation, and that was the other thing that I don't know if you saw the news coverage after this.

There were people who were talking about, well, yes, Indiana Jones got a five minute long polite standing ovation, and it was like, all right, what's that mean?

Oh man, people like to kick. I forget which film critic pointed out it's like, look, you go over to CON.

First of all, you jet lag. Second of all, you got to wear a tuxedo, and you're out of joint, you're not up on your sleep.

And he said, and it's really dangerous to go off of what people say in CON versus what happens when a movie actually gets out in theaters.

Case in point, somebody was pointing out what happened with Quentin Tarantino's once upon a time in Hollywood,

which got a horrible reception at CON, and then went on to do really great business.

What are the point? Do we really want a bunch of sleep deprived people in tuxedos telling us whether or not a popcorn movie works?

Yeah, that's true.

This is a serious movie going crowd. And if they tell me that a drama like the zone of interest,

if you heard about this, this Jonathan Glazer movie, the one about Rudolf Haas, the camp come down to Oswits.

Yeah, you heard a little bit about it doing, you know, that they showed it at CON.

They did. They did. And again, what people have found especially chilling about this movie is that deals with the household.

His home was right next to the concentration camp. There was a fence separating the yard where the kids played

from where the guards and the ovens and all that stuff was. And so what's really freaking people out is just be in that house and have people

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