New Indiana Jones Movie! See the trailer here!

In 1981, as a boy of only 13 years, I stood in line at the Studio One Theater on Main street in downtown Blacksburg waiting to get in and see the movie that everyone that year was excited to see; Raiders Of The Lost Ark! All I really knew about it was what my friends, lucky enough to see it the first weekend it aired, had told me about it. I, unfortunately, was there on the second weekend. What an unlucky schmuck I was! You see back then you had to see the hot new movies at their premiere weekend. I had a history of seeing them while they were brand new thanks to a mom that would drive me and my friends there. See growing up in Christiansburg, Virginia, our only local theater choice was Starlite Drive In. Which was great, but back then a movie didn't make it to Starlite until it had been out a few weeks. Or at least that is how I remember it in my child's eye. So if we wanted to see a new movie when it came out, we were off to Blacksburg. Studio one, Capri Twin or the legendary Lyric Theater. So there I was with a couple of my friends, standing among youngsters like myself, college kids from Virginia Tech, and some of the professors as well, waiting to see a movie that would make a legend out of an already famous, because of Star Wars, Harrison Ford. That Saturday afternoon matinee was the start of a bit of an obsession with Indiana Jones for me. I am not sure I blinked watching that movie that I would go on to see at least 4 other times that summer. And of course I would see all the sequels and own all the VHS releases of the movies that I would occasionally pull out and watch start to finish in one weekend. Yeah it's true.... I invented "binge watching" long before Netflix was a thing. So now, some 40 years later, I will again go to the theater and once again look through the eyes of a 13 year old boy and remember that feeling. The feeling of wonder and adventure as I watch the character known for a bullwhip, fedora, satchel, and leather jacket, and enjoy the wry, witty and sarcastic sense of humor, deep knowledge of ancient civilizations and languages, and of course fear of snakes... That is Indiana Jones!


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