{"id":461,"date":"2007-03-16T07:33:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T14:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/461"},"modified":"2007-03-16T07:33:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T14:33:59","slug":"indiana-jones-and-the-casting-of-blanchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Jones and the Casting of Blanchett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/news\/e3i880911115a741b41b10015d4dbb286e2\" target=\"_blank\">Cate<\/a> (the actress, not my daughter) joins Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones 4.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, thanks to that spoilsport Moriarity, we won&#8217;t enjoy nearly as many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/talkback_display\/31901#comment_1435284\" target=\"_blank\">vicious, mocking, evil fake titles<\/a> this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Can I just say something? I was listening to Star Wars music in the car the other day, and thinking about what unbridled and awesome fun both Lucas and Spielberg can create at the movies when they are on their respective games, and suddenly, I realized that I very much WANT Indiana Jones 4 to be good. I want what would essentially be one last popcorn movie fling by the modern masters of the genre. I want one more event movie that redefines the idea of &#8220;event movie,&#8221; packed to the gills with giant silly set pieces and pithy one-liners. I want Harrison Ford to smirk just right, I want Marcus Brody to putter around like an idiot, and I want the Nazis to lose.<\/p>\n<p>Come on, guys. Just be exactly like you were thirty years ago. One more time. Please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cate (the actress, not my daughter) joins Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones 4. Unfortunately, thanks to that spoilsport Moriarity, we won&#8217;t enjoy nearly as many vicious, mocking, evil fake titles this time around. Can I just say something? I was listening to Star Wars music in the car the other day, and thinking about what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}