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#PacificWatch: At the Movies with Pacific Watch reviewing 43 years of Indiana Jone including the fresh release, " Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny." @JCBliss

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#PacificWatch: At the Movies with Pacific Watch reviewing 43 years of Indiana Jone including the fresh release, " Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny." @JCBliss

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0:00.0

This is the French Vistory Debating Society. I am John Bachelor Pacific Watch.

0:04.4

Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch, and this is at the movies with Pacific Watch.

0:09.2

Jeff has done us all the favor of attending the new Indiana Jones movie,

0:13.6

getting much attention in the political media,

0:16.8

having to do with its vocabulary, its choices, its endings, its set pieces.

0:22.3

But I remind everyone that Indiana Jones has been with us since 1981.

0:27.2

This itself is a flashback to my youth,

0:31.5

and Pacific Watch is even younger youth.

0:35.1

And so, when we approach Indiana Jones,

0:37.9

it's never in the context of, did you like the movie?

0:41.2

It's the concept, it's the whole idea of growing up with Indiana Jones,

0:47.6

and his preposterous escapes from a certain doom.

0:52.5

Reminiscent for me of going to the Saturday afternoon,

0:56.4

Matt Nay in Norworth, Pennsylvania, in the 1950s and 60s,

1:01.3

because right at the end there, there were still serials

1:05.3

that were given to movie theaters to play before the main feature.

1:08.4

There would always be a main feature like the blob with Steve McQueen,

1:14.0

a great scary movie. You had to be there, but they played serials beforehand.

1:19.4

So now we go to Indiana Jones's last farewell.

1:23.9

Pacific Watch, a very good evening to you.

1:25.8

You've attended the movie, your opinion right now,

1:29.4

as we reflect upon, what is it now?

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